Good morning. 
Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of fifty. Sunrise is 6:17 AM and sunset 5:53 PM, for 11h 35m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 92.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand two hundred fifteenth day.
On this day in 1811, naturalist and longtime Wisconsin resident Increase Allen Lapham is born.
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David Nakamura reports Trump plays medical expert on coronavirus by second-guessing the professionals:
“People are really surprised I understand this stuff,” he said. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”
But for members of the general public alarmed by more than 300 diagnosed cases in the United States — including at least 21 that his administration announced Friday were discovered on a cruise ship off the San Francisco coast — Trump’s performance during an impromptu 45-minute news conference at CDC was not necessarily reassuring.
Sporting his trademark red 2020 campaign hat with the slogan “Keep America Great,” the president repeatedly second-guessed and waved off the actual medical professionals standing next to him. He attacked his Democratic rivals — including calling Washington Gov. Jay Inslee a “snake” for criticizing his response — and chided a CNN reporter for smiling and called her network “fake news.”
And he described coronavirus testing kits — which his administration has been criticized for being slow to distribute — as “beautiful” and said they were as “perfect” as his Ukraine phone call last summer that led him to be impeached.
Anastasia Tsioulcas reports Publisher Drops Woody Allen’s Book After Ronan Farrow Objects, Employees Walk Out:
On Thursday afternoon, dozens of employees of the publishing imprints Grand Central Publishing and Little, Brown staged a walkout in both New York and Boston to protest Grand Central’s decision to publish Allen’s book.
Both imprints are owned by Hachette Book Group, the same house that published journalist Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill. The walkout comes after Farrow announced on Tuesday that he felt he could no longer work with HBG after the Allen acquisition.
On Friday evening, Farrow tweeted of the decision: “Grateful to all the Hachette employees who spoke up and to the company for listening.”
Farrow is Allen’s son with actress Mia Farrow; his sister, Dylan Farrow, has accused Allen of having sexually abused her as a child. Allen has long denied her allegations.
In his statement, Farrow wrote in part that HBG “concealed the decision from me and its own employees while we were working on Catch and Kill — a book about how powerful men, including Woody Allen, avoid accountability for sexual abuse.”
(A private firm has no insuperable obligation to publish an author’s work against the better judgment of critics and its own employees. Hachette Book Group made the right decision to abandon Allen’s book.)