Politics

Counting an avalanche of 1.4 million mail-in votes dragged into a third day in Pennsylvania on Thursday as some races from Tuesday’s primary remained too close to call.

A number of prominent Philly athletes took exception to Drew Brees’ comments on kneeling during the national anthem.

Legislation to add new flexibility to a coronavirus relief program for small businesses is on its way to the White House for President Donald Trump’s signature after passing the Senate.

The presidential primary in Pennsylvania was pushed back a month in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and the number of mail-in ballots surged, adding to an unpredictable day at the polls.

Many thousands of mail-in ballots remain uncounted in Pennsylvania’s 1st Senate District, but the Associated Press has already called the primary election race for magazine editor Nikil Saval.

Longtime Rep. Steve King has been ousted in Iowa’s Republican primary after being ostracized by party leaders for comments about white nationalism

The invitation list for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s taxpayer-funded “Madison Dinners,” now under scrutiny by two congressional committees, included dozens of donors to Republican candidates and causes, campaign finance records show.

The Senate has confirmed a new inspector general to oversee money distributed as part of the $2 trillion economic rescue law

Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Center City Philadelphia Tuesday as voters head to polls for the state’s presidential primary amid civil unrest.

Pennsylvania is undertaking a primary election Tuesday amid civil unrest, the coronavirus pandemic, the introduction of new voting machines in some counties and the debut of mail-in balloting that has pushed county election bureaus to their limits.

A federal judge is defending his decision not to quickly approve the Justice Department’s request to dismiss its own criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Tuesday’s primary elections in eight states are both significant elections and big tests of campaigning during the age of coronavirus.

Democratic and Republican officials on Sunday took aim at groups like Antifa and Boogaloo as well as demonstrators from out of town as responsible for violent episodes at protests in major cities across the country.

President Donald Trump says he will postpone a meeting of Group of 7 nations until fall

President Donald Trump and Twitter are tangling over truth and consequences

A divided Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal by a California church that challenged state limits on attendance at worship services that have been imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Over the dissent of the four more conservative justices, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals in turning aw...

President Donald Trump has vetoed a measure that would have overturned a policy that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos issued in 2019 making it harder for students to get their loans erased after being misled by their colleges

Joe Biden is lamenting the “open wound” of systemic racism in the United States

You can still vote by filing a provisional ballot on Election Day if your mail-in ballot doesn’t show up.

Democrats say they will interview officials who may have information about the ouster of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick

Gov. Tom Wolf plans to announce Friday that he will lift more pandemic restrictions in certain counties in Pennsylvania, his office said, while 26 more counties woke up to fewer restrictions.

President Donald Trump has been claiming extraordinarily sweeping powers during the coronavirus crisis that constitutional and legal scholars say the president simply doesn’t have

Former Texas Rep. Sam Johnson, a military pilot who spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before serving more than two decades in Congress, died Wednesday at age 89.

Some Pennsylvania Democrats are accusing House Republican leadership of covering up a fellow GOP lawmaker’s COVID-19 diagnosis.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro will not investigate allegations from House Democrats that House GOP leadership covered up a lawmaker’s COVID-19 diagnosis.

More than 1.8 million Pennsylvanians applied for a mail-in ballot for the June 2 primary in the coronavirus pandemic.

In a May 22 radio interview, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made a number of false, misleading or exaggerated claims.

The senior adviser central to the investigation into allegations that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used an employee to run personal errands is now leading the charge to find support among former staffers against what they describe as a “smear campaign,” NBC News has learned.

Legislation extending surveillance authorities that the FBI sees as vital in fighting terrorism has been thrown into doubt, with President Donald Trump threatening a veto and Republican leaders and top liberal Democrats saying they will oppose it

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended her decade-long record of voting by mail, arguing Wednesday that her public opposition to expanding mail-in voting for other people is not incompatible with her personal use of mail-in ballots.  “Absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason. It means you’re absent from the jurisdi...

Tennessee will soon stop providing the names and addresses of COVID-19 patients to first responders, after initially arguing doing so would protect those on the front line.

It’s a moment for the history books on Capitol Hill

An AP Fact Check finds that President Donald Trump tangled the facts when he suggested Tuesday at a White House Rose Garden event that “Obamacare” raised prescription drug costs for seniors

The White House says President Donald Trump followed the law when he fired multiple inspectors general in the last two months, but the administration is offering no new details about why they were let go

Joe Biden says President Donald Trump is a “fool” who is “stoking deaths” for suggesting that wearing a mask in public to combat the spread of the coronavirus is anything other than a sign of leadership

The new Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is warning that foreign actors will seek to amplify American conspiracy theories about the virus and find new ways to interfere in the 2020 presidential election

A West Virginia postal carrier has been charged with attempted election fraud after eight mail-in requests for absentee voter ballots had their party affiliations altered, including five from Democrat to Republican.

The graduates of the Class of 2020 can be celebrated with commencement ceremonies in New Jersey, but they will have to wait until summer.

States are expecting an increase in mailed ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic

Joe Biden has marked Memorial Day by honoring veterans at a park near his Delaware home

President Donald Trump has a new pitch to voters for this fall. He’s asking them to trust him when it comes to an economic recovery. The coronoavirus pandemic has put more than 38 million people out of work in the United States, and Trump is increasingly talking up a future recovery that probably won’t materialize until after the November......

Time is running out on an arms control treaty that, if it’s allowed to expire, will leave the world with no legal restrictions on U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons for the first time in nearly half a century.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions stood up to his old boss Friday after President Donald Trump encouraged Alabama voters to reject Sessions in his bid to return to the U.S. Senate, NBCNews reports. Trump on Friday afternoon once again tweeted his endorsement for Sessions’ rival, college football coach Tommy Tuberville, in the pr...

FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered an internal review into possible misconduct in the investigation of former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn

Twelve more counties are emerging from Gov. Tom Wolf’s strictest shutdown orders in Pennsylvania’s bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus as Wolf prepared to announce which other counties have seen new infections slow enough to join them.

All registered Democrats and Republicans will get absentee ballots without having to ask for them.

Joe Biden is warning that those “tasked with enforcing the law are abusing their powers,” offering a measured critique of the Trump administration the day after he declined to respond to President Donald Trump’s attacks directly

President Donald Trump has threatened to hold back federal funding from two election battleground states that are making it easier to vote by mail during the pandemic

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Wednesday she is appealing to President Donald Trump’s administration in her standoff with two American Indian tribes over coronavirus checkpoints they set up on federal and state highways.

The Supreme Court is temporarily preventing the House of Representatives from obtaining secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is adamantly denying that he recommended firing the State Department’s independent watchdog in retaliation for investigations into Pompeo’s conduct as America’s top diplomat

 Democratic Gov. John Carney is loosening some of his coronavirus restrictions on Delaware businesses, but critics say he is moving too slowly and abusing his authority

New York state’s June 23 Democratic presidential primary will definitely take place now

A gym in South Jersey has reopened for business in defiance of a state order that shutdown nonessential businesses to help stem the spread of the coronavirus.

The new chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Florida Republican Marco Rubio, will be overseeing a key vote as his first official act in the position

President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are misrepresenting the facts behind the legal case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn as they seek to allege improper behavior during the Obama administration in the presidential campaign season.

It’s been seven weeks since Congress unleashed more than $2 trillion to help deal with the coronavirus crisis, and seven weeks since lawmakers created an oversight commission that’s supposed to keep track of how all that money is spent.

The State Department inspector general who was removed from his job Friday was looking into whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a staffer walk his dog, pick up his dry cleaning and make dinner reservations for Pompeo and his wife, among other personal errands, according to two congressional officials assigned to different committees....

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld has announced he has suspended his Republican bid for the White House. “I am immensely grateful to all the patriotic women and men who have stood with me during the past eleven months in our effort to bring better government to Washington, D.C.,” Weld said in a statement. Weld made the announcement We...

As leaders from Congress and the White House toiled in high-stakes negotiations on a mammoth $1 trillion-plus economic rescue package Friday, President Donald Trump unleashed fury over questions of his handling of the coronavirus outbreak

The head of the Democratic National Committee and several voting rights groups are calling on states to mail ballots to all voters to keep remaining primaries running as the coronavirus pandemic is keeping millions of Americans at home

Some lawmakers want Congress to allow remote voting in the House and Senate as the coronavirus spreads around the country.

President Donald Trump says he’s considering a full pardon for former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, is requesting to serve the remainder of his three-year prison sentence at home due to unsafe prison conditions caused by the coronavirus outbreak, NBC News reports.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., sold as much as $1.7 million in stocks just before the market dropped in February amid fears about the coronavirus epidemic.

President Donald Trump has declared U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams a rising star for his work during the coronavirus outbreak

The fast-moving coronavirus upending every facet of American life is testing whether Washington, a capital city fractured by years of bitter partisanship and inaction, can still do big things.

As President Donald Trump imposes sweeping entry restrictions in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus — and considers still more — he’s relying on an agency to help implement them that has been hollowed out at the top ranks in a revolving door of leadership, potentially hampering his administration’s response to the crisis, NBC N...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he is reassessing his campaign, raising questions about whether he will drop out after losing three more states and falling prohibitively behind former Vice President Joe Biden in the race.

The nation’s largest labor union has lined up behind Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, with the National Education Association on Saturday endorsing the former vice president for the Democratic nomination over his last remaining primary rival Bernie Sanders

The Pentagon says the U.S. launched airstrikes Thursday in Iraq, targeting the Iranian-backed Shia militia members believed responsible for the rocket attack that killed and wounded American and British troops at a base north of Baghdad.

U.S. elections have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic

Top-level talks between Congress and the White House are pushing toward agreement on a ballooning $1 trillion-plus economic rescue package to beat back the impact of the coronavirus

The latest economic rescue package being negotiated in Washington is now nearly $2 trillion.

Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky becomes first US senator to test positive for coronavirus.

Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is facing a potential class action lawsuit for allegedly promising jobs through November to more than a thousand campaign staffers and then laying them off last week. A former field organizer, Donna Wood, filed the suit on Monday in U.S. District Court, in the southern district of ...

Joe Biden is in the process of narrowing down his list of potential running mates, and his allies in the business community are weighing in with their favorite choices. Since Biden announced earlier this month that he plans to pick a woman as his nominee for vice president, leaders of Wall Street, Silicon Valley and other industries have been ...

Five Iranian tankers likely carrying at least $45.5 million worth of gasoline and similar products are now sailing to Venezuela. It’s part of a wider deal between the two U.S.-sanctioned nations amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.

The former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump has been denied early release from a three-year prison sentence for campaign finance fraud and lying to Congress.

The FBI won’t give up on “finding out what happened” to former agent Robert Levinson, who the U.S. government believes died in the custody of the Iranians.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is warning Washington that he is ready to fight by whatever means necessary now that the U.S. has indicted the socialist leader and offered $15 million for his arrest.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed a $2.2 trillion rescue package, tossing a life preserver to a U.S. economy and health care system left flailing by the coronavirus pandemic.

The United Nations says the 191 parties to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty have decided to postpone a conference to review its implementation because of the coronavirus pandemic

Census Day arrives Wednesday with a nation almost paralyzed by the spread of the novel coronavirus

A federal judge is signaling he won’t postpone or make any major changes to Wisconsin’s spring election to alleviate concerns about voters and poll workers contracting the coronavirus.

Joe Biden says the Democratic National Convention may need to take place online as the pandemic continues to reshape the race for the White House.

Seventy-seven-year-old Joe Biden says he would like to be a “transition” from President Donald Trump to younger, rising Democratic figures

President Donald Trump’s emergency powers are worrying senators and legal experts

Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., announced Saturday that he will not run for president this year after announcing at the end of April he would explore a presidential run under the Libertarian Party.

The state Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to force Pennsylvania elections officials to accept absentee or mail-in ballots as long as they are received within a week after the primary or general elections during the pandemic.

Democrats have powered a massive $3 trillion coronavirus response bill through the House, over Republican opposition

The inspector general whose firing was disclosed in a letter to Congress defended on Sunday his handling of a whistleblower complaint that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment, NBC News reports.

Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy on Monday as he made a joint online appearance with the former vice president.