BODY OF SECOND KENNEDY RECOVERED

The body of an 8-year-old grandson of former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend of Maryland who went missing with his mother in a canoe last week was recovered in Chesapeake Bay on Wednesday, two days after his mother’s body was found, authorities said.

The Maryland Natural Resources Police said the body of the grandson, Gideon McKean, was found 2,000 feet from where the body of his mother, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, a granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, was recovered Monday.

Gideon’s body was found in 25 feet of water, over 2 miles south of his grandmother’s home in Shady Side, Md., south of Annapolis, police said.

EU court rules Poland must suspend disciplinary panel for judges.

» The European WARSAW, POLAN D Union’s highest court introduced measures Wednesday to halt Poland’s widely criticized disciplinary regime for judges, the latest blow in a years-long battle with the country’s governing Law and Justice party over what critics denounce as attempts to erode the independence of the judiciary.

In a temporary move that analysts said was highly likely to become permanent in the future, the Court of Justice of the European Union ordered the suspension of a new disciplinary chamber of the Polish Supreme Court, which has a politically selected membership and extraordinary powers to prosecute judges.

Georgia’s Loeffler to liquidate, convert stock shares. Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday she and her husband are liquidating their investment portfolio after criticism of their sales and purchases of millions of dollars of stocks amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The Georgia Republican, who is running to keep her Senate seat in a Nov. 3 nonpartisan primary, announced in The Wall

Street Journal that the couple’s stock holdings will be converted to mutual funds and exchange-traded funds to be controlled by third-party advisers.

She and her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, the chief executive of Intercontinental Exchange, parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, have a net worth estimated at more than $500 million.

86-year-old killed in ER over social distancing.

» One Saturday

N E W YOR K afternoon in late March, as the coronavirus pandemic flooded hospitals across New York City with desperately ill people, an 86year-old lost her bearings and started wandering the emergency room at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in Brooklyn.

The woman, Janie Marshall, who had dementia, grabbed onto another patient’s IV pole to regain her balance and orient herself, police said.

The patient, Cassandra Lundy, 32, apparently became irate that Marshall had broken the 6 feet of personal space recommended to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, law enforcement officials said. Lundy shoved the older woman, knocking her to the floor. Marshall struck her head and died three hours later.

Marshall’s death underscored how hospital officials are struggling to keep order in health care facilities overrun by the pandemic, as crowding generates a new level of fear and anxiety.

Initially, hospital officials handed Lundy a summons for disorderly conduct. But a week later, after the medical examiner ruled Marshall’s death a homicide, police charged Lundy with manslaughter and assault.

“How do you put your hands on an 86-year-old woman?” said Marshall’s grandniece, Antoinette Leonard Jean Charles, 41, a medical student in Tennessee. “I also understand the fear level of every person in New York has. There is a notion of every man for themselves. But attacking an elderly person? That went too far.”

Coronavirus invades Saudi inner sanctum. More than six weeks after Saudi Arabia reported its first case, the coronavirus is striking terror into the heart of the kingdom’s royal family.

As many as 150 royals in the kingdom are now believed to have contracted the virus, according to a person close to the family.

King Salman, 84, has secluded himself for his safety in an island palace near the city of Jiddah on the Red Sea, while Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, his son and the 34-year-old de facto ruler, has retreated with many of his ministers to a remote site on the same coast, where he has promised to build a futuristic city known as Neom.

Johnson improving.

LONON» Prime Minister Boris D

Johnson is heading for a third night in the critical care unit, where his condition is improving, as officials draw up plans to extend the lockdown in an attempt to control the U.K.’s growing coronavirus crisis.

Latest data shows Britain’s national picture has turned bleaker, with a record 938 people dying of the virus in the 24 hours to 5 p.m. Tuesday, bringing the U.K. toll to 7,097.

With Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in charge, the country is heading into the worst of the crisis without its leader and a major decision is looming on whether to extend or lift the lockdown.

Countries start thinking about easing restrictions. » Even as

NEW YORK coronavirus deaths mount across Europe and New York, the U.S. and other countries are starting to contemplate an exit strategy and thinking about a staggered and carefully calibrated easing of the restrictions designed to curb the scourge.

“To end the confinement, we’re not going to go from black to white; we’re going to go from black to gray,” top French epidemiologist Jean-François Delfraissy said.

At the same time, politicians and health officials warn the crisis is far from over despite signs of progress, and a catastrophic second wave could hit if countries let down their guard too soon. Deaths, hospitalizations and new infections are leveling off in places such as Italy and Spain, and even New York has seen encouraging signs amid the gloom.

“We are flattening the curve because we are rigorous about social distancing,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “But it’s not a time to be complacent. It’s not a time to do anything different than we’ve been doing.”

In a sharp reminder of the danger, New York state on Wednesday recorded its highest one-day increase in deaths, 779, for an overall death toll of almost 6,300.

“The bad news is actually terrible,” Cuomo said.