Cutting off asylum-seekers isn't the only controversial policy issue President Trump has forged ahead with under the guise of fighting COVID-19.

Trump is correct that the decision is a very tough call. But it will be made by mayors and governors, not federal officials.

The Trump coronavirus immigration order shows he has yet to find a crisis he can't try to exploit for his own political gain.

President Trump made a grave mistake by heavily and repeatedly promoting COVID-19 products for which there was too little evidence.

Meat processing plants have shut down as COVID-19 cases turned up among workers and inspectors. Trump's solution? Force the shuttered plants to reopen.

Conservative skepticism toward both science and government intervention has shifted from an ideology to a pathology.

Rather than using his powers during the pandemic, Trump simply wants to be adored for having them.

Since FDR, presidents have taken on the role of comforter-in-chief in moments of national crisis.

Trump cedes power to the states when it suits him, and claims it for the federal government when it suits.

Anthony Fauci, our national truth-teller, spoke plainly before he was forced to make a retraction by a president more comfortable with lies.

Other presidents have expanded their executive power during national crises. Trump is trying, but he's so bad at the job, he won't succeed.

Comparing the coronavirus crisis and the surprise attack in Hawaii in 1941 only points up the gulf between the divisive Donald Trump and the unifying Franklin D. Roosevelt.

President Trump accused Voice of America of buying into Chinese propaganda in covering coronavirus. That's absurd.

The Justice Department weighed in on a social distancing case in Mississippi to strike a blow for Trump's side in the coronavirus culture wars.

Turns out a range of charlatans out there are peddling industrial bleach as a cure-all.

Michigan Rep. Justin Amash says "visceral outrage" over his Libertarian bid for president speaks volumes about America's ugly politics.

Approval of Gov. Newsom's response to the coronavirus crosses party lines; much else does not. Partisanship strongly shapes views of the pandemic.

FEMA won't release state-by-state information on where masks, gowns and other protective equipment have been delivered.

Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) appears on track for confirmation as director of national intelligence after a Senate Intelligence Commitee hearing Tuesday.

Americans may struggle to decipher Trump's tortured verbs and twisted tenses, but after a monumental crash, an artificial intelligence bot named Margaret proved up to the task.

The release Friday of a 2005 videotape of Donald Trump making vulgar comments about women tested The Times' language standards and its print production deadlines.

Henry Sylvain Gindt II, 34, of Long Island City lied that he had the lab capabilities to run the tests, which he sold through two web sites for $135 to $200 apiece, authorities said. The Secret Service and federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh said Thursday that they’ve charged Gindt with mail and wire fraud.

The White House is expected to inform Gov. Cuomo of Trump’s bailout support Friday afternoon.

A member of the U.S. Navy who serves as one of President Trump’s personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus.

The move marks a stunning renunciation of one of the most high-profile convictions secured as part of the federal investigation into President Trump’s ties to Russia.

During a rambling interview on FOX & Friends, President Trump did a victory lap following DOJ's decision to drop charges against Michae Flynn and how he learned from Nixon as not firing people during an investigation.

In a telephone interview with "Fox & Friends," Trump said he would be willing to provide the former vice president with the same coronavirus tests he uses.

President Trump on Friday called the viral video of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing “very, very disturbing,” but he said he’s confident that Georgia’s law enforcement authorities will handle the case properly despite a slow-moving investigation and conflict-of-interest questions surrounding the incident. “So I saw the tape, and it’s very, very disturbing," he said in a Fox New phone interview. “I looked at a picture of that young man. He was in a tuxedo... And I will say that that looks like a really good, young guy.”

The White House is expected to inform Gov. Cuomo of Trump’s bailout support Friday afternoon.

The program had worked with labs in Wuhan, China, and around the world to detect deadly viruses that could jump from animals to humans.

Coronavirus continues to spread, but the Trump administration disbanded the team that could have helped.

A government scientist felt pressure to approve a research contract for a lab investigating hydroxychloroquine, a drug Trump has touted as a coronavirus cure.

The maker of Lysol and another disinfectant says its products should not be used as an internal treatment for the coronavirus.

President Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin say elite private schools with significant endowments shouldn't get Paycheck Protection Program loans.

The exclusive Brentwood School has returned money it received under the Paycheck Protection Program after President Trump and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin leveled criticism at private schools that took funds from the federal coronavirus aid program.

The 'en banc' D.C. Circuit Court will determine whether a congressional subpoena can be enforced by the courts.

The attorney general suggests that he's in sync with Trump's 'liberation' tweets.

With his fingers all over the White House's catastrophic coronavirus policy, Jared Kushner is treating pandemic mayhem as a mere publicity challenge.

In these troubled times, experience rather than populist appeal is what voters will want when they choose a president in November.

Since when is it a good idea for the president of the United States to encourage political leaders to cave in to demands by armed protesters?

Joe Biden is a flawed individual with a penchant for unwanted touching. Here's why I'll vote for him anyway.

Vice President Mike Pence says the cornavirus task force could end in early June. Why?

Congress decided that all new health insurance policies should cover preventive care. The ability to deny one type -- birth control for women -- on religious grounds should be a rare exception.

John Ratcliffe is a Trump loyalist who now promises to speak truth to power.

If employers aren't providing contraceptive coverage, there is no burden on their religious beliefs.

Only in the U.S., and no other civilized democracy, does a supposed right to take up arms against a duly elected government garner respect.

The history of the Trump Justice Department doesn't inspire confidence.

Painter Antoine-Jean Gros made the French general into a military hero, turning troublesome truth into feel-good fiction.

Cedars-Sinai is embroiled in a political battle over Trump's remarks on a potential virus treatment.

Trump again demands a payroll tax cut, but it makes no sense.