On the same day a stay-at-home order went into effect, Delaware Governor John Carney announced the state’s presidential primary would be moved to June 2 while residential foreclosures and evictions would be suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is ordering residents of the state’s hardest-hit areas to stay home to potentially save a life and help combat the spread of the new coronavirus that has already sickened hundreds and caused six deaths statewide.

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 Pennsylvania Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a gun shop that challenged Gov. Tom Wolf’s authority to shutter businesses determined to be “non-life-sustaining,” paving the way for enforcement to begin Monday.

Pennsylvania is confirming another big increase in coronavirus cases, as well as another death, as Philadelphia issues a “stay at home” order and lawmakers draft legislation to delay the state’s April 28 primary election.

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

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

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.

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

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

Republicans are claiming victory and Democrats conceding defeat in three special elections Tuesday to fill empty seats in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Voting sites in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, were busy on Tuesday as voters came out to cast a ballot for Pennsylvania’s 18th state House District. There was plenty of hand sanitizer on hand and voters were allowed to bring their own pen.

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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.

Family, friends and lawyers of convicted ex-Rep. Duncan Hunter say the California Republican is a devoted father and proud former Marine who should be shown some mercy for making mistakes after returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gov. Phil Murphy will close all New Jersey schools as the number of positive cases of COVID-19 in New Jersey jumped to 98 on Sunday.

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

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.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says all gatherings of more than 250 people should be canceled in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Congress has taken a first step toward addressing errors made by the FBI during its investigation of the Trump campaign and Russia

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker is backing former VP Joe Biden in the Democratic race for president

Elizabeth Warren, who electrified progressives with her “plan for everything” and strong message of economic populism, dropped out the Democratic presidential race on Thursday after disappointing showings in the early-voting states and on Super Tuesday, a source familiar with the decision told NBC News.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy underwent surgery on Wednesday to remove a possibly cancerous tumor from his kidney.

President Donald Trump is once again threatening to pull federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities, a decision that could hurt Philadelphia.

President Donald Trump is making his first visit this year to the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania, in a town hall-style event hosted by Fox News.

A lawsuit that pits religious freedom against gay rights — and has been percolating through the court system and national news for two years — is officially on the Supreme Court’s docket, NBC News reports.

Joe Biden swept to victory in Democratic primary contests across the country on Super Tuesday, from New England to the Atlantic seaboard swing states, from the Upper Midwest to the Deep South

The future of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign is in serious doubt after she was defeated in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in her home state of Massachusetts.

Jeff Flake has a direct message for the Republicans of New Hampshire: Someone needs to stop Donald Trump. And Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, may stand up against the Republican president in 2020 — either as a Republican or an independent — if no one else does. “It has not been in my plans to run for president, but...

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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy will undergo surgery on Wednesday to remove a possibly cancerous tumor from his kidney.

The abrupt departures of Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar from the Democratic presidential race on the eve of Super Tuesday primaries could be frustrating for the millions of people who have already voted in those 14 states and might have cast ballots for them.

Asian American and Pacific Islanders make up nearly 20 percent of California’s electorate. And they could be poised to play an outsized role on Super Tuesday, when California and 13 other states will hold Democratic primary elections, NBC News reports.

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court will review a lower court’s decision that lets some victims of childhood sexual abuse pursue lawsuits despite time limits

Pete Buttigieg opened February by sharing victory with one of the Democratic Party’s best-known figures and ended it with a humbling defeat at the hands of another

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is ending her Democratic presidential campaign, plans to endorse Joe Biden, NBC News and The Associated Press reported.

As her rivals head to the exits, Elizabeth Warren is vowing to press on to a contested convention.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he has given the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan the go-ahead to begin the initial withdrawal of U.S. troops

Supreme Court will decide fate of Obama-era health care law, probably not until after 2020 election

Afghanistan’s president says he will not free thousands of Taliban prisoners ahead of all-Afghan power-sharing talks set for next week, publicly disagreeing with a timetable laid out just a day earlier in a U.S.-Taliban peace deal

The administration is seeking a sweeping ruling that it could potentially use to deport millions of people, even those arrested far from the border and who have been in the country for years, experts on the issue said.

The South Carolina primary is certain to be a fork in the road for Democrats’ 2020 presidential nominating contest

March is crunch time for Democratic presidential candidates, with a nominee likely to emerge over the next several weeks, if not sooner.

Cherokee citizens are calling on Elizabeth Warren to publicly disavow a family story of indigenous heritage.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has unveiled a $40.9 billion budget for fiscal year 2021.

India, it seems, loves Donald Trump.

Voters in a West Philadelphia district will choose a new state representative on Tuesday to replace a freshman lawmaker who resigned after being accused of stealing from a nonprofit she founded

An Army veteran who was running for Congress in Arizona suspended his campaign on Monday after he suffered a drug overdose.

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a dispute over a Philadelphia Catholic agency that won’t place foster children with same-sex couples, a big test of religious rights on a more conservative court.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced he has a tumor on his left kidney.

Bernie Sanders, through three strong showings and a groundswell of support coming from liberal voters, has established himself as the clear frontrunner for the Democrat’s 2020 presidential nomination. And his pathway may get even easier, given the demographics of the states that go to the polls over the next month.

Sen. Bernie Sanders won his second straight contest on Saturday with a convincing victory in Nevada, the first racially diverse state on the primary calendar.

The city of Ahmedabad is jostling with activity as an army of workers is cleaning roads, planting flowers and hoisting hundreds of billboards featuring President Donald Trump, a day ahead of his maiden two-day visit to India after Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised him a boisterous public reception.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ convincing victory in the Nevada caucuses has made him the undisputed front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

U.S. officials and experts say that hopes for ending America’s longest war hinge on maintaining a weeklong fragile truce in Afghanistan that will be difficult to assess and fraught with pitfalls

Roger Stone, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to more than three years in prison on his convictions for witness tampering and lying to Congress

The Reading Terminal Market has finally replaced its 10-year-old Wi-Fi system – just in time for the Democratic National Convention, when the market will open an hour earlier as part of a test run of a potential new schedule.

The notion of banning fracking is dividing the Democrats running for president and increasingly dividing Democrats in the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania

President Donald Trump is offering stinging criticism of his rivals after Democratic presidential candidates’ rancorous debate.

A young woman was killed during a daylight shooting near a North Philadelphia Catholic School Wednesday. On Thursday, City Council proposed a surveillance camera plan to help deter crime near schools.

The branch of the U.S. military that oversees information technology and communications has suffered a potential breach of service members’ personal information, NBC News reported.

A top official on the National Security Council is being reassigned amid fallout over the identity of the author of the inside-the-White House tell-all book by “Anonymous.”

A Republican survey sent to residents of Berks and Montgomery counties has one congressional representative crying foul and worrying that constituents could mistake it for the U.S. Census.

From the opening bell, Democrats unleashed an aggressive verbal assault on New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and raised new questions about Bernie Sanders’ take-no-prisoners politics in a contentious debate Wednesday night on the Las Vegas strip.

President Donald Trump has ousted the Pentagon’s top policy official who had certified last year that Ukraine had made enough anti-corruption progress to justify releasing congressionally authorized aid

Pennsylvania’s top elections official spent hours in federal court Tuesday, defending the certification of voting machines being used by Philadelphia and two other Pennsylvania counties, including one where problems led to undercounted returns in a race in November.

The chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden has announced plans to step down after the current academic year.

Nearly three-quarters of habitual nonvoters plan to cast a ballot in the November election, according to a first-of-its-kind poll on this bloc by the Knight Foundation released Wednesday.

Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign plans to ask for a partial recount of the Iowa caucus results after the state Democratic Party released results of its recanvass that show Sanders and Pete Buttigieg in an effective tie.

The judge presiding over the case of President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone said his sentencing hearing will move forward as planned on Thursday, but indicated she will defer the execution of the sentence until the court rules on the defense’s request for a new trial.

Sen. Lindsey Graham and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, uniting against a Trump administration idea to withdraw U.S. troops from part of Africa, pushed back during a fiery exchange with Defense Secretary Mark Esper over the weekend, according to four people present at or familiar with the meeting.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s push to ban the sale of assault weapons has failed after members of his own party balked at the proposal.

Progressive prosecutors, coming off one of the biggest years in their movement’s short history, are looking to 2020 with hope of winning key district attorney offices around the nation and boosting their influence with an overhaul of the system from within.

New Jersey has become the latest venue for a legal fight over immigration and sanctuary policies, pitting the Trump administration against self-styled progressive Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy

Democratic presidential candidates in the still-crowded 2020 field are facing their first test in the racially diverse state of Nevada with solid union muscle and shaky plans for a presidential caucus