Before and after science.

A day after announcing the end of the coronavirus task force, Trump says it will now continue "indefinitely." 1/24

Trump is urging the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare, apparently ignoring Barr's argument that parts of the law should remain in place during the pandemic. 2/24

It will take around half a million deaths in the US before, on average, every American knows someone who died of the coronavirus. 3/24

By April 29, at least 14,513 people in prison had tested positive for COVID-19. 4/24

With the science on COVID-19 moving so fast, scoop-hungry journalists are reporting on findings that soon become obsolete. 5/24

Case in point: "There's no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won't be for months." 6/24

Horrific video has been released of a black man, Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot "at point-blank range" on a Georgia road by two white men who chased him down in a truck. 7/24

Big companies in the US are laying off thousands of workers and meanwhile electing to reward shareholders with dividends. 8/24

An expanding number of legislators from both parties voice increased public support for some form of remote voting. 9/24

Banksy deposits a piece in a hospital hallway, depicting a boy playing with a nurse superhero toy, along with a note to workers: "Thanks for all you're doing." 10/24

Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk has died at 73. 11/24

Fewer disruptions, less wasted time—an eighth-grader explains why she's learning subjects much better with distance learning. 12/24

Newfound tech skills help older adults stay engaged with the outside world as lockdowns become normal. 13/24

Drive-ins and drive-throughs during the pandemic—for burgers, movies, even funerals—have become "a weird sort of societal glue." 14/24

Related: In Europe, drive-in concerts and raves are now a thing. 15/24

Feel the soothe (with a roundup of German bus stops). 16/24

Watch: A three-minute rendition of walking the 2,660-mile Pacific Coast Trail. 17/24

Photographs of grounded airplanes parked across the country. 18/24

In the Yukon, social distancing gains traction with locally themed messages. 19/24

Watch: Visiting loved ones in nursing homes via crane. 20/24

For writer Michel Houellebecq, COVID-19 is a "banal" disease with no redeeming qualities. "It's not even sexually transmitted." 21/24

This is a public punching bag. 22/24

Hollywood may not be able to film on Earth right now, but Tom Cruise, Elon Musk, and NASA are in talks about a film made in space. 23/24

Watch: A mesmerizing video of a drone flying over a herd of sheep. 24/24

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