Politics

Shortly after 8 p.m. Monday, the House approved the legislation with its technical changes, using a procedural maneuver that allowed — without the entire chamber present — for the legislation to head to the Senate. Earlier in the day, Representative Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican with a knack for courting controversy, indicated that he might […]

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department moved on Monday to drop charges against two Russian shell companies accused of financing schemes to interfere in the 2016 election, saying that they were exploiting the case to gain access to delicate information that Russia could weaponize. The companies, Concord Management and Concord Consulting, were charged in 2018 in

Senator Bernie Sanders jabbed his finger in the air. He left Joseph R. Biden Jr. resorting to misstatements to defend his record on bankruptcy legislation. He instructed viewers to “go to the YouTube” to check out the former vice president’s record themselves. It was not the kind of debate performance suggesting a candidate ready for

Many of the federal government’s health workers were left wondering who needed to report to the office. In the more than 80,000-person Department of Health and Human Services, Washington-based employees reported on Monday morning without any kind of uniform plan, unsure of how long they might be in the office or whether their colleagues had

PHOENIX — Supermarket shelves are barren. Schools are closing across the country. But in Arizona, many Democrats are hoping that voting in the presidential primary provides a slice of normalcy at a time that is anything but normal. “I want to believe that voting takes away some of the fear,” said Dawn Schumann, the political

WASHINGTON — President Trump told a group of governors on Monday morning that they should not wait for the federal government to fill the growing demand for respirators needed to treat people with coronavirus. “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a

Ohio said Monday that it would move to postpone its presidential primary, becoming the first of four states that had been scheduled to vote on Tuesday to try to push back its election because of worries about the coronavirus. The state’s governor, Mike DeWine, said that he did not have the authority to unilaterally delay

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would postpone its next argument session “in keeping with public health precautions.” The court was to hear six days of arguments over two weeks starting next Monday, including ones on whether the Manhattan prosecutors and the House of Representatives may obtain President Trump’s financial records. “The

WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr., seeking to shore up support among progressive voters, now backs making public colleges and universities tuition-free for many students, adopting a version of a plan Senator Bernie Sanders has championed, his campaign announced on Sunday. The policy shift, which came hours before Mr. Biden was set to debate Mr.

“Senator McConnell knows he can’t achieve any of his extreme goals legislatively, so he continues to attempt to pull America to the far right by packing the courts,” Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, said in a statement. He predicted that his counterpart’s emphasis on the courts “will significantly hurt