Democrat Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the polls less than a week before the US election. The debates are over, tens of millions of Americans have already cast their votes and the 77-year-old former vice president appears to be on his way to the White House. Not so …
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On Tuesday, the White House suppressed expectations that a major coronavirus relief package would be agreed to in the November 3 U.S. presidential election, saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was looking for too much. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the Pelosi Democrats’ proposal included stimulus checks for immigrants …
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The Senate voted 52-48 on Monday to confirm Amy Coney Barrett in the United States Supreme Court, giving the court a conservative 6-3 majority that could determine the future of the Affordable Care Act and abortion rights. All Democrats in the House voted against Barrett’s confirmation, as did Republican Susan …
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A top aide to President Donald Trump on Sunday unleashed a potentially devastating storm near the end of the vote, saying the United States was not trying to control the Covid-19 pandemic. “We are not going to control the pandemic,” Mark Meadows, the president’s chief of staff, told CNN in …
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Having concluded their final debate, US President Donald Trump and his rival Joe Biden began running the final 11 days of the White House race on Friday. Trump will hold two rallies in the battlefield state of Florida, where Biden has a slight 1.5% lead in the RealClearPolitics poll average. …
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The United States needs four more years of President Donald Trump in the White House, his deputy and running mate Mike Pence told his compatriots on the battlefield state of Pennsylvania, arguing that the administration has kept its promises in its first term. “It is a movement of Americans from …
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If Donald Trump is ousted from the White House in the November elections, he will not be the only loser. While many governments would likely celebrate the end of the most unconventional and sometimes chaotic American presidency of modern times, others will have reason to do so. I miss him. …
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Donald Trump has frustrated and enraged China during a tumultuous first term, but Beijing may welcome his re-election as he scans the horizon for the decline of its rival superpower. Relations are as cold as at any time since formal ties were established four decades ago, and China has warned …
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Seventeen individuals and organizations, including universities and businesses, have filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Labor, challenging its recent Interim Final Rule on wages related to H1B visas. The lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday alleged that the poorly drafted …
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With just fifteen days left to run for re-election to the White House, US President Donald Trump at a rally on Friday night reflected on the possibility of leaving the country if he lost in the election, CNN reported. Addressing a rally in Macon in Georgia, Trump said: “Can you …
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