“When ... the president pulled back in that tweet on the relief bill, what he was trying to do was gain some control over the negotiations that he felt he had been losing," says Lara Brown, director of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University.

The number of covid-19 cases linked to the president and his inner circle continues to grow. At least 24 people have tested positive so far and almost the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff is in quarantine.

President Trump is now home, after spending the weekend in hospital following his coronavirus diagnosis. The White House medical team says it will monitor the president, who, according to his physician, is "not out of the woods yet."

In California, ballots have been mailed to every registered voter in the state, in order to help residents vote during the pandemic. But state officials are concerned about potential issues at voting precincts, in particular from Trump supporters.

Jose, or Joe Cervera, 64, has three birth certificates, but he doesn’t know which – if any - is his. His application for U.S. citizenship was rejected for lack of "good moral character," even though he served in the U.S. Army. Now he’s worried he could be thrown in immigration detention. (Leer en español)

“At this moment of time transparency is critical … what you have seen over the weekend is a lot of confusion and misinformation … it’s hard to gauge what the president’s true condition is, but the White House really needs to come clean on all of this,” says Chris Lu, a former White House cabinet secretary under President Obama.