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WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the leading public health expert on President Trump’s coronavirus task force, sought on Monday to smooth over a growing rift with the president, taking the podium during the task force’s daily briefing to defend Mr. Trump, who has been enraged by reports that he was warned about the potential […]

A week after Wisconsin held an election besieged by legal wrangling and overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic, officials revealed the results on Monday, with former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. easily capturing the Democratic vote over Senator Bernie Sanders. The Wisconsin vote, held at in-person polling sites last Tuesday after an 11th-hour court ruling

WASHINGTON — A crew member from the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt who had the novel coronavirus died on Monday, in a poignant punctuation to the plea from the ship’s captain two weeks ago for help from the Navy because “sailors don’t need to die.” The death of the sailor came as Navy officials continued to

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee said Monday they had raised $212 million in the first three months of 2020, a signal that despite a global pandemic that has put a halt on high-dollar fund-raising events, Mr. Trump’s operation has continued to raise money at a brisk clip. The campaign

Richard Brodsky, who persuaded his fellow state legislators to impose a monitor over 700 quasi-public authorities that had borrowed $150 billion on behalf of New Yorkers with no oversight, died on Wednesday at his home in Greenburgh, N.Y. He was 73. The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Emilyn said. He had shown symptoms

Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the Democratic nominee for president on Monday, adding the weight of his left-wing support to Mr. Biden’s candidacy and taking a major step toward bringing unity to the party’s effort to unseat President Trump in November. In throwing his weight behind his former rival, Mr. Sanders

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would hear arguments by telephone over six days in May. In a major break with tradition, the court said it would for the first time allow live remote access to audio of the arguments. Among the cases the justices will hear are three about subpoenas

He said the U.S. economy faced a “China shock” that could eclipse what it experienced in the early 2000s, after China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Mr. Navarro points to the research of David H. Autor, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist whose 2017 paper found a relationship between the surge of Chinese exports

The lines were long. Voters wore masks and gloves. And nearly a week after Wisconsin had people go to the polls in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic — despite closing hundreds of precincts — the results are expected to arrive on Monday evening. Here’s what to watch for: Who won a crucial State Supreme

Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections based on reporting by New York Times journalists. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Where things stand The United States has now recorded more deaths from the coronavirus than any other country: over 22,000