About 60 percent of the formerly homeless men and women served by Homestretch in Falls Church, Va., lost their jobs as the coronavirus spread through the area. One single mother of four children survived domestic violence, got a job at a pizza parlor, earned a promotion to manager, and began taking business management classes. But when the pandemic struck, she lost it all, according to Chris Fay, the ministry’s executive director.

Former Senate staffer Tara Reade told journalist Megyn Kelly during an on-camera interview that former Vice President Joe Biden “should not be running on character for the president of the United States.” Reade accuses the presumptive Democratic nominee of sexually assaulting her in 1993 when she worked for him during his second term as a U.S. senator from Delaware.

The coronavirus pandemic has unified Congress in a way few other things have. The first three economic aid bills sailed through both chambers with huge majorities.

But the gulf between parties began to reopen during negotiations for a fourth supplemental package to replenish small business aid. Now Republicans and Democrats appear poised to resume an all-out war as a fifth COVID-19 legislative effort gets underway on Capitol Hill.

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday addressed an accusation of sexual assault for the first time since the story became public more than a month ago. Tara Reade, who worked for Biden during his second term as a U.S. senator from Delaware, claims he sexually molested her in 1993. “This never happened,” the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president said in an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Former Vice President Joe Biden struck a deal on Thursday that allows his former rival for the Democratic nomination for president to influence the direction of the party. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., will keep a little more than 300 delegates whom, under party rules, he forfeited when he suspended his presidential campaign. The deal may help Biden avoid embittering Sanders’ democratic socialist supporters at the Democratic National Convention scheduled for mid-August in Milwaukee.

Ten years ago, the tea party wave of 2010 helped Republicans recapture the U.S. House of Representatives in sweeping fashion. The GOP picked up 63 seats with a simple message: Government spending is out of control, and we’ll put a stop to it.

The Washington Post editorial board called on former Vice President Joe Biden to address an accusation that he sexually assaulted an aide who worked in his U.S. Senate office. The newspaper on Wednesday pushed the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for president to release records from his Senate career that may shed light on the matter.