China has total control over WHO despite only paying $40 million a year compared to what US has been paying, which is approximately $450 million a year, says Trump US President Donald Trump on Friday said US will be 'terminating' its relationship with World Health Organization as the group hasn't made the requisite coronavirus reforms.

Trump said US will redirect funds from WHO to other organisations. "China has total control over WHO despite only paying $40 million a year compared to what US has been paying which is approximately $450 million a year.

Because they have failed to make requested and needed reforms, today we will be terminating our relationship with WHO," Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House. “The world

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Covid | 'Testing in India or China...': Donald Trump on why USA has most cases

Donald Trump, President of the United States of Am... moreDonald Trump, President of the United States of America, said that Covid-19 cases in countries like India and China were low only due to low testing.

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China releases whitepaper on COVID-19, absolves itself of all global allegations

BEIJING : A beleaguered China on Sunday exonerated itself from the global allegations of delay in reporting the coronavirus outbreak, saying the virus was first noticed in Wuhan on December 27 as a viral pneumonia and human-to-human transmission was discovered on January 19, after which it took swift actions to curb it.A whitepaper released by the Chinese government gave a lengthy explanation to refute the allegations of cover up and delay by Beijing on reporting the COVID-19 outbreak last year in Wuhan.US President Donald Trump and leaders of several countries have accused China of not being transparent in reporting the deadly disease, leading to huge human casualties and economic crisis across the world.According to Johns Hopkins

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A U-turn, a rush to see Trump, a day of tension and surprise

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Mark Esper was three blocks from the FBI's Washington field office. He had planned to confer there at a security command center, but plans changed with an unexpected call to divert immediately.Go the White House.

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Zuckerberg-funded scientists: Rein in Trump on Facebook

BOSTON – Dozens of scientists doing research funded by Mark Zuckerberg say Facebook should not be letting President Donald Trump use the social media platform to “spread both misinformation and incendiary statements.”The researchers, including 60 professors at leading U.S. research institutions, wrote the Facebook CEO on Saturday asking Zuckerberg to “consider stricter policies on misinformation and incendiary language that harms people," especially during the current turmoil over racial injustice.The letter calls the spread of “deliberate misinformation and divisive language” contrary to the researchers’ goals of using technology to prevent and eradicate disease, improve childhood education and reform the criminal justice system.

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Trump says 'tremendous progress' being made on vaccines, 2 mn doses 'ready to go'

Donald Trump said on Friday his administration has 2 million coronavirus vaccines "ready to go"."We had a meeting on vaccines yesterday (Thursday), we are doing incredibly well. We can have some very positive surprises.

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India, China will have more COVID-19 cases than US if they test more, claims Donald Trump

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that countries like India and China would have much more coronavirus cases than America, the worst-hit country in the world, if they conduct more tests.Trump, in his remarks at Puritan Medical Products in Maine, said that the US has carried out 20 million tests.Compared to the US, Germany is at four million and much talked about South Korea is about three million tests, he said on Friday.According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, the US has reported nearly 1.9 million cases and over 1,09,000 deaths, making America the worst affected country, while the total number of coronavirus cases in India and China stand at 2,36,184 and 84,177 respectively.India has so far conducted over 4

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Ian Harkes opens up on American fears as Dundee United midfielder watches on in horror

Dundee United’s American midfielder has returned from the United States to self-isolate ahead of the club’s return to training next week.However, the country he has left behind is burning with racial tension and outrage that has followed the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.The 46-year-old black man’s death at the hands of a police officer, who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes, was captured on camera and has sparked protests all across America.Harkes has watched on in horror as innocent protesters – black and white – have been beaten and tear-gassed by heavy-handed police emboldened by rhetoric from Donald Trump.Live TV footage of protests in Washington DC being violently broken up were particularly worrying for Harkes as his

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Barr says he didn’t give tactical order to clear protesters

WASHINGTON – Attorney General William Barr says law enforcement officers were already moving to push back protesters from a park in front of the White House when he arrived there Monday evening, and he says he did not give a command to disperse the crowd, though he supported the decision. Barr’s comments in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday were his most detailed explanation yet of what unfolded outside the White House earlier this week.

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Joe Biden officially named Democratic presidential candidate to take on Donald Trump

Joe Biden has officially clinched the Democratic presidential nomination and will face President Trump at the polls.

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Donald Trump says 'it's a great day for George Floyd' as he boasts about US job numbers

Donald Trump has sparked fury after invoking George Floyd's name while boasting about employment figures, claiming he would be pleased.

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Citing jobs in US, Trump says 'a great day' for George Floyd, Biden calls it 'despicable'

Donald Trump sparked controversy Friday, calling it a "great day" for George Floyd, the man whose death in custody last week unleashed nationwide protests over police brutality against African Americans."We all saw what happened last week.

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'Greatest comeback in American history,' says Trump while praising US job data

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump effectively claimed victory over the economic crisis and COVID-19 on Friday as well as major progress against racial inequality, heartily embracing a better-than-expected jobs report in hopes of convincing a discouraged nation he deserves another four years in office.In lengthy White House remarks amid sweeping social unrest, a still-rising virus death toll and Depression-level unemployment, the Republican president focused on what he said was improvement in all areas.He was quick to seize the positive jobs report at a time when his political standing is at one of the weakest points of his presidency less than five months before the general election.

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Trump allows commercial fishing in marine conservation area

BANGOR, Maine - President Donald Trump rolled back protections Friday at a marine conservation area off the New England coast, signing an order to allow commercial fishing in a stretch of water environmentalists say is critical for endangered right whales and other fragile marine life.“We are reopening the Northeast Canyons to commercial fishing,” Trump told a roundtable meeting with fishing industry representatives and Maine officials.

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Citing jobs, Trump claims victory over virus, econ collapse

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump effectively claimed victory over the economic crisis and COVID-19 on Friday as well as major progress against racial inequality, heartily embracing a better-than-expected jobs report in hopes of convincing a discouraged nation he deserves another four years in office.In lengthy White House remarks amid sweeping social unrest, a still-rising virus death toll and Depression-level unemployment, the Republican president focused on what he said was improvement in all areas.He was quick to seize the positive jobs report at a time when his political standing is at one of the weakest points of his presidency less than five months before the general election.

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Trump evokes Floyd after hailing strong jobs report

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Friday declared it was “a great day” for George Floyd as he discussed a strong jobs report for the country and efforts to bring about racial equality. Joe Biden, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, said Trump’s comments about Floyd were “despicable.”Trump's comments about Floyd came as he shifted from discussing a drop in the unemployment rate to say everyone deserved “equal treatment in every encounter with law enforcement, regardless of race, color, gender or creed.” “We all saw what happened last week.

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Trump says Drew Brees shouldn’t have apologized for comments on kneeling during national anthem

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday said New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees should not have apologized for comments he made regarding players kneeling in protest during the national anthem and that everyone should stand.“I am a big fan of Drew Brees. I think he’s truly one of the greatest quarterbacks, but he should not have taken back his original stance on honoring our magnificent American Flag.

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COMMENTARY: A blistering critique from Gen. James Mattis will rattle Donald Trump

tries to divide us,” it is necessary to appreciate the revered four-star general’s place in the pantheon of legendary American combat commanders and why what he had to say matters.I first met Gen. Mattis on the eve of the Second Gulf War.

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Trump hails jobs report, but unemployment rate still high

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump took a victory lap Friday morning after the government reported surprising job gains for last month, seizing on the data to predict that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic and its economic disruption was in the rear-view mirror.The unemployment rate dropped to a better-than-expected 13.3%, but that is still on par with what the nation witnessed during the Great Depression.Trump spoke from the Rose Garden hours after the Labor Department said that U.S. employers added 2.5 million workers to their payrolls last month.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Trump boasts U.S. had greatest economy in history before the ‘China plague floated in’

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Friday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump boasted that his nation had the “greatest economy in history” before the “China plague floated in.”

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Coronavirus outbreak: Trump says U.S. economy is the ‘key to the world’

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Friday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump said that in his opinion, the United States economy is the “key to the world” and the most important factor in the global economic recovery from COVID-19.

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Why Joe Biden’s Senior Advisor Symone Sanders, 30, Is Doing All She Can To Get Him Elected

When Joe Biden spoke to the nation on the morning of June 2, 2020 from Philadelphia’s Town Hall, he conveyed a striking contrast to Donald Trump’s performance with an upside down Bible, the evening before, one of what America really needed – true ‘presidential leadership’. “I promise you this. I won’t traffic in fear and division. I won’t fan the flames of hate. I will seek to heal the racial wounds that have long plagued this country – not use them for political gain”, Biden vowed to the American people.

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Trump takes victory lap on jobs report, but rate still high

WASHINGTON – WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump took a victory lap Friday morning after the government reported surprising job gains for last month, seizing on the data to predict that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic and its economic disruption was in the rear-view mirror. The unemployment rate dropped to a better-than-expected 13.3%, but that is still on par with what the nation witnessed during the Great Depression.

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Twitter disables Trump campaign's George Floyd video tribute

President Donald Trump points from the rooftop of the Operational Building at NASA before the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020. (PhotThe three minute and 45 second clip is a montage of photos and videos of peaceful marches and police officers hugging protesters interspersed with some scenes of burning buildings and vandalism, set to gentle piano music and Trump speaking.Last month, Twitter placed fact-check warnings on two tweets from Trump's own account that called mail-in ballots “fraudulent” and predicted problems with the November U.S.

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Trump threatens military action to quell protest over George Floyd death

For a sixth day protesters gathered in cities across the U.S. to demonstrate against racism, and the death of George Floyd.

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Trump heads to rural Maine but won't escape demonstrators

WASHINGTON –

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Coronavirus treatment: Medical journal Lancet withdraws study flagging HCQ risks

The Lancet on Thursday retracted a study that raised safety fears over the use of a drug favored by President Donald Trump to treat COVID-19, after the paper's authors said they could no longer vouch for its underlying data.

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Google: State-based hackers targeted Donald Trump, Joe Biden campaigns

BOSTON : Google said state-based hackers have targeted the campaigns of both President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, although it saw no evidence that the phishing attempts were successful. The company confirmed the findings after the director of its Threat Analysis Group, Shane Huntley, disclosed the attempts Thursday on Twitter.

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Jimmy Fallon Shreds Trump Over Plummeting Approval Rating In ‘Tonight’ Monologue

Jimmy Fallon was uncharacteristically serious as he kicked off Thursday night’s at-home edition of “The Tonight Show”, addressing the protests that have been erupting across the globe in response to the death of George Floyd.

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ACLU sues Trump administration over police force on protesters near White House

TOPSHOT - Police officers wearing riot gear push back demonstrators shooting tear gas next to St. John's Episcopal Church outside of the White House, June 1, 2020 in Washington D.C., during a protest over the death of George Floyd. - President Trump

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Two elite medical journals retract coronavirus papers over data integrity questions

Two papers relying on hospital records of COVID-19 patients have been retracted because the company that purportedly analyzed the raw data won’t allow their validity to be independently validated.

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COVID-19 study linking hydroxychloroquine, death risk retracted from medical journal

Three of the authors of an influential article that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients retracted the study on Thursday, citing concerns about the quality of the data behind it.

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Trump praises Boris Johnson over vaccine fight as Transatlantic tensions simmer

Donald Trump today praised Boris Johnson amid the coronavirus pandemic despite simmering Transatlantic tensions over Covid-19 and racism.

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White House scrambles amid fears of coronavirus resurgence during George Floyd protests

For weeks, President Donald Trump has been eager to publicly turn the page on the coronavirus pandemic. Now fears are growing within the White House that the very thing that finally shoved the virus from center stage — mass protests over the death of George Floyd — may bring about its resurgence.

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Trump photo op, talk of military force amp up GOP challenge

WASHINGTON – The mumbling and dodging this week by Republicans came straight from the GOP playbook that helped the party endure President Donald Trump’s cringe-inducing choices.

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BET Invites Donald Trump and Joe Biden for Presidential Forum

BET is offering President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden the opportunity to face Black America in a presidential forum that would air on June 19, also known as Juneteenth, a day that celebrates the abolishment of slavery in this country.

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Snapchat removes Trump account from Discover for inciting 'racial violence'

The youth-focused social network said it would no longer promote Trump on its Discover platform for recommended content.

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Doctors kept close eye on Trump's use of malaria drug

Trump showed little change in basic health measurements from 16 months ago

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Trudeau Stays Silent On Trump’s Behaviour As George Floyd Protests Spread

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t sharing what he thinks about U.S. President Donald Trump’s language and behaviour amid escalating anti-racism protests, despite facing pointed questions on Tuesday.

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Ex-defense chief Mattis rips Trump for dividing Americans

WASHINGTON – In an extraordinary rebuke, former defense secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump's heavy-handed use of military force to quell protests near the White House and said his former boss was setting up a “false conflict" between the military and civilian society.

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‘He tries to divide us’: Mattis blasts Trump in letter, suggests president is threat to Constitution

President Donald Trump makes a brief address Monday from the Rose Garden after the death of George Floyd last week in Minneapolis police custody has resulted in days of protests, some of them violent, in multiple American cities.

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Trump photo op, talk of military force amp up GOP challenge

WASHINGTON – The mumbling and dodging this week by Republicans came straight from the GOP playbook that helped the party endure President Donald Trump’s cringe-inducing choices.

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States jockey to host Trump as he accepts GOP nomination

WASHINGTON – Several states are vying to host President Donald Trump when he accepts his party’s nomination later this year, after Trump officially pulled the plug on North Carolina because of the state's concerns over the coronavirus.

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Doctors kept close eye on Trump's use of malaria drug

WASHINGTON – The White House medical team kept a close eye on President Donald Trump's heart rhythms, including at least one electrocardiogram, to watch for potential side effects when he took a two-week course of a malaria drug to try to prevent the coronavirus, his doctor reported Wednesday.

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White House: Trump church visit akin to Churchill WWII role

WASHINGTON – The White House said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s visit to a nearby church where he held up a Bible was a “leadership moment” akin to Winston Churchill’s inspection of bomb-damaged London during World War II, a comparison that drew swift condemnation from the author of a new best-selling book on the former British prime minister.

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Malaria drug fails to prevent COVID-19 in a rigorous study

Dr. Gabe Kelen, director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins, explains how flattening the curve doesn’t necessarily mean a sooner end to the outbreak.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

Covid-19: Trump says US will redirect funds from WHO to other organisations

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