Korean War

A renowned First Amendment lawyer and constitutional law expert says that a Korean War-era Supreme Court precedent shows why President Donald Trump’s Monday assertion of “total” authority is a “prime example” of “constitutional illiteracy.” In a succinct letter to the editor published Tuesday in The New York Times, Floyd Abrams…

Key point: The Chinese fought well and many lives were lost. Here's how the Korean War became a grinding, stalemated affair. Peering intently through a telescope, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, the commandant of the Marine Corps, scanned the shell-pocked Korean terrain in front of his position. Shepherd had made a special…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo | Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Trump administration Friday to invoke the Defense Production Act to drastically ramp up production of testing that Cuomo says is integral to jumpstarting New York’s economy. "We have 9 million people…

Key point: The invasion of Taiwan was put on hold until Beijing could figure out what to do. In the summer of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his Republic of China (ROC) government appeared doomed. Shanghai and Nanjing, then China’s capital city, had fallen to Mao Zedong's communist forces, and Chiang's units…

It might seem like the Pentagon can act as some sort of savior in confronting the coronavirus, but that’s unlikely. Uri Friedman April 8, 2020 Scott Olson / GettyIn September 2014, as the deadly Ebola virus overwhelmed West Africa, the Obama administration felt compelled to intervene. The Pentagon spent $360…

April 7, 2020 | 1:26am Enlarge Image Dr. Deborah Birx, Ambassador and White House coronavirus response coordinator, holds a 3M N95 mask. Star Tribune via AP WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is touting the end of a dispute with 3M to supply millions of masks to medical professionals on the…

President Trump said the government would buy nearly 167 million masks from 3M Co. over the next three months, resolving a spat with the industrial conglomerate over efforts to ramp up supply of gear for front-line workers confronting the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Trump criticized 3M’s mask-making efforts last week and…

There is no magic in the DPA’s mere invocation. The question is what that invocation makes possible and whether it serves the country’s complex supply needs. April 6, 2020 Former law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Stocksnapper / Katie Martin / The AtlanticAs nurses…

It was a telling moment in the rising tensions between the Trump White House and state governors desperate for medical equipment to deal with the exploding coronavirus crisis. At Thursday's briefing on how the government is responding, Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner scolded states for not building up…

A version of this story appeared in the April 3 edition of CNN's Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. Sign up here to receive the need-to-know headlines every weekday. (CNN)As global cases cross the 1 million mark and an international battle to procure life-saving equipment mounts, President Donald Trump has invoked…