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President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that he might not allow a "friendly transition" of power if he loses the election in November.

Motel 6 fired its longtime advertiser after the agency's 88-year-old founder described a campaign pitch as "too Black."

CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday once again raked President Donald Trump over the coals for promoting a deranged conspiracy theory about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden murdering a group of elite Navy SEALs.

Attorney General William Barr has been so aggressive in his support of President Donald Trump that many pundits have described him as Trump's "fixer" — a word that was often used to describe Michael Cohen when he was still working for the Trump Organization and serving as Trump's personal attorney. But this week, Trump has expressed disappointment in Barr and refuses to say whether or not he will keep him as attorney general if he is reelected in November.

During his Reality Check segment this Thursday, CNN's John Avlon criticized President Trump in the wake the Washington Post's report that said the Department of Justice's "unmasking" probe of whether Obama-era officials illegally requested the names of individuals whose names were redacted in intelligence documents, ended without charges or even a public report.

On Thursday, the Houston Chronicle reported that a Texas GOP congressman may have tried to improperly influence a bank to assist one of his campaign donors.

As coronavirus cases increase across much of the United States, the Trump administration has reportedly adopted a policy of deliberately letting the virus infect much of the U.S. population in order to attain “herd immunity” — despite warnings from the World Health Organization against such an approach. We host a debate on the contentious issue of herd immunity and how best to confront the virus with two Harvard medical experts: epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard University and one of the lead signatories of the controversial Great Barrington Declaration arguing for an easing of lockdowns, and Dr. Abraar Karan, an internal medicine doctor at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at Harvard Medical School who has worked on the COVID-19 public health response in Massachusetts since February.

President Donald Trump on Thursday compared Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to a "dictator" just one week after it was revealed she was the target of a kidnapping plot by far-right militants.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested Senate Republicans had followed historical precedent by rushing Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court, but Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) corrected him.

President Donald Trump's signature campaign promise in 2016 was to force Mexico to foot the bill for a wall along the southern U.S. border.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Thursday asserted that Democrats "have a good chance" of defeating President Donald Trump in November.

Writing for Teen Vogue this Thursday, Lauren Young tells the story of Sudhanshu Kaushik, who wanted to cast his 2020 election vote in his adoptive hometown of New York City.

New applications for US jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week to 898,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday.