Plus, people are starting to get laid off because of the spreading coronavirus, and the unintended consequences of Italy's national coronavirus lockdown.
Plus, updates on the current total number of coronavirus cases, and President Trump’s proposal to dramatically reduce the payroll tax.
Plus, Joe Biden chips away at the white working class vote, two Marines are killed during an operation against the Islamic State, and Democrats face a heavy lift as they hope to win the Senate.
In speeches this weekend, Sanders has cautiously tested new and forceful attacks on Biden’s record on gay rights and women’s issues, potent critiques aimed at two key bases of the Democratic Party.
Military helicopters delivered testing kits Thursday to a cruise ship being held off the coast of California, as officials in Washington faced angry questions about whether the vessel is set to become the latest breeding ground for the coronavirus.
Elizabeth Warren flew home to Boston to reassess her campaign, weighing whether to end her bid and allow liberals in the party to unite behind Sanders the way moderates quickly coalesced for Biden.
Joe Biden swept the South and did surprisingly well in New England and the Upper Midwest on Super Tuesday. He appears poised to seize control of the Democratic presidential race and overtake Bernie Sanders as the delegate leader.
The coronavirus has claimed six American lives, and patients are now being treated in at least 15 states.
The coronavirus has been circulating undetected and has possibly infected scores of people over the past six weeks in Washington state.
Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China without proper training for infection control or appropriate protective gear.
The CDC reported last night that a person in Northern California has contracted the coronavirus without traveling to regions hit by the outbreak or coming in contact with anyone known to have the infection.
Bernie Sanders came under withering and sustained criticism during last night's presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina, as his six rivals launched urgent attempts to stop the candidate who has the clearest path to the Democratic nomination.
With Sanders now surging to the top of the Democratic presidential field, those three-decade-old impressions on his Cold War travels introduced a volatile new element in the race Monday.
Bernie Sanders has seized a commanding position in the Democratic presidential race, building a diverse coalition that is driving his liberal movement toward the cusp of taking over the party.
A senior U.S. intelligence official told lawmakers last week that Russia wants to see President Trump reelected, viewing his administration as more favorable to the Kremlin’s interests.
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg suffered a punishing welcome in the Las Vegas Democratic debate on Wednesday night.
President Trump granted clemency yesterday to a clutch of political allies, circumventing the usual Justice Department process.
Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg qualified for Wednesday’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas, setting the stage for a clash that will test the staying power of a campaign that has so far been defined by its astronomical advertising spending.
Attorney General Bill Barr pushed back last night against Trump’s attacks on the Justice Department. The remarkable public rebuke of the president by a sitting member of the cabinet arose from a crisis of confidence at the Justice Department.
Usually the early Democratic presidential contests shrink the field. This year, they’ve expanded it.
Democrats are bracing themselves for a long and divisive slog for the presidential nomination after New Hampshire has added new uncertainty to a race that was already scrambled by last week's caucuses in Iowa.
This first-in-the-nation primary state, which votes today, is at the leading edge of Americans’ frustration with flaws of the U.S. health-care system.
The two top finishers in last week's Iowa caucuses, representing opposite ends of the Democratic Party's ideological spectrum, are heading for a showdown in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
A Chinese doctor who was silenced by police for trying to share news about the new coronavirus long before Chinese health authorities disclosed its full threat died after coming down with the illness.
Mitt Romney sealed a place in history yesterday by voting to convict President Trump of abuse of power, becoming a lone voice of dissent in a Republican Party that otherwise marched in lockstep with the president throughout the impeachment proceedings.
President Trump’s State of the Union address last night amounted to a more subdued version of one of his raucous campaign rallies.
On the night Iowa was asked to deliver a definitive primary result, the entire precinct caucus system broke down, and Iowa's place in the nominating process became the story.
On Sunday, an NBC reporter overheard one of the former vice president’s top surrogates, John F. Kerry, in the hotel lobby speculating over the idea that he would jump into the race.
The Democratic presidential candidates returned to Iowa in full force yesterday, using a brief break from impeachment proceedings to rally supporters ahead of tomorrow’s caucuses.
A handwritten sign posted on the wall inside a Bernie Sanders campaign office here in Des Moines tells volunteers how to respond when people raise concerns about his identity as a socialist.
