Governors

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Legal challenges to governors' coronavirus shutdown orders are piling up nationwide, putting state leaders on the defensive as citizens and businesses itching to get back to normal take their arguments to court -- in some cases succeeding at voiding the governors' actions.The Wisconsin…

Colorado Governor Jared Polis. | David Zalubowski/AP Photo A trio of governors making the rounds on the Sunday news shows expressed measured optimism about the possibility for schools in their states to reopen by the fall. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” outlined the most bullish vision of the three…

The governor accused various world and federal health groups, as well as the news media, of not sufficiently warning the world of the coronavirus outbreak.Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the “whole alphabet soup” of health agencies should have warned of the coronavirus threat late last year.Credit...Johnny Milano for The New York TimesApril 28, 2020ALBANY, N.Y.…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said last week that undocumented immigrants will be able to draw on a $125 million public-private fund. | Rich Pedroncelli, Pool/AP Photo Republicans made sure that undocumented immigrants — along with some legally in the U.S. — couldn’t get federal stimulus checks. But Democratic governors and mayors are now doing an…

Donald Trump spent much of his Sunday coronavirus news briefing boasting about the country's testing capacity, but governors around the nation fact-checked the president's claims as "delusional" and "totally false." Trump kicked off the briefing by waving around a testing swab as he claimed that testing had "rapidly" expanded to "millions and millions of people." "It should be…