WASHINGTON -- Twitter issued a fact check of some of Donald Trump's tweets on Tuesday, marking the first time the U.S. president's favored social media platform has pushed back against him spreading falsehoods.

The move, which is likely to heighten tension between Trump and the social media giant, came in the form of a label under two of the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will be the keynote speaker at the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's virtual convention Sunday, making an appeal directly to activists in a state President Donald Trump is targeting this fall.

Biden's appearance, which will be streamed on YouTube and Facebook, comes on...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Facing a potentially difficult path to reelection, President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded his attacks on states using mail-in ballots, a scorched-earth campaign that could undermine confidence in the democratic process as the novel coronavirus threatens to make in-person voting more dangerous.

The president targeted California...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down an appeal from Trump administration lawyers who sought to preemptively block the release of any inmates from an Ohio prison who were at high risk for COVID-19.

Over dissents from three conservatives, the court said it would not intervene for now.

But the court left the door open for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Glenn Fine, a top official in the Pentagon inspector general's office, stepped down Tuesday in the latest installment of a recent drama over internal oversight in the Trump administration.

Fine, who is one of five inspectors general to have been recently demoted or dismissed by President Donald Trump, issued a statement ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court left in force a judge's order that could require federal prison officials to move hundreds of inmates out of an Ohio facility where at least nine people have died from the coronavirus.

The justices on Tuesday rejected calls from President Donald Trump's administration to block the order. U.S. Solicitor ...Read more

As President Donald Trump continues floating wild, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories on Twitter, the widower of one of his favorite subjects has personally asked CEO Jack Dorsey to help.

Timothy Klausutis, in a letter obtained by the New York Times, pleaded with Dorsey to delete Trump's tweets accusing former Congressman Joe Scarborough of ...Read more

First-term U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, who won the DFL endorsement in her reelection bid, told the Sunday Times of London that she believes Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who has leveled sexual assault allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden.

"I do believe Reade," Omar told the newspaper in an interview that ran Sunday, the same day ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened to move the planned Republican National Convention from North Carolina unless the state's governor can guarantee the party will be allowed full attendance.

Trump took aim at North Carolina's Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, in a series of posts on Twitter Monday, saying he wanted a guarantee that Republicans ...Read more

Joe Biden emerged Monday from his stay-at-home lockdown after more than 10 weeks to mark Memorial Day with a tribute to veterans.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his wife, Jill, visited the Veterans Memorial Park at the Delaware Memorial Bridge to lay a wreath of white roses. Both wore black masks over their mouths and noses...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Preparing to celebrate Memorial Day, Americans flocked to beaches and parks on Sunday, with many ignoring disease precautions even as the nation's coronavirus-related deaths approached the bleak milepost of 100,000.

As public health experts made a fresh round of appeals for physical distancing and face coverings, President Trump ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he completed his course of treatment with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug he's promoted as a therapy for coronavirus despite an outcry from medical professionals about its unproven efficacy and potential side effects.

"Finished, just finished," Trump said in an interview on Sinclair Broadcast Group program ...Read more

President Donald Trump is pushing to reopen the United States economy quickly as his core supporters are hit harder by job losses than by the coronavirus.

The balance between lives and livelihoods during the pandemic has been experienced very differently across the partisan divide. In states Trump won in 2016, 23 people have lost a job for ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Elections officials across California, seeking a way to offer in-person voting in November with strict coronavirus protections, are urging lawmakers to close schools and allow campus gyms and auditoriums to be used in the days leading up to and including election day.

The proposal was made this week in a letter to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to intervene for the first time in a case related to COVID-19, to block a judge's order that a low-security federal prison in Ohio transfer, release or send home some of its elderly and medically vulnerable inmates.

"The government is currently facing numerous suits challenging ...Read more

A group of House Democrats on Friday introduced a long-shot bill that would overhaul the federal government's relationship with Puerto Rico, allow an independent audit of the commonwealth's billions in debt and give local authorities the power to discharge unsecured debt deemed excessive.

The proposal by House Natural Resources Chairman Raul ...Read more