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MENTONE, Texas — Zoom in on the glowing red map of ever-escalating coronavirus cases in the continental United States and you will find one county that has been spared. Only one, from coast to coast. Like a lone house standing after a tornado has leveled a town, Loving County, in the shadeless dun plains of…

"The data are striking ... they're really quite impressive." SHARE TWEET ShapeCreated with Sketch. COMMENTS By John Waller, News Editor November 16, 2020 Related LinksCambridge’s Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine appears to be 94.5% effective Get Boston.com's e-mail alerts: Sign up and receive coronavirus news and breaking updates, from our newsroom to your inbox. Email…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s supporters had celebrated for hours on Saturday, waving their MAGA flags and blaring “God Bless the U.S.A.” as they gathered in Washington to falsely claim that the election had been stolen from the man they adore. The crowd had even reveled in a personal visit from Trump, who passed by…

For months, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been a good soldier for the Democratic Party and Joe Biden as he sought to defeat President Donald Trump. But on Saturday, in a nearly hourlong interview shortly after Biden was declared the winner, Ocasio-Cortez made clear the divisions within the party that animated the primary still exist. And…

In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, President Donald Trump began telling his supporters that if former Vice President Joe Biden was elected, market mayhem would follow. “If Biden wins,” he told a cheering crowd at an airport near Reading, Pennsylvania, on Halloween, “you’re going to have a stock market collapse the likes of…

President Donald Trump declared Wednesday on Twitter, “WE WILL WIN!” But, in fact, the president has no clear endgame to actually win the election – and, in an indication he may be starting to come to terms with his loss, he is talking privately about running again in 2024. Trump aides, advisers and allies said…

Dialynn Dwyer, Boston.com Staff September 30, 2020 Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said Tuesday that President Donald Trump is engaged in efforts to undermine free, safe, and secure elections in the United States, breaking down her concerns during an interview with reporter Christiane Amanpour. “We are in unprecedented times,” Healey said during her interview on…

After The Washington Post on Sunday published an extraordinary phone call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, R, many observers shared one question: Did Trump break the law? During that hour-long call on Saturday, Trump urged Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat and threatened him with vague…

HOUSTON — The United States is winding up a particularly devastating week, one of the worst since the coronavirus pandemic began nine months ago. On Friday, a national single-day record was set, with more than 226,000 new cases. It was one of many data points that illustrated the depth and spread of a virus that…