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Mortgage payment suspensions catch on amid coronavirus

The idea of giving homeowners a timeout from paying their monthly mortgages during the coronavirus outbreak is spreading across the country like, well, like coronavirus.

March 26, 2020

Chuck Schumer taking credit for GOP or bipartisan ideas in $2 trillion deal, aide says

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Wednesday touted a number of concessions Democrats won in the $2 trillion economic rescue package by holding out, including more unemployment insurance, more money for hospitals and additional oversight of where loans for corporations would go.

March 25, 2020

Coronavirus relief package deal reached by Trump, Congress

The White House and Senate leaders struck a deal early Wednesday for a historic $2 trillion economic rescue package for workers and businesses hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

March 25, 2020

Joe Biden to hold ‘shadow briefings’ on coronavirus ‘to tell the American people truth’

Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden plans to begin live-streaming his own briefings on the coronavirus Monday, attempting to keep his Democratic presidential run relevant while the deadly virus sidelines his campaign.

March 22, 2020

Pence staff member tests positive for coronavirus

A member of Vice President Mike Pence's staff tested positive for coronavirus, the White House announced Friday.

March 20, 2020

Dow gains under Trump erased due to coronavirus fears

The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday closed the stock index's worst week since 2008, erasing all gains the market enjoyed under President Trump.

March 20, 2020

Michael Bloomberg sends $18 million to DNC to help beat Trump

Failed Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg announced Friday he will transfer $18 million from his campaign war chest to the Democratic National Committee to help beat President Trump.

March 20, 2020

Trump camp bucks coronavirus critics with list of 56 ‘decisive actions’

President Trump's reelection campaign on Thursday released a detailed timeline of White House actions against the coronavirus outbreak, moving to blunt criticism that his response to the crisis was slow or inadequate.

March 19, 2020

Ilhan Omar remarries, weds Tim Mynett with whom she purportedly had extramarital affair

Rep. Ilhan Omar has announced that she once again took wedding vows, getting hitched four months after her previous marriage collapsed amid accusations she had a love affair with a coworker.

March 12, 2020

Joe Biden Super Tuesday surge carries over, delegate lead grows

Joseph R. Biden is on a primary roll across the South and Midwest. The former vice president scored wins Tuesday in Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri and Idaho to beef up his lead over Sen. Bernard Sanders, putting a serious and potentially fatal dent in the Vermont socialist's dreams of becoming president.

March 10, 2020

Joe Biden wins Michigan primary

Former Vice President Joe Biden scored a major win in the Michigan primary -- dealing a stinging blow against Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and showing his strength in the industrial Midwest.

March 10, 2020

Joe Biden wins Mississippi, Missouri primaries

Joseph R. Biden skated to easy victories Tuesday in Democratic presidential primaries in Missouri and Mississippi, adding to his delegate lead over Sen. Bernard Sanders.

March 10, 2020

Joe Biden wins Mississippi primary

Joe Biden kept his momentum going Tuesday with a win in the Mississippi primary, notching another win in the South.

March 10, 2020

Bernie Sanders denies Alan Gross Cuba praise claim

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernard Sanders on Sunday denied that he praised Cuba when visiting a U.S. government worker imprisoned by the communist regime in Havana.

March 8, 2020

Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden hoards credit for Obama accomplishments

Sen. Bernard Sanders on Sunday ramped up attacks on Joseph R. Biden and accused the former vice president of taking too much credit for President Barack Obama's accomplishments, including the 2009 automobile industry bailout.

March 8, 2020

Elizabeth Warren ends her 2020 presidential campaign

She no longer persisted. Sen. Elizabeth Warren pulled the plug on her campaign Thursday, reducing the Democratic presidential contest to a two-man race.

March 5, 2020

Why Bernie bros believe the Democratic primary is rigged against Sanders

Michael Bloomberg's abrupt exit from the Democratic presidential race opened a clear path to the nomination for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, who has harnessed a surge of anti-Trump energy in the Democratic Party to block the far-left movement of Sen. Bernard Sanders.

March 5, 2020

Bernie Sanders stews amid Joe Biden surge, assails ‘corporate establishment’ campaign

Michael Bloomberg's abrupt exit Wednesday from the Democratic presidential race opened a clear path to the nomination for Joseph R. Biden, who has harnessed a surge of anti-Trump energy in the Democratic Party to block the far-left movement of Sen. Bernard Sanders.

March 4, 2020

Mike Bloomberg drops out of Democratic presidential race, endorses Joe Biden

Billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday dropped out of the Democratic presidential race and plans to endorse former Vice President Joseph R. Biden.

March 4, 2020

Elizabeth Warren lays Super Tuesday stink bomb, losing native Oklahoma and Massachusetts

Sen. Elizabeth Warren suffered the indignity of being rejected by the voters that know her best -- from both her home state of Massachusetts and her native Oklahoma.

March 3, 2020