During a press briefing on Monday, Trump said he has the power to force states to lift their shutdown orders amid the coronavirus crisis and reopen the United States for business, saying "when somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total."

@KrisTosAplSauce's observation on Hollywood's tendency to release movies with similar themes in the same year will get you thinking.

"Crying over FaceTime to your sister isn’t the same as getting to wipe your snot on her shoulder IRL."

The documents, obtained by Emma Best (@NatSecGeek), date back to 1977 and show US records on Soviet and East European parapsychology research, including "black magic" and devices "used to duplicate psychic effects." The CIA especially noted "major uncertainties" in the extent of such abilities.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and his counterparts in Washington and Oregon announced “a regional pact to recovery” from the coronavirus crisis and agreed to work together to develop a plan to lift restrictions on daily life and reopen economies.

While sports across the globe are shut down because of the coronavirus, the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), located in Taiwan, is back up and running. Fans, however, are not allowed in the stadiums, so in certain sections, they've been replaced with cardboard cutouts and robots.

During Sunday's COVID-19 special, 60 Minutes interviewed Trump advisor Peter Navarro, who is now a policy coordinator around the Defense Production Act. When pushed on why hospitals are lacking protective equipment, Navarro challenged the show to come up with examples of previous pandemic reporting. 60 Minutes obliged.

Drake scores his seventh No. 1 on the Hot 100 and ties Mariah Carey for the most songs to debut on top of the chart with "Toosie Slide." Here's everything you need to know about this week's top songs.

Male officials from Taiwan's Epidemic Command Centre donned pink masks during a press conference after concerns that boys would refuse to wear pink masks out of fear that they would get bullied. The country's Ministry of Health and Welfare asked families to challenge gender norms.

As colleges close their doors and move classes online to curtail the spread of coronavirus, students across the country have raised concerns that they are still paying high tuition prices for what is now an online education.

The pandemic has shed light on Hollywood’s often questionable sanitary conditions that have long existed on sets.

Kyle Larson has been suspended indefinitely without pay by Chip Ganassi Racing and NASCAR after using a racist slur on Sunday night during a live stream of a virtual race. “We are extremely disappointed by what Kyle said last night during an iRacing Event,” Chip Ganassi Racing said in a statement on Monday. Larson issued an apology regarding his comment on Monday.

According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, Tarvaris Jackson died in a car accident in Alabama on Sunday night at the age of 36. Jackson played in the NFL from 2006-2015 for the Seahawks, the Vikings and the Bills.

The company announced it is hiring an additional 75,000 people after filling 100,000 new positions last month to meet the increase in online shopping amid the coronavirus outbreak. Meanwhile, warehouse workers continue to demand better safety measures, with some going on strike, as employees at more than 50 facilities have tested positive for COVID-19.

According to Eyes on Earth Inc., water level data and satellite imagery from 2019 shows evidence of China's manipulation of its dams, "directly causing the record-low water levels for countries downstream." Chinese officials stated last year that it also experienced low water levels.

The response came after President Trump retweeted a Tweet that called for the doctor to be fired on the same night that Fauci said the US could have saved more lives if it enacted measures to combat COVID-19 earlier.

On April 2, Navy Captain Crozier of the USS Theodore Roosevelt was fired for writing a letter demanding action be taken to address a COVID-19 outbreak on his ship. He was cheered by his crew for his leadership but dismissed anyway. Less than two weeks later, one of his sailors is dead because of the virus.