Quinnipiac poll: Joe Biden up 1 point on Donald Trump in Texas

The survey is one of several from the past few months that show Texas is a presidential battleground for the first time in recent memory.

World coronavirus cases near 15M; Trump says things will get worse

As the world case count neared the 15 million mark, with more than 617,000 killed, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. has continued to see large outbreaks.

Michigan teacher and coach says he was fired for tweeting 'Trump is our President'

"I felt a lot of people were rooting against our president and I just felt like we should be rooting for him to succeed," Kucera said. "Because when he succeeds. we all succeed."

Pelosi calls coronavirus the 'Trump virus' following revived White House task force briefing

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., reignited her war of words with President Trump on Tuesday, calling the coronavirus the "Trump virus" in an effort to blame the ongoing pandemic on the president's response.

Twitter to ban QAnon accounts, block links related to conspiracy theory

Twitter announced on Tuesday that it will take action on "QAnon" activity and permanently suspend accounts tweeting about the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Facebook's voting labels on candidate posts sow confusion

This week, the social network applied labels to posts by President Donald Trump and by Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, among others.

'They have an impact': Trump urges Americans to wear masks during coronavirus briefing

President Donald Trump sought to paint a rosier picture of the coronavirus on Tuesday but conceded the pandemic is likely to “get worse before it gets better.”

Trump excluding those in US illegally from reapportionment

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday that seeks to bar people in the U.S. illegally from being counted in congressional reapportionment, a move that drew immediate criticism and promises of court challenges.

Biden, lawmakers warn of foreign interference in election

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says he is putting Russia and other foreign governments “on notice” that he will act aggressively as president to counter any interference in U.S. elections. The statement Monday came hours after Democratic lea

Wrangling over virus relief persists despite high stakes

The desperate race to corral the coronavirus pandemic is taking on even greater urgency as a burgeoning economic crisis collides with political turmoil.

Trump faces divisions with Senate GOP on coronavirus aid

Lawmakers were returning to a Capitol still off-limits to tourists, another sign of the nation’s difficulty containing the coronavirus. Rather than easing, the pandemic’s devastating cycle is rising again, leaving Congress little choice but to engineer another costly rescue.

Democrats say White House blocking CDC head from testifying

House Democrats are criticizing the White House for blocking the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from testifying at a public hearing on safely reopening the nation's schools.

Reality shows shortfalls of Trump's claim to 'best testing'

Here are some snapshots from what President Donald Trump describes as the nation with the “best testing in the world" for the coronavirus:

Trump down 15 points to Biden in latest national poll

As new cases of the coronavirus soar in much of the nation, a new national poll now shows Democratic challenger Joe Biden leading President Trump by 15 percentage points.

Republicans sharply restrict Jacksonville's RNC attendance over coronavirus fears

The Republican National Committee is sharply restricting attendance on three of the four nights of its convention in Jacksonville, Florida, next month, as it looks for ways to move forward with the event while coronavirus cases are spiking in the state.