The World Health Organization has reported another record of the increase in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period, by more than 230,000. The previous world record was on Friday, with more than 228,000 new cases worldwide. According to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which is based …
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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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A black man says a group of white men assaulted him and threatened to “get a tie” after claiming that he and his friends had invaded private property when they met at an Indiana lake over the weekend of July 4. . Vauhxx Booker, a local civil rights activist and …
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has declined an invitation to visit the White House this week to celebrate a new free trade agreement in North America, amid worsening coronavirus numbers in the United States and persistent tensions with Donald Trump. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will meet Trump in …
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A statue of the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ripped from its base in Rochester, New York on Sunday, 168 years after the city was the scene of one of his best speeches, What for the Slave is the Fourth of July? The statue was located at Maplewood Park, a …
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