President Trump’s exhortation “Don’t be afraid of Covid” was denounced by Democrats and others who criticized him for taking a dismissive tone about a disease that has killed more than 200,000 Americans, sickened more than 7.4 million and upended daily life across the country. “Don’t be afraid of Covid,” Mr. …...Read More

The long road of a copyright suit over Led Zeppelin’s 1971 megahit “Stairway to Heaven” came to an end on Monday, when the United States Supreme Court announced that it had declined to hear the case. The high court’s decision means that a ruling for Led Zeppelin in March by …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, awaiting the result of a partisan confirmation battle, opened its new term on Monday with a fitting argument on the impact of politics on judicial appointments. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. opened the session, which took place by telephone in light of the coronavirus …...Read More

Election officials opened 21 satellite voting sites on Monday in Detroit, where election headquarters and city hall have been open for absentee voting for the past 10 days. The new sites, set up across the city, allow voters to pick up or drop off absentee ballots. A handful of communities …...Read More

Biden Suggests Trump Should Shoulder Responsibility for Contracting the Virus Joe Biden travels to the Sun Belt, where recent polls show him leading President Trump. In a video, Mr. Trump tries to frame his coronavirus infection as a show of leadership. The debate commission says it will install plexiglass barriers …...Read More

BOONE, N.C. — Since last Monday, when a sophomore at his school died from suspected Covid-19 complications, Chase Sturgis says he has been thinking about his own bout with the coronavirus — and his own mortality. Mr. Sturgis, 21, had been avoiding socializing over the summer, but as students at …...Read More

“I don’t know where we’re going with this,” Professor Campbell said last week. “I’m more scared than I was.” Trump supporters are less likely to consider fleeing the country if their candidate loses, which most do not expect to happen anyway. They are more likely to talk of digging in, …...Read More

“There’s a lot of energy behind the public option, and this is clearly one of the reasons,” said Dan Mendelson, the founder of Avalere Health, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm. Employers say the proof of how much more they pay underscores the need for change. “The report lays out in …...Read More

During a visit last weekend to areas of eastern Washington that had been scorched by wildfires, Gov. Jay Inslee brought a personal gift: honeycrisp apples grown at the Governor’s Mansion in Olympia. Unfortunately, the apples brought something with them as well: a pest known as apple maggots that Washington agriculture …...Read More

Joseph R. Biden Jr. faced his first sustained questioning from voters as the Democratic presidential nominee on Thursday, as Pennsylvanians pressed him on issues including health care, racism and policing at a CNN town-hall-style event held less than seven weeks before Election Day. At a gathering in Moosic, Pa., not …...Read More