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After more than 30 minutes of posing questions almost entirely about policy and decision-making related to coronavirus, Dana Bash, one of CNN’s moderators for Sunday’s Democratic debate, took a moment to make the topic deeply personal. What, she asked former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, were they doing […]

BERLIN — The Trump administration attempted to persuade a German firm developing a possible vaccine for coronavirus to move its research work to the United States, German officials said, raising fears in Berlin that President Trump was trying to assure that any inoculation would be available first, and perhaps exclusively, in the United States. The

“Regardless of whether my plan was in place or his, this is a crisis,” Mr. Biden said. “This is like we are being attacked from abroad. This is something that is of great consequence. This is like a war. And in a war, you do whatever is needed to be done to take care of

Their policies and political outlooks diverge at nearly every turn, but one of the most constant and caustic clashes between former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders is over Social Security. The dispute goes back months, when Mr. Sanders’s campaign began attacking Mr. Biden and arguing he had previously voted to

The former vice president cares about experience in a running mate. Mr. Biden often suggests on the campaign trail that the presidency is no place for on-the-job training — and he has signaled that he greatly values experience in a running mate, too. In the past, some nominees have tapped vice-presidential candidates who were untested

Mr. Trump’s comments came hours after he called for a day of national prayer in the country. As passengers returning from Europe faced long waits at airports for health screenings, Mr. Trump initiated a Twitter broadside against Mrs. Clinton, his opponent in the 2016 election. “Great Job by Judicial Watch,” Mr. Trump said, promoting a

At Sunday’s Democratic debate on CNN, Joseph R. Biden Jr. said for the first time that he would choose a woman to be his running mate. “I commit that I will, in fact, appoint a woman to be vice president,” Mr. Biden said. “There are a number of women qualified to be president tomorrow.” Mr.

“All my friends I hadn’t seen in a while, this is where they were,” he recalled after being shown his cell block. “I thought, ‘Wow, I didn’t know where you’d gone, and, well, this is where you’d been the whole time.’” He was released that year. But the arrest had led to his mother’s being

The coronavirus, “Medicare for all,” old Senate votes, the Iraq War, Social Security, gun control, immigration, visions of leadership: They were all on the table Sunday night in the first one-on-one debate between Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a matchup that comes two days before four delegate-rich states hold

Twitter can’t tell us whether, or how, Sunday’s debate between Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Bernie Sanders might change voters’ minds. But it can give us the perspectives of some of the people with expertise on primary races: veteran campaign strategists, consultants and analysts. Here is a sampling of their reactions, both to the candidates’