Washington Times

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Tuesday said Wisconsin residents should "vote remotely" or consider wearing protective facial coverings as the state plows forward with its presidential primary. "My recommendation is that if you can vote remotely — and…

Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont said late Monday that pressing forward with in-person voting in Wisconsin's presidential primary on Tuesday during a coronavirus outbreak "may well prove deadly." "Let's be clear: holding this election amid the coronavirus…

ATLANTA (AP) — Civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis is backing Joe Biden for president, giving the prospective Democratic nominee perhaps his biggest symbolic endorsement among the many veteran black lawmakers who back his candidacy. "We need his…

GOLF The Masters goes from that annual rite of spring to two weeks before Thanksgiving. The U.S. Open now is scheduled in September for the first time since amateur Francis Ouimet took down Britain’s best at Brookline in 1913 to put golf on the map in…

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Legislature on Monday granted sweeping new powers to the governor to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The House and Senate met in special session and approved the resolution under the never-before-used Catastrophic Health…

A faction of public health scholars says there may be a better way to approach the coronavirus pandemic than the shelter-in-place rules that have brought the U.S. economy to a screeching halt. Their views are outside the current mainstream of the medical…

Justice Department researchers said Monday that before the country can get a handle on mass shootings, it needs to come up with uniform definitions and a better set of data. Scientists at the National Institute of Justice reviewed decades of studies of mass…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge on Monday refused to block Los Angeles officials from shutting down gun stores as nonessential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. It's at least the second time federal judges in California have declined to…

The battle over the merits of an anti-malarial drug as a potential treatment for coronavirus is raging within the White House, as health experts caution against President Trump's frequent touting of hydroxychloroquine. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro…

The persistence of troubling and destructive disinformation about the coronavirus has become a global challenge. Members of the British Parliament issued a new report this week clearly stating that disinformation about COVID-19 "has already cost lives" and…

Coronavirus deaths appeared to be leveling off in New York, Italy and Spain, but the White House told America to keep its foot on the pedal to avoid squandering its gains, as U.S. deaths crossed the somber milestone of 10,000 on Monday. Members of President…

President Trump told the head of the White House Correspondents Association "you will never make it" during an often-combative coronavirus briefing Monday night in which the president also said he's managed the crisis too well for Democrats to beat him in…

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says about 30 nursing home residents near Houston who tested positive for the coronavirus are receiving treatment with an anti-malaria drug not yet officially approved for fighting COVID-19. Abbott's announcement that…

NEW ORLEANS — A second pharmaceutical company promised more coronavirus-fighting drugs Monday to hard-hit Louisiana as the state's death toll attributed to the virus rose to 512. Teva Pharmaceuticals will donate 8,000 packs of azithromycin and 75,000 tablets…

President Trump said Monday he is "going to get involved" in settling a heated dispute between Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly and former USS Theodore Roosevelt Capt. Brett Crozier, who was fired last week after writing a letter about a worsening…

The Wisconsin primary election on Tuesday is back on. The state Supreme Court appeared to get in the the final word Monday evening, thwarting Gov. Tony Evers' last-ditch attempt to postpone in-person voting in the state's election and reschedule the vote for…

President Trump on Monday said America is praying for U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a White House ally who entered an intensive care unit after his coronavirus symptoms worsened on Monday. Mr. Johnson was taken into intensive care more than a week after…

The USNS Comfort, a hospital ship with about 1,000 beds that recently arrived in New York City, will soon be able to accept COVID-19 patients after it had originally been set up as an overflow facility for non-coronavirus patients. President Trump said he…

The battle for intellectual consistency among #MeToo activists took center stage on social media this week with actress Rose McGowan blasting celebrity peer Alyssa Milano as a "fraud." At issue is Ms. Milano's silence over sexual assault accusations leveled at…

The Small Business Administration acknowledged to banks Monday in an email obtained by The Washington Times that there are frustrating flaws in its system for handling loan applications for distressed small businesses, even as the White House and lawmakers…