Media Covering Coronavirus to ‘Bring Down the President,’ Mulvaney Claims  —  The acting White House chief of staff plays down the risks of the virus and criticizes the media for not covering Mr. Trump's son Barron, something Melania Trump has asked it not to do.

WBUR Poll: Sanders Opens Substantial Lead In Mass., Challenging Warren On Her Home Turf  —  With Super Tuesday just days away, a new WBUR poll finds Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders well ahead of Sen. Elizabeth Warren in her home state of Massachusetts.  —  The poll shows Sanders is the choice …

Trump officials discuss tax cuts, other emergency measures in hopes of tackling coronavirus fallout  —  The proposals would do little to stop the virus's spread, but would aim to arrest economic fears  —  Trump administration officials are holding preliminary conversations about economic responses …

A second case of coronavirus found through spread in California  —  California has a second case of community transmission of the coronavirus, a 65-year-old resident of Santa Clara County who has no known history of travel to countries hit hard by the outbreak, people familiar with the case said Friday.

New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Who is strongest against Trump?  Must-win states and swing voters show Biden holds edge over Sanders  —  Is Bernie Sanders “electable”?  It's a question that's been troubling many Democrats, who fear that despite his strong showings in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada …

President Trump's ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy blocked in federal court  —  A federal appeals court in California halted the Trump administration's “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy on Friday, a blow to the president's restrictive immigration agenda that cripples one of the government's approaches …

Stephen Miller's new wife is in charge of approving all coronavirus communications  —  Texas cops ask local addicts to bring in their meth so it can be purportedly tested for coronavirus  —  Police in Texas are trying to scare local addicts into bringing their drug stashes …

Key Missteps at the CDC Have Set Back Its Ability to Detect the Potential Spread of Coronavirus  —  The CDC designed a flawed test for COVID-19, then took weeks to figure out a fix so state and local labs could use it.  New York still doesn't trust the test's accuracy.

US to sign historic deal with Taliban, Trump announces, beginning end of US war in Afghanistan and withdrawal of American troops  —  The deal is also supposed to lead to Afghan negotiations with the Taliban.  —  After a week-long deal to reduce violence across Afghanistan …

Michael Bloomberg's North Carolina Game Is Seriously Unlike Anything Else  —  The Super Tuesday state is the former New York mayor's best shot at primary delegates — and he knows it  —  eeing the Bloomberg presidential campaign up close, there is no easy way to describe it.

“Good” Jews, “Bad” Jews, And Bernie Sanders  —  For the first time, two Jewish politicians are serious contenders for the presidency.  There's deep anxiety among American Jews over what that will mean.  —  Talk to people who have been in politics for a while, and they will say the fact …

Like Warren, I Had My Own Sexist Run-In with Chris Matthews  —  The Hardball anchor frequently demeans women guests, with objectifying and belittling comments, both on and off air.  —  MSNBC host Chris Matthews, whose long history of sexist comments and behavior have somehow not yet gotten him fired …

Jerk, liars and the inexperienced: How voters describe the 2020 candidates  —  Candidates for president spend tens, even hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get voters to look at them in a particular way.  They develop slogans and conduct polls to identify the most effective ones.

Republicans storm out of coronavirus briefing after Democrat rips Trump's response  —  Several House Republicans walked out of a closed-door coronavirus briefing Friday with Trump health officials in protest after a senior Democrat blasted the Trump administration's handling of the response effort.

Dow falls 350 points Friday to cap the worst week for Wall Street since the financial crisis  —  Stuart Frankel's Steve Grasso explains his investment strategy amid sell-off  —  Stocks tumbled once again on Friday, capping off their worst week since the financial crisis …

Biden takes the lead in latest Civitas Poll  —  SANDERS AND BLOOMBERG FALL BACK; CUNNINGHAM STILL LEADS SENATE PRIMARY  —  RALEIGH - The second Civitas Poll tracking the North Carolina Democratic presidential primary shows former vice president Joe Biden has taken the lead outside of the margin …

No, Not Sanders, Not Ever  —  He is not a liberal, he's the end of liberalism.  —  A few months ago, I wrote a column saying I would vote for Elizabeth Warren over Donald Trump.  I may not agree with some of her policies, but culture is more important than politics.  She does not spread moral rot the way Trump does.

School policy forbids kids from saying ‘no’ when asked to dance  —  One mom is fighting back on behalf of her 11-year-old daughter.  —  Alicia Hobson's 11-year-old daughter, Azlyn, was counting down the days until the Valentine's Day dance at her Utah middle school.

Here's the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too  —  After a recent, extensive, and rather withering bout of bad press, the facial recognition company Clearview AI has changed its homepage, which now touts all the things it says its technology can do, and a few things it can't.

A paranoid militia infiltrating Texas police is bent on rebellion, ‘ready to rise up’  —  A revolution-minded, conspiracy-bent militia group named the Oath Keepers is recruiting law officers in Hood County to take up arms in what the founder predicts will be a “bloody civil war” against the U.S. government.

Every Democratic Candidates' ‘Black Agenda,’ Ranked  —  On Saturday, voters in South Carolina will sound the starting gun for the race to the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.  After giving white America a head start on selecting the party's nominee, the Democratic Party now turns to South Carolina.

The RNC Stopped Paying a Data Firm After A Serious Breach.  Then It Paid A Mysterious LLC With the Same Address.  —  Three years after the Republican National Committee publicly sidelined the sullied firm, it paid an LLC with the same address $900,000 for “data services.”

Paris Gare de Lyon: Fire at station amid DR Congo concert protest  —  Police evacuated Paris's Gare de Lyon station after protesters started a fire to try to disrupt a concert by a Congolese singer.  —  Political opponents of the DR Congo government set fire to parked scooters …

Rep. Garamendi: NIH official canceled on five Sunday talk shows after Pence's office ‘took over’  —  Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) on Friday said the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was told to “stand down” and not appear on five Sunday morning talk shows to discuss the coronavirus.

Devastating Court Ruling Allows White House To Block Testimony From Former Counsel Don McGahn  —  The ruling “all but assures future Presidential stonewalling of Congress,” a dissenting judge wrote.  —  A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Friday dismissed a lawsuit from House Democrats …

Vice President Pence Joins Rush at EIB Southern Command  —  RUSH: We are happy to have with us today... You don't know.  The media has been trying to find you today.  Vice President Mike Pence is here with us today.  —  THE VICE PRESIDENT: (chuckling)  —  RUSH: They have been out of their minds …