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Former Representative Richard L. Hanna, a moderate Republican from upstate New York who was so disenchanted with Donald J. Trump in 2016 that he broke with his party and endorsed the Democrat Hillary Clinton for president, died on Sunday at a hospital near Utica, N.Y. He was 69. His family said in a statement that […]

WASHINGTON — A day after President Trump officially racked up enough delegates to become the presumptive 2020 Republican nominee for president, former Gov. William F. Weld of Massachusetts, his last Republican challenger, ended his campaign. “The reason that people all over the world look to the United States for leadership, as they do, is our

Jeremy Corbyn has told the prime minister that renters are “worried sick” about meeting their rent payments during the coronavirus outbreak. During Prime Minister’s Questions, the Labour leader claimed that the chancellor had offered “nothing to 20 million people living in rented homes”. Boris Johnson said the government will bring forward legislation “to protect private

The Pentagon is also making available 2,000 ventilators for hospitals, a number that would likely fall far short of the expected need. “When you look at how many people who may need it, 2,000 doesn’t put much of a dent into it,” Mr. Esper said. While the military has infrastructure to help, there are limits.

The SNP’s Westminster leader, has called on the government to introduce an ‘income guarantee’ for people struggling to pay bills, because of the coronavirus outbreak. Ian Blackford told the prime minister that thousands of people have lost their jobs because of the virus, and he said that millions more face the same threat. Boris Johnson

Misinformation about the coronavirus continues to circulate across swaths of the American media — on popular podcasts, in blog posts, in online videos and on prime-time cable news shows — as recently as this week. Some of the disseminators are entertainers. Others are medical doctors. Some are conservatives who insist the virus is being hyped

Jeremy Corbyn has called for an increase in the level of statutory sick pay during the coronavirus outbreak. During prime minister’s questions, the Labour leader said families could not be fed on the UK level of £94.25 per week, a figure which he said lagged “far behind” other European countries. Boris Johnson said sick pay

Even some of his own allies were admitting that Mr. Biden would likely be the party’s nominee. “Tonight is a really good night for Joe Biden, and it looks like he will be the presumptive nominee,” Alexandra Rojas, the executive director of the progressive group Justice Democrats, said on CNN on Tuesday night. But she

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan asked Boris Johnson why NHS and social care staff were not being tested for the coronavirus. The Labour MP – who works as an A&E doctor in the NHS – said she visited her father in a care home on Tuesday, and fears that she may have fed him “for the very

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 in the race Joe Biden took all three prizes in yesterday’s Democratic primaries, handily winning Florida, Illinois