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BURLINGTON, Vt. — Senator Bernie Sanders will appear at a 1 p.m. news conference on Wednesday to provide an update on the future of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, a day after a series of crushing losses to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. that significantly narrowed his path to victory. Mr. […]

The chancellor has said that the NHS will get “whatever it needs, whatever it costs” to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. In his first Budget speech, Rishi Sunak set out a three-point £1bn plan for the UK economy to cope with the effect on the workforce. It will include extending access to statutory sick pay,

Public health officials concerned about the new coronavirus have been warning people over 65 to avoid crowds, limit physical contact with others and skip “nonessential travel.” Yet this week, a group of Americans 65 and older who fly frequently between cities — shaking hands with many strangers as they go — have been meeting in

Jeremy Corbyn listed previous comments from the prime minster about women, and claimed they were backed up by government policies, as he called on him to apologise. Boris Johnson said he would take “no lessons in sexism” from Labour as women have been bullied out of the party, and he said the Conservative party was

Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections based on reporting by New York Times journalists. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Where things stand in the race In the end, Joe Biden did what he needed to do on Tuesday: He

Bernie Sanders needed to fundamentally change the trajectory of the Democratic primary race after decisive defeats last week on Super Tuesday. After Tuesday’s contests, even a fundamental shift might not be enough. Joe Biden’s victories in Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri and Idaho confirm that he has seized a commanding national advantage, spanning virtually all major demographic

It was a drubbing. Four years ago, the Missouri Democratic primary was one of the closest in the nation in the grinding and protracted campaign between Senator Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. On Tuesday, the state was called just moments after the polls had closed in favor of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

WASHINGTON — House leaders on Tuesday struck a bipartisan deal to overhaul surveillance laws just days before a trio of F.B.I. investigative tools expires, raising the possibility of a last-minute breakthrough in a politically complex debate over civil liberties and national security. The changes would install new privacy protections — including adding a skeptical voice

WASHINGTON — The Education Department has moved to ease rules on colleges and universities looking to shift their classes onto the internet, as closures of campuses cascaded on Tuesday with the hastening spread of the coronavirus. With fears growing in higher education, the department has granted what it said was “broad approval” to schools seeking

WASHINGTON — A yearlong congressional study of American cyberspace strategy concludes that the United States remains ill-prepared to deter attacks, including from Russia, North Korea and Iran. It calls for an overhaul of how the United States manages its offensive and defensive cyberoperations. The report, mandated by Congress and led by a bipartisan group of