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Trump claims without evidence that foreign countries will rig the US 2020 election by printing “millions of mail-in ballots” Still smarting from the lackluster turnout for his first post-pandemic rally on Saturday, President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his assaults on a familiar bugbear that has been on his mind …

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday he will be leaving U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration soon, ending a brief return to government to help respond to the coronavirus pandemic. Hassett, who served as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in the first two years …

US President Donald Trump says he did not sanction Chinese officials further over the detention of Muslims in Xinjiang as he was in the “middle of a trade deal”. Trump told the Axios news site that achieving a “great” deal meant he could not impose “additional sanctions”. China has held …

An impromptu party in Charlotte, North Carolina descended into chaos after a shooting killed two people. Several others were wounded by gunfire and injured by vehicles that plowed through the fleeing crowd. Hundreds of people reportedly flooded onto the streets on Sunday night as part of the ongoing Juneteenth celebrations …

A solid majority of Americans — 58 percent — say they disapprove of the job President Donald Trump has done at the helm of the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll released Sunday. Trump’s approval rating currently stands at 41 percent in the …

 Geoffrey Berman said Saturday that he would not fight the move and will be leaving the office in the hands of his deputy, effective immediately. Attorney General William Barr said Saturday that at his request, President Donald Trump had fired Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. Shortly afterwards, Berman, …

Nine people were shot at a Saturday night “celebration” in central New York, authorities said. Of the nine victims, one was a 17-year-old boy in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head and eight others — ranging in age from 18 to 53 — were expected to survive, …

U.S. President Donald Trump is hoping to outrun the coronavirus pandemic as he bids for reelection in 2020. His return to the campaign trail Saturday night in Tulsa, Okla. demonstrates just how difficult that’s going to be. Trump skipped a planned appearance outside the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which …

The Republican National Committee announced Saturday that the Trump campaign, RNC and joint fundraising committees raised $74 million in May, a record for them in monthly fundraising. But for the first time in this election cycle, Joe Biden and the DNC brought in more money in a month than Mr. …

At least 10 people were shot in Minneapolis, police there said early Sunday. They were alive with “various severity levels of injuries,” Minneapolis police said in a tweet just before 3 a.m. An initial tweet from Minneapolis police advised the public to avoid the area in Uptown Minneapolis. The address …

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck 8 km (5 miles) northwest of Perry, Oklahoma, late on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake was at a depth of 7.9 km, it added.

US President Donald Trump, addressing a less-than-full arena for his first political rally in months, blasted anti-racism protests and defended his handling of the coronavirus on Saturday in a bid to reinvigorate his re-election campaign. The president, who revels in large crowds and had predicted that his first rally in …

US President Donald Trump’s campaign says six staff members helping set up for his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have tested positive for coronavirus. The campaign’s communications director, Tim Murtaugh, said in a statement that “quarantine procedures” were immediately initiated and no staff member who tested positive would attend …

US police are investigating a shooting that left one dead and another with life-threatening injuries in the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) run by activists in downtown Seattle. Shots were fired at the main entrance to the enclave Saturday morning. The Seattle Police Department has confirmed that it is …

Public health experts issued dire warnings. Local officials expressed unease. The coronavirus cases continued to climb. And still, they came. President Trump’s most faithful supporters piled into tents or lounged in lawn chairs, some wearing masks, and others dismissing the need for face coverings, as they waited hours and, in …

A top U.S. federal prosecutor whose office has been investigating President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, on Friday refused to step down after the administration abruptly said it was replacing him. The dramatic standoff marks the latest in series of unusual actions by Attorney General William Barr that critics …

Russia has lambasted the US’s newly-unveiled space strategy document as “aggressive”, saying Washington views space as a new “arena” to wage “war.” “The document confirms the aggressive course by Washington in the space sphere,” said Russia’s Foreign Ministry in a statement on Friday. “Space is seen by the US side …

In a conversation last year, US President Donald Trump allegedly said that he did not care whether Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) militants made a return to Iraq, according to claims made in former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s new book “The Room Where It Happened”. In the memoir, which is …

A top U.S. federal prosecutor whose office has been investigating President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, on Friday refused to step down after the administration abruptly said it was replacing him. The dramatic standoff marks the latest in series of unusual actions by Attorney General William Barr that critics …

One person is dead following a daytime shooting in Toronto’s Corsa Italia neighborhood. According to Toronto Police, on Friday morning at 11:40 am, they received calls reporting multiple gunshots heard in the area of St. Clair Avenue West and St. Clarens Avenue. Police on scene confirmed the shooting and said …