Covid-19

According to a report from the Associated Press, Republicans in Ohio have their work cut out for them after being hit with the double whammy of Donald Trump attacking one of the biggest employers in the state while popular former Republican Gov. John Kasich led a chorus of high profile GOP officials endorsing his opponent, Joe Biden.

MINNEAPOLIS — State health officials say 15 Minnesotans who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally this month have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, including one state resident hospitalized with COVID-19.The Minnesota Department of Health received the first case report on Thursday and 14 more case reports on Friday, said Kris Ehresmann, the state’s director of infectious diseases, during a briefing Friday with reporters.People who have tested positive visited multiple campgrounds and bars at the South Dakota event, Ehresmann said, so cases apparently can’t be connected to any one loca...

The latest update is that lawmakers are far from a deal on the next coronavirus relief package, although signs that a bipartisan spirit is returning to Congress have appeared. It’s looking again like the next stimulus package won’t include a second round of checks, but it will include money for the U.S. Postal Service.Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and moreUpdate: Democrats consider cutting coronavirus relief packageThe biggest sticking point between Republicans and Democrats has been the price tag of the coronavirus relief package, and that has prevented any update for the last two w...

On Saturday, The New York Times reported that a number of school districts around the country are keeping information about COVID-19 under wraps from parents.

A unified party, an on-point Joe Biden and his rising-star running mate are among the upshots from the Democratic National Convention, which drew on party nobility like the Obamas while showcasing the next generation.

Despite having imposed draconian coronavirus lockdown and making the use of face masks in public mandatory, Spain is once again a world hotspot for the COVID-19 pandemic.

New daily cases of the coronavirus have been dropping sharply in the United States for weeks -- but experts don't know if Americans will have the discipline to bring the epidemic truly under control.

Although the coronavirus crisis has brought double-digit unemployment to the United States, some affluent Americans are continuing to prosper in the stock market. Liberal economist Paul Krugman addresses that disparity in his New York Times column this week, noting how the wide gap between the haves and have-nots continues during the pandemic.

If you’re hoping that a decisive win against Donald Trump and GOP candidates down the ballot would force a reckoning for the Republican Party, you’d likely be disappointed if that outcome comes to pass in November. His base, conspiratorial crackpots and white nationalists, would tell themselves that he was done in by the Deep State and a flood of illegal votes by undocumented immigrants. But more mainstream Republicans would also blame a big loss on factors other than Trump’s corruption, bigotry and narcissism. The conventional wisdom would likely coalesce around the idea that the Covid-19 pandemic, and its ensuing economic meltdown, doomed Trump’s otherwise strong chances of re-election.

An Iowa businesswoman who supported President Donald Trump in 2016 now says that she's done with him after watching his handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Joe Biden on Thursday accepted the Democratic nomination to be the party's presidential candidate, the culmination of a convention held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Former Vice President Joe Biden officially accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Nation Committee on Thursday.