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A multi-state coronavirus surge in the countdown to Election Day has exposed a clear split between President Donald Trump’s bullish embrace of a return to normalcy and urgent public warnings from the government’s top health officials.

Jimmy Fallon addresses the White House listing ending the coronavirus pandemic as one of the president’s accomplishments.

Jimmy Fallon addresses a second COVID-19 outbreak happening among Mike Pence’s staff as he continues to campaign across the country.

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden’s campaigns are assembling armies of powerful lawyers as they prepare for the possibility that the race for the White House is decided not at the ballot box but in court

Many are nervous about inviting trick-or-treaters to their doors during a pandemic, but the White House will flick on the lights and welcome kids for its annual Halloween celebration. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have invited children, including families of frontline workers and military members, to a trick-or-treating event Sunday at the White House. It’s unclear...

Washington negotiations on a huge COVID-19 relief bill have taken a modest step forward, though time is running out and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, President Donald Trump’s most powerful Senate ally, is pressing the White House against going forward

After a report that Gov. Charlie Baker is under consideration as one of the Republicans who could be asked to join a Biden administration, Baker said he has no plans to leave Massachusetts.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reporting some progress in advance of a Tuesday deadline for reaching a pre-election deal with President Donald Trump on a new coronavirus relief package, but the same problems bedeviling the effort remain in place despite optimistic talk from the president and his team

The Trump White House has installed two political operatives at the nation’s top public health agency to try to control the information it releases about the coronavirus pandemic as the administration seeks to paint a positive outlook, sometimes at odds with the scientific evidence.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday urged Americans to wear masks to fight the coronavirus that put him in intensive care for seven days, and warned the virus is “something to take very seriously.”

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie released a statement following his recovery from COVID-19 Thursday. “I was wrong to not wear a mask at the Amy Coney Barrett announcement and I was wrong not to wear a mask at my multiple debate prep sessions with the President and the rest of the team,” Christie said.

First lady Melania Trump published an article detailing her experience with COVID-19 Wednesday. In it, she says she understands “just how fortunate my family is to have received the kind of care that we did.” She also reveals her son, Barron, tested positive for the virus shortly after her.

During his first campaign rally since testing positive for COVID-19, President Donald Trump claimed he was now immune to the virus. “The nice part, I went through it. Now they say I’m immune,” he told supporters in Orlando, Fla. “I feel so powerful. I’ll walk into that audience. I’ll walk in there. I’ll kiss everyone in that...

The president’s physician said Monday that President Donald Trump had tested negative “on consecutive days.”

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows refused to answer reporters’ questions Monday after they asked him to put on a mask. “I’m not going to talk through a mask,” he said.

A new White House coronavirus aid has gotten bad reviews from both ends of the political spectrum

Less than a week after being released from Walter Reed Medical Center for coronavirus treatments, President Donald Trump held a “Law And Order” campaign rally from the White House on Saturday afternoon with hundreds in attendance. Critics have said federal employees who helped with Saturday’s event could be violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from campaigning on federal...

Jimmy Fallon addresses the raccoon problem at the White House, which has become the latest coronavirus hotspot.

The head of the White House security office has tested positive for the coronavirus, NBC News has confirmed.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday she was “shocked” to see President Donald Trump discharged from the hospital so soon, and said Trump set a poor example by appearing at the White House without a mask. “When I saw him on the balcony of the White House, taking off his mask, I couldn’t help but think that he sent...