NEW YORK – Up is down, down is up. President Donald Trump thanked CNN Tuesday for its Republican convention coverage, while Fox News heard complaints from some viewers that it wasn't showing enough.Trump's tweet that he was “very appreciative” to CNN for showing the vast majority of the Republicans' opening night program was also likely a coded message to Fox, the network of choice for many of the president's fans.The numbers illustrate why he cares: 45% of people following coverage of the convention's last hour on the top six networks Monday were watching Fox News Channel, the Nielsen company said.Overall, 15.8 million people watched the final hour of convention coverage Monday, down 16% from Democratic candidate Joe Biden's first night.

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Key takeaways from the Republican National Convention

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump refused to allow the coronavirus to deny him the crowd he craved for the Republican National Convention. He ordered up a scene never before seen at the White House: an American president using the South Lawn as the official backdrop for such overtly political activity.

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Conventions highlight aggressive fact-check efforts

NEW YORK – Rachel Maddow ended her fact-check mission with a lightning round after President Donald Trump's nomination acceptance speech — 12 corrections in about a minute.

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AP Fact Check: Trump distorts record; Black Lives Matter falsely accused

NOTE: Need something verified? Use the form at the end of the story to share with the Trust Index team. A look at some of the rhetoric Thursday from Trump and his supporting speakers at Republican National Convention proceedings:TRUMP: “Instead of following the science, Joe Biden wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the entire country.

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Trump Lashes Biden, Defies Pandemic During Republican National Convention

Facing a national moment fraught with racial turmoil and a deadly pandemic, President Donald Trump accepted his party's renomination on a massive White House South Lawn stage Thursday night, boasting of helping African Americans and defying his own administration's pandemic guidelines to address a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd. As troubles churned outside the gates, Trump painted an optimistic vision of America’s future, including an eventual triumph over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 175,000 people, left millions unemployed and rewritten the rules of society.

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GOP convention takeaways: What coronavirus? Fear motivates

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump refused to allow the coronavirus to deny him the crowd he craved for the Republican National Convention. He ordered up a scene never before seen at the White House: an American president using the South Lawn as the official backdrop for such overtly political activity.

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Despite talks, no deal in sight for new round of $1,200 direct payments to Americans

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows resumed talks Thursday over a stalled COVID-19 aid package, but the outlook for any swift resolution appeared bleak as President Donald Trump’s team and congressional Democrats have been unable to agree on a compromise.Pelosi said she told Meadows the Democrats would be willing to meet halfway — at $2.2 trillion — a slight reduction from her last proposal before talks collapsed earlier this month. The White House, which has stuck with its initial $1 trillion offer, had no immediate response.“We have said again and again that we’re willing to meet them in the middle — $2.2 trillion.

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GOP convention takeaways: RNC speakers light on pandemic, heavy on other fears

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Will produce Covid vaccine by this year end or sooner, says Donald Trump

vaccine before the end of this year or maybe even sooner. We will defeat the virus and the pandemic, and emerge stronger than ever before," he added.Trump further informed that three vaccines are in the final stage adding that the US "would crush the virus"."We have three different vaccines in the final trial stage.

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Biden, Harris attack Trump’s response to racial unrest ahead of RNC speech

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stepped up their criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying he’s rooting for violence amid unrest in Wisconsin and blasting him for a lack of leadership on the coronavirus pandemic, hours before Trump’s planned address on the final night of the Republican National Convention.“He views this as a political benefit,” Democratic presidential nominee Biden said on MSNBC about protests in Wisconsin after police shot a Black man earlier this week.

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‘By the grace of God and compassion of Trump’: Alice Johnson, whose drug sentence was commuted, speaks at RNC

WASHINGTON (AP) - A woman whose drug crime sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump said his reforms on criminal justice are “just getting started.”Alice Johnson said Thursday during the Republican National Convention that she “hollered hallelujah” after Trump signed the First Step Act, which she said “brought joy, hope and freedom to thousands of well-deserving people.”“I am alive, I am well and most importantly, I am free,” announced Johnson at Thursday’s convention as she thanked the president for giving her the opportunity to come home to her family and regain her life. Johnson is a Tennessee grandmother convicted on felony drug and money laundering charges in 1996.

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Ivanka Trump introduces her father at RNC as ‘the people’s president’ and a ‘warrior of the White House’

LOS ANGELES - Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, introduced her father at the Republican National Convention Thursday night.“Four years ago, I introduced to you a builder, an entrepreneur, an outsider and the people’s nominee for president of the United States. Tonight I stand before you as the proud daughter of the people’s president,” Ivanka told the large crowd at the White House to witness her father’s re-nomination acceptance speech.About 1,500 people gathered on the South Lawn of the White House so President Donald Trump could accept his party’s nomination for reelection in front of a roaring crowd.

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At RNC, UFC’s Dana White praises Trump’s response to COVID-19 pandemic

LOS ANGELES - Just a few days before the final night of the 2020 Republican National Convention, UFC President Dana White expressed a serious lack of concern for criticism from those who have opposed his endorsement of President Donald Trump. “That s--t doesn’t bother me,” White said, according to MMA Junkie. “Listen, this is America.

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Trump formally accepts Republican re-nomination from RNC stage at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump accepted his party's renomination on a massive White House South Lawn stage Thursday night, breaking with tradition by using the executive mansion as a political backdrop and defying pandemic guidelines to address a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd.As crises churned outside the gates, Trump painted an optimistic vision of America’s future, including an eventual triumph over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 175,000 people, left millions unemployed and rewritten the rules of society.

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Crowd of 1,500, many without masks, packed onto White House South Lawn amid pandemic for Trump's RNC speech

Ivanka Trump, daughter and Advisor to the US president speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention from the South Lawn of the White House on August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDA WASHINGTON (AP) - It was a stunning scene in a country where parents and children have been laid to rest without their loved ones present, schools have gone to online-only learning and businesses have shut their doors to halt the spread of the coronavirus.On Thursday night, about 1,500 people gathered on the South Lawn of the White House so President Donald Trump could accept his party’s nomination for reelection in front of a roaring crowd.

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On RNC’s final night, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani asks Trump to ‘Make America Safe Again’

NEW YORK - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani slammed Joe Biden as a “Trojan Horse” for the Left and asked President Trump to “make our nation safe again” in a speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday.In his speech, Giuliani blamed Democrats for the recent wave of unrest and riots throughout several cities across the United States, criticizing alleged inaction by Democratic officials and claiming that Black Lives Matter and Antifa hijacked the original peaceful protests over the “unforgivable police killing of George Floyd” and turned them “into vicious, brutal riots.” “It is clear that a vote for Biden and the Democrats creates the risk that you will bring this lawlessness to your city, town, or suburb,”

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Protesters gather outside White House to disrupt President Trump’s RNC acceptance speech

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 27: Demonstrators protest U.S. President Donald Trump at Black Lives Matter plaza August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Trump’s acceptance speech expected to target Biden

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to accept his second presidential nomination with a speech from the White House, as the Republican National Convention comes to a close.

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President Trump's big night: RNC acceptance speech aims to paint Biden as 'extreme'

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump plans to tell voters that Democratic rival Joe Biden would pursue the “most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee” when the president delivers his acceptance speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention.Trump has complained that the Democrats' message was too dark and pessimistic when they held their own scaled-back convention last week.

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MSNBC tweaks Trump by inviting niece Mary to convention show

NEW YORK – MSNBC is making its final night of Republican convention coverage a family occasion for President Donald Trump, but not in a way that he's likely to enjoy.The left-leaning cable network says it will feature Trump's niece Mary as a guest, on the night Trump brings the convention to a close by accepting the Republican nomination for another four years in the White House.Mary Trump authored the summer bestseller, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.”The Nielsen company estimated that 17.3 million people watched television coverage of the convention's third night on Wednesday, where Vice President Mike Pence was the featured speaker.On the same night of the Democratic convention last week,

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Who is Kyle Rittenhouse? Accused Kenosha shooter loves police, guns, Trump

Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old accused of fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during protests over police brutality in Kenosha, Wis., is a fan of law enforcement and a gun lover who sat in the front row at a rally for U.S. President Donald Trump, according to reports and his own social media posts.Rittenhouse was charged with first-degree intentional homicide on Wednesday after allegedly shooting protesters with an AR-15-style assault rifle on Tuesday night.

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Kamala Harris says Trump has shown ‘reckless disregard’ for well-being of Americans

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris took aim at U.S.

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President Trump: NBA has become like 'a political organization'

A general view of the court after the postponed game five of the first round of the NBA Playoffs between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Houston Rockets at The Field House at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on Aug. 26, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, F WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that the NBA has become like “a political organization," criticizing the league the day after player protests over police brutality led to the postponement of playoff games.Senior White House aides earlier had suggested that the protests were not constructive and were hypocritical considering the league's relative silence about human rights violations in China, where U.S.

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Kamala Harris slams ‘profound failure of leadership’ in counter to Trump ahead of final night of RNC

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Philadelphia accepts $10M grant for 2020 election plan

Mail-in ballots HARRISBURG - Philadelphia on Thursday accepted a $10 million grant to help it advance an ambitious election plan to buy counting equipment and spread satellite election offices and secure drop boxes around the city to absorb growing demand for voting by mail in November's presidential election.The city's election board, the Philadelphia City Commissioners, voted to accept the grant from the Chicago-based Center for Tech and Civic Life, whose donors include Facebook and Google.Accepting the grant comes as President Donald Trump's campaign is suing to outlaw drop boxes -- used in the primary in the heavily Democratic city of Philadelphia and its suburban counties where Trump lost badly in 2016's election despite prevailing in

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President Trump's big night: Expect talk of GOP progress, Dem anarchy

First Lady Melania Trump and US President Donald Trump listen to the US National Anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," during the third night of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore, Maryland, August 26, 202 WASHINGTON (AP) - Four years ago, Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president with a dark convention speech that painted a dystopian portrait of America in decline and offered a singular solution: himself.Though Trump has been president for three-and-a-half years, his rhetoric on the state of the nation has remained bleak.

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Republican National Convention: Kellyanne Conway touts Trump’s commitment to elevating women

Kellyanne Conway, outgoing adviser to President Donald Trump, said Wednesday during the Republican National Convention that the president looks at women in a leadership role as being “not novel,” saying he’s elevated women to leadership positions for decades.

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RNC Day 3: Pence, in convention speech, pledges he and Trump will 'make America great again, again'

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RNC night 3 takeaways: Republicans push American exceptionalism amid national crises

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Republicans proceeded with the third night of their national convention, but many Americans — particularly those in the path of Hurricane Laura — were focused on more immediate concerns.

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Vice President Pence preserves own presidential prospects

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence shuttled through the Capitol's empty, drafty hallways one blustery winter day in search of a breakthrough.It was January 2019, and the government had been partly shut down for weeks in a standoff between his boss, President Donald Trump, and Democrats who refused to fund his border wall.

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RNC Day 3: Speakers mount defense of police amid rising racial tensions in wake of Jacob Blake shooting

RNC Day 3: Speakers praise Trump's efforts to support police, women and front line workers“From Seattle and Portland to Washington and New York, Democrat-run cities across this country are being overrun by violent mobs,” declared South Dakota Gov Kristi Noem, though the protests of racial injustice this summer have been largely peaceful in most locations. “People that can afford to flee have fled.

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Kellyanne Conway's RNC speech serves as exit address from White House

FILE - White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway returns to the West Wing after talking to reporters outside the White House on August 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON (AP) - Kellyanne Conway is making her exit.One of the longest-serving advisers to President Donald Trump is delivering a speech about “everyday heroes” on Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention.

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Harris to deliver speech condemning Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic

Kamala Harris plans to deliver a speech condemning President Donald Trump on Thursday for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The speech will come hours before Trump is set to accept renomination for a second term.Harris will detail a “profound failure of leadership” from Trump and highlight proposals by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to control the virus and confront the economic fallout, Biden’s campaign told The Associated Press.With Trump planning an evening address from the White House lawn, Harris’ afternoon remarks from Washington will be the Democrats’ main counter to the president on the final day of the Republicans’ convention.

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No signs of coordinated fraud or foreign countries targeting mail-in vote, US officials say

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Do Republicans or Democrats benefit from mail-in voting? It turns out, neither

Warren CornwallIn the United States, the coronavirus crisis has thrust a typically wonky debate—the effectiveness of mail-in voting—into the political spotlight. Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, this week again warned that expanding the use of mail-in ballots could give Democrats an edge in the November elections.

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Pres. Trump: Gov. Evers 'agreed to accept federal assistance,' National Guard coming to Kenosha

KENOSHA, Wis. - President Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon, Aug.

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Canada out of step with ‘Trump world,’ claims White House advisor

Peter Navarro is taking some unprovoked swipes at Canada in a new book about U.S. President Donald Trump‘s unconventional approach to foreign policy.In CNN correspondent Jim Sciutto’s book, “The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World,” Navarro casts aspersions on Canada’s role in the U.S.-led multilateral NATO mission in Afghanistan.He suggests Canada’s decade-long mission, which cost the lives of 158 Canadian soldiers, was motivated more by a desire to curry favour with the U.S.

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WHAT TO WATCH: Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway and protest pushback at GOP convention

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‘You’re not alone’: Melania Trump delivers speech at Republican National Convention

Melania Trump went there.While others at the Republican National Convention spoke about the coronavirus as a challenge successfully conquered, the first lady on Tuesday night used her address from the Rose Garden to acknowledge the pain of lives lost and families upended by the pandemic.“I want you to know you’re not alone,” she said to the tens of thousands of families that have been affected.

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Mike Pompeo hails Trump's America First policy at RNC

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has plunged into the heart of the 2020 presidential race with a speech supporting President Donald Trump’s reelection at the Republican National Convention.The speech was recorded in Jerusalem during an official visit to the Middle East and aired Tuesday at the RNC.The address was roundly condemned by Democrats and others as an inappropriate breach of decades of diplomatic precedent and a possible violation of federal law prohibiting executive branch employees from overt political activism while on duty.

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Herschel Walker says critics calling Trump 'racist' deeply hurt him during RNC address

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Former football player Herschel Walker talked about his 35-year friendship with President Donald Trump at the 2020 Republican National Convention on Monday.Walker, the former Georgia Bulldog and 1982 Heisman Trophy winner recalled meeting Trump and how they developed a deep, personal friendship over the past three decades.The two-time NFL Pro-Bowler discussed how Trump made him feel special and shared with Walker about how it was important for him to know each person personally.He said it hurt him when he heard people calling the president a racist."It hurts my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald.

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FDA chief apologizes for overstating convalescent plasma benefits to treat COVID-19

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists and medical experts have been pushing back against the claims about the treatment since President Donald Trump’s announcement on Sunday that the FDA had decided to issue emergency authorization for convalescent plasma, taken from patients who have recovered from the coronavirus and rich in disease-fighting antibodies.Trump hailed the decision as a historic breakthrough even though the treatment’s value has not been established.

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Jerry Falwell Jr. confirms he's resigned from Liberty University

RICHMOND, Va. - Jerry Falwell Jr. said Tuesday that he has resigned as head of evangelical Liberty University because of ongoing controversies about his wife’s sexual involvement with a younger business partner and in the wake of a social media photo that caused an uproar.Falwell’s exit marks a precipitous fall from power for one of the country’s most visible evangelical leaders and ardent supporters of President Donald Trump.

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Mike Pompeo shattering precedent, sparking fury with GOP convention speech

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a joint statement to the press with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (unseen) after meeting in Jerusalem, on August 24, 2020. (Photo by DEBBIE HILL/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent a cable to all U.S.

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Eliminating payroll tax could deplete Social Security by 2023, chief actuary estimates

WASHINGTON - Social Security funds would run out as early as 2023 if President Donald Trump opts to permanently cut payroll taxes and there is no alternative source of revenue, according to an estimate from the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration.The estimate was done in response to a request by four Democratic senators who asked the agency to conduct an analysis on the numbers after Trump said he would permanently cut payroll taxes if he’s reelected.Trump previously announced the federal government would defer employee payroll tax collections for the rest of 2020, aimed at boosting an economy rattled by the pandemic and an attempt to bypass Congress after talks on a broader coronavirus relief bill have stalled.During a news

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Fact check: Donald Trump, allies make several false claims on first day of Republican convention

Donald Trump made a dizzying array of misleading claims about voting fraud and health care as fellow Republicans opened their convention with speeches distorting the agenda of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.Trump falsely asserted that he was the one who ensured that people with preexisting medical problems will be covered by health insurance; actually that was Democratic President Barack Obama. Several speakers accused Biden of proposing to defund police, ban fracking, take over health care and open borders — none of that true.A look at statements Monday at the Republican National Convention:: “We protected your preexisting conditions.

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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris to get routine coronavirus testing, a notable change

WASHINGTON – In a notable change, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, will now be regularly tested for the coronavirus as the race heats up, a campaign aide confirmed Monday.“This announcement is another step demonstrating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ commitment to turn the page on Trump’s catastrophic mismanagement during the worst public health crisis in 100 years,” said Biden spokesperson Andrew Bates.Bates declined to comment Monday when asked if Biden had been tested yet, though deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said Sunday that he hadn't been.A campaign aide said the decision to move forward with regular testing was based on the recommendations of the campaign’s medical advisers.

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Trump officially renominated as Republican convention begins

In the U.S., Republicans are kicking off their four-day convention, with President Donald Trump accepting the presidential nomination for a second time.

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