April 2020 Impact Articles
- Maryland's Republican governor flew in coronavirus tests under armed guard so Trump wouldn't steal them
- Amazon's new employee-scanning cameras were reportedly bought from a firm accused of human rights violations
- Serena Williams, Gigi Hadid, and Seal are playing in a video game tournament this weekend
- Elizabeth Warren wants to create a federal agency in charge of PPE
- This new "self-cleaning" underwear can be worn for weeks, if you're interested in that
- Trump is reportedly laser-focused on "punishing China" for coronavirus
- Disability rights groups are demanding ASL interpreters for coronavirus briefings
- Nearly 75% of federal inmates who have been tested have had coronavirus
- Reopening states early will force workers to choose between a paycheck and their health
- The government sent stimulus checks to dead people. Now it wants them back
- Please don't buy this COVID-19 commemorative coin
- A new Spinosaurus fossil completely changes our idea of how one of the largest dinosaurs lived
- At least the pandemic is making life harder for illegal wildlife traffickers
- Justin Amash's possible presidential bid is only good for Justin Amash
- 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' jobs people have created for themselves
- The 7 best apps for connecting with friends during quarantine
- Coronavirus is a "catastrophe within a catastrophe" for women, U.N. report says
- Of course Trump wants to link COVID-19 relief to his anti-immigrant agenda
- Utah ended a surveillance contract after learning the firm's boss was in the KKK
- The Supreme Court is about to make 3 big rulings on immigration, abortion, and financial reform
- Tara Reade's sexual assault claim against Joe Biden has 3 new sources to back it up
- Mnuchin says big companies that took PPP funds could face "criminal liability"
- Will coronavirus finally kill the open office?
- Houseparty keeps crashing: How to fix and troubleshoot the app
- An Optimist's Guide to the End of the World
- How bad is Juuling for the environment?
- New York cancels its presidential primary, angering Sanders camp
- How to protect elections amid the coronavirus pandemic
- Have we reached the end of Trump's coronavirus briefings?
- Bill Gates says his foundation is focusing "almost entirely" on coronavirus
- Are socially distant seats the future of air travel?
- Families of the incarcerated fear the worst as coronavirus spreads
- The Trump administration is blocking coronavirus aid to U.S. citizens married to undocumented immigrants
- TikTok keeps crashing: How to fix and troubleshoot the app
- As a mom working in a prison, I worry about bringing coronavirus home
- With Biden's sexual assault allegation, 4 women describe the moral dilemma of voting for him
- A Louisiana prison battling coronavirus tells inmates: "It's too late for us"
- The 3 best triathlon watches
- Cops are now using 'pandemic drones' to take people's temperatures from the sky
- In the Detroit school lawsuit, court rules kids have a constitutional right to literacy
- Zero waste: an attainable guide to pulling it off, according to experts
- Federal documents say ditching social distancing early could kill 300,000
- CDC Director Robert Redfield got caught between Trump's ego and public health
- The latest coronavirus stimulus package is what compromise looks like
- The Las Vegas mayor's COVID-19 plan is basically 'Hunger Games' for businesses
- Biden gathers key climate endorsements in his effort to win over progressives
- New study says nearly half of the country is breathing dirty, unhealthy air
- Watch live as SpaceX launches 60 satellites into orbit
- A new ACLU study says 100,000 more people could die if prisoners aren't released
- How Burning Man taught me to party sustainably
- Meet the bots documenting our existential dread, one tweet at a time
- Attorney General Bill Barr threatens to sue states who continue social distancing
- Trump says anti-lockdown protesters were "doing social distancing." They clearly weren't
- Even with bailouts and eviction freezes, another housing crisis is coming
- Behind Project 100, the Stacey Abrams-backed mission to give 100,000 families free money
- New masks designed to catch cow burps could help save the planet
- Schools, empty because of coronavirus, are being burglarized in California
- 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' is about to get a new garden shop and museum, among other expansions
- Study: Fox News's coronavirus coverage may have had deadly consequences
- Trump says he'll suspend all immigration to the U.S. because of coronavirus
- Will Trump lose the election because of coronavirus?
- Terrorists, militants, and criminal gangs join the fight against coronavirus
- A new survey suggests coronavirus is making Americans trust big tech again
- Facebook's new gaming app makes streaming incredibly easy — as long as you're team Android
- Who's winning Americans' trust during the coronavirus pandemic?
- Trump implies that Muslims are skirting social distancing, without evidence
- Kamala Harris's VoteSafe Act calls for a $5 billion investment in vote-by-mail
- Living sustainably at home: 4 things you can do right now
- Florida to reopen beaches just weeks after spring breakers depart
- Anti-African racism in China grows as coronavirus restrictions lift
- Trump eggs on right-wing protesters with call to "liberate" Democratic states
- China's economy just shrunk for the first time in decades. Could the U.S. be next?
- Trump's "Opening Up America Again" plan is utterly nonsensical
- Coronavirus has disrupted Amazon's usually speedy Prime delivery. Should subscribers get a refund?
- Microsoft pulled an ad featuring Marina Abramović after internet trolls called her a satanist
- Migrant farm workers might see a pay cut even though they're "essential"
- The coronavirus task forces Trump created appear to be a total shitshow
- Trump continues his "total" authority agenda, threatens to adjourn Congress
- From stimulus check to unemployment: A guide to your coronavirus relief benefits
- Democrats propose coronavirus stimulus checks on a monthly basis
- This super-useful bot will file your unemployment claim for you
- Right-wingers mount protests of the stay-at-home rules keeping them safe
- Massive "UFO-like" creature could be the longest organism in the ocean
- The EPA declined to tighten clean air rules, ignoring known links to coronavirus
- Leaked document shows the government plan to reopen the country in May
- Trump says he's cutting WHO funding, blaming it for "so much death"
- A single Chicago shelter for migrant kids has reported 37 cases of coronavirus
- For the first time ever, Florida panthers were filmed fighting in an epic battle for territory
- A forest fire is currently burning near Chernobyl. What will happen if it gets there?
- Will coronavirus fracture the United States into regional blocs?
- I'm 16. Here's why I organized for Bernie Sanders
- Jill Karofsky won Wisconsin's election despite GOP voter suppression tactics
- A 64-year-old accidentally ejected himself from a jet in a birthday gift gone horribly wrong
- Trump's latest coronavirus briefing was his longest — and angriest — yet
- Why Latino citizens are more worried about deportation even as numbers decrease
- Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signs a plethora of progressive priorities into law
- Single-use plastic is having a resurgence during the pandemic
- The woman who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her has filed a police report
- Trump retweeted a message calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci to be fired
- "Houston, we've had a problem": Listen to the Apollo 13 mission go wrong in real-time
- All 50 states have declared a disaster due to coronavirus, and Trump seems weirdly proud
- Wisconsin's primary election debacle has just begun
- Coronavirus could kill the USPS, officials warn
- A Democratic super PAC spent six figures on a truly embarrassing meme campaign
- Trump jokes that Dr. Anthony Fauci should run for Congress to oust AOC
- Google and Apple are teaming up to create a coronavirus tracking network on our phones
- Trump wants to roll back mercury regulations based on a decade-old report
- “Alexa, help me”: A coronavirus patient begged her smart speaker for help dozens of times before she died
- Doctors ask state prisons to donate lethal injection drugs to help treat coronavirus
- Trump's rambunctious coronavirus briefings are starting to worry his allies
- Some trash people are trashing national parks during a pandemic
- Why is the government cutting funding for coronavirus testing?
- A woman claims she had to give birth standing up while in border agents' custody
- Both Democrats and Republicans think the other side is more extreme than it actually is
- This smart toilet can identify your butthole and analyze your poop for diseases
- 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons': How to improve your Happy Home score
- Don Jr.'s weird 'Tiger King' fixation made its way to Trump's coronavirus briefing
- Fox News is being sued for downplaying coronavirus. Will it matter?
- In the middle of a pandemic, Trump is thinking about mining the moon
- The Trump campaign's anti-Biden strategy makes no sense
- Behold, a black hole spitting a ball of fire 60 light-years long
- 6 states say FEMA has intercepted their coronavirus supply orders
- Internal NASA memo warns of "significantly increasing" threats from coronavirus-related hacking
- Bernie Sanders drops out of the 2020 race
- Trump says mail-in voting is fine for him, but for everyone else it's "corrupt"
- Trump fires the official overseeing his stimulus spending package
- A guide to mail-in voting and why people think it could save the 2020 election
- When presidential campaigns end, what happens to the leftover money?
- After 10 years without sex, two giant pandas finally got it on in an empty zoo in Hong Kong
- Why are farmers literally dumping milk down the drain?
- The complicated grief of live-streamed funerals
- Wisconsin's election is a blatant attack on democracy
- How the Trump administration killed the press briefing
- Self-driving cars are helping the coronavirus fight in Florida
- Andrew Cuomo doubles New York's fine for breaking social distancing rules
- Acting Navy secretary calls fired captain "naive" and "stupid"
- Apple's latest product is a custom mask for medical workers around the world
- Trump's hydroxychloroquine fixation is about a media narrative, not a medical one
- Our poop could help scientists map the spread of coronavirus
- People are setting cell towers on fire over a bizarre coronavirus conspiracy
- The Trump administration basically ignored coronavirus for two months, documents show
- Anti-abortion activists in North Carolina are suing because they can't get together to protest
- The 6 best computer glasses
- New York Rep. Grace Meng calls out Trump's anti-Asian coronavirus rhetoric
- COVID-19's impact on the 2020 census will be felt for generations to come
- Gun shops lobbied the White House to let them keep profiting off coronavirus panic
- Asylum-seekers can now be turned away immediately by border agents
- People are rethinking single-use plastics during the pandemic
- Navy secretary fires captain who sought help with a coronavirus outbreak
- Scientists have created a new type of robot that is literally alive
- Trump is shocked that 3M isn't his personal mask-making operation
- Jared Kushner made his coronavirus briefing debut and it did not go well
- Animal Crossing: 'New Horizons': How to play with friends and avoid becoming a recluse
- Bankers warn the small business lending program might not be "feasible"
- Right-wing media has turned a pandemic into an ideological purity test
- Domestic violence reports during coronavirus have spiked, prompting countries to take action
- When will you get your coronavirus stimulus check?
- Is there such a thing as too much screen time right now?
- Where is Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp getting his coronavirus information?
- Researchers believe they've found a new type of black hole that eats stars
- 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons': How to move your house and avoid annoying neighbors
- At his coronavirus briefing, Trump boasted about his Facebook following
- Will there be a "Phase 4" of coronavirus relief?
- Trump will use the Defense Production Act for all sorts of stuff — except coronavirus relief
- What happens to research animals as coronavirus closes laboratories?
- Wisconsin will have an IRL election — with help from the National Guard
- The Earth is literally vibrating less because of coronavirus lockdowns
- Zoom's latest bug lets hackers steal your Windows passwords
- Trump won't reopen Obamacare enrollment, leaving the uninsured out in the cold
- Federal inmates will spend the next 14 days in their cells
- The absolute best VR headsets you can buy
- GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler's pre-coronavirus stock sales are looking worse and worse
- Gov. Andrew Cuomo rips White House on making states compete for ventilators
