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Donald Trump has threatened to close down social media platforms that do not support his agenda, a day after Twitter posted a fact-checking notice on one of his tweets. Social media firms suppressed conservative points of view, the president claimed without providing any evidence, before saying his administration would “strongly …

San Francisco firefighters are battling a four-alarm warehouse fire Saturday on Pier 45, the city’s fire department says. A quarter of the pier at Fisherman’s Wharf “has been lost to the flames,” according to the San Francisco Fire Department PIO. No injuries have been reported. The pier has been fully …

The discussion by President Donald Trump’s administration comes after some US officials reportedly claimed that Russia and China have been holding their own low-yield tests, which both the governments have denied. President Donald Trump’s administration has discussed holding the first US nuclear test since 1992 as a potential warning to …

Former US vice president told an online fundraiser by members of the Jewish community in the US that he was opposed to the move. US Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden has voiced his strongest criticism yet of Israel’s plan to annex the occupied West Bank. The former vice president was …

Joe Biden, the presumptive presidential candidate for the Democratic party in the 2020 election, told a black reporter that African-Americans who don’t know if they’re on his side or Trump’s “ain’t black.” The exchange happened on an episode of The Breakfast Club, a radio show featuring celebrity interviews during which …

The group of high-profile Republican strategists-in-exile who oppose Donald Trump released another advertisement this week to get under the president’s skin, this time playing to his reported insecurities about his 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale. “Meet Brad Parscale — from dead broke, to the man Trump can’t win without,” the …

President Trump on Wednesday threatened to halt federal funding to Michigan and Nevada over the distribution of absentee ballots in those states amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that has left more than 90,000 Americans dead. “Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General …

At least three people have been injured at an outdoor shopping mall in Arizona after an armed man opened fire. Authorities said that one man was in custody, whilst one person was in a critical condition at a hospital. Two others had non-life threatening injuries, Glendale police information officer Tiffany …

A shooter at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas has been “neutralized,” the US Navy said in a statement Thursday morning. One member of the Naval Security Forces has been injured, the statement said. “All gates on the installation remain closed while first responders process the scene,” the Navy …

A spokesperson for the Ford Motor Group said that putting on a protective mask is mandatory at a company plant in Michigan is scheduled to be visited by Donald Trump on Thursday, adding that it was up to the White House to determine whether the president should put one. The …

Speaker Nancy Pelosi compared Donald Trump and his top aides to children with “doggy doo” on their shoes on Wednesday, the latest in a recent string of personal insults against the president. “It’s almost like a child who comes in with mud on their pants or something. … He comes …

About 3,500 homes and 10,000 people have so far been affected by the evacuation notices in mid-Michigan ordered after two dams failed, Mark Bone, chair of the Midland County Board of Commissioners, said he believes. No deaths or injuries have been reported, he said. The evacuations come in the middle …

Donald Trump has claimed the fact the US has 1.5 million confirmed coronavirus cases – the most of any country in the world – is a “badge of honour”. The country has suffered almost 92,000 deaths of people with COVID-19, but the president suggested the infection figures should be a …

A US Air Force F-35 Lightning II combat aircraft was lost during a training mission in Florida. The incident comes just days after another military jet crashed near the same airbase. The jet belonging to the 58th Fighter Squad crashed at around 9:30pm local time while conducting a “routine” night …

Donald Trump refused to directly respond to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s criticism over his decision to take an unproven malaria drug to prevent coronavirus because he is “morbidly obese,” but minutes later he accused her of having “mental problems.” “I don’t respond to her,” the president told reporters on Capitol Hill. …

Nancy Pelosi has said that Donald Trump’s decision to take the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to prevent Covid-19 was “not a good idea”. Mr. Trump surprised commentators on Monday with the news that he was taking hydroxychloroquine pills in an attempt to prevent infection. That comes despite the US Food and …

Donald Trump has revealed he is taking hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug he has pushed for weeks as a treatment for coronavirus – even though he has tested negative, and federal health agencies have warned of serious negative side effects for its use. “I take it,” he told reporters. “All I …

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improvements within 30 days, and to reconsider his country’s membership of the agency. Trump suspended U.S. contributions to the WHO last month, accusing it of promoting Chinese …

The Saudi military student who killed three Americans at a US naval base in December had longstanding ties to al-Qaeda and planned an attack before he arrived in the United States, US justice officials said Monday. The December 6 attack by Mohammed Alshamrani, a Royal Saudi Air Force flight student …

The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Monday the State Department inspector general may have been fired because he was investigating President Donald Trump’s declaration of an emergency to clear the way for military sales to Saudi Arabia last year. The White House and …