Twitter had added warning tags to two of Trump's tweets about mail-in ballots, inviting readers to "get the facts" and linking to a page calling the president's claims "unsubstantiated."
The United States accounts for more than 28% of Covid-19 deaths worldwide. President Donald Trump in January played down the risk of coronavirus in the country.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation condemning China for the detention and torture of Uighur Muslims in the country's western region of Xinjiang as tensions between the U.S. and China continue to escalate.
A smaller decision-making body under China's National People's Congress, the Standing Committee, will now proceed to work on the specifics of the legislation and implement them in Hong Kong.
Sen. Josh Hawley suggested that Twitter actions against Trump may jeopardize its status under the decades-old law protecting it from bearing responsibility for the content its users post.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended her decade-long record of voting by absentee mail-in ballot but attacked efforts to expand absentee ballot access due to coronavirus.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reported to Congress that Hong Kong was no longer autonomous from China, a move that could jeopardize the special administrative region's favorable trading relationship with the United States.
"After 19 years, it is time for them to police their own Country. Bring our soldiers back home but closely watch what is going on and strike with a thunder like never before, if necessary!" Trump tweeted Wednesday.
Newark's recent rise can provide lessons on how cities can rebuild from the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic: Lata N. Reddy, Mayor Ras J. Baraka and Michael B. Jordan.
The Utah Republican is one of only a few figures on the political right to publicly call for the president to cease his baseless accusations about MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and several of his fellow Democratic lawmakers are scrutinizing one of President Donald Trump's outside advisors and his multimillion-dollar "dark money" network.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said a measure to lift the U.S. economy would have a more narrow scope than the $3 trillion package House Democrats approved earlier this month.
Airlines including Delta, JetBlue and United accepted government aid as part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, on the condition they don't lay off or cut worker pay rates through Sept. 30.
Increased international taxes on U.S. companies will make America's own economic recovery more difficult, and looting our tax base will make an already troubling fiscal situation worse, writes former Trump administration economic advisor Clete Willems.
Federal prosecutors are still investigating stock sales by Sen. Richard Burr in advance of a coronavirus-fueled share price plunge, but are dropping investigations of sales connected to Sens. Kelly Loeffler, Jim Inhofe and Dianne Feinstein.
President Donald Trump's favorite social media platform, Twitter, on Tuesday began fact-checking his posts, applying warning labels to two of his tweets that made misleading claims about mail-in voting.
Several Republican officials are pitching their states as possible venues for the upcoming Republican National Convention after President Donald Trump threatened to move it out of North Carolina over coronavirus restrictions.
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