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Bill Weld, Trump’s Last G.O.P. Challenger, Exits Presidential Race

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

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PMQs: PM promises to protect private renters from eviction

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

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Coronavirus: SNP call for ’emergency universal income’

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

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From Jerry Falwell Jr. to Dr. Drew: 5 Coronavirus Doubters

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

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Bernie Sanders Will ‘Assess His Campaign’ After Three More Primary Losses

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

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