The White House on Friday pushed back against Twitter after the social media giant censored a tweet by President Trump threatening action against rioters in Minneapolis -- with Trump accusing the company of double standards, as his team moved to get around Twitter's restrictions.“Twitter is doing nothing about all of the lies & propaganda being put out by China…
(CNN)Pennsylvania House Democrats are accusing Republican leaders of keeping a Republican lawmaker's positive coronavirus test from them for a week and not informing them that a handful of GOP member…
An effort to pass a significant surveillance reform package collapsed Wednesday evening, falling victim to presidential tweets, opposition from the Justlice Department and the fracturing of a fragile coalition among liberals, moderates and conservatives.House Democratic leaders decided to abandon a scheduled vote a few hours after President Trump issued a veto threat on Twitter. They…
President Trump will sign an executive order on social media on Thursday, the White House said.White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Wednesday she could not get ahead of the president to explain the purpose and intent of the order, but confirmed it would be coming then.Earlier Wednesday, Trump warned social media giants that the…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The U.S. House of Representatives made history Wednesday by conducting its first proxy vote since Congress first met in 1789 -- as Republicans raised alarms over the temporary voting system implemented because of coronavirus.It came as the House voted Wednesday afternoon…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…