News Wrap: Biden disputes Trump’s COVID-19 testing claims

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• Judy Woodruff:

  In the day's other news: The U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases on whether President Trump can keep his tax returns and financial records private.

  Congressional committees and a district attorney in New York have subpoenaed the documents. The day's arguments were made over the phone. And we will have excerpts and a closer look after the news summary.

  In the presidential campaign, the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, denounced President Trump's claims that anyone can get tested for COVID-19.

  In an interview, he charged that Mr. Trump has shown what he called needless complacency.

• Former Vice President Joseph Biden:

  He knew about this crisis all the way back in January and February. He's been incompetent, the way in which he has responded to it.

  We have 80,000 deaths. We have more deaths, we have more of the virus than any nation in the world. What's the story here? I mean, come on. This is just fantasyland, what he's talking about.

• Judy Woodruff:

  Meanwhile, the Trump reelection effort reported raising nearly $62 million in April. The Biden campaign raised more than $60 million.

  In Moscow, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, was hospitalized with the coronavirus. He is the latest senior Kremlin figure to be infected.

  Meanwhile, France began reopening schools today, with physical distancing and limits on class size. And, in India, trains resumed limited service, as the government continued easing a lockdown.

  It has been a day of unspeakable violence in Afghanistan. Gunmen stormed a maternity hospital in Kabul, and killed 16 people, including new mothers and their babies. Afghan security forces and nurses alike carried newborns out of the hospital.

  Inside, blood stained the floor under baby beds, and a doctor told of hiding out from the attackers.

• Ghulam Hussain (through translator):

  When the firing started, we went to the safe room. There were nine of us inside the safe room for four hours. The attacker came at the back of the safe room door and fired, but he couldn't enter the room.

  All our colleagues were unhurt there, but there were casualties amongst the patients inside the wards.

• Judy Woodruff:

  In Eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber killed at least 24 people in Nangarhar province at a police commander's funeral.

  Back in this country, the Georgia state attorney general asked for an investigation of how prosecutors handled the Ahmaud Arbery case. He was killed by a white father and son in February. They were charged with murder last week, when video of the incident emerged.

  And on Wall Street, stocks slumped on warnings about lifting the pandemic lockdowns too soon. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 457 points to close at 23764. The Nasdaq fell 189 points, and the S&P 500 slipped 60.