The summer of spread is here – POLITICO
A yacht cruises through the Manasquan Inlet in New Jersey in late June. | Wayne Parry/AP Photo New Jersey New Jersey, where 16,000 residents are...
New York City will set up checkpoints to enforce quarantine for travelers – POLITICO
Vehicles ride on the Lincoln Tunnel helix with New York City seen at a distance. | Julio Cortez/AP Photo By ERIN DURKIN 08/05/2020 11:04 AM...
Yates says Obama, Biden didn’t influence Flynn investigation – POLITICO
Trump has provided no evidence to support the claim, and Yates said under oath that Obama’s only interest in Flynn was to ensure that it...
POLITICO Playbook: ‘You admit you don’t know what you’re talking about’ – Politico
During Covid relief negotiations on Tuesday, when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin noted that he wasn’t an electoral ballot expert, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: “Well, it’s...
Kobach and Clay go down: Takeaways from a big primary night – POLITICO
These weren’t just symbolic victories for the GOP establishment but ones that fundamentally boosted their chances in November, including their chances of keeping the Senate...
Missouri voters latest to approve Medicaid expansion – POLITICO
The Missouri vote came as the state has faced one of the sharpest increases in coronavirus infections and now reports on average over 1,200 daily...
House Dems test tactics to mobilize mail-in voters – POLITICO
“Each one of us will need to have a vote-by-mail strategy for November,” she said, according to a source on the call. The DCCC had...
Trump backtracks on mail-in voting, says it’s OK to do in Florida – POLITICO
Despite Trump's insistence to the contrary, cases of election fraud in the U.S. are exceedingly rare, though experts acknowledge that there are some slightly higher...
Barbot steps down as health commissioner – POLITICO
New York City Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot | Gary Gershoff/Getty Images for Housing Works NEW YORK — Oxiris Barbot has stepped down as New York...
POLITICO Playbook: Nothing is decided – POLITICO – Politico
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have not come to complete agreement on anything with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows...
Trump claims right to issue executive order on vote-by-mail – POLITICO
The president, who is trailing his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, in the polls, has pushed aggressively for in-person voting despite the pandemic, even as state...
Trump’s assault on mail voting threatens his reelection bid – POLITICO
The poll is part of a late flurry of research trying to gauge swing-state voter attitudes as the coronavirus accelerates the trend of more and...
Trump threatens lawsuit to block mail-in voting in Nevada – POLITICO
Trump has aggressively advocated for in-person voting in recent months even as state-level election officials move expand mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic, which many...
Poll: Biden slightly ahead in North Carolina, Georgia – POLITICO
The poll showed that Trump has lost ground since 2016 among white voters, down 12 percentage points in Georgia and 7 in North Carolina. The...
Jim Clyburn: Trump is Mussolini – POLITICO
Clyburn made the historical comparison to Mussolini after drawing attention for comments he made in a PBS interview released Friday comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler....
Leaders duel over coronavirus relief bill – POLITICO
And the California Democrat suggested that Senate Republicans are in disarray over unemployment benefits while Democrats are united in support, but Meadows noted that only...
Trump gets an education in the art of reversal – POLITICO
Trump’s most recent back-and-forth with school officials has taken on increasing urgency in the White House and the president's campaign where there’s a belief that...
‘Castro sympathizer’: Florida GOP moves to sink Bass over Cuba – POLITICO
Sen. Marco Rubio. | Samuel Corum/Getty Images TALLAHASSEE — Fidel Castro is once again casting a long shadow over U.S presidential politics. The former Cuban...
Bass addresses past remarks praising Scientology – POLITICO
“The Church of Scientology, I know, has made a difference, because your creed is a universal creed and one that speaks to all people everywhere,”...
Thousands protest against coronavirus measures in Berlin – Politico
The gathering was organized with the title "The end of the pandemic — day of freedom." Some demonstrators chanted "the biggest conspiracy theory is the...
Pelosi duels with White House as unemployment aid set to expire – POLITICO
“Those four different offers have been actually rejected but more importantly than that they’ve not even been countered with a proposal,” Meadows said at a...
Trudeau defends work on contract now engulfing his government – POLITICO
The problems for Trudeau erupted after the contract, worth up to C$43.5 million, was signed with WE Charity to administer a C$544 million student grant...
Prosecutor: No charges for officer in Michael Brown’s death – POLITICO
The August 2014 police shooting touched off months of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and made the St. Louis suburb synonymous with a national debate over...
The congressional underclass erupts in fury after Gohmert gets Covid-19 – POLITICO
Another aide to a House GOP member told of how staff were allowed to work from home for several days when an office colleague was...