The US ambassador to Iceland, a dermatologist and a major Republican donor, reportedly became so paranoid about his safety that he asked to carry a gun and be taken everywhere in an armored car. Despite the absence of particular security concerns, the embassy in Reykjavik advertised in the local bodyguard …
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Staff at the U.S. consulate in Chengdu have been making final efforts to clean up the facility ahead of Beijing’s closed Monday as relations with Washington continue to worsen. Security remained tight outside the facility on Sunday, as bystanders shared space with dozens of uniformed and civilian-clad police officers outside …
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Seattle police withdrew to an compound early Sunday.just hours after declaring a riot during the large protests in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, near where weeks earlier people established a “busy protest zone” that spanned several blocks. Some protesters lingered after officers entered the department’s East Precinct around 1 a.m., but …
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With an impending election and polls looking bad, Donald Trump needed a quick political boost. Taking advantage of television footage of a refugee procession outside Honduras, the president announced an imminent “invasion” of the United States by a “migrant caravan” and said he would deploy 15,000 military personnel to stop …
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… and welcome to another day of coverage of the US coronavirus outbreak – and, of course, its policy and everything else. The United States is now, according to Johns Hopkins University, in more than 4.1 million confirmed cases and more than 145,000 people dead. The economy is still crumbling …
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