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Vice President Mike Pence waves as he arrives in Phoenix to meet with Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey to discuss the surge in coronavirus cases Wednesday, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) AZRF101 AZRF101

July 2, 2020 at 9:15 pm

Pence Postponed Arizona Trip After Secret Service Agents Showed Signs of Virus

WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence postponed a planned trip this week to Arizona after Secret Service agents set to travel with him tested positive...

Nation & World

June 29, 2020 at 11:49 am

Trump Shares Video of Armed White Couple Confronting Protesters

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday morning retweeted a video of a white man and woman brandishing a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun at...

Supporters of President Donald Trump listen as he speaks at the BOK Center in Tulsa on Saturday, June 20, 2020, during his first campaign rally since March 2. Many of the arena’s 19,000 seats remained empty as Trump spoke. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) XNYT139 XNYT139

June 21, 2020 at 6:15 pm

The president’s shock at the rows of empty seats in Tulsa

A broad group of President Trump's advisers acknowledged to one another that he had not been able to will public opinion away from fears over...

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President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, June 17, 2020. Facebook on Thursday removed advertisements posted on its platform by the Trump campaign that prominently featured a symbol used by Nazis during World War II to classify political prisoners in concentration camps, saying the imagery violated company policy. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) XNYT119 XNYT119

June 18, 2020 at 1:10 pm

Facebook removes Trump ads displaying symbol used by Nazis

Nazis used the red symbol to classify political prisoners. The Trump campaign said the triangle was associated with antifa, a claim experts rejected.

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June 11, 2020 at 6:24 pm

Trump Will Give Convention Speech in Jacksonville, Capping a Dispute Over Safety

WASHINGTON — It’s official: President Donald Trump will deliver his Aug. 27 convention speech in Jacksonville, Florida, inside an arena that holds 15,000 people, after...

Nation & World

May 24, 2020 at 12:36 pm

Trump Promotes Posts From Racist Twitter Feed

WASHINGTON — On a weekend when the nation was bracing for the approaching toll of 100,000 lives lost to the coronavirus and honoring the many...

May 1, 2020 at 5:42 pm

‘I will never lie to you,’ McEnany says in first White House briefing

WASHINGTON — Kayleigh McEnany stepped on the podium in the White House Briefing Room on Friday, 417 days since a press secretary for President Donald...

Nation & World

April 24, 2020 at 8:16 pm

Trump commencement address causes West Point to summon cadets back to campus

WASHINGTON — For President Donald Trump, who adores the pomp and precision of military ceremonies, this was the year he would finally get one of...

Nation & World

President Donald Trump addresses the coronavirus task force news conference at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 13, 2020. The president’s insistence that only he can decide if the country should reopen for business was disputed by constitutional scholars and contrasted with his earlier message that it was not for the federal government to take the lead in fighting the virus. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) XNYT163 XNYT163

April 13, 2020 at 7:57 pm

Trump Turns Daily Coronavirus Briefing Into a Defense of His Record

Monday's White House press briefing featured an angry, defensive president and a lengthy campaign-style video touting his accomplishments in handling the coronavirus.

The delegates from Washington cast their votes for President of the United States during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Tuesday, July 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

April 1, 2020 at 10:36 am

Democrats fear for their convention. For Republicans, ‘The show must go on.’

Both parties are finding every aspect of their national convention planning upended by the coronavirus pandemic.