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Matthew McConaughey fought back tears as he spoke to reporters at the White House on Tuesday about meeting the families of the victims of the Robb Elementary School shootings in Uvalde, TX, his hometown. The actor’s appearance in the White House briefing room, after he and his wife Camila met with President Joe Biden…

President Donald Trump said Thursday that plans for a large-scale Republican National Convention are being canceled, an acknowledgement of the flare-up in coronavirus cases in Jacksonville, FL. Instead, Trump said that some convention activities will take place in its original locale, Charlotte, NC, but suggested that…

One of the stranger moments at President Donald Trump coronavirus press briefing Tuesday came when a reporter asked him about Ghislaine Maxwell, the recently indicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein, and whether she would name powerful people. The reporter, Steven Nelson of The New York Post, asked the president…

Donald Trump went solo in the White House briefing room for his first coronavirus briefing since April, and his words reflected the reality that cases of COVID-19 are running rampant across the country. “It will, probably, unfortunately get worse before it gets better. [That is] something I don’t like saying about…

This week a photographer captured an image in the White House briefing room that quickly got the attention of the press corps: Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s file folder, in which she had neatly arranged possible topics as she faced reporters from the lectern. Along with “golf,” “Barack Obama,” “BLM” and a number…

President Donald Trump is threatening to stop the daily White House coronavirus briefings — not because of public outcry over his comments about injecting disinfectants, or because his statements are being used against him in Joe Biden attack ads — but because reporters ask too many “hostile questions.” Trump took to…

Today’s White House press briefing was packed with headlines. Chief economic adviser Gary Cohen played Dodge the Question when asked, four times, about President Donald Trump having claimed previous day that his tax-reform plan would not help him. Claim appears not to be true, so Cohen went with stout evasion. “It…

The ratings success of the White House’s on-camera press briefings are turning some White House correspondents into attention seekers hoping to become YouTube stars, Press Secretary Sean Spicer complained Wednesday. President Donald Trump has spoken about Spicer's daily briefings being the most popular program in…