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by Carl Hulse and Emily Cochrane on July 12, 2020 at 8:41 pm

As the Trump administration pushes forward on dismantling the Affordable Care Act, Democrats are pressing their advantage on an issue that is becoming a chief focus of campaign advertising.

by Matt Flegenheimer on July 12, 2020 at 8:16 pm

On a Friday, the world heard vulgar audio of Mr. Trump boasting about forcing himself on women. By Sunday night, the episode that was supposed to doom him had begun to recede.

by Catie Edmondson on July 12, 2020 at 6:46 pm

The announcement is the latest effort by Senate Republicans to press forward with an election-year bid to discredit the Trump-Russia investigation.

by Elaina Plott on July 12, 2020 at 6:43 pm

Tuesday’s runoff election for Senate may finally settle Jeff Sessions’ yearslong standoff with President Trump, as Republicans referee between a native son and a president they admire.

by Vanessa Friedman on July 12, 2020 at 6:28 pm

President Trump finally wore a face mask to visit Walter Reed. It was weirdly anticlimactic.

by Katie Rogers on July 12, 2020 at 6:18 pm

As a congressional staff member, Mr. Smith once wore a hoodie in a demonstration on Capitol Hill protesting the death of Trayvon Martin. Now President Trump calls him “my star.”

on July 12, 2020 at 4:41 pm

... tweeting: "The claim: USA Today is contributing to yet another insane moral panic with a fake 'fact check' in order to score points against Trump.

by Chuck Todd, NBC News on July 12, 2020 at 3:46 pm

Adm. Brett Giroir says we are not losing the “COVID war” and stresses the importance of wearing a mask. Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, discusses his […]

on July 12, 2020 at 2:48 pm

While Trump claimed that he has golfed fewer times than his predecessor, that's not accurate, according to a CNN fact check from May. Trump has ...

on July 12, 2020 at 2:03 pm

Trump must release his tax returns and agree to a non-partisan panel of ... First, if any news channel wishes to fact-check the debates, they can ...

by Andrew Scobell on July 12, 2020 at 2:01 pm

Editor’s Note: Wuhan is now known as ground zero for the coronavirus, but 50 years ago it was also at the center of China’s disastrous Cultural Revolution. Rand Corp.’s Andrew […]

on July 12, 2020 at 1:30 pm

During a contentious “State of the Union” interview with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, CNN's Dana Bash had to pull the Trump administration ...

on July 12, 2020 at 12:56 pm

MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell mistakenly claimed that President Donald Trump was wrong in his assertion Thursday that the country's lead ...

on July 12, 2020 at 12:21 pm

Trump's brawl with Twitter started this week when the corporate added fact-check warnings to a pair of the president's tweets that mentioned mail-in ...

by Adam Harris on July 12, 2020 at 11:00 am

Howard University and the UC system are returning to “hybrid” teaching, bringing some students back to campus. Their leaders explain their plans.

by Kathleen Gray on July 12, 2020 at 9:00 am

The president has picked fights with Michigan’s governor, attorney general and secretary of state over voting rights and the coronavirus. They haven’t backed down.

on July 12, 2020 at 8:47 am

Betsy DeVos cut off by CNN's Bash with fact-check that children will not be safe back in school during the pandemic. Published. 1 hour ago. on. July 12, ...

on July 12, 2020 at 8:32 am

As virus rages in US, Trump finally wears a mask ... Trump had on a dark mask with the presidential seal as he walked through the corridors of Walter ... the health risks to children that led the […]

by Sharon LaFraniere and Mark Mazzetti on July 11, 2020 at 11:58 pm

The extraordinary decision to commute the prison sentence of an embattled adviser demonstrates how the president has managed to bend America’s legal machinery to his advantage.

by Peter Baker on July 11, 2020 at 11:50 pm

Senator Mitt Romney called the commutation an act of “unprecedented, historic corruption.” Attorney General William P. Barr privately argued against clemency for the president’s […]

by Peter Baker on July 11, 2020 at 11:47 pm

Breaking his silence, the former special counsel rebutted President Trump’s attacks on the Russia investigation and said Mr. Stone had been prosecuted “because he committed federal […]

on July 11, 2020 at 10:07 pm

Trump and had permitted untruthful political ads to be circulated. Mediavine. The Times failed to mention that television networks don't fact check ...

on July 11, 2020 at 9:45 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen ...

by David E. Sanger on July 11, 2020 at 9:43 pm

The move was intended to deter Russians from interfering in the midterm elections, and serve as a test of America’s capability to protect the 2020 elections.

on July 11, 2020 at 9:11 pm

President Donald Trump's campaign website recently unveiled a T-shirt that has come under fire because of design similarities between its logo and a ...

by Jonathan Martin on July 11, 2020 at 8:07 pm

This election, some Democrats argue, offers the party the provocative possibility of a new path to the presidency, even as others warn against overconfidence.

by Paul Kane on July 11, 2020 at 6:03 pm

The White House chief of staff, who was more insurgent than broker in some seven years in the House, is expected to be a major figure in upcoming talks with Congress on the next package.

on July 11, 2020 at 5:48 pm

WASHINGTON | If saying things 100 times could make them true, President Donald Trump's account of how the U.S. is doing with the coronavirus ...

by Jennifer Steinhauer on July 11, 2020 at 5:47 pm

Women in the military say the horrific killing of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen has swept the nation, galvanizing even civilians to the cause.

by Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman and Sharon LaFraniere on July 11, 2020 at 4:00 pm

The president’s friend had been convicted of impeding a congressional inquiry that threatened Mr. Trump.

by Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell on July 11, 2020 at 3:34 pm

Following the Supreme Court’s rulings in Trump v. Vance and Trump v. Mazars concerning subpoenas for President Trump’s financial records, Scott Anderson, Charlotte Butash, Susan […]

by Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes on July 11, 2020 at 3:22 pm

President Trump’s commutation of the prison sentence of his longtime confidante Roger Stone is wholly unsurprising. Indeed, given Trump’s repeated teasing of the matter over the life of […]

by Maggie Haberman on July 11, 2020 at 2:13 pm

Executives with companies including Target, Apple, Google and Facebook warned the president that any actions related to DACA would disrupt the economy and affect the battle against the coronavirus.

on July 11, 2020 at 1:07 pm

WASHINGTON -- If saying things 100 times could make them true, President Donald Trump's account of how the U.S. is doing with the coronavirus ...

by Jack Goldsmith, Matt Gluck on July 11, 2020 at 12:32 pm

Donald Trump’s commutation yesterday of Roger Stone’s sentence was his most controversial exercise of the pardon power to date. The Stone commutation fit a pattern: Almost all of the […]

by Edward-Isaac Dovere on July 11, 2020 at 11:00 am

The Alabama Democrat Doug Jones discusses the coronavirus outbreak in the South, new efforts to grapple with the region’s Confederate legacy, and his hopes that this time of crisis leads to […]

by Linda Qiu on July 11, 2020 at 9:00 am

The presumptive Democratic nominee has assailed President Trump’s pandemic response and sought to shore up his left flank.

by Jennifer Medina on July 11, 2020 at 9:00 am

A Phoenix activist was supporting one cause, and caught up in the unresolved fight of another.

by Katie Rogers, Derrick Bryson Taylor and Heather Murphy on July 11, 2020 at 4:33 am

The president’s decision to commute Mr. Stone’s sentence continues a pattern of his presidency: granting clemency to friends whose cases resonate with him personally.

by Amelia Nierenberg on July 11, 2020 at 2:10 am

Robert Unanue said the country was “blessed” to have the president’s leadership. Now, amid calls for a boycott, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the U.S. is facing dismay […]

by Hailey Fuchs on July 11, 2020 at 12:56 am

The Justice Department immediately appealed the injunction, issued after family members of the victims of the crime argued that the coronavirus made it unsafe for them to travel to witness the […]

by Rachel Bercovitz, Todd Carney on July 11, 2020 at 12:21 am

Ruling in Trump v. Mazars on July 9, the Supreme Court held that courts must take into account separation of powers concerns in resolving disputes over congressional subpoenas seeking personal […]

by Julia Solomon-Strauss on July 11, 2020 at 12:21 am

On July 9, the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Vance, rejecting both the president’s position that he was absolutely immune from a subpoena from the New York County District Attorney’s […]

by Russell Berman on July 11, 2020 at 12:20 am

The president’s commutation of Roger Stone was inevitable from the start.

on July 10, 2020 at 11:48 pm

Zuckerberg has consistently defended Facebook's reluctance to fact-check ... to the company's refusal to censor posts by President Donald Trump.

on July 10, 2020 at 10:52 pm

The Trump team is now attacking Biden over two comments he made in a video conversation with a progressive activist on Wednesday. In both cases, ...

by Tia Sewell on July 10, 2020 at 7:57 pm

On Thursday, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley condemned Confederate leaders and expressed his support for a review of the "symbology" of the Civil War at military bases, reports Politico. "The […]

by J. Dana Stuster on July 10, 2020 at 6:16 pm

On June 26, the New York Times reported that Russian military intelligence (known as the GRU) had paid bounties to the Taliban in exchange for Taliban fighters targeting and killing U.S. and […]

by James Kraska on July 10, 2020 at 12:01 pm

No technology is as profoundly important to the global economy as the internet, which is dependent on the security of a vast network of some 750,000 miles of seabed cables that criss-cross the […]

by Jen Patja Howell on July 10, 2020 at 9:01 am

Yesterday, the Supreme Court, on the final day of its term, handed down the two big subpoena cases: Trump v. Vance, in which the president tried to beat back a subpoena from a New York grand jury, […]

by Scott R. Anderson, Charlotte Butash, Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, Margaret Taylor, Benjamin Wittes on July 9, 2020 at 11:08 pm

President Trump went to the Supreme Court asking the justices to protect him from subpoenas for his financial records—subpoenas from congressional committees and subpoenas from a New York state […]

by Matt Gluck on July 9, 2020 at 10:09 pm

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that New York prosecutors can access President Trump’s financial records, writes the New York Times. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, […]

by Quinta Jurecic on July 9, 2020 at 8:47 pm

At 5pm Eastern time, Lawfare readers can tune in to a discussion of the Supreme Court's decisions today in Trump v. Mazars and Trump v. Vance, with Marty Lederman, Dahlia Lithwick, Leah Litman and […]

by Matt Gluck on July 9, 2020 at 8:32 pm

On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reevaluate whether he is compelled to dismiss the criminal case against former […]

by Elliot Setzer on July 9, 2020 at 6:14 pm

Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York who was fired last month, today told Congress that Barr pushed him to resign prior to his dismissal. In his opening […]

by Elliot Setzer on July 9, 2020 at 2:51 pm

The Supreme Court today ruled in two cases related to President Trump’s financial records. Both cases were 7-2, with Justices Thomas and Alito dissenting in each. The parties will not get […]

by Ronald Brownstein on July 9, 2020 at 2:13 pm

He’s trying to assemble a winning coalition with a dwindling number of sympathetic white voters.

by Jack Goldsmith, Nathaniel Sobel on July 9, 2020 at 1:58 pm

In May 2019, Attorney General William Barr tapped Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney John Durham to look into issues related to the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. Durham is a […]

by Madiha Afzal on July 9, 2020 at 12:01 pm

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. About a year after President Trump publicly excoriated Pakistan for “lies and deceit” and cut off security […]

by Jen Patja Howell on July 9, 2020 at 9:01 am

In this episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Brandi Collins-Dexter, the senior campaign director at the advocacy organization Color of […]

by Glenn Kessler on July 9, 2020 at 7:00 am

Don Bolduc fought in Afghanistan in 2001, but he was not part of the 12-man team of "horse soldiers" lionized in a Hollywood movie

by Stewart Baker on July 9, 2020 at 2:20 am

In the News Roundup, Dave Aitel (@daveaitel), Mark MacCarthy (@Mark_MacCarthy), and Nick Weaver (@ncweaver) and I discuss how French and Dutch investigators pulled off the coup of the year this […]

by Jen Patja Howell on July 8, 2020 at 11:50 pm

The Trump administration issues new restrictions on immigration in response to the coronavirus pandemic. A major witness in the impeachment hearings retires amid concerns the White House might try to […]

by Matt Gluck on July 8, 2020 at 9:56 pm

Radio transmissions from the U.S. Park Police’s removal of demonstrators from Lafayette Square in Washington D.C. on June 1 were not recorded, reports the Washington Post. Congress, the […]

by Elliot Setzer on July 8, 2020 at 8:09 pm

The U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on July 6 submitted a report claiming the January done strike in Iraq that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani […]

by Nicholas Weaver on July 8, 2020 at 5:41 pm

In 1981, Peter Tsai came to the U.S. from Taiwan on a student visa. After earning his doctorate, Tsai stayed in the U.S. and became a professor at the University of Tennessee, where he led the team […]

by Elliot Setzer on July 8, 2020 at 5:22 pm

On Wednesday, July 8, at 12:00 p.m., the House Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing on the national response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. The committee will hear testimony from […]

by Peter Nicholas on July 8, 2020 at 2:04 pm

Their fates are wholly entwined: “You get the Trump stink on you, it’s hard to get it off.”

by Glenn Kessler on July 8, 2020 at 7:00 am

No matter how you slice the numbers, Trump's figure makes little sense.

by Chuck Todd, NBC News on July 6, 2020 at 12:40 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) says a national mask mandate is “not even debatable.” Gov. Ava Hutchinson (R-Ark.) believes there should have been mask-wearing and social distancing at the […]

by Edward-Isaac Dovere on July 6, 2020 at 11:00 am

Legalizing marijuana is extremely popular. So why won’t Joe Biden embrace the idea?

by Emma Green on July 5, 2020 at 11:00 am

Behind every white pastor’s statement about racial reconciliation is a Black colleague’s late-night tracked changes.

by Jasper Craven on July 4, 2020 at 11:00 am

The VA’s federal watchdog has uncovered filthy conditions at facilities across the country. Yet some 40 percent of all VA hospitals recently suffered from severe shortages of housekeeping staff.

by Elaine Godfrey on July 3, 2020 at 9:00 am

Theresa Greenfield’s strategy to defeat Joni Ernst could show Democrats how to swing rural America away from the GOP.

by Edward-Isaac Dovere on July 2, 2020 at 2:03 pm

The Illinois senator and Purple Heart recipient is looking to leverage her military experience into a big promotion.

by Elyse Samuels on July 1, 2020 at 7:00 am

President Trump tweeted an ad that is among the worst of this election cycle, earning Four Pinocchios.

by Adam Harris on June 30, 2020 at 11:00 am

Intentional voter suppression and unintentional suppression of the vote will collide in November.

by Emma Green on June 29, 2020 at 4:33 pm

Trump promised to appoint justices who would “automatically” overturn Roe v. Wade. The chief justice just made sure that won’t happen before the 2020 election.

by James Fallows on June 29, 2020 at 12:00 pm

Imagine if the National Transportation Safety Board investigated America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

by Peter Nicholas on June 29, 2020 at 9:00 am

Strip out the hyperbole and insults, and not much is left in the president’s campaign messaging for undecided voters.

by Salvador Rizzo on June 29, 2020 at 7:00 am

President Trump has repeated this falsehood nearly 100 times. Every action he has taken on this issue undermines those protections.

by Chuck Todd, NBC News on June 28, 2020 at 4:15 pm

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar talks about the rise in coronavirus cases across the country. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) discusses the ongoing impact of coronavirus on nursing homes […]

by Edward-Isaac Dovere on June 27, 2020 at 3:20 pm

“People know me,” the Democratic candidate for president likes to say. There’s a catch.

by Russell Berman on June 26, 2020 at 11:00 am

Once the epicenter of the global pandemic, the Empire State is trying to discourage visitors from new coronavirus hot spots.

by Edward-Isaac Dovere on June 26, 2020 at 9:00 am

The senator from California seems like the obvious choice to be Joe Biden’s running mate. So why is she keeping mum about her thinking?

by Glenn Kessler on June 26, 2020 at 7:00 am

Here's a guide to unsubstantiated claims by Trump allies that a Jan. 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting led to the prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

on June 25, 2020 at 5:45 pm

Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum discuss the political leaders who betrayed their ideals to support the president, live at 2 p.m. ET today.

by Ronald Brownstein on June 25, 2020 at 3:31 pm

Democrats were already gaining ground in the region before the pandemic hit.

by Emma Green on June 25, 2020 at 9:00 am

How an ardent defender of faith—and Donald Trump—came to think of the press as her enemy

by Edward-Isaac Dovere on June 25, 2020 at 9:00 am

The former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina tells The Ticket that she plans to vote for Joe Biden.

by Glenn Kessler on June 25, 2020 at 7:00 am

Over and over, Trump knocks the Obama administration for leaving an 'empty' cupboard of ventilators. That's false.

by Elaine Godfrey on June 24, 2020 at 8:52 pm

The past few weeks of activism have directly fueled the wins of a handful of black progressive candidates.

by Russell Berman on June 24, 2020 at 8:29 pm

Dems have a long list of grievances against Attorney General Barr, but the president’s ally at the Justice Department is proving an elusive target.

by Salvador Rizzo on June 24, 2020 at 7:00 am

Echoing Trump, the RNC tweeted a video filled with false and misleading vote-by-mail claims.

by Chuck Todd, NBC News on June 23, 2020 at 7:30 am

Hosted by Rufus Griscom, and featuring thought-leaders Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink, The Next Big Idea brings you the most groundbreaking ideas that have […]

by David Freed on June 22, 2020 at 6:01 pm

Ricardo Sanchez, the retired former commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, becomes the first high-ranking military officer to call out the president for racism.

by Meg Kelly, Elyse Samuels on June 22, 2020 at 7:00 am

The president and administration officials have consistently labeled antifa as perpetrators of violence at the protests since George Floyd's killing, but little evidence supports this claim.

by Chuck Todd, NBC News on June 21, 2020 at 3:36 pm

Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf says the administration is doing a "great job" on reopening the economy, despite spikes in COVID infections. Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for […]

by Russell Berman on June 21, 2020 at 3:40 am

The president planned an arena rally in Tulsa to show that life was “back to normal.” Oklahomans failed to fill the venue.

by Sarah Cahlan, Joyce Lee on June 18, 2020 at 7:00 am

The Fact Checker video team investigates allegations of discrimination in Guangzhou and finds black residents faced evictions, discrimination, and the restriction of their movements on the basis of […]