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Trump says he asked health officials to slow down COVID-19 testing
Jun 21, 2020 03:57President Donald Trump has in what appears to be a shocking admission said he encouraged US health officials to slow down coronavirus testing to prevent the number of cases being discovered from rising.
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Trump rips up decades-old WMD treaty in order to sell drones to Saudi Arabia
Jun 19, 2020 14:22The Missile Technology Control Regime is the latest in a list of longstanding international agreements that the Trump administration has withdrawn from, often to the benefit of Saudi Arabia and US arms dealers.
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Biden's 12% lead portends Trump's dramatic meltdown
Jun 19, 2020 01:59US President Donald Trump’s approval rating is declining amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and protests against racial inequality and police brutality that have been sweeping the US, new polling shows.
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American protesters sue Donald Trump, William Barr after being tear-gassed for photo op
Jun 12, 2020 04:24American Protesters are suing President Donald Trump, Attorney General William Barr and a number of federal officials after they were tear-gassed to clear the way for an administration photo-op.
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Four more years of Donald Trump could delay global emissions cuts by 10 years
Jun 04, 2020 13:52The 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 09:51The 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 05:15US 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 15:06The 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 07:20A 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 08:44Iran’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.