President Donald Trump linked his decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization to China and the coronavirus crisis. “China’s cover-up of the Wuhan virus allowed the disease to spread all over the world,” Trump said May 29. “Chinese officials ignored their reporting obligations to the World Health Organization and pressured the […]
A day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting Twitter and other social media platforms, Twitter sanctioned his tweet about rioting in Minneapolis over the police killing of George Floyd. “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen,” Trump tweeted just past midnight on May 29. […]
Two sets of tweets from President Donald Trump show the cracks in Twitter’s evolving policy on policing false information. For the first time ever, the social media platform added a cautionary flag to a Trump tweet about election fraud. But a baseless tweet alleging murder, Twitter left untouched. Trump’s May 26 posts about rampant election […]
More than other towns along North Carolina’s shore, Carolina Beach relies on the hotel and bed and breakfast trade. In summer, its population swells from about 7,000 to nearly 30,000. So it was no small matter in late March when town leaders closed the beach and shut down short-term rentals to stop the spread of […]
The coronavirus has two battlegrounds in America — one in the field of medicine and public health, and the other in politics. On the political front, the Trump campaign launched an ad April 9 that accused Democrat Joe Biden of protecting China’s image as the pandemic unfolded. The Biden campaign returned with a new ad, […]
President Donald Trump laid out specific accusations against the World Health Organization as he announced that the United States would halt its financial support during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The world depends on the WHO to work with countries to ensure that accurate information about international health threats is shared in a timely manner, and if […]
President Donald Trump opened the April 13 daily coronavirus task force briefing with a video that more had to do with polishing Trump’s image than delivering new developments in the fight against COVID-19. “The media minimized the risk from the start,” were the video’s opening words. And after showing experts playing down the threat, the […]
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders threw in the towel on his second bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Between a series of defeats that began on Super Tuesday and the coronavirus shutdown, the most liberal candidate in the Democratic primary never regained his momentum. Speaking from his home in Burlington, Vt., he told his supporters that […]
The hunt for drugs to rein in the coronavirus is, like so much else in this crisis, filled with uncertainty. President Donald Trump sees great promise in a compound called hydroxychloroquine. That’s based on a couple of early trials in China and France that showed remarkable results after just a handful of days. Some medical […]
For President Donald Trump and members of his inner circle, hydroxychloroquine stands out as a bright point of hope in the fight against the coronavirus. His personal lawyer Rudy Giulinani has been touting it as a key weapon in the public health arsenal. So has Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who pitched the drug to […]
President Donald Trump voiced disbelief at the skyrocketing demand for protective masks at New York hospitals. “Are they going out the back door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000?” Trump asked at a March 29 press conference. “And we have that in a lot of different places. So, somebody should probably look into […]
President Donald Trump’s critics have charged that he undermined efforts that could have helped the nation respond faster and better to the coronavirus. He’s been criticized for downgrading the focus on pandemic threats on the National Security Council and chastised for seeking budget cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That isn’t the […]