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Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said businesses, research institutes and universities are coming together in a new alliance to increase testing capacity for frontline workers. He says the new initiative will help prove if it is safe for a worker to go back to the frontline. In the UK daily briefing, Mr Gove also […]

WASHINGTON — The House planned on Friday to use an extraordinary method to push through a $2 trillion stimulus package to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Leaders in both parties were aiming to pass the measure by a voice vote — highly unusual for such consequential legislation — so that members who were either sick

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced a sweeping relaxation of environmental rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing power plants, factories and other facilities to determine for themselves if they are able to meet legal requirements on reporting air and water pollution. The move comes amid an influx of requests from

Welcome to Poll Watch, our weekly look at polling data and survey research on the candidates, voters and issues that will shape the 2020 election. With the United States now leading the world in confirmed coronavirus cases, Americans finally agree across party lines that the threat can’t be ignored. More than nine in 10 voters

Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, was spotted using his suit jacket to open doors, while other senators used elbows or tissues to push elevator buttons and turn handles. (Mr. Romney later joined the ranks of the quarantined, after having contact with Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, the first senator to test positive for

When it comes to electoral outcomes, however, young people are being outflanked: “Rather than increasing their influence in 2020, what’s happened is, their parents and grandparents have increased their influence,” he said. Those Democratic grandparents, especially, tend to be more moderate, more swayed by traditional government experience and more keenly focused on the tactics they

Instead, the country was hit by the largest economic collapse in its history, a result of falling oil prices and years of economic mismanagement by the left-wing government. The country’s hospital system collapsed, triggering the exodus of millions of Venezuelans. Even as Mr. Maduro gained power, one indictment said, he helped run and ultimately led

WASHINGTON — The Education Department announced Thursday that it had ordered Pennsylvania State University to make significant changes to the way it investigates complaints of sexual misconduct after a recent investigation found the school continued to mishandle cases years after the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. The agreement requires the university to review and

WASHINGTON — Congress’s $2.2 trillion stabilization package headed for likely final passage on Friday will allocate more than $12 billion in funding for federal housing and rental assistance, a belated recognition that Americans cannot shelter in place from the coronavirus if they have no shelter. The pandemic is hitting hardest in some of the most

President Trump, in saying that he wanted to reopen the economy by Easter, has argued that an economic downturn would be more deadly than the coronavirus. What Was Said “You have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death. Probably — and I mean definitely — would be in far