As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) prepared to release new details on its guidance for the reopening of U.S. schools, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos reiterated the administration’s push to completely reopen in September and repeated Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw funds from schools that don’t In response, …
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A senior ally of Donald Trump defended the dangerously misleading claim by the President of the United States that 99% of coronavirus cases are “totally harmless” and dismissed a national mandate to wear masks. Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, said the number of Americans killed by Covid-19 …
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Donald Trump’s claim of not being reported on intelligence suggesting that Russia paid Taliban-linked militants to kill US soldiers “is simply not the way the system works,” the former security adviser said Sunday. John Bolton National. Bolton appeared on Face the Nation, the Sunday talk show for ViacomCBS, the communications …
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Donald Trump celebrated the United States Independence Day weekend fueling divisions over a perceived culture war and dismissing the two most immediate threats to his presidency: a massive resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic and a growing racial justice movement that seeks an end to police violence across the country. In …
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The United States leads the world in coronavirus infections (2.8m) and deaths (130,000), although the actual number is probably higher, given undetected cases. It is also on a steep upward curve. US authorities reported fewer than 20,000 new infections per day as recently as June 15. On Saturday, Florida and …
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