As unemployment numbers broke a grim record, Congress rushed to pass a $2 trillion rescue bill.
Party conventions are in jeopardy, campaigning is on hold and local candidates are playing the role of good Samaritan instead of traditional politician.
India’s abrupt nationwide lockdown left hundreds of thousands of laborers homeless and prompted one of the largest migrations in the country’s modern history.
Technical flaws, regulatory hurdles and failures of leadership impeded early screening in the United States, allowing the pandemic to spread.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration’s most outspoken advocate of emergency virus measures, faces a torrent of false claims that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.
The suggestion of a quarantine, which would have been a drastic exercise of power, drew swift condemnation and surprised top officials in the area.
Get tough now. Test widely to isolate those infected, and slowly revive businesses with workers and customers who have developed immunity.
There’s a long history of illness being used to stoke hatred. We cannot succumb to it now.
Why virus denial resembles climate denial
Why virus denial resembles climate denial.
At least 17 states reported tallies of at least 1,000 infections. Illinois reported the first known U.S. death of an infant with the virus.
In a signing statement, the president undermined a key safeguard Democrats had insisted upon as a condition of approving $500 billion in corporate relief in the $2 trillion law.
For months, the president has downplayed the severity of the pandemic, overstated the impact of his policies and potential treatments, blamed others and tried to rewrite the history of his response.
Leaders across the spectrum in Canada have generally set aside differences when it comes to the current health crisis.
Words of wisdom and experience, and a few humbling ones, too.
The White House’s coronavirus response coordinator drew criticism for comments she made about ventilator shortages, and for gushing praise of President Trump.
In this nightmarish moment, we’re feeling warm and fuzzy about the cold and calculating Andrew Cuomo.
In this nightmarish moment, we’re feeling warm and fuzzy about the cold and calculating Andrew Cuomo.
The bill allots as much as $23.5 billion in assistance to farmers, a key constituency of President Trump’s, in the middle of an election year.
President Trump signed into law the largest economic stimulus package in modern American history, backing a $2 trillion measure designed to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
Our leaders need to speak some hard truths and then develop a strategy to prevent the worst.
The Kentucky libertarian’s tactics failed, but not before forcing lawmakers back to the Capitol for passage of the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, infuriating them and President Trump.
A secret Pentagon directive orders planning to try to destroy a militia group backed by Iran, but America’s top general in Iraq cautions of the risks.
In another day of mixed messages, the president criticized G.M. and authorized the use of the Defense Production Act to force it to make ventilators after the company had already announced it was going to.
The British prime minister tested positive for Covid-19 and went into isolation, but not before doing untold damage and setting a bad example.
Efforts to hold Saudi officials accountable for the killing of the dissident journalist continue, but any punishment appears unlikely.
About 27,000 of the young undocumented immigrants who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program work in health care, many of them on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus.
About 27,000 of the young undocumented immigrants who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program work in health care, many of them on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus.
He’s a nominee in perpetual waiting.
Leaders in both parties were hoping to pass the measure by voice vote, highly unusual for such consequential legislation. But the plan could collapse if even one lawmaker objects.
Leaders in both parties were hoping to pass the measure by voice vote, highly unusual for such consequential legislation. But the plan could collapse if even one lawmaker objects.
Three options on the politics of the coronavirus.
As the coronavirus rages, Americans’ views of President Trump have risen slightly to reach record highs, polls show. But he remains polarizing.
Are taxpayers rewarding bad behavior?
The journalist’s new thriller is eerily prescient. Too bad our leaders lack his foresight.
President Trump is 73. His leading rival is 77. And many of their strongest supporters — vulnerable to the coronavirus but enormously influential politically — are eligible for Social Security.
Federal scientists and lawyers, told to undo regulations that some have worked on for decades, have embedded data into technical documents that environmental lawyers are using to challenge the rollbacks.
President Trump, who had questioned the need for additional ventilators, pushes industry to make more. A new survey of mayors finds dire shortages of urgently needed medical supplies. And in Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tested positive.
A deal with General Motors and Ventec Life Systems to produce tens of thousands of the critical lifesaving devices seemed imminent. Then the announcement was pulled back.
Markets shuddered as the $2 trillion economic stabilization package stalled before negotiators cemented a historic deal.
The nation craves a plan, not hunches.
The federal guidelines are meant to help states decide whether to relax or enhance the quarantine and social distancing measures they have put in place.
The opposite is more likely to be true, according to research and experts.
Trump administration officials are discussing taking action after China said it would expel almost all American journalists for The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.
Such a declaration, in the midst of a health crisis, would have to come from local authorities.
But we’re doing some things right despite Trump.
A small change to tax policy could hand $170 billion in tax savings to real estate tycoons.
“We pledge to marshal every resource and power we have to overcome and vanquish this threat,” the president wrote about the coronavirus.
North Korea and Iran have not taken him up on the offer for aid on combating the coronavirus. And Russia and China have extended similar offers of help to the United States.
Federal prosecutors accused President Nicolás Maduro of participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy, in a major escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to pressure him to leave office.
Joe Biden and other Democrats were already talking about health care before the coronavirus, but the outbreak gives new urgency to a central issue for the party.
Unfilled jobs and high turnover mean the government is ill equipped for a public health crisis, said many former and current federal officials and disaster experts.
And a firsthand account of America’s testing fiasco.
As the House prepared to vote on a $2 trillion relief plan, unemployment data set a bleak record and hospitals struggled with an influx of sick patients and lack of equipment.
Test your currency with current events.
Our lives have been upended in ways that portend dire consequences for the country.
Many could die if we ease up too soon.
He’s making overly optimistic promises for the country, but new polling is promising for him.
By Wednesday morning, the White House sought to correct the impression that the department was putting a pause on the Mission Act.
Readers are dismayed by President Trump’s evocation of “packed churches” at Easter and a Texas politician’s suggestion that older people be willing to die. Also: The need for more tests; solar power in the neighborhood.
Small banks, retailers and for-profit colleges got provisions they wanted. So did Boeing. Among those who could potentially benefit: President Trump’s company.
The administration is pushing ahead with efforts to roll back environmental protections and impose new limits on how science can be used for making rules.
The president’s viewership has rivaled the audiences for hit reality shows and prime-time football. But some worry about misinformation.
The president’s viewership has rivaled the audiences for hit reality shows and prime-time football. But some worry about misinformation.
Wall Street executives have warned the Trump administration of another Great Depression if Americans don’t get back to work soon.
President Trump said he would like to allow shuttered businesses around the United States to reopen within weeks, defying the advice of top health officials.
The political dimensions of worship have never been greater.
Congress shouldn’t concede more power to this president (or any other). That’s the last thing we need.
The plan would provide direct payments to taxpayers, jobless benefits and a $500 billion fund to assist distressed businesses, with oversight requirements demanded by Democrats.
People fleeing New York to other parts of the country were told to quarantine themselves for 14 days. Prince Charles has the virus. The number of deaths in Spain — more than 3,400 — surpassed the toll in China.
“You can’t just come in and say let’s close up the United States of America,” the president said, insisting again that he did not view the coronavirus as any more dangerous than the flu.
Untold thousands will likely die, absent federal intervention. And it needs to happen this instant. Why won’t the president help?
The worst of the pandemic is yet to come. Listen to the medical experts. It’s time for a national lockdown.
The online platform could allow physicians to upload patient data on how malaria drugs perform on coronavirus patients.
The Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel offers his take.
Forced to make the impossible choice between wealth and health, we could end up with neither.
The White House advised people who have passed through or left New York City that they should place themselves in a 14-day quarantine.
Will he, given his obsession with the economy?
Readers are fearful that the president will ease isolation measures to help his re-election bid.
President Trump signaled that he’s open to lifting restrictions soon on social distancing in an effort to restart the U.S. economy.
His comments about reopening the economy sooner rather than later show us what he really values.
He already seems to be losing interest. Look elsewhere for hope.
An Arizona man and his wife ingested a fish tank cleaning additive made with the same active ingredient as chloroquine phosphate, which President Trump has referred to as a “game changer.”
The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed. New York, now the center of the outbreak in America, braces for a flood of patients.
Signs of a large-scale federal response to the coronavirus outbreak have begun to appear, generating praise from local officials but also pleas that they need much more.
Lawmakers are said to be skeptical about other Trump administration ideas, including expanding presidential power to curb asylum and suspending deadlines for arraignments.
The president has become increasingly concerned as Dr. Anthony S. Fauci has grown bolder in correcting his falsehoods about the spread of the coronavirus.
The president is questioning whether stay-at-home orders have gone too far. But relaxing them could significantly increase the death toll from the coronavirus, health officials warn.
Disease and prejudice have long gone hand in hand. We can do better in 2020.
The briefing has given him a unique perch from which he can talk about the pandemic and try to project leadership after initially minimizing it. But that’s not always what he has done.
These decisive measures can prevent a decade of dislocation and extraordinary levels of deaths.
Greed, germs and the art of no deal.
The cancellation of an 89th birthday party for Rupert Murdoch highlights a disconnect between his family’s behavior and statements made on air by some Fox commentators.
Hay quienes los culpan por el coronavirus y el presidente Trump lo llama “virus chino”; muchos estadounidenses de origen asiático dicen que están aterrorizados por lo que les podría pasar.
Readers criticize the president’s daily briefings, attack on a reporter and refusal to use the Defense Production Act.
The company says it will switch to a broader approach for its experimental drug, remdesivir. But it was overwhelmed by demand for a potential treatment promoted by President Trump.
With the coronavirus, a new Supreme Court case and a blistering election debate, the Affordable Care Act is facing challenges as never before. We looked at how it’s held up to its promise.
As President Trump holds daily briefings, Mr. Biden has kept a low profile, worrying Democrats who feel the president needs to be challenged more robustly.
The pandemic is only one of many potential disasters that will require unity of action among the armed services.
The president, who has watched the economy plunge amid social distancing measures, says restrictions will be reassessed.
In an echo of 2008, partisan wrangling caused a giant stimulus bill to stumble, even as the market plunged and businesses buckled.
Senate wrangling and presidential promises: This is your morning tip sheet.
As bigots blame them for the coronavirus and President Trump labels it the “Chinese virus,” many Chinese-Americans say they are terrified of what could come next.
As bigots blame them for the coronavirus and President Trump labels it the “Chinese virus,” many Chinese-Americans say they are terrified of what could come next.
Spain’s health system is under strain as medical workers fall ill. A $1.8 trillion relief package is stalled in Congress. “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself,” President Trump said.
The White House warned of an alarming spread in New York City, but the president said “our country wasn’t built to be shut down.”
As President Trump appears at daily briefings, the Democratic front-runner faces the challenge of raising his profile in a presidential race that has moved almost entirely into the digital realm.
Medical shortages are his responsibility.
It remains unclear if the effort to enlist companies like General Motors, Apple and Hanes constitutes an effective strategy.
The president is brazenly grabbing his only clear option to bolster his re-election hopes, portraying himself as a take-charge leader the country can’t afford to lose.
Democrats voted against moving forward on a plan expected to cost $1.8 trillion or more, seeking stronger protections for workers and stricter rules for bailed-out businesses.
What Frederick Trump’s death, in 1918, tells us about the costs of mismanaging a pandemic.
Many experts warn that an international health and economic crisis calls for more cooperation, not confrontation, between Washington and Beijing.
Los líderes latinoamericanos tienen que estar a la altura de una emergencia de salud como la del COVID-19. Pero: López Obrador ha sido renuente a aceptar las recomendaciones médicas y Bolsonaro ha dicho que el virus ha traído “histeria”.
The North, which says it is waging an all-out campaign against the coronavirus, expressed “sincere gratitude” for the president’s letter.
President Trump resists using emergency powers to compel production, saying companies will voluntarily provide much-needed protective gear.
Lora Shiao will be the new acting director for the National Counterterrorism Center amid a broader reshuffling of top intelligences aides and expected personnel cutbacks
Peeking out our windows, we see America shriveling.
The ways he dealt with crises in his business, real estate and even his personal life prove jarring as he leads the government’s response to a pandemic.
Voting by mail is key to ensuring the integrity and accessibility of November’s vote.
Voting by mail is key to ensuring the integrity and accessibility of November’s vote.
His vision of how to wield American power has a lot going for it in a crisis like this one.
Sharp debates among top administration aides reveal divisions in how to confront Iran and its Shiite militia proxies in Iraq.
President Trump has delegated the authority to invoke extraordinary powers over private industry, but his administration does not seem to be using it yet.
President Trump has delegated the authority to invoke extraordinary powers over private industry, but his administration does not seem to be using it yet.
The reaction to the pandemic should not be allowed to become as dangerous as the disease itself.
The Trump administration says it will no longer detain most undocumented immigrants at the border, citing the coronavirus as a threat to detention facilities and personnel.
Strict new directives, in New York, California, Illinois and other states, were intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Doctors and patients also worry that the president’s rosy outlook for the treatments will exacerbate shortages of old malaria drugs relied on by patients with lupus and other debilitating conditions.
Doctors and patients also worry that the president’s rosy outlook for the treatments will exacerbate shortages of old malaria drugs relied on by patients with lupus and other debilitating conditions.
To limit mass unemployment, the government needs to provide companies with the money they are temporarily unable to earn.
President Trump said Carnival vessels could alleviate pressure on hospitals. But experts say the ships aren’t suitable and question who benefits.
Then contrast them with the leadership shown by Andrew Cuomo, Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel.
Then contrast them with the leadership shown by Andrew Cuomo, Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel.
The Trump administration suspended mandated standardized testing and offered loan relief to student borrowers, as the coronavirus shut down education.
With another fall on Friday, the Dow Jones average is now lower than it was when President Trump took office.
Health restrictions have led to cutbacks at hotels and golf courses. But the swimming pool remains open at a Florida resort, and a New York golf course offers “fresh air” without caddies.
Readers urge action to provide more ventilators and offer ideas for expanding the ranks of those caring for patients.
They fell short of Mitch McConnell’s goal of reaching a deal in principle on a $1 trillion plan on Friday, but vowed to work through the weekend.
The United States led the world’s response to other epidemics, like Ebola and AIDS. But a more nationalist United States is ceding leadership on this virus to China.
The president insisted he has used the Defense Production Act, but said at a briefing that “we are literally being besieged” by companies “that want to do the work and help our country.”
The North Carolina Republican is seeking to clear himself following the disclosure that he sold at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in shares before the market tumbled.
The North Carolina Republican is seeking to clear himself following the disclosure that he sold at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in shares before the market tumbled.
The former New York mayor, announcing he would donate $18 million to the Democratic National Committee, abandoned a plan to employ his campaign organizers through November.
They could have made a difference, but they made a profit.
Crisis management, with more than a touch of political maneuvering: This is your morning tip sheet.
The administration and Congress must act — but wisely. The place to start is the overwhelmed health care system.
NeverTrumpers could see that his personal pathologies would lead to his disastrous management in a crisis.
Arms sales to Middle Eastern allies that were meant to shore up American jobs are supplying the bombs that have killed thousands of civilians in Yemen. How responsible is the U.S. government?
La escasez de pruebas en Estados Unidos ha dejado sin respuesta a personas que presentan síntomas y a trabajadores de la salud. En cambio, cada vez más celebridades se hacen la prueba.