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The worst moment of any of President Donald Trump's press conferences came Monday afternoon, wrote Aaron Blake for the Washington Post, and it seems to be getting a pass from the majority of the media.

President Donald Trump has spent the better part of the last months speaking to the country from the White House podium about his recommendations around the coronavirus crisis. The new Washington Post-Ipsos poll revealed that these press conferences aren't helping him , in fact, they're hurting his cause. An overwhelming number of Americans don't trust his approach to reopening the country. A full 74 percent want to “keep trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus, even if that means keeping many businesses closed." Just 25 percent are ready to reopen everything the way Trump is describing.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg burned the Justice Department's solicitor general during a hearing on President Donald Trump's tax records.

Kristen Soltis Anderson thinks that President Donald Trump has a real problem with older voters who appear to be put off by his response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the United States, swing voters and independents often complain about the two-party system — and in 2016’s presidential election, some of them were critical of both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton but ultimately decided to give Trump a chance. The Trump voters of four years ago ranged from his hardcore MAGA base (who are still true believers) to independents who had reservations about him but voted for him anyway. Journalist David Siders, in an article for Politico, focuses on the latter — reporting that in 2020, such voters are leaning toward former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

President Donald Trump sided with Tesla on Tuesday, calling for California authorities to allow the reopening of the electric carmaker's assembly plant after company chief Elon Musk said he was defying local authorities.

Writing in the Washington Post this Tuesday, columnist Jennifer Rubin writes that as the U.S. passes 80,000 coronavirus deaths, President Trump is demonstrating that he is willing to benefit from protections that he's not willing to extend to others. "...Trump’s personal vanity and political efforts to project a return to business as usual mean he will not extend the same protection (wearing a mask) that he demands of co-workers," she writes.

With the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to drop the case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation has returned to the headlines. And an article by journalist Dan Friedman for Mother Jones offers some insights on White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner’s relevance to the investigation.

Far-right extremists have been arguing that aggressive social distancing measures and stay-at-home orders are crushing the U.S. economy; the point they miss is that a lack of social distancing — and all the unnecessary deaths that will cause —  will hurt the economy a lot more. Liberal economist Paul Krugman, in his New York Times column, makes a compelling argument for why the amount of social distancing practiced now could mean the difference between a quick economic recovery and a long, painful depression.

Police in Dallas, Texas say they have freed a 6-year-old boy who was tied up in a shed since schools have been out due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who has drawn fire for rushing to reopen his state's economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic, has seen his approval ratings crater.

Fox News host Shannon Bream got more than she bargained for after a national security lawyer destroyed the conservative cable network’s made-up scandal they are calling “Obamagate.”