Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Will Drop Out of Presidential Race  —  Ms. Warren, a senator and former law professor, staked her campaign on fighting corruption and changing the rules of the economy.  —  BOSTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts plans to drop …

U.S. Will Miss Coronavirus Test Rollout Goal, Senators Say  — GOP senators says kits to be in mail by end of this week  — Distribution, training ‘going to take time,’ Lankford says  —  The Trump administration won't be able to meet its promised timeline of having …

Democrats lead by at least 4 in 4 GOP held Senate seats  —  New PPP polls find Sara Gideon leading Susan Collins 47-43 in the Maine Senate race and Mark Kelly leading Martha McSally 47-42 in the Arizona Senate race.  Additionally a PPP poll for a private client last week found Cal Cunningham …

Bernie Sanders Cancels Mississippi Rally, Shifting Focus to Michigan  —  The decision suggests that the Sanders campaign is largely ceding another Southern state to Joseph R. Biden Jr. and going all-in on the Midwest instead.  —  BURLINGTON, Vt. — Senator Bernie Sanders has canceled …

First patient in Nevada tests presumptively positive for novel coronavirus, is in ‘airborne isolation’  —  A Clark County man who is in his 50s and has an underlying health condition is the first patient in Nevada who has tested presumptively positive for the novel coronavirus, Southern Nevada Health District officials said Thursday.

State Department blames “swarms of online, false personas” from Russia for wave of coronavirus misinformation online  —  A top State Department official said Thursday that Russia is behind “swarms of online, false personas” that sought to spread misinformation about coronavirus on social-media sites …

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The Fight Goes On  —  Remarks from Elizabeth Warren shared in a call with campaign staff:  —  I want to start with the news.  I want all of you to hear it first, and I want you to hear it straight from me: Today, I'm suspending our campaign for president.  —  I know how hard all of you have worked.

Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich  —  Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.  —  One Tuesday night in October 2018, John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner …

Trump: Public Health Menace  —  The president in his meeting this week with his coronavirus task force (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)  —  This is a thing that just happened: … You just shake your head in disbelief at the utter idiocy of this man, and his reckless irresponsibility.

Super Tuesday With Steve Kornacki, MSNBC's Wonk Superman “He has not stopped.  He has not eaten.  He's only been drinking water for the past 18 hours."  —  It is 4:59 p.m. on Super Tuesday and Steve Kornacki, MSNBC's national political correspondent and trusted human calculator of votes …

What does Gov. DeSantis owe Trump?  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The close relationship between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump is souring, and the bad blood is threatening to spill into the president's reelection effort in the nation's biggest swing state.

Through apps, not warrants, ‘Locate X’ allows federal law enforcement to track phones  —  Federal agencies have big contracts with Virginia-based Babel Street.  Depending on where you've traveled, your movements may be in the company's data.  —  U.S. law enforcement agencies signed millions …

Tennessee Man Ordered Removed to Germany Based on Service as Concentration Camp Guard During WWII  —  A U.S. Immigration Judge in Memphis, Tennessee, has issued a removal order against a German citizen and Tennessee resident, on the basis of his service in Nazi Germany in 1945 as an armed guard …

Told to Stay Home, Suspected Coronavirus Patient Attended Event With Dartmouth Students  —  The worker at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire was confirmed with the disease only after attending the mixer.  Now a second man has tested positive.

Michigan Expects to Report Primary Results Late  —  The results of Michigan's March 10 presidential primary will likely be reported later in the evening than usual, due in part to changes which are expected to slow vote-counting, the state's secretary of state said on Thursday.

Harvey Weinstein Being Moved to Rikers Despite Bid to Stay at Bellevue, Sources Say  —  Weinstein was convicted of rape and other criminal charges last month  —  Harvey Weinstein is being moved from a hospital to jail ahead of his sentencing next week on rape and sex-act convictions …

Romney could derail Republican subpoena targeting Bidens  —  The Utah Republican is concerned the push appears intended to undermine a Trump rival.  —  Sen. Mitt Romney.  J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo  —  A Republican effort to subpoena records about Joe Biden and his son Hunter …

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul votes against bill funding coronavirus emergency aid  —  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul voted against an emergency response coronavirus bill Thursday afternoon after his proposed amendment to the bill was turned down.  —  The bill had already received more than 60 affirmative votes …

The College President Who Simply Won't Raise Tuition  —  “I'll tell you a funny story,” said Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University.  It was the day before the first home football game of the season and he was sitting in his corner office, overlooking the postcard-perfect quad.

Trump's Plan to ‘Help’ Black America Is a Corrupt Scam to Enrich His Family  —  Now that President Trump's Plan A of running against Bernie Sanders is looking unlikely, he is preparing for Plan B: campaigning against Joe Biden.  Trump has plenty of avenues of attack, ranging from legitimate …

Trump's coronavirus musings put scientists on edge  —  President Donald Trump is using his metaphorical black Sharpie to draw his own mental map of the spiraling coronavirus crisis — vastly complicating the work of public health officials scrambling to contain the spread of the deadly disease.