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Trump keeps talking during market hours; stocks keep tanking
When President Donald Trump speaks, financial markets gyrate and quiver in real time. Read more
When President Donald Trump speaks, financial markets gyrate and quiver in real time. Read more
U.S. elections have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic. At least 13 states have postponed voting and more delays are possible as health officials warn that social distancing and other measures to contain the virus might be in place for weeks, if not months. Read more
In an extraordinary exchange, President Donald Trump and the government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, publicly sparred today on whether a malaria drug would work to treat people with coronavirus disease. Read more
Party officials plan to add a new round of mail-in balloting to the party-run presidential primary so that people who had planned to vote in person on April 4 can still participate in the polling. Read more
Through daily briefings and scores of media appearances, Cuomo has emerged as one of the key faces responding to the pandemic. Read more
The plan includes $300 billion for small businesses to keep idled workers on payroll and $208 billion in loans to airlines and other industries. Read more
The fast-track effort in an all but shuttered Capitol came as the first two lawmakers tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, others are self-isolating and the usually tradition-bound Congress faced calls to ease rules and allow remote voting. Read more
Such a move could be an extraordinary reach by government into the private sector. Read more
Carlson told Vanity Fair that “I didn’t feel it was my role” but was convinced by his wife to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on March 7. Read more
Since coronavirus infections started appearing in the United States in January, Asian Americans have shared stories of minor aggression to blatant attacks from people blaming them for the pandemic, which has killed more than 130 people in the United States. Read more
A Sanders spokesman denied a report that the Vermont senator was suspending his campaign. Read more
Joe Biden swept to victory in Florida, Illinois and Arizona today, increasingly pulling away with a Democratic presidential primary upended by the coronavirus and building pressure on Bernie Sanders to abandon his campaign. Read more
President Donald Trump has clinched the Republican Party nomination, surpassing the necessary delegate threshold. Read more
Former California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter was sentenced today to 11 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing campaign funds and spending the money on everything from outings with friends to his daughter’s birthday party. Read more
The Democratic presidential primary is consumed with uncertainty after leaders in Ohio called off Tuesday’s election just hours before polls were set to open, citing the need to combat the new coronavirus. Read more
House and Senate leadership announced this afternoon that the 60-day legislative session will go into a recess effective immediately. Read more
Hillary Clinton asked a New York court to throw out a lawsuit by presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who claims the former Secretary of State defamed her by saying the Hawaii Congresswoman was “a Russian asset” and “the favorite of the Russians.” Read more
Former Vice President Joe Biden today committed to naming a woman as his running mate if he’s the Democratic presidential nominee, making a definitive assertion clamored for by some voters who have watched a historically diverse candidate field dwindle to two white men. Read more
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders sought in Sunday’s debate to cast themselves as best-positioned to lead the nation through a global pandemic, with Biden pledging to deploy the military to help with recovery efforts and Sanders using the crisis to pitch his long-sought overhaul of the country’s health care system. Read more
The governors of Illinois and Ohio have confirmed their states’ presidential primaries will continue as scheduled on Tuesday, even amidst the coronavirus outbreak. Read more
Saturday was the first time Sanders had a bigger delegate day than Biden since Nevada’s caucuses on Feb. 22. Read more