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“With all due respect to Medicare for all, you have a single-payer system in Italy,” he said. “It doesn’t work there.” It was not clear what the public appetite might be for a debate in these times. Sunday evening was always going to be weird, eerie — a reminder, without a live audience, of how […]

Indeed, Mr. Sanders repeatedly forced Mr. Biden onto the defensive, leading the former vice president to play down or misstate portions of his own record. Challenged by Mr. Sanders for his role championing bankruptcy reform in the early 2000s, Mr. Biden said he did not help write the legislation and “made it clear to the

What the Facts Are: Mr. Biden claimed he could immediately pass legislation to create a so-called public option that would allow all Americans to enroll in Medicare. What Mr. Biden said: “A Medicare option. We can do that now. I can get that passed. I can get that done, if I’m president of the United

Dr. Mike, whose real name is Mikhail Varshavski, is a family practitioner in New Jersey who became popular five years ago as a hot Instagram doctor with a cute dog. Then, he was 25 and living with his father on Staten Island. Now, he inhabits a $9,000-a-month penthouse on Manhattan’s Far West Side. “Pandemic does

Representative Devin Nunes, a California Republican, on Sunday encouraged healthy people to dine out at restaurants, contradicting public health advisories that strongly encouraged social distancing and discouraged Americans from attending mass gatherings. In an appearance on Fox News, Mr. Nunes said Americans should stop fighting over groceries and toilet paper. “There’s a lot of concerns

As the coronavirus outbreak upends the presidential campaign, we’re keeping tabs on postponements and cancellations in the election calendar and on major changes for voting. The upheaval began Tuesday, March 10 as the Biden, Sanders and Trump campaigns started canceling rallies and converting forums and fund-raising events into online meetups. Louisiana then became the first

Rebecca Katz, progressive consultant in New York City Ms. Katz, a Democratic strategist who previously worked for Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, said Mr. Sanders had little path to the nomination but should still push aggressively for the issues he champions. Bernie Sanders has a chance to make sure Joe Biden is ready

New York officials are considering plans to postpone the state’s presidential primary election from April 28 to June 23, the date of another scheduled statewide primary, in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The discussions are underway as two states — Louisiana and Georgia — have already postponed their primaries and other states are weighing various

The leader of the Labour Party has criticised the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying that more guidance and better support are needed. Jeremy Corbyn warned that self-employed people and those on zero hours contracts will have to make “some very difficult decisions whether they put the health of everybody at risk in order

Mr. Feist said that cleaners were wiping down doorknobs and other hard surfaces in the bureau “multiple times an hour,” with extra attention to areas that “a guest, a CNN staffer, or, in this case, a candidate might enter or touch.” Sunday’s broadcast is thought to be the first presidential debate to be held in