Day: March 12, 2020

WASHINGTON — One Seattle-area hospital has already seen patient care delayed by the stringent infection-control practices that the government recommended for suspected coronavirus cases. Another in Chicago switched Thursday morning into “surge” mode, setting up triage tents in its ambulance bay and dedicating an entire floor to coronavirus patients. At […]

WASHINGTON — United States warplanes struck five targets in southern Iraq on Thursday night, hitting back at an Iraqi militia with ties to Iran that is believed to have been part of a rocket attack on Wednesday that killed two Americans and a British soldier, American officials said. The airstrikes, […]

Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. ImageCredit…Salvatore Di Nolfi/European Pressphoto Agency, via Shutterstock MY KITCHEN TABLE — I’m writing this newsletter from my house, which has […]

Ever since she lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton has never missed an opportunity to publicly bash him. That’s why it came as no surprise when she took to Twitter on Thursday to attack him for his response to the coronavirus outbreak one day after […]

Late night television host Stephen Colbert has had enough of living in the dark times surrounding the coronavirus. On his show last night, Colbert reminisced about the “good old days” when he and his fellow Democrats were “looking forward to impeaching” President Donald Trump. “A few months ago was great, […]