Politics

President Trump pushed governors to use more aggressive tactics against protesters, according to leaked audio of Monday video teleconference call. Several reports quoted the president telling the governors that they are “weak” and “not doing enough” to quell demonstrations. Trump also said that the governors “were a laughingstock all over …

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, who has stood beside President Trump throughout much of the administration’s response to the coronavirus, will tell the Senate Tuesday that Americans will experience “needless suffering and death” if the country reopens prematurely. “If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines …

Emmett Till was lynched 65 years ago, but it has been only three since Carolyn Bryant Donham admitted that her lie got him killed. She copped to what, I’d wager, most black Americans had already figured when she gave a rare interview to Duke University professor Timothy B. Tyson, who …

Responding to an urgent March 14 appeal from the National Security Council, Taiwan sent the United States hundreds of thousands of masks — 3,600 of which were specially earmarked for White House staff and officials. At the same time they were privately scrambling to procure these masks, the Trump administration …

As American parents scramble to educate their kids at home amid the coronavirus pandemic, it’s worth asking: How effective are school shutdowns at halting the spread of the disease? Dr. Isaac Chun-Hai Fung is an infectious-disease epidemiologist Georgia Southern University, and he’s published science demonstrating how lengthy school shutdowns can …

His handling of this pandemic is how history will remember Donald Trump. Fifty years from now, historians will not spend much time on Russiagate, Robert Mueller, or dirty dossiers and alleged pee tapes, nor will massive tax cuts for the rich or the endless petty insults and the litany of …

President Trump is the master of saying the quiet part out loud, and on Friday he showed no signs of relinquishing that title. While speaking at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Trump said he would prefer not to allow the more than 3,500 people aboard …

Efforts to block the global spread of coronavirus appear to have failed, but that does not mean you should panic, says Angela Rasmussen, a virologist who serves on the faculty at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s school of public health. Related: The CDC’s ‘Disease Detectives’ Are …

President Trump threatened to sue Robert Mueller and the prosecutors who were involved with the Roger Stone case. Per usual, the president’s rant came via Twitter. In a rambling burst of Tuesday morning tweets, Trump threatened to sue “everyone all over the place.” The president’s latest outburst came after Judge …

Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night. Second-place finisher Pete Buttigieg earned 24.4 percent of the vote, while Amy Klobuchar, not long ago polling in single digits, came out of nowhere with 19.8 percent, a classic New Hampshire outlier result. The words “eked” and “narrowly” are getting a …