The top U.S. infectious disease official says “the better part of valor” is that people should wear some kind of facial covering when they go out, if they can’t maintain the recommended 6-foot social distancing to slow the spread of the coronavirus

The Trump administration’s decision to let states chart their own responses to the coronavirus crisis rather than impose a national strategy will cost thousands of lives and is likely to result in an open-ended outbreak rolling across the country, a dozen public health experts told NBC News.

Dr. Deborah Birx, a U.S. State Department official working as a coronavirus response coordinator for the White House, told reporters on Thursday that social distancing is the best protection.

Millions of small businesses are anxiously awaiting their slices of a $350 billion relief program that forms part of the government’s $2 trillion economic support package. However, with just hours to go before launch, it wasn’t until Thursday night that banks received their 31 pages of guidance from Treasury on how to lend the money — and some haven’t even...

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign sent a scathing letter to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week, calling him “delusional” for tying himself to the president in his current Senate campaign and demanding it stop circulating any mailers that imply Trump supports his bid.  The Trump campaign specifically called out Sessions’ team for an advertisement that mentioned the president...

While his administration has faced criticism for being slow to ramp up testing for coronavirus infections, President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the problem was with his predecessors, saying the administration “inherited a broken system” that it “rebuilt.” That’s misleading. The president has a point that the testing system of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alone...

As the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow in the U.S., President Donald Trump urged Americans Tuesday to heed his administration’s guidelines for responding to the pandemic, calling it “a matter of life and death.”

President Donald Trump is sending Navy ships toward Venezuela to beef up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a U.S. drug indictment of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro

When asked what would happen to the millions of uninsured Americans unable to afford coronavirus testing and treatment, the Trump administration had no clear answer Wednesday.

The Trump administration backtracked Wednesday evening on new rules and said Social Security recipients won’t have to file a tax return to receive a stimulus payment.

DESC: President Donald Trump reacted to a statement former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign made saying the candidate would be open to having a phone call with the president about the coronavirus pandemic. “I’d love to speak to him,” responded Trump. “I always found him to be a very nice guy.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he would increase counter-narcotics operations. Trump said the increased operations were aimed at protecting Americans from the “deadly scourge of illegal narcotics.” He added, “We must not let the drug cartels exploit the pandemic to threaten American lives.”

A new, dire prediction from the White House says as many as 240,000 people could die in the United States from the coronavirus pandemic — unless Americans willingly stay at home. So far, 32 states issued stay at home orders, covering three out of four Americans.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Americans to brace for a “hell of a bad two weeks” ahead as the White House projected there could be 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the U.S. from the coronavirus pandemic even if current social distancing guidelines are maintained.

As the number of new coronavirus cases in China, where the virus first began, continues to decline, the United States is facing a massive increase in the number of cases. The outbreak has federal and local officials scrambling to enforce social distancing and assist overwhelmed health care systems.

President Donald Trump is claiming that the U.S. is experiencing a lower death rate from the coronavirus pandemic than other countries

At a press conference on Tuesday, President Donald Trump urged Americans to brace themselves for a difficult period ahead as the coronavirus continues to spread throughout the United States. Coronavirus task force members Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Anthony Fauci also gave updates on the extended social distancing guidelines, saying “now is the time, whenever you’re having an effect,...

President Donald Trump spoke at a press conference on Monday alongside Vice President Mike Pence and the administration’s Coronavirus Task Force. Trump announced “dramatic” economic measures would be proposed to Congressional leadership on Tuesday. In the United States, the coronavirus has infected more than 600 people and killed more than 26.

President Trump told reporters on Saturday that he was optimistic about the economy following Friday’s stock market growth and the congressional aid package, predicting a “tremendous bounce” in the wake of the coronavirus. Trump also expressed frustration with the Chairman of the Fed and accused him of “following, not leading” global markets.

President Donald Trump likened the fight against the coronavirus to waging a war during a Coronavirus Task Force press conference on Wednesday. The task force provided updates on the pandemic response efforts, including the president’s invocation of the Defense Production Act to address the shortage of medical supplies as well as the closure of the Canadian and Mexican borders....