You could argue that Twitter has been Donald Trump's best friend. He has 80 million followers. He uses the social media platform daily to reach voters without relying on the news media -- and to get attention from the news media.

His communications include not only facts and opinions but also his usual array of false claims, juvenile insults ...Read more

You have to hand it to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: He may have been lured into an unwinnable election-year fight with President Donald Trump, but at least he's still throwing punches.

Shortly before 1 a.m. EDT Friday, Trump verbally barreled into the hot flaming mess on the ground in Minneapolis, where protests over the death of George Floyd had ...Read more

President Donald Trump and I have something in common: we both take the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine.

In my case, it's to treat the immune system disorders lupus and arthritis. In his case, it's to make some sort of point about how right he is to tout it as a miracle cure for COVID-19.

On May 18, Trump proudly announced that he is ...Read more

It was a weird but inevitable showdown: The sphinx Jack Dorsey vs. the vulgarian Donald Trump.

Two events prompted the showdown. First, on May 21, Dorsey was contacted by a widower, Timothy Klausutis, whose life had been turned upside down by Trump's tweets. Klausutis asked the co-founder and CEO of Twitter to delete two of the president's ...Read more

All right, that's enough. President Donald Trump has said MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, persistently critical of him, may have been involved in murdering a woman almost 19 years ago. There is no evidence of any such thing, and it was little short of horrendous to say so.

Scarborough himself is hardly Mr. Rodgers singing "Won't You Be My Neighbor,...Read more

In a dramatic and troubling TV moment, viewers watching CNN early Friday saw correspondent Omar Jimenez taken into custody while he was filing a live report from the streets of Minneapolis.

Jimenez and his two-person crew were covering protests in the wake of the death Monday of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died on the pavement, ...Read more

In a 50-plus-minute press conference on April 22, two doctors who own and operate urgent care centers in California's Central Valley told a Bakersfield, Calif., television station that they had analyzed more than 5,000 COVID-19 test results taken at their facilities and concluded, "emphatically," that it was time to end the region's stay-at-home...Read more

A major turning point in U.S.-Chinese relations occurred Thursday. It nominally involves the future of Hong Kong, but has major significance for Washington and the wider world.

China's National People's Congress approved a security law that will allow Beijing's security agencies to crack down directly on the civil liberties of Hong Kong ...Read more

Making it safe to vote during a pandemic shouldn't be a partisan issue. But Republicans, including and especially the president, are turning it into one.

This week, the state and national Republican Party organizations filed a lawsuit challenging Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order mandating that every registered voter in California receive a ...Read more

My new dog practiced social distancing before the pandemic. She is really good at it. In fact, it seems to be in her nature. Or, more likely, her aloofness from humans -- male humans, in particular -- resulted from some cruelty at the hands of a previous owner.

Whatever the case, please allow me to introduce you to Annie, the socially distant ...Read more

Donald Trump was at the steering wheel as we drove through the rain together on a New Jersey highway in 2005. He had recently considered taking the stage to play a politician in the Broadway comedy "La Cage aux Folles," but he had other things on his mind as he glanced over at me.

"I have one asset that I think nobody else has. And that's that ...Read more

On Wednesday, as COVID-19 was claiming its 100,000th U.S. victim in just four months, President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office with a frequent political adversary, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been more than just matching him for TV face time in these pandemic-plagued days.

The two battlers from New York City's Queens borough seem ...Read more

Minneapolis and St. Paul are being tested.

Buildings are burning, stores are being looted and more lives are in danger.

The aftermath of the Memorial Day death of George Floyd in south Minneapolis has laid bare the deeply rooted anger that has long-simmered in minority communities and beyond. Anger over policing. Anger over inequality. And ...Read more

Don't know what it is about warm weather that seems, more so than other seasons, to pull always-present racial tensions to the fore -- probably nothing, probably just a perception -- but recent high-profile events are conglomerating in such a way as to portend a long, hot summer. "Hot" being a metaphor. And not just in Minneapolis, but across ...Read more

America went to bed Wednesday in a fitful state of mourning -- as the death toll from coronavirus sprinted past the 100,000 mark, miles ahead of any other nation -- and befuddlement over a president who was too busy golfing and rage-tweeting baseless murder accusations at a TV host to even notice the grim occasion until hours and hours later.

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As the temporary $600-per-week boost in unemployment benefits nears its expiration, the first serious partisan battle over federal COVID-19 relief is looming.

At the extremes, some Democrats have proposed keeping the temporary increase in place at least through next year, while some Republicans have vowed to end the aid entirely when the ...Read more