Politics

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced on Thursday that he had hired Jennifer O’Malley Dillon as his new campaign manager, elevating a veteran Democratic strategist as he tries to scale up his limited organization and pivot toward President Trump and the general election. Ms. O’Malley Dillon, 43, managed former Representative Beto O’Rourke’s presidential […]

WASHINGTON — President Trump will not be tested for the coronavirus after coming into contact with a Brazilian official who tested positive for the virus just days after participating in meetings with him in Florida, the White House said on Thursday. Fabio Wajngarten, a top communications aide to President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, tested positive

WASHINGTON — President Trump suggested on Thursday that he might veto a bipartisan surveillance bill, potentially disrupting an agreement to resolve a debate over national security and privacy before three F.B.I. tools for investigating terrorism and espionage expire on Sunday. “Many Republican Senators want me to Veto the FISA Bill until we find out what

Government-imposed quarantines were fairly common in ancient times, before medicine stemmed the ferocity with which contagious diseases spread. The very word quarantine is rooted in the Italian words quarantenara and quaranta giorni, or 40 days, the period of time that the city of Venice forced ship passengers and cargo to wait before landing in the

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said on Thursday that Iranian-backed militias were behind an attack on a joint U.S.-Iraqi base that killed two American service members and a soldier from Britain. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Mr. Esper said that “all options are on the table” for retaliatory strikes against the group

WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee has moved Sunday’s planned presidential debate between former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders from Phoenix to Washington because of concerns about the coronavirus, the D.N.C. announced Thursday. A spokeswoman for the committee, Xochitl Hinojosa, said the debate, to be broadcast on CNN, would take

WILMINGTON, Del. — A day after President Trump addressed the nation about the coronavirus amid criticism that he has minimized the threat of the pandemic, Joseph R. Biden Jr. planned to give his own remarks on the virus, seeking to project steadiness and resolve from his perch as front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Mr. Biden,

WASHINGTON — If President Trump’s goals in his prime-time address to the nation were to reassure Americans and unify the country in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems safe to say that he achieved neither as of Thursday morning. The stock markets collapsed another 7 percent in early trading, indicating that investors were

WASHINGTON — The House prepared on Thursday to vote on a sweeping coronavirus relief package, pushing ahead with a measure to provide food security assistance, a substantial national paid sick leave program, free coronavirus testing and strengthened unemployment benefits for people affected by the spread of the pandemic and the resulting economic disruption. But even

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday night, President Trump implored the nation’s political leadership to “stop the partisanship” and come together to confront the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday morning, he woke up and immediately issued partisan attacks on Democratic congressional leaders. Mr. Trump’s call for a suspension of partisanship lasted just nine hours, at least some of