California
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration sent a clear warning this week to counties defying his state’s stay-at-home order to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus: Keep it up, and you’ll lose disaster funding…
California is one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths are rising faster than researchers expected, according to the latest calculations in a widely relied-upon model of the COVID-19 outbreak….
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday, 5/8, became the nation’s first governor to order statewide vote-by-mail in the November election…
Congress
House Democrats as early as this week are expected to release legislation for the next coronavirus bill reported to cost trillions of dollars…
Senators return this week to an overdue debate on the limits of the government’s surveillance powers, even as President Donald Trump’s signature on what they may produce is not yet assured…
President and Administration
Even as coronavirus deaths mount and infections make inroads into the White House, President Donald Trump is maintaining his upbeat message about reopening the country and restarting the economy…
Two White House staffers — one of President Donald Trump’s military valets, who serves him meals and drinks, and Katie Miller, Pence’s press secretary and wife of the president’s aide Stephen Miller — have tested positive for the virus, launching it into Trump’s inner circle and the crowded halls of the West Wing…