President Donald Trump is weighing how to refine nationwide social-distancing guidelines to put some workers back on the job amid the coronavirus outbreak

A frustrated President Donald Trump has struggled to cope with the reality of the coronavirus crisis that has redefined his presidency and upended his campaign for reelection

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he can’t jump in front of the microphone to stop President Donald Trump from speaking at daily White House briefings on the coronavirus outbreak.

Top congressional and White House officials emerged from grueling negotiations at the Capitol over the $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package saying they expected to reach a deal Tuesday.

The hunt for masks, ventilators and other medical supplies consumed the U.S. and Europe, as more than 1.5 billion people — one-fifth of the world’s population — were urged or ordered to stay home Monday to try to blunt the spread of the coronavirus.

As leaders from Congress and the White House toiled in high-stakes negotiations on a mammoth $1 trillion-plus economic rescue package Friday, President Donald Trump unleashed fury over questions of his handling of the coronavirus outbreak

President Donald Trump is falsely asserting how quickly automakers including GM, Ford and Tesla can manufacture ventilators to help fill an acute U.S. shortage of the medical equipment for coronavirus patients.

When President Donald Trump speaks, financial markets gyrate and quiver in real time.

A member of Vice President Mike Pence’s staff has tested positive for the coronavirus, Pence’s office said Friday night. The staffer’s name and exact position were not released, but Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, said, “Neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence had close contact with the individual. “Further contact tracing is being conducted in accordance with CDC guidelines,” Miller...

President Donald Trump misstated the facts when he asserted that the Food and Drug Administration had just approved a decades-old malaria drug to treat the coronavirus

When Dr. Mike Pellini, a physician and biotech investor, read the news about the spread of a virus that caused pneumonia-like symptoms, he decided to keep on hand a supply of an anti-malarial drug called chloroquine.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned from the board of Boeing Co.

The Canadian government says the Canada-U.S. border will be closed to all non-essential travel in both directions on Friday night

President Donald Trump has called off the G-7 meeting at Camp David scheduled for June, citing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump is calling on states to do more to secure their own critically needed masks, ventilators and testing supplies as the pressure mounts on hospitals coping with a rising number of coronavirus patients

A photograph taken at Thursday’s White House coronavirus task force press briefing shows President Donald Trump reading from notes where the word “corona” was crossed out and replaced with “Chinese” to describe COVID-19. The picture, taken by a Washington Post photographer, shows the word crossed out in what appears to be Sharpie and in the president’s own handwriting....Get the...

President Donald Trump has declared U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams a rising star for his work during the coronavirus outbreak

The fast-moving coronavirus upending every facet of American life is testing whether Washington can still do big things

The double-barreled approach of a $1 trillion proposed fiscal stimulus program and Federal Reserve policy could help soften the blow of an economic recession and head off a potential financial crisis.

The Senate has approved — and President Donald Trump has signed — a $100 billion-plus bill to boost testing for the coronavirus and guarantee paid sick leave for millions of workers hit by it

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is scaling back the aggressive operations it launched under President Donald Trump as the country contends with the new coronavirus outbreak.

Shares in Asia have fallen, with Japan’s benchmark failing to hold onto early gains after the latest selloff on Wall Street

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, is requesting to serve the remainder of his three-year prison sentence at home due to unsafe prison conditions caused by the coronavirus outbreak, NBC News reports.

President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday he has believed the coronavirus outbreak was “a pandemic, long before it was called a pandemic” — but in January, he explicitly played down concerns when asked about it.

Nearly 7 million people in the San Francisco area were all but confined to their homes Tuesday in the nation’s most sweeping lockdown against the coronavirus, even as spring break crowds partied in Florida and tourists lined up to pose for pictures in front of the world-famous “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign.

President Donald Trump drew backlash Monday night after posting a tweet using the phrase “Chinese Virus,” NBC News reports.

The Pentagon is already helping combat the coronavirus outbreak in the United States and is considering ways to do more.

The Justice Department is moving to drop charges against two Russian companies that were accused of funding a social media campaign to sway American public opinion during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In the course of a few weeks, President Donald Trump went from confidently assuring Americans his administration had the coronavirus outbreak “very well under control” to declaring a national emergency that has upended every facet of American life

It took 10 Democratic debates to winnow the stage to just two candidates, and on Sunday night Bernie Sanders faced Joe Biden one-on-one. The debate was relocated from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., amid growing concerns about the COVID-19 coronavirus. Check out the blog below to see how the debate unfolded in real time.

The White House is expected to announce that the U.S. will broaden its European travel ban, adding the United Kingdom and Ireland to its list

The House passed an aid package from Congress late Friday several hours after President Donald Trump declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency in order to free up more money and resources.

President Donald Trump says he will “most likely” be tested for the novel coronavirus, as questions swirl about why he, his top aides and his family aren’t doing more to protect themselves and others after repeated exposure to COVID-19

President Donald Trump refused to accept any responsibility for the slow rate of coronavirus testing in the United States, saying on Friday that he was “given a set of circumstances” that wasn’t meant for the high numbers of potential COVID-19 infections. “What we’ve done, and one of the reasons people are respecting what we’ve done, is we’ve gotten it done very...

The Trump administration scrambled Friday to broaden testing for the coronavirus with a flurry of new measures, and public confusion persisted over who should be tested and how to get checked for the disease. Declaring a national emergency, President Donald Trump and senior staffers laid out a new testing strategy designed to screen hundreds of thousands of Americans at drive-thru…

A second person who was at Mar-a-Lago with President Donald Trump last weekend has tested positive for coronavirus. That’s according to a Republican official who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss private health matters. The person attended a Trump fundraising at the president’s Florida resort on Sunday. Trump also spent time last weekend with a Brazilian...

President Donald Trump’s approach in dealing with the spiraling coronavirus outbreak is a familiar one.

President Donald Trump’s suggestion to postpone the Tokyo Olympics for a year because of the spreading virus was immediately shot down by Japan’s Olympic minister

President Donald Trump has told Americans that health insurers won’t make people share the cost of COVID-19 treatment.

President Donald Trump has been flouting his own government’s own advice on the coronavirus outbreak.

The United States snapped to attention on Wednesday about the toll of the new coronavirus that is spreading quickly through the country.

The escalating coronavirus crisis is presenting President Donald Trump with a challenge for which he appears ill-equipped, with his favorite political tactics ineffective and his reelection chances in jeopardy

Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Wednesday night, opening with: “I’m feeling good. Could feel better.”

President Trump is banning most Europeans from entering the United States for 30 days to try to slow down the spread of the coronavirus

Taking drastic action Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced he is cutting off travel from Europe to the U.S. and moving to ease the economic cost of a viral pandemic that is roiling global financial markets and disrupting the daily lives of Americans. Trump made the announcement that he is partly suspending travel from Europe, except the United Kingdom, to...

As the coronavirus outbreak grows in size and severity throughout the United States, it’s upending politics in ways big and small.

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, fresh off having spent more than $500 million on his failed presidential bid, gave $500,000 to a group registering young Latinos to vote, NBC News reports.

Defying a veto threat, Congress has approved a bipartisan measure to limit President Donald Trump’s authority to launch military operations against Iran

Congress has taken a first step toward addressing errors made by the FBI during its investigation of the Trump campaign and Russia

The Senate on Wednesday gave final congressional approval to a measure overturning Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ rules making it harder for students to get loans erased after being misled by for-profit colleges

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to continue enforcing a policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings, despite lower court rulings that the policy probably is illegal

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Justice Department must give Congress secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation

Amid criticism over his administration’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that he had to overcome an Obama-era Food and Drug Administration “rule” to more quickly provide diagnostic tests to the American people. Experts, however, told us no such formal regulation was ever implemented under the previous administration. The outbreak, which began in Wuhan, China,...

President Donald Trump’s trip to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, briefly scuttled Friday because of unfounded fears that someone there had contracted the coronavirus, was back on. Trump is looking to dampen growing alarm about the spread of the virus, which was confirmed Friday in new parts of the U.S.

In the midst of one of the most daunting crises of his administration, President Donald Trump announced he had made a major staff overhaul, replacing his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney with Republican Rep. Mark Meadows.

The U.S. government has collected persuasive intelligence that the Taliban do not intend to honor the promises they have made in the recently signed deal with the United States, three American officials tell NBC News, undercutting what has been days of hopeful talk by President Donald Trump and his top aides. “They have no intention of abiding by their...

President Donald Trump on Friday signed an $8.3 billion measure to help tackle the coronavirus outbreak that has killed 12 people in the U.S. and infected more than 200.

President Donald Trump defended his administration’s response to the coronavirus and his confrontational style of name-calling political opponents as he fielded questions from the public in his first TV town hall of the 2020 election cycle.

This year’s presidential campaign looked very promising for women candidates

Mike Bloomberg is out of the Democratic presidential race, but he’s not done trying to beat President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump will visit disaster areas in Tennessee on Friday, just days after storms that whipped across the state left 24 dead and many more injured.

A federal judge has sharply rebuked Attorney General William Barr’s handling of the special counsel’s Russia report.

Trump administration officials doubled down on their promise to deliver 1 million tests for the coronavirus this week as states reported limited testing supplies and federal lawmakers expressed doubts about the government’s timeline.

A day after Vice President Mike Pence assured Americans that lab tests for coronavirus would be covered by private and government health insurance, that promise appears to be less than airtight. The bottom line: Medicare, Medicaid, and “Obamacare” insurance plans will cover the tests, officials said Thursday. Major insurers also said they will cover such tests. But people with employer-provided insurance should check...

President Donald Trump at last has the race he wanted.

President Donald Trump’s latest take on the coronavirus is an optimistic one.

From Hawaii to Pennsylvania, states are scrambling to curb the impact of a new Trump administration rule that could cause nearly 700,000 people to lose food stamp benefits

President Donald Trump’s lawyers are urging a judge to halt a lawsuit from a woman seeking Trump’s DNA to help prove her claim that he raped her in the 1990s

The Supreme Court appeared divided in its first major abortion case of the Trump era, leaving Chief Justice John Roberts as the likely deciding vote

The future of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign is in serious doubt after she was defeated in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in her home state of Massachusetts.

The U.S. military says it has conducted an airstrike against Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, only days after American and Taliban officials signed an ambitious peace deal in the Mideastern state of Qatar

President Donald Trump is confirming that he spoke on the phone to a leader of the Taliban, making him the first U.S. president believed to ever speak directly with the militant group.

Jeff Flake has a direct message for the Republicans of New Hampshire: Someone needs to stop Donald Trump. And Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, may stand up against the Republican president in 2020 — either as a Republican or an independent — if no one else does. “It has not been in my plans to run for president, but...

The kerfuffle began at the rally in North Charleston, South Carolina when Trump accused the Democrats of “politicizing” the coronavirus outbreak.

As key Democratic figures coalesced behind Joe Biden, President Donald Trump lobbed an extended attack at the former vice president at a rally in North Carolina hours before the Super Tuesday contest, NBC News reports.

Afghanistan’s president says he will not free thousands of Taliban prisoners ahead of all-Afghan power-sharing talks set for next week, publicly disagreeing with a timetable laid out just a day earlier in a U.S.-Taliban peace deal

The coronavirus claimed its first victim in the U.S. Saturday as the number of cases shot up in Iran, Italy and South Korea and the spreading outbreak continued to shake the global economy

The United States and the Taliban have signed a historic peace agreement aimed at ending the 18-year war in Afghanistan, America’s longest

President Donald Trump on Friday picked Rep. John Ratcliffe again to be the nation’s top intelligence official, just months after abruptly ending an earlier effort to install him amid bipartisan criticism that the Texas Republican was unqualified for the post. Trump’s decision meant that once again the GOP-led Senate would have to decide whether to put the three-term lawmaker...

President Donald Trump accused Democrats of “politicizing” the deadly coronavirus during a campaign rally here on Friday, claiming that the outbreak is “their new hoax” as he continued to downplay the risk in the U.S., NBC News reports.

An Alabama man arrested for slashing a towering protest balloon depicting President Donald Trump as a baby was ordered to attend counseling and complete community service for a chance at getting the charges dismissed. If Hoyt Hutchinson, 32, finishes the Tuscaloosa County District Attorney’s diversion program without any other infractions, the case and charges against him could be removed from…

The House Judiciary Committee is launching a wide-ranging probe of Attorney General William Barr and the Justice Department, demanding briefings, documents and interviews with 15 officials as it tries to determine whether there has been improper political interference in federal law enforcement. Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., on Friday sent Barr a letter listing a series of matters that the…

Vice President Mike Pence’s handling of a health crisis when he was governor of Indiana is getting a fresh look

Vice President Mike Pence is trying to help calm a jittery public and shaken financial markets in his new role as chief of the government’s response to the coronavirus.

When the top EPA official overseeing its WaterSense program first heard President Donald Trump’s rant about toilets that must be flushed a dozen times and modern faucets that only provide drips of water, she was at a loss for words, NBC News reports.

President Donald Trump is facing a critical challenge as he tries to grapple with the new coronavirus outbreak: He must ask Americans to believe him even as he and some of his top advisers have contradicted government scientists in playing down the threat

Former President Barack Obama is demanding that a pro-Trump group stop airing a “despicable” ad that uses a recording of Obama’s voice to attack former Vice President Joe Biden — a rare intervention in a race that Obama has largely avoided so far.

Shares have fallen in Asia after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. was stepping up its efforts to combat the virus outbreak that began in China.

One of the nation’s largest labor unions is unveiling plans to invest $150 million in a nationwide campaign to help defeat President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump says he’ll discuss the coronavirus threat at a White House news conference on Wednesday

The campaign to reelect President Donald Trump is suing The New York Times for defamation

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is urging fellow Democrats to stay united amid Bernie Sanders’ surge in the presidential primary

Seven candidates took the stage Tuesday night in Charleston, South Carolina, ahead of the state’s Democratic primary on Saturday. Follow our real-time coverage of the debate below.

The Democrats opened their debate in South Carolina on Tuesday with a series of attacks on Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, as they tried to make a dint in his front runner status after the first three contests to pick a presidential candidate. The would-be candidates lined up for their 10th debate Tuesday night in South Carolina, the final match...

India, it seems, loves Donald Trump.

A federal judge has brought in nearly all members of the jury that convicted Trump ally Roger Stone on charges related to the Russia investigation in order to answer questions on allegations of juror misconduct

President Donald Trump’s associate Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to more than 3 years in prison on obstruction and perjury charges by a judge who has come under attack by the president as he assails the case against Stone.  Judge Amy Berman Jackson moved forward with Stone’s sentencing on seven felonies after Attorney General Bill Barr overruled his own...

President Donald Trump said two Supreme Court justices appointed by Democratic presidents should recuse themselves, apparently because of a recent dissenting opinion authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor and years-old remarks Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made about the president during the 2016 presidential campaign. “Well, it’s very obvious. I mean, I always thought that frankly, that Justice Ginsburg should do it…

President Donald Trump is refusing to speak out against a controversial new Indian citizenship law that has sparked deadly protests in New Delhi as he wraps up his visit to the country