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Four more years of Donald Trump could delay global emissions cuts by 10 years
Jun 04, 2020 18:22The research, published in Environmental Science and Policy, suggests two presidential terms of U.S. inaction on climate change would create ripple effects across other nations. Ultimately, this could delay global emissions reduction by a decade.
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Trump ridicules Biden’s use of a face mask as US COVID infections near 2 million
May 29, 2020 14:21The US president has flouted the idea of him needing to wear facial coverings since the CDC started making recommendations for Americans to do so. In early April, asked why he didn’t want to wear a mask, Trump suggested he was more concerned with how he’d appear to world leaders if he was wearing a mask in the Oval Office.
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Trump says he will not “close the country” If second wave of virus hits
May 28, 2020 09:45US president, Donald Trump has recognized the likelihood of a second wave of COVID-19 but has rejected the idea of another round of stay-at-home rules to contain the spread of the virus if it happens. The coronavirus has sickened more than 1.5 million Americans and caused more than 90,000 domestic deaths. The death toll is expected to reach 100,000 by the beginning of June, according to the CDC.
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Biden says Trump’s actions are ‘absolutely irresponsible’
May 20, 2020 19:36The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has criticized US President Donald Trump over his comments about taking an anti-malaria drug, dubbed as hroxychloroquine, to prevent coronavirus despite warnings from the medical community.
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Trump’s threat to Iran has a hollow ring
May 06, 2020 11:50A tweet by US President Donald Trump on April 22 said, “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.” Trump seems to be talking the language of war while indulging in politics by other means. Like his ban on immigration, he is resorting to distractions to turn attention away from his incompetence in tackling the COVID-19 crisis in the United States.
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Zarif to Trump: Stop interfering in other nations’ affairs; mine especially
Apr 19, 2020 13:14Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has once again warned US President Donald Trump against interfering in the internal affairs of other countries in the age of the new coronavirus.
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Trump endangers lives by feuding with governors and withholding health insurance
Apr 08, 2020 21:08Throughout his time in office, Trump has grabbed headlines by trash-talking his political opponents and rivals, be they Republicans such as John McCain, or Democrats like Elijah Cummings. He’s doing the same thing now, while the public health catastrophe grows and the death toll mounts.
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The Kushner family could be getting very rich thanks to the coronavirus
Mar 27, 2020 17:47Jared Kushner, once a co-owner of the Oscar Health company, married Ivanka Trump in 2009 and has since become a close confidant of his father-in-law, US President Donald Trump, and is a regular feature in the White House. He holds top secret security clearances and is often cited as one of the architects of Trump’s West Asia Plan, the so-called “deal of the century.”
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Most Americans express negative views of Trump’s conduct in office: Poll
Mar 06, 2020 12:15A majority of Americans express negative views about the way Donald Trump conducts himself while in office and disagree with him on most of the important issues facing the country, according to a new national survey.
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Trump budget would cut temporary assistance for American needy families by $21 billion
Feb 28, 2020 17:09US president, Donald Trump in his new budget proposes to cut Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) by $21 billion over ten years, which would leave many families with less assistance when they fall on hard times. The cuts include a 10 percent reduction in the annual block grant funding for states and an end to the $608 million TANF Contingency Fund, which gives states additional funds at times of economic distress.