WHITE HOUSE - The governor of North Carolina must make assurances “within a week” that Republicans can hold an in-person convention in late August or the event will be relocated to another state, President Donald Trump said Tuesday. The Republican Party plans to spend “millions and millions of dollars” in Charlotte for the event to formally renominate the president, but “we have a governor that doesn’t want to open up the state,” Trump said of Democrat Roy Cooper. A lot of Democratic...

WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening unspecified retaliation against Twitter after the social media platform tagged a pair of his tweets on Tuesday with a fact-check warning. The unprecedented alert on the @realDonaldTrump tweets about mail-in balloting prompted the president to accuse Twitter of interference in this year’s election and of “completely stifling” free speech. “I, as President, will not allow it to happen,” he concluded. .@Twitter is now interfering in the...

WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to "strongly regulate or close down social media platforms, after Twitter tagged a pair of his tweets with a fact-check warning. In a Wednesday morning tweet, Trump said that Republicans feel that "Social Media Platforms totally silence conservative voices." He alleged that social media sites attempted -- and failed -- during the 2016 election to stifle conservatives' voices. "We can't let a more sophisticated version of that happen...

WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to "strongly regulate" or close down social media platforms, after Twitter tagged a pair of his tweets with a fact-check warning. In Wednesday morning tweets, Trump said that Republicans feel that "Social Media Platforms totally silence conservative voices." He alleged that social media sites attempted — and failed — to stifle conservatives' voices during the 2016 election. "We can't let a more sophisticated version of that happen...

WHITE HOUSE - U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Thursday regarding social media platforms, after Twitter tagged a pair of his tweets with a fact-check warning. Sources close to the White House say the president’s executive order would require the Federal Communication Commission to clarify a section of the Communications Decency Act that largely exempts online companies like Twitter and Facebook from any legal liability from any content posted by their users. The order...