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The administration has taken few steps to help people gain coverage after massive job losses caused millions to lose their plans amid the coronavirus.
The administration drops a rule that would have made international students transfer schools or leave the U.S. if their college classes were online.
The Great American Outdoors Act would provide billions of dollars to buy land and care for national parks after years of budget cuts and delayed maintenance.
Joe Biden’s plan for rebuilding the economy hinges heavily on clean-energy investment and would rapidly reverse the Trump era’s retreat on climate.
As Texas tries to contain a raging coronavirus outbreak, voters go to the polls for runoff elections that could see a Black nominee for U.S. senator.
Politics and the Pandemic
The White House is working to undercut its most trusted coronavirus expert as President Trump continues to play down the threat posed by the virus and pushes to reopen the economy before the election.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced new restrictions to halt indoor dining statewide, gyms, churches, hair salons and other businesses in much of the state.
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The Texas Supreme Court upholds Houston’s refusal to allow the state Republican convention to hold in-person events in the city amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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As COVID-19 spiked across the U.S., Trump finally backed down and wore a face mask. Is it too late for him to ease the health crisis and culture wars?
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President Trump wore a protective mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday.
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Federal prosecutors have alleged, without mentioning her by name, that L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar’s mother helped him launder bribe money.
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Public defenders are angry that, in some counties, sheriff’s deputies won’t wear masks in courthouses, despite a state order on face coverings to prevent coronavirus spread.
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What is the best way for California to confront its ugly, racist past?
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The announcement by top advisors to Gov. Gavin Newsom offered stark evidence of the dire health conditions at several California prisons.
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More Californians will vote by mail this year because of the coronavirus. Here’s how it works.
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California voters will be asked in November whether to erase Proposition 209, which banned the use of race and gender as consideration for government contracts and in college admissions.
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Joe Biden unveils his economic recovery plan in a speech in Pennsylvania and accuses President Trump of being out of touch.
A pandemic-triggered drought of new voters has progressives desperately moving to reinvent the anachronistic institution of voter registration drives.
Immanuel Jarvis, GOP chair in Durham, N.C., sees President Trump as a friend of Black Americans and the media as an enemy.
Democratic Senate candidates in several key races announce huge fundraising totals that raise the party’s hopes of retaking the chamber in November.
Biden’s pledge to attack racial injustice contrasts with Trump’s stoking of white resentment at Mt. Rushmore.
With COVID-19 cases rising in red states, Republican officials are caught between taking a hard line to tamp down the outbreak or staying consistent with Trump.
Joe Biden’s surge in fundraising comes amid dismal poll ratings for President Trump.
Joe Biden is coy about his vice president list, but his consideration of women of color is a milestone. Experts say it shows progress and the need for more representation.
Unlike the initial wave of the pandemic, the current surge is hitting red states hard. Joe Biden’s charge that it’s Trump’s fault is resonating.
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Alabama’s Republican voters are deciding whether Jeff Sessions’ fallout with Trump becomes a footnote or a punctuation mark in Sessions’ lengthly political career.
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Joe Biden and President Trump have won Louisiana’s presidential primary that was twice postponed by COVID-19; Biden won Puerto Rico’s election.
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In a state where 40% of the residents are Latino, California’s citizens redistricting commission doesn’t yet have any Latino commissioners.
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China is banning entry to U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz over their criticism of its policies toward minority groups, including Muslim Uighurs.
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Why is Trump seeking a second term? The fact that he has come up empty not once, but three times, suggests that he really doesn’t know. He’s out of ideas. But so was Ronald Reagan, and he won in a landslide.
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A day after President Trump commuted the prison sentence of his longtime confidante Roger Stone, former special counsel Robert Mueller III broke his silence to sharply defend the prosecution and his investigation into ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
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The Justice Department plans to appeal a judge’s ruling that would halt the first federal execution in nearly two decades.
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President Trump’s intervention in a criminal case connected to his own conduct is drawing fierce rebukes from Democrats and a few Republicans.
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President Trump says he is ordering reexamination of the tax-exempt status of schools that provide “radical indoctrination” instead of education.
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President Trump has commuted the prison sentence of Roger Stone, a longtime advisor and Republican operative who was convicted of lying to Congress and trying to interfere with a witness during the Russia investigation.
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Protesters in Portland, Ore., are confronting not just city police but Homeland Security agents tasked with preventing “violent mayhem.”
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Under Chief Justice Roberts, the high court is not shy about exercising power. If Joe Biden wins, the clash with a conservative court could be epic.
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A national organization that aims to boost Latino voter turnout is launching a $10-million campaign in several 2020 battleground states.
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Reddit and other internet platforms have shown new interest in addressing hate, harassment. For those pushing for change from within, it’s been a long time coming.
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New Jersey and Delaware voters are casting ballots in primary elections, but because of the COVID-19 outbreak they’re doing it mostly by mail.
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Joe Biden promises to shift production of medical equipment and other coronavirus-fighting products “back to U.S. soil,” creating jobs and boosting supply.
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President Trump’s attitude and policies were shaped by neglect and trauma growing up, his niece says in a book released on Tuesday.
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Spencer Cox won the Republican nomination for Utah governor on Monday.
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The administration drops a rule that would have made international students transfer schools or leave the U.S. if their college classes were online.
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Joe Biden’s plan for rebuilding the economy hinges heavily on clean-energy investment and would rapidly reverse the Trump era’s retreat on climate.
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The administration has taken few steps to help people gain coverage after massive job losses caused millions to lose their plans amid the coronavirus.
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President Trump’s attitude and policies were shaped by neglect and trauma growing up, his niece says in a book released on Tuesday.
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The Great American Outdoors Act would provide billions of dollars to buy land and care for national parks after years of budget cuts and delayed maintenance.
