Italy

On Saturday, Trump seemed optimistic that Cuba could move closer to the U.S. after Castro. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Beltway Confidential

Partisan bickering over ‘racist’ coronavirus name distracts from lifesaving efforts

Kimberly Ross · March 21, 2020 10:00 am

European doctor: Fear of being called racist contributing factor to spread of coronavirus in Italy

Andrew Mark Miller · March 20, 2020 11:49 pm

Top Italian official points to chance virus came from Germany as powerful Chinese minimize role in contagion

Joel Gehrke · March 20, 2020 11:30 pm

Italy bans jogging after biggest day-to-day increase in coronavirus deaths

Zach Halaschak · March 20, 2020 10:52 pm

In a Friday, Aug. 14, 2015 photo provided by the US Navy, Chief Warrant Officer 3, Jason Potts, on scene commander for Task Element CSS Georgia, supervises as a piece of casemate, made of railroad ties and timber, which served as the outer layer of armor for CSS Georgia, is raised from the Savannah River in Savannah, Ga. Navy divers are working in conjunction with archeologists, conservationists, Naval History and Heritage Command and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a project directed by Naval Sea Systems Command Supervisor of Salvage and Diving to salvage and preserve CSS Georgia.

National Security

Army Corps of Engineers plans ‘ICU-like’ facilities across 13 states, including 10,000 beds in New York

Abraham Mahshie · March 20, 2020 10:12 pm

Italy has biggest day-to-day increase in coronavirus deaths

Caitlin Yilek · March 20, 2020 5:42 pm

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks about the legislative special session.

Louisiana Gov. Edwards: State’s COVID-19 trajectory ‘basically the same’ as Italy’s

Washington Examiner · March 20, 2020 5:00 pm

White House warns male mortality rate from coronavirus double that of females in Italy

Spencer Neale · March 20, 2020 4:27 pm

Italian Army soldiers check transit to and from the cordoned areas in Turano Lodigiano, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020.

‘A generation has died’: Italy deploying army to lock down worst-hit region in coronavirus crisis

Spencer Neale · March 20, 2020 2:52 pm

‘Governments are really scared’: Virus builds back borders that European Union demolished

Joel Gehrke · March 20, 2020 4:00 am

Police officers and soldiers check passengers leaving from Milan main train station, Italy, Monday, March 9, 2020.

Italy coronavirus death toll surpasses that of China after one-day spike in fatalities

Tim Pearce · March 19, 2020 6:51 pm

Pictured are Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., left, and former Vice President Joe Biden, right.

‘Medicare for all’ would fail coronavirus patients

Ross Marchand · March 19, 2020 2:00 pm