Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema sported a purple wig on the floor of the Senate to make a point about social distancing from hair salons during the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Anthony Fauci and other members of the coronavirus task force will testify before a GOP-led Senate committee next week but have been blocked from making similar appearances in the House so far.
"Today the world showed extraordinary unity for the common good," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. The U.S. was conspicuously absent from the event.
The administration pushed back against an internal government report, obtained by The New York Times, predicting the daily coronavirus death toll could nearly double in the U.S. by early June.
Some 53,000 of the Social Security Administration's employees are working from home. And the agency's backlog of pending cases has fallen by 11% since March 23.
While the trip to the battleground state is in part meant to tell a positive story about the administration's response to the pandemic, it also highlights the challenges of the moment.
President Trump aims to rally U.S. Catholics to support his reelection. The effort is dividing Catholics along partisan lines and within congregations.
Now that former Vice President Joe Biden has formally launched his search for a 2020 presidential running mate, there are many factors to consider — political and personal.
White House rejects government report projecting rising COVID-19 death toll. Some California stores will reopen as early as Friday. And, Venezuela's president says U.S. sent men to assassinate him.