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Musk on the run

Good journalism demands one-on-one encounters with candidates, questions that speak to people’s actual concerns, real-time factchecking. If candidates can’t agree to a platform that holds them accountable, they don’t deserve a media platform at all.

Homicides were up across the US in 2020 and appeared to be primarily driven by rising gun violence, but other crimes fell

When CBS, NBC and ABC cut away from President Donald Trump’s news conference at the White House on the evening of Nov. 5, they took pains to explain why they were shutting off the nation’s commander-in-chief.

Burning Bernie, Facebook's Future, "Jeopardy!" in Jeopardy, The New "Party of Five," and more