A poll worker at Liberty High School on July 7, 2020, in Jersey City, N.J. | David Dee Delgado/Getty Images The polls have closed in New Jersey, which on Tuesday held an unprecedented primary election that was delayed five weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic and conducted mainly by mail-in ballot. Most of the state’s…

(CNN)A White man and a White woman who allegedly painted over a California community's Black Lives Matter mural this weekend are each facing a hate crime charge, the Contra Costa County District Atto…

President Trump on Tuesday urged the nation’s public schools to reopen “quickly and beautifully” and jabbed at districts like Los Angeles’ that remain uncertain, again injecting politics into the pandemic response.As the nation’s death toll from COVID-19 surged past 130,000 this week, cases are rising in 38 states, including an outbreak at childcare facilities in…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for Covid-19, following months of downplaying the virus.

WASHINGTON — Americans have significantly more confidence in their governors than in President Donald Trump when it comes to handling the coronavirus, according to new data from an NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Tracking Poll.Forty-three percent of respondents approve of Trump's handling of the pandemic, while 55 percent disapprove.That's compared to 60 percent of Americans who say…