The U.S. is testing about 350,000 people per day, more than double the daily average from mid-April, and federal regulators are bringing new diagnostics and antibody, or “serological,” tests to market every day. The Harvard Global Health Institute estimates that the U.S. will need to triple its testing average, to 900,000 per week, to contain the outbreak, though states’ needs vary. Washington Times

China used air travel to "seed" virus spread, Navarro says . . . White House advisor Peter Navarro told ABC News’ “This Week” that the “Chinese—behind the shield of the World Health Organization—for two months hid the virus from the world and then sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese on aircraft to Milan, New York and around the world to seed that. They could have kept it in Wuhan, but instead, it became a pandemic.” George Stephanopoulos, the host of the program, asked if he was accusing Beijing of deliberately spreading the virus. Navarro said he was not implying that it was intentional. Fox News

Michigan barber who opened shop in defiance of shutdown loses license . . . A Michigan barber who reopened his shop in defiance of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus shutdown orders had his license temporarily stripped Wednesday. Karl Manke, 77, became a symbol of resistance when he opened the doors of his Owosso shop on May 4 and refused to close, pledging to keep his doors open until police arrest him or “Jesus walks in.” After a judge declined to sign an order to shut down his shop Monday without first holding a hearing, state regulators opted to suspend Manke’s barber and shop licenses. Fox News

Obama officials said on TV Trump colluded with Russia; under oath, not so sure . . . Newly declassified documents have shown that several Obama administration officials now say they saw no empirical evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, contradicting earlier statements they made on television. Chief among these Obama officials is former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. He stated on CNN that President Donald Trump’s campaign was “aiding and abetting” the Russian attempt to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election. When the anchor pressed him on the issue he said he was using the term aiding and abetting “colloquially.” Newly released sworn testimony, however, shows that Clapper told Congress he “never saw any direct empirical evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Daily Caller

Maybe we should start putting pundits who appear on TV under oath. Nah, nobody would watch.

Democratic governors getting hit with flurry of lockdown legal challenges . . . The raging public debate over statewide coronavirus lockdowns is running parallel to a series of legal battles in state capitals — and the lockdown skeptics got a big boost this week.  The decision by Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to toss Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide shelter-in-place order set off a scramble in cities across the state to impose their own local restrictions. Elsewhere, bars and restaurants shut down by the order declared themselves open for business. The plaintiffs are business owners, aggrieved private citizens, pastors and in some cases, state legislators and legislatures. Politico

Pompeo's history of having aides walk the dog . . . Secretary of State Pompeo is now coming under fresh scrutiny after President Trump told Congress on Friday night that he was firing the State Department inspector general — at Mr. Pompeo’s private urging, a White House official said. The inspector general, Steve A. Linick, had begun an inquiry into Mr. Pompeo’s possible misuse of a political appointee to perform personal tasks for him and his wife, according to Democratic aides. That included walking the dog, picking up dry-cleaning and making restaurant reservations, one said — an echo of the whistle-blower complaint from last year. In the summer, members of Congress began examining a whistle-blower complaint accusing Mr. Pompeo of asking diplomatic security agents to run errands like picking up restaurant takeout meals and retrieving the family dog, Sherman, from a groomer. New York Times

Trump: CNN reporter a "faker" for removing mask in WH briefing room . . . CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins sparred with President Trump on Sunday for the second time in a week, this time on Twitter, after the president called her a “CNN Faker” over video showing her removing her mask while inside the White House briefing room. Trump had retweeted his son Eric, who wrote: “Just a reminder that @CNN is a total joke.” Collins responded: “Nearly 90,000 Americans have been killed by coronavirus, and the president is tweeting about me pulling my mask down for six seconds on Friday.” Fox News

Rwanda genocide fugitve lived peacefully in Paris . . . Rwandan genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga, whose arrest on Saturday ended 26 years on the run, was a frail, elderly man who said little to neighbours and who would take a stroll most days outside of his apartment in a well-off suburb of Paris. Kabuga, 84, Rwanda’s most wanted man with a $5 million bounty on his head, had been living under a false name. A Hutu businessman, he is accused of creating and making contributions to a fund that raised finances to pay the youth militias that would slaughter some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, as well as importing huge numbers of machetes, according to the UN tribunal’s indictment. Reuters

US to incur a blazing hot summer . . . Forecasters in the U.S. are predicting a sizzling hot summer with the entire country facing hotter-than-average temperatures. The weather is likely to be hotter than usual and could start as early as June and run throughout August in most areas of the country. The forecast also noted that areas in the northeast are also likely to face particularly high temperatures. The above-average hot weather may in part be as a result of cooling sea-surface temperatures that were detected in the Pacific Ocean which could see a possible La Niña later this year. Daily Mail

Utah cop showed off explicit photos of extortion victim who was later murdered . . . A Utah cop kept explicit photos of a terrified college track star who was being sextorted by her ex — and showed them off to a colleague just days before the young athlete was murdered. University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey, 21, went to campus cops in October 2018 because she was so scared of her blackmailer — twisted ex Melvin Rowland, 37, a registered sex offender — she had already paid an initial $1,000 demand. Officer Miguel Deras then saved the explicit images onto his personal phone, showing at least one male colleague — and bragging about being able to ogle them at any time, according to the Tribune’s investigation. Just nine days after she reported the case, McCluskey was shot dead by Rowland — who then killed himself the same day. New York Post

Phillis George dead at 70 . . . Phyllis George, a broadcast television pioneer who became the first female co-anchor of the football pregame show "The NFL Today," has died. She was 70. Her death was confirmed by her children, CNN's senior White House correspondent Pamela Brown and entrepreneur Lincoln Brown. George was born in Denton, Texas, on June 25, 1949. A trained classical pianist in her youth, she become the 50th Miss America in 1971. That crown -- and her magnetic personality -- catapulted her to national fame. "It was the springboard to everything I've done in my life," she said in a 2007 interview. She joined the organization's board of directors, one of the first past winners to do so. CNN