WASHINGTON – The House Foreign Affairs Committee has dropped a threat of contempt against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after the State Department turned over 16,000 pages of records related to a Senate investigation of Democrat Joe Biden’s son.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., had subpoenaed Pompeo and threatened to hold him in contempt of Congress after months of requesting the records, which had already been turned over to the Republican-led Senate.

The GOP probe by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee is looking at Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine, an investigation that Democrats say is an effort to boost President Donald Trump’s reelection bid.

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Woman pleads not guilty, denied bail over Trump ricin letter

BUFFALO – A woman charged with making threats against President Donald Trump by mailing a package containing ricin to the White House was ordered held without bail Monday by a judge in Buffalo who cited “a very strong case" against her based on an indictment in Washington, D.C.Pascale Ferrier, 53, of a Montreal suburb, was arrested a week ago as she tried to enter the U.S. through a border crossing between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo.

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President Trump's former campaign manager hospitalized amid threat to harm self

Brad Parscale, former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks before a rally at the target center on October 10, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Biden urges pause on Trump court pick until after election

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is pushing for quick confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett while his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, implored the Republican-led Senate to hold off on voting on her nomination until after the Nov.

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Trump ex-campaign boss hospitalized amid threat to harm self

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale was hospitalized Sunday after he threatened to harm himself, according to Florida police and campaign officials.Police officers talked Parscale out of his Fort Lauderdale home after his wife called police to say that he had multiple firearms and was threatening to hurt himself. Police Sgt.

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Dennis Quaid Fires Back After Participating in Trump's COVID-19 Ad: 'It Was in No Way Political'

Dennis Quaid is firing back at reports that he took part in a $300 million Donald Trump ad about the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Biden to Dems: Focus on health care, not court expansion

WILMINGTON, Del. – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants voters to see Republicans’ push for a speedy Supreme Court confirmation as an end-run of Congress and the 2010 health care law.In remarks on Sunday, the former vice president sidestepped any talk of expanding the court to counter conservative gains should he defeat President Donald Trump in November and Democrats regain a Senate majority.

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Dennis Quaid Responds To ‘Disappointment’ Over COVID PSA, ‘It Was In No Way Political’

Denis Quaid is responding to the backlash after a story reported that he took part in an ad for the White House and Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response.

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Former member of White House coronavirus task force blasts Trump over response

A former member of the White House coronavirus task force and adviser to Vice-President Mike Pence on Thursday came out with a video criticizing President Donald Trump over his response to COVID-19.

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US senators demand action after AP exposes palm oil abuses

seafood industry, resulting in the freeing of more than 2,000 men.President Donald Trump has since ordered the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to step up the seizure of unethically produced goods, from seafood and electronics to products believed to have been made by Muslim Uighurs in labor camps in China.“CBP needs to do its job and investigate credible allegations of products coming into our country that violate U.S.

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Fight over Trump tax returns goes to appeals court — again

NEW YORK – A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments Friday in President Donald Trump’s long-running fight to prevent a top New York prosecutor from getting his tax returns.Trump’s lawyers appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a district court judge last month rejected their renewed efforts to invalidate a subpoena that the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.

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2 police officers shot amid protests in Kentucky after no charges in Breonna Taylor death

Breonna Taylor’s death poured into America’s streets as protesters lashed out at a criminal justice system they say is stacked against Black people. Violence seized the demonstrations in her hometown of Louisville as gunfire rang out and wounded two police officers.Activists, celebrities and everyday Americans have been calling for charges since Taylor, an emergency medical worker, was shot multiple times by white officers who entered her home during a narcotics investigation in March.

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China knew how virulent Covid-19 was: Mike Pompeo

COVID-19 was that originated in Wuhan adding that Beijing "censored and disappeared courageous whistleblowers who tried to sound the alarm"."The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) knew how virulent the coronavirus was that originated in Wuhan. They censored and disappeared courageous whistleblowers and journalists who tried to sound the alarm.

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Trump promises executive order requiring medical care for babies born alive after abortions

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump promised Wednesday to sign an executive order that would require health care providers to provide medical care to all babies born alive as he makes an election-year push to appeal to voters who oppose abortion.The White House did not release further details about the order, but Trump’s announcement follows numerous attempts by GOP lawmakers in Washington and in state capitals around the country to pass legislation that threatens prison for doctors who don’t try to save the life of infants born alive during abortions.Organizations representing obstetricians and gynecologists say the law already provides protections to newborns, whether born during a failed abortion or under other circumstances.

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Florida man, 67, hit girl in face with flagpole in spat over Trump, deputies say

ORANGE PARK, Fla. – A Florida man was arrested last week after striking a 12-year-old girl in the face with a flagpole during a small rally for President Donald Trump near an intersection, authorities said.Norbert Logsdon Jr., 67, of Orange Park, was charged Sept. 16 with child abuse without great bodily harm and later released on bail, the Florida Times-Union reported.Logsdon and others had been participating in a sidewalk support event for the Republican president near an Orange Park intersection, according to a Clay County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

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How Trump’s attacks on science led to over 200,000 dead from coronavirus

Donald Trump said.Huddled with aides in the West Wing last week, his eyes fixed on Fox News, Trump wasn’t talking about how he had led the nation through the deadliest pandemic in a century. In a conversation overheard by an Associated Press reporter, Trump was describing how he’d just publicly rebuked one of his top scientists — Dr.

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World leaders clash over coronavirus during virtual United Nations meeting

U.N. chief exhorted them to unite and tackle the era’s towering problems: the coronavirus, the “economic calamity” it unleashed and the risk of a new Cold War between the United States and China.As Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the first virtual “general debate” of the U.N.

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Who's a hypocrite? GOP, Dems debate past comments on court

WASHINGTON – The “H” word — hypocrisy — is suddenly in vogue at the Capitol as lawmakers debate how quickly to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court following the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed that President Donald Trump’s as-yet unnamed nominee will receive a vote on the Senate floor “this year," but has been careful not to say exactly when that will happen.Democrats accuse the Kentucky Republican of blatant hypocrisy after McConnell refused to consider President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, eight months before the 2016 election.Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor Monday to remind McConnell of his own words hours after

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Third parties could play a lesser role in 2020 campaign

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – In close elections, it doesn't take much for third-party candidates to play an outsize role — as Democrats learned the hard way in 2016.President Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Michigan by fewer than 11,000 votes that year while left-leaning Green Party candidate Jill Stein netted over 51,000 and Libertarian Gary Johnson won 172,000. In Wisconsin, Trump won by about 23,000 votes, fewer than Stein’s 32,000.

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Feds threaten funds to NYC, Seattle and Portland over unrest

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department identified New York City, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle as three cities that could have federal funding slashed under a memorandum by President Donald Trump that sought to identify localities that permit “anarchy, violence and destruction in American cities.” The designation, which could open the door for the federal government to cut off some funding to the cities, drew immediate criticism from local elected officials.

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Pressure mounts on GOP senators over filling Ginsburg seat

WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hammered President Donald Trump and leading Senate Republicans for trying to rush a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as pressure mounted on senators to support or oppose a quick vote to fill the seat.As the Senate returned to Washington on Monday, all eyes were on Republicans Mitt Romney of Utah and Chuck Grassley of Iowa for clues to whether Trump and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be able to confirm Ginsburg's replacement anytime soon. A day earlier, Biden had urged unnamed Republicans to join Sens.

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Puerto Rico getting funds for power grid 3 years after Hurricane Maria

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - President Donald Trump announced the release Friday of nearly $13 billion to Puerto Rico to help rebuild the electrical grid and repair schools from the devastation of Hurricane Maria three years ago, amid criticism that the aid was overdue and was being released now only for political purposes.The grant comes as President Trump, who has previously balked at providing assistance to the island territory, and former Vice President Joe Biden court voters in the crucial swing state of Florida.

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Princeton faces federal inquiry after acknowledging racism

two-year investigation at Yale University revealed illegal discrimination against Asian American and white applicants. The department is supporting a lawsuit making similar claims of bias at Harvard University.President Donald Trump on Thursday decried efforts to teach about systemic racism at schools and universities.

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Assange lawyer says Trump offered indirect offer of pardon

LONDON – A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told a London court that her client was indirectly offered a “win-win” deal by President Donald Trump that would see him avoid extradition to the U.S. if he revealed the source of a leak of documents from the Democratic Party before the 2016 election.Assange, who didn't reveal the source of the leak of the Democratic National Committee emails, is fighting efforts by the U.S.

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Biden says Trump’s downplaying of coronavirus threat is ‘close to criminal’

Joe Biden on Thursday went after President Donald Trump again and again over his handling of COVID-19, calling Trump’s downplaying of the pandemic “criminal” and his administration “totally irresponsible.”“You’ve got to level with the American people — shoot from the shoulder. There’s not been a time they’ve not been able to step up.

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GOP shrugs off Trump's call for 'higher' offer on virus aid

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump parachuted into the coronavirus aid debate Wednesday, upbraiding his Republican allies for proposing too small of a relief package and encouraging both parties to go for a bigger one that would include his priority of $1,200 stimulus checks for most Americans.But his top GOP allies — who worked for weeks with the White House to construct the very aid package Trump criticized — shrugged off the president’s mid-morning tweet.

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Leave of absence for health official in furor over meddling

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration health official embroiled in a furor over political meddling with the coronavirus response is taking a leave of absence, the government announced Wednesday.The Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that Michael Caputo was taking the time “to focus on his health and the well-being of his family.” Caputo, the department's top spokesman, apologized on Tuesday to his staff for a Facebook video in which he reportedly said scientists battling the coronavirus are conspiring against President Donald Trump and warned of shooting in America if Trump were to lose the November election.

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When will US have a COVID-19 vaccine? Trump officers offer conflicting timelines

coronavirus vaccines to be widely available, with one saying in an interview that every American could be able to get a shot by the end of March.That timetable, offered by Paul Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, is more ambitious than those of drug company executives, most public health experts and some other top US health officials.

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Trump insists he ‘up-played’ coronavirus threat, continues to cast doubt on masks

Donald Trump denied during a televised town hall Tuesday that he had played down the threat of the coronavirus earlier this year, although there is an audio recording of him stating he did just that.Trump, pressed by one uncommitted voter on why he doesn’t more aggressively promote the use of masks to reduce the spread of the disease, continued to cast doubt on the widely accepted scientific conclusions of his own administration strongly urging the use of face coverings.

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Trump to preside over signing of historic Arab-Israel recognition deals

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office to announce that Bahrain will establish diplomatic relations with Israel, at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Sept.

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Trump to preside over historic Arab-Israel recognition deals

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is set to preside over the signing of historic diplomatic deals between Israel and two Gulf Arab nations that could herald a dramatic shift in Middle East power dynamics and give him a boost ahead of the November election.In a White House ceremony aimed at showcasing presidential statesmanship, Trump will host more than 700 guests Tuesday on the South Lawn to witness the sealing of the agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

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California wildfires raise fight over climate change ahead of Trump's visit

A singed ice machine sits over a burned store during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. - Dangerous dry winds whipped up California's record-breaking wildfires a MCCLELLAN PARK, Calif. - With crews battling wildfires that have killed at least 35 people, destroyed neighborhoods and enveloped the West Coast in smoke, another fight has emerged: leaders in the Democratic-led states and President Donald Trump have clashed over the role of climate change ahead of his visit Monday to California.California, Oregon and Washington state have seen historic wildfires that have burned faster and farther than ever before.

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Pompeo tweet indicates US ambassador to China is leaving

BEIJING – The U.S. ambassador to China appears to be leaving his post, based on tweets posted Monday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

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Fires raise fight over climate change before Trump's visit

BEAVERCREEK, Ore. – With crews battling wildfires that have killed at least 33 people, destroyed neighborhoods and enveloped the West Coast in smoke, another fight has emerged: leaders in the Democratic-led states and President Donald Trump have clashed over the role of climate change ahead of his visit Monday to California.California, Oregon and Washington state have seen historic wildfires that have burned faster and farther than ever before. Numerous studies in recent years have linked bigger wildfires in the U.S.

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Source: Oracle wins TikTok over Microsoft in Trump-urged bid

The owner of TikTok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as the American tech partner that could help keep the popular video-sharing app running in the U.S., according to a source familiar with the deal who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.Microsoft announced Sunday that its bid to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations was rejected, removing the tech giant from the running a week before President Donald Trump promises to follow through with a plan to ban the Chinese-owned app in the U.S.

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TikTok picks Oracle over Microsoft in Trump-forced sales bid

The owner of TikTok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as its preferred suitor to buy the popular video-sharing app, according to a source familiar with the deal. Microsoft announced Sunday that its bid to buy TikTok has been rejected, removing a leading suitor for the Chinese-owned app a week before President Donald Trump promises to follow through with a plan to ban it in the U.S.Microsoft said in a Sunday statement that TikTok's parent company, Bytedance, “let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft.”The Trump administration has threatened to ban TikTok by mid-September and ordered ByteDance to sell its U.S.

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Trump to hold indoor campaign rally in Nevada despite coronavirus threat

Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally indoors on Sunday despite public health professionals’ warnings against large indoor gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.Trump, a Republican, has faced criticism for his response to the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed more than 193,000 people in the United States. He played down the virus in its early stages and has alternately embraced and disregarded advice from public health experts, who encourage mask-wearing and maintaining social distance to prevent the virus’ spread.The president’s campaign portrayed the rally in Henderson, Nevada, as an opportunity for his supporters to exercise their rights to peaceful assembly under the U.S.

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Warring Afghans meet to find peace after decades of war

DUBAI – After decades of conflict, Afghanistan’s warring sides will open long anticipated negotiations Saturday in search of a lasting peace that will also provide an exit for U.S. and NATO troops after nearly 19 years.

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Coronavirus: Trudeau insists experts informed government decisions ‘every step of the way’ in light of Woodward tapes

When asked on Friday about tapes of an interview conducted by veteran journalist Bob Woodward, where U.S.

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Pompeo says Afghan negotiations likely to be 'contentious'

ISLAMABAD – Much anticipated negotiations between Afghanistan's warring parties are likely to be “contentious,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Friday, but are the only way forward if Afghans are to find peace after decades of relentless conflict.

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Donald Trump says 'didn't lie' about coronavirus after bombshell book

coronavirus after a bombshell new book by journalist Bob Woodward revealed that he deliberately tried to downplay the crisis.Trump's taped admission to Woodward that he minimized the pandemic in public, while being aware of the unique danger from Covid-19, has set off alarm bells less than eight weeks before election day.Asked bluntly at a hastily organized White House press conference "Why did you lie to the American people?" Trump responded: "I didn't lie."The Republican, who is down in the polls against Democrat Joe Biden and faces overwhelming disapproval from Americans on his handling of the coronavirus crisis, insisted that he'd softened the dangers in public so as to preserve calm."I think we did a great job, Trump said.

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Donald Trump blames Bob Woodward for downplaying coronavirus threat

Donald Trump has blamed Watergate journalist Bob Woodward for sitting on the US President's knowledge of how deadly coronavirus was four months ago.

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Kamala Harris calls President Trump’s downplaying of coronavirus threat ‘outrageous’

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris reacted Thursday following the release of a Feb. 7 recording in which U.S.

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Coronavirus: Trump says he didn’t lie to the American people when downplaying COVID-19 after Woodward tapes released

In a tense exchange with a reporter, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he didn’t lie to the American people, after the release of the Bob Woodward tapes revealed he admitted to downplaying the threat-level of the novel coronavirus, because the nation had to be “calm” and “not panicked” amid the pandemic.

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President Trump ‘showed his contempt’ for Americans in Woodward tapes: Nancy Pelosi

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said that President Donald Trump “showed his contempt” for the American people by downplaying the coronavirus pandemic, even though it was revealed in Bob Woodward’s new book that the president was aware of the virus’ severity early on.

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Trump admitted to playing down coronavirus threat, new book reveals

Washington Bureau Chief Jackson Proskow talks about a new book revealing President Donald Trump’s awareness of COVID-19’s severity and his failure to efficiently help Americans.

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Pompeo asks ASEAN states not to let China `walk over us'

HANOI – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Southeast Asian nations Thursday to go beyond words and act against China’s “bullying” in the disputed South China Sea, promising America will back them up.Pompeo spoke with counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in an annual conference by video due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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New book: Trump admitted to playing down threat of COVID-19

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