Above the Fold

• Underscoring the need for an exit strategy: Payrolls plunge 701,000 in (the first half of) March, the first jobs decline since 2010 (CNBC)

• What could possible go wrong? Rep. James Clyburn, who touted coronavirus as “tremendous” political opportunity, to take helm of pandemic oversight committee (The Washington Free Beacon)

• “We knew exactly where to fight this new virus”: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine unveils potential COVID-19 vaccine (WJAC)

Business & Economy

• American Spirit: Fifty companies join the war on coronavirus (Washington Examiner)

• Feast or famine: The lucky few winners and the many losers of the coronavirus business lockdown (Washington Examiner)

• Two academic brothers have a plan for putting the country back to work in just weeks (Washington Examiner)

Government & Politics

• Trump deservedly blasts Schumer over “incorrect sound bites” on coronavirus (The Hill)

• Will Joe Biden forget and show up in July anyway? DNC postpones convention until August, despite Chairman Tom Perez quashing the idea a few weeks ago (Axios)

National Security

• “An affront to victims of terrorism everywhere”: Pakistani court overturns conviction in death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Fox News)

• Be vigilant: Attackers can use Zoom to steal users’ Windows credentials with no warning (Ars Technica)

• Coronavirus Task Force freezes foreign aid after troubling discoveries (The Daily Wire)

Heartland

• Federal judge cites “protecting the public health” in decision to rubber-stamp gun-store shutdowns in Ventura County, California (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Meanwhile, three governors face lawsuits over closures of gun stores and gun ranges (Washington Examiner)

• Tennessee governor issues stay-at-home order (The Hill)

• Georgia governor releases statewide shelter-in-place executive order (Fox 31)

• Virus pandemic raises specter of civil unrest, which explains record gun sales (Washington Examiner)

• Pandemic notwithstanding, judge won’t postpone Wisconsin election but extends absentee deadline (AP)

• Baltimore broadsides civil liberties by approving surveillance planes to “reduce violence” (ABC News)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Washington’s misguided pivot to infrastructure (The Week)

• Policy: A future of work that complements family life (Institute for Family Studies)

• Humor: POLL: Most people unimpressed with their 30-day free trial of communism (Genesius Times)

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