Donald Trump
A Top Immigration Court Official Called For Impartiality In A Memo He Sent As He Resigned
The judge was replaced by the Trump administration with the former top Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor.
Hamed Aleaziz
Reddit Banned A Ton Of Subreddits Including r/The_Donald And r/ChapoTrapHouse
The move is intended as a crackdown on online communities that "promote hate," Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said.
Julia Reinstein
There Are 93 US Attorneys. Seven Are Women And Only Two Are Black.
Audrey Strauss, now in charge of the US attorney’s office in Manhattan, is one of a small number of US attorneys nationwide who are women or BIPOC.
Zoe Tillman
Rudy Giuliani Sent Trump On A Wild Goose Chase With A Bunch Of Fake Internet Nonsense
To understand why Trump is so obsessed with Ukraine, you have to understand the nonsense Rudy Giuliani reads on the internet.
Ryan Broderick
Attorney General Bill Barr Is Facing A Rare Public Revolt From Within His Own Department
“I can’t think of any precedent for this,” one former US attorney said.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Defended His Ability To Walk Down A Ramp At His First Rally During The Pandemic
Trump took 14 minutes of his campaign rally in Tulsa, where COVID-19 rates are on the rise, to insist he can walk down a ramp and drink water out of a cup.
Matt Berman
Trump Tried To Quietly Replace A Prosecutor Taking Aim At His Allies. It’s Not The First Time That Backfired.
The nearly daylong standoff between Attorney General Bill Barr and US attorney Geoffrey Berman marked the second time now that Trump has failed when trying to get a US attorney in Manhattan to quietly step aside.
Zoe Tillman
Trump's Rally Brought A Crisis To Tulsa. Now The City Is Expecting Its Biggest Juneteenth Celebration Ever.
Organizers had canceled the annual Juneteenth celebration due to the coronavirus, but Trump’s decision to hold a rally there changed their plans.
Kadia Goba
Facebook And Instagram Will Let You Turn Off Political Ads
“For those of you who’ve already made up your minds and just want the election to be over, we hear you."
Pranav Dixit
The FDA Just Pulled Chloroquine And Hydroxychloroquine As Coronavirus Treatments
The federal agency noted that the two drugs are "unlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19" and could cause serious side effects.
Dan Vergano
Joe Biden Says He’s A “Bridge” To The Future. Younger Democrats Want To Know What Will Be On The Other Side.
“I think the real key to it is to radically upend your notions of a typical life experience — not just because he’s the former vice president, but because of what a young person is facing today.”
Henry J. Gomez
How The Antifa Fantasy Spread In Small Towns Across The US
Rumors of roving bands of Antifa have followed small protests all over the United States. Why are people so ready to believe them?
Anne Helen Petersen
Michael Flynn And The Government Want To Stop A Judge From Probing The Decision To Drop His Case. The DC Circuit Wasn’t Impressed.
Flynn and the Department of Justice want to block the judge in his criminal case from reviewing the decision to drop his prosecution
Zoe Tillman
House Democrats Are Pushing To Remove The Names Of Confederate Officers From Military Bases After Trump Defended Them
Rep. Yvette Clarke’s bill would require the government to rename 10 military bases. Trump defended the “Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations” named for Confederate officers.
Kadia Goba
Trump’s Tweets Have Casualties
“I think it is an act of violence.” As Twitter begins to tackle Trump’s tweets, targets of his harassment speak out.
Miriam Elder
Donald Trump Amplified A Conspiracy Theory That Buffalo Protester Martin Gugino Was Trying To "Scan" The Police Before He Was Injured
It's all thanks to an "absolutely insane" report from pro-Trump cable outlet OAN.
Craig Silverman
Black Campaign Staffers "Always Have Had An Awesome Burden." Now They're Struggling With George Floyd's Death.
Joe Biden spoke to his staff about the protests and Trump’s response in a video call that lasted nearly two hours.
Henry J. Gomez
The Trump Administration Said It Didn’t Change Policy To Deny Housing Loans To DACA Recipients. Emails Show Otherwise.
New documents show that the Trump administration moved to block young undocumented immigrants from federal housing loans in 2018.
Nidhi Prakash
White People, Read This Before You Text Your Black Friends
If you’re not black and you have black friends whom you are only reaching out to now, be thoughtful about how you do it.
Tomi Obaro
Comparing 1968 And 2020 Is More Complicated Than Donald Trump Wants It To Be
A lot of people have brought up Richard Nixon this week. Looking back at 1968's election, protests, and violence, it's hard to draw a clean one-to-one.
Katherine Miller
Joe Biden Isn’t Making A New Argument — But His Argument Is Lining Up With The Crisis
Speaking amid nationwide protests and unrest, the presumptive Democratic nominee promised his presidency would be about addressing pain and not about himself — a familiar theme for Biden this year.
Henry J. Gomez
We're Living In A Vacuum Of Political Leadership
In dual national crises with an absence at the top, the country’s political leadership is as weak as its least capable local leaders.
Matt Berman
John Legend Gave An Update On His Friendship With Kanye West After They Publicly Fell Out Over His Support Of Trump
"He's doing gospel music. That's what he's focused on right now, designing his clothes, so we're in different places."
Ben Henry
Twitter Put A "Glorifying Violence" Warning Label On Trump And White House Tweets About Minneapolis Protesters
“We've taken action in the interest of preventing others from being inspired to commit violent acts," the social media network said of Trump's tweet.
Pranav Dixit
Trump Wants To Help Conservatives Sue Twitter For Censorship, But He’ll Face An Obstacle: Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Trump signed an executive order aimed at stripping Twitter and other social media companies of legal immunity.
Zoe Tillman
The Drudge Report Has Been Linking To This Armenian Guy's Site Instead Of The New York Times
Drudge referred roughly 8 million views to the site since November.
Craig Silverman
The Trump Administration Wants To Cut Back A Billion-Dollar Healthcare Program. Hospitals Say Now Is A Really Bad Time.
The Trump administration has been fighting in court with public and nonprofit hospitals since 2017 over a plan to slash the reimbursement rates for drugs prescribed to Medicare patients.
Zoe Tillman
Joe Biden Told Charlamagne He "Ain't Black" If He's Having Trouble Deciding Whether To Vote For Him Or Trump
The presidential candidate had a tense interview on The Breakfast Club.
Ryan Brooks
Positive News! Trump Says He Tested Positively, Which Means Negative, For The Coronavirus.
"But that's a way of saying it: positively toward the negative."
David Mack
Trump Wants To Hold The G7 Summit In Person But He Didn’t Ask Other World Leaders About The Idea Before Tweeting It
Gathering for the G7 summit when the world is tiptoeing out of coronavirus lockdowns: an “awkward proposition to deal with.”
Alberto Nardelli
