Amid Trump Twitter controversies, White House preparing to expand social media team

The White House is expected to hire new staffers this week to work with the President on his posts for Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, a senior administration official told CNN. Up until now, Trump and his social media director Dan Scavino have essentially handled the President's tweets on their own.

Hal Boyd: Is Donald Trump making America moral again?

In one of Russian literature's most vexing passages, the sensualist older brother of "The Brothers Karamazov" asks: "What is goodness?" In the age of Donald Trump such questions on moral relativism are increasingly passe. In fact, on both the left and the right there's a burgeoning renaissance of armchair moralizing that's fanning out across Facebook feeds and prompting uncomfortable watercooler conversations around the country.

Trump backs aide who promoted his daughter’s fashion on TV

This frame grab from video provided by Fox News shows White House adviser Kellyanne during her interview with Fox News Fox and Friends, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. Conway defended Ivanka Trump's fashion company, telling Fox News that Trump is a "successful businesswoman" and people should give the company their business.

The Latest: Official sheds light on Trump’s next step on ban

Mrs. Trump, who is not yet living in the White House full time, greeted President Donald Trump on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews before a trip to Florida. The Trumps are playing host this weekend at their Florida estate to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Ake.

White House adviser ‘counseled’ after brand promotion

This frame grab from video provided by Fox News shows White House adviser Kellyanne during her interview with Fox News Fox and Friends, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. Conway defended Ivanka Trump's fashion company, telling Fox News that Trump is a "successful businesswoman" and people should give the company their business.

Warren Receives Support After GOP Formally Silences Her

Senator Elizabeth Warren voiced her opinion on Facebook late on Tuesday to end her speech that was formally silenced by Republicans on the Senate floor after she quoted Coretta Scott King while criticizing President Trump's attorney general nominee Senator Jeff Sessions. The drama unfolded when the Democrat from Massachusetts overstepped the arcane rules of the chamber by reading a letter dated three decades ago from the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King that dated to the failed judicial nomination of Senator Sessions nearly thirty years ago.

a Us court has ordered Google to hand over emails stored outside of…

Does the US government have the power to order American companies to hand over data stored on servers outside of the country? That's the question at the heart of a legal battle between Google and the FBI. A US judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States - even though a federal appeals court reached an opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft.

Justice Ginsburg laments partisanship at Stanford talk

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lamented partisanship in Congress during a talk at Stanford University on Monday and said she hoped it would return to an era when "it was working for the good of the country and not just along party lines." Ginsburg did not address the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Justice Anthony Scalia or President Donald Trump's travel ban, which could end up before the high court.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative gives $3.6 million to fight housing crisis

Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto is the recipient of a $3.1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative founded by Priscilla Chan and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Founded by Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, the philanthropic initiative is giving $3.1 million to Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto to help with programs to counter the eviction and displacement of families upended by runaway housing costs.

The people must trump bureaucracy

If he didn't understand it previously, Trump certainly has learned his most dangerous political foes are not Democrats in Congress, but the vast federal bureaucracy. Among the new president's first actions was to order a freeze on hiring in the government, with the exception of the military.

Trump under fire for saying he respects ‘killer’ Putin

This combination of photos show US President Donald Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in Washington and Russian President Vladimir at a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. PALM BEACH - President Donald Trump is drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike after playing down political assassinations in Russia and Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Randy Alcorn: It’s All Donald Trump, All the Time – And That’s Not Good for America

Some Facebook users are announcing that they are leaving the social media site because they have grown weary of the political vitriol that dominates the discourse there. They wanted a virtual neighborhood where friendly people shared family news, announcements, and engaged in pleasantries and good-natured banter, not a political gladiatorial arena.

Device tossed in restaurant was ‘glorified firecracker’

A Pasadena police investigator walks away past waiting patrons before the normal opening of the Cheesecake Factory restaurant in Old Pasadena Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. A man dressed in black threw a homemade incendiary device into a crowded California restaurant Thursday at dinnertime, and when it ignited, panicked patrons abandoned their meals and knocked over chairs as they rushed for the exits.

Elon Musk Says Staying On Trump’s Board Will ‘Serve The Greater Good’

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk talks at the Automotive World News Congress at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, January 13, 2015. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook Tesla CEO Elon Musk told his Twitter followers Thursday he's sticking with President Donald Trump's business advisory board over objections from some of Tesla's most devoted customers.

This Iraqi Facebook engineer was invited to the US under President…

The last time the US was led by a Republican president, President Bush, the State Department launched a program that invited people from Muslim-majority countries to come to the US. The idea was to fight the rising tide of Islamophobia that occurred after 9/11 by inviting kids to study in the US via a cultural exchange program called Youth Exchange & Study .

Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home for Tech

After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft and others railed against the move, saying it violated the country's principles and risked disrupting its engine of innovation. Trump's next steps could strike even closer to home: His administration has drafted an executive order aimed at overhauling the work-visa programs technology companies depend on to hire tens of thousands of employees each year.