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At a time when the Trump administration is facing intense criticism for its failure to make coronavirus tests available to millions of nervous Americans, remarks by a federal health official on Tuesday appeared to suggest that the World Health Organization’s diagnostic tests were wildly inaccurate. In a somewhat rambling answer to a question related to […]

WASHINGTON — For weeks, President Trump has minimized the coronavirus, mocked concern about it and treated the risk from it cavalierly. On Tuesday he took to the White House lectern and made a remarkable assertion: He knew it was a pandemic all along. “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was

When the results are final on Tuesday night, nearly 60 percent of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention will be in the books. If the polls and recent primary results are any indication, Bernie Sanders will face a deep and all but insurmountable deficit in the pledged delegate count. He would not be mathematically

Little is going as planned in Tuesday’s Democratic primaries. In parts of Florida and Arizona, some polling locations were unable to open in the morning after volunteers refused to show up because of worries about the coronavirus. In Ohio, the opposite happened: The governor unilaterally postponed voting on Monday night, but only after his squabble

Hours before the debate, his campaign also announced that he had decided to support making public colleges and universities tuition-free for many students, adopting a proposal that Mr. Sanders put forward a few years ago. While a nod to the left, Mr. Biden’s move was hardly a display of progressive boldness: Mrs. Clinton offered a

Voting in major cities was rife with confusion and early turnout in many areas was significantly lower than expected as Florida, Illinois and Arizona held their Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday amid fears about people gathering in groups and putting themselves at risk of coronavirus transmission. But election officials in the three states hoped that

The government has announced new measures to help those facing financial difficulties during the coronavirus crisis. Speaking at a news conference, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said mortgage lenders will offer a three month mortgage payment holiday to those struggling to pay. He also said the government would go further if the financial help wasn’t enough. Read

With in-person campaigning frozen indefinitely by the virus, the importance of advertising and free news media coverage is most likely going to be of heightened importance going forward. A combined more than $21 million in television ads has been spent in Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio — and in every state, Mr. Sanders spent more

The Treasury secretary said that this would inject $300 billion into the economy. He added that people who can file their taxes now should do so, because many will get refunds The Trump administration is also supporting a request for $50 billion in economic relief for the airline industry as part of the broader package.

Dominic Raab has announced new advice against all “non-essential travel globally for an initial period of 30 days”. The Foreign Secretary said this new advice was being made because of “domestic measures introduced here in the UK alongside changes to border and a range of other restrictions which have been taken by countries right around