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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 …

The Western military coalition, purported to fight the Daesh terrorist group, has reportedly deployed three Patriot missile batteries at a US base in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr. The Arabic-language al-Alam television news network, citing local sources, reported on Wednesday that the batteries were deployed to the base set …

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 …

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 …

Quds Day is an internationally commemorated day instituted by Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to garner worldwide support for the oppressed Palestinian people. Needless to say, this day of international protest against the Zionist apartheid regime’s policies in the Occupied Palestinian …

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 …

Expect unprecedented spending as President Trump and Joe Biden kickstart their campaigns. It will be to no great effect, though, as opinions on both are set in stone. The cost of the 2020 presidential campaign had already outpaced the total cost of the 2016 presidential campaign by nearly $20 million …

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 …

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 …

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. …

Associates of jailed members of the Saudi royal family have hired lobbyists with close connections to US President Donald Trump to advocate for their release, the New York Times reported. A former senior associate of Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz bin Salman al Saud hired Robert Stryk, a lobbyist with strong …

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 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 …

US President Donald Trump will partially restore funding to the World Health Organization, a month after he ordered a freeze as he accused the Geneva-based body of “mismanaging” the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News reported Friday. The outlet said a draft letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the US …

The US state department’s inspector general, Steve Linick, has become the latest senior official to be fired by US President Donald Trump. Mr. Trump said Mr. Linick no longer had his full confidence and that he would be removed in 30 days. Mr. Linick had begun investigating Secretary of State …

A Chinese envoy has accused the United States of undermining the global economy by building trade barriers and artificially prolonging the global coronavirus pandemic by halting funding to the World Health Organization. China’s ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna, Wang Qun, made the unusually harsh remarks at a meeting …