Brussels has waded into the dispute between President Donald Trump and Twitter, backing the social media giant's decision to fact-check two tweets by the US leader.

The European Commission's top official on countering disinformation praised Twitter for tagging two claims made by Trump last month about postal ballots in US elections.

The intervention came as the European Union urged web giants – including Twitter, Facebook and Google – to do more to tackle the "massive wave" of harmful online disinformation triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.

Brussels officials said that while social media platforms had taken steps to counter the deluge of misleading healthcare information and conspiracy theories, their efforts were "not good enough".

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President Trump to sign executive order on police reform

WASHINGTON – Embracing a new priority, President Donald Trump is set to announce executive actions on police procedures and Senate Republicans are preparing a package of policing changes as the GOP rushes to respond to mass demonstrations over the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans.It's a sudden shift for the Republican Party, one Democrats are watching warily, and a crush of activity that shows how quickly the mass protests over police violence and racial prejudice are transforming national politics.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declared that Republicans are developing “a serious proposal to reform law enforcement."The Senate Judiciary Committee will gavel in Tuesday afternoon for an extensive hearing on

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US making very good headway in respect to vaccines: Trump

coronavirus pandemic and also therapeutically, President Donald Trump has said. The US has made a lot of progress in the fight against the coronavirus, he said."China should not have let it happen, but it happened.

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Biden posts massive $81M cash haul for May

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden pulled in $81 million for his election effort in the month of May, a massive sum that shows the extent to which Democrats have unified behind the former vice president as he seeks to defeat Republican President Donald Trump. Then on Monday, he broke his own single-event record by taking in $6 million during an online fundraiser with Massachusetts Sen.

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Oklahoma governor seeks larger event for Trump's Tulsa rally

OKLAHOMA CITY – So many people have expressed an interest in attending President Donald Trump’s rally Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that the governor said he’s asked the campaign to consider a larger, outdoor venue to accommodate them.Gov. Kevin Stitt said Monday after talking with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence that nearly one million people have requested tickets to the event.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Trump touts hydroxychloroquine even as U.S. revokes emergency use status

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday other countries had provided great reports on the effectiveness of malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for treatment of the deadly coronavirus, saying that only U.S.

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Trump: Former adviser Bolton faces charges if book released

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Monday that his former national security adviser, John Bolton, could face a “criminal problem” if he doesn't halt plans to publish a new book that describes scattershot, sometimes dangerous, decision-making by a president focused only on getting re-elected.Trump said it would be up to Attorney General William Barr to issue any charges, but hinted that the matter would end up in court. “We'll see what happens.

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Trump announces major US troop cut in 'delinquent' Germany

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Monday he is ordering a major reduction in U.S. troop strength in Germany, a move widely criticized by members of his own party as a gift to Russia and a threat to U.S.

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Ben Carson thinks Trump will 'get there' on athletes kneeling

WASHINGTON (AP) - The lone African American member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet said Monday he would work with the president on the issue of athletes taking a knee during the national anthem, though Trump has shown no signs of softening, tweeting over the weekend that he would not watch soccer or football if players don’t stand for the national anthem.Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said he believes that most players are kneeling to protest police brutality, not because they disrespect the flag.

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Howard Stern Fires Back At Donald Trump Jr. After Blackface Drama: ‘Go Into Psychotherapy’’

Howard Stern shot back at Donald Trump Jr. for retweeting a 1993 comedy sketch featuring the shock jock wearing blackface. Stern, 66, called out Trump Jr. for what he saw as hypocrisy; Trump Jr. has been on his show before and admitted to being a huge fan. The clip in question shows Stern in blackface, repeatedly using the n-word, edited together with a recent appearance on The View, in which he says he’s never used the term.

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FDA just gave a thumbs down to Trump’s favorite COVID-19 drugs

John TravisScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today revoked its emergency use authorization (EUA) for hydroxychloroquine sulfate (HCQ) and chloroquine phosphate (CQ) to treat COVID-19.

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HUD secretary says he'll 'work' Trump on athletes kneeling

WASHINGTON – The lone African American member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet said Monday he would “work” the president on the issue of athletes taking a knee during the national anthem, though Trump has shown no signs of softening, tweeting over the weekend that he would not watch soccer or football if players don’t stand for the national anthem.Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said he believes that players are kneeling to protest police brutality, not because they disrespect the flag.

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China warms to idea of four more years of Donald Trump Presidency

‘Getting Worse’“I don’t think the election will change the relationship in a fundamental way. The deep feeling in the U.S.

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Camila Cabello calls on fans to join fight for transgender rights

Camila Cabello has called on her fans to join the fight for transgender rights. The 'Havana' singer took to Instagram to mark Pride Month over the weekend and to urge her followers to join her in donating to the Transgender Law Center in the US, which aims to "to keep transgender and gender nonconforming people alive, thriving, and fighting for liberation", and supporting other organisations.

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Camila Cabello Voices Support For Pride Month And The LGBTQ+ Community, Urges Fans To Fight For Transgender Rights

Camila Cabello wished her fans a very happy Pride Month in a new social media post.

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Floridians mark President Trump’s birthday with flotillas, caravans

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Donald Trump supporters in Florida were celebrating his birthday Sunday with caravans, flotillas and parades throughout his adopted homestate.In Palm Beach County — home of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort — separate caravans of trucks, motorcycles and boats were riding along highways and the intercoastal waterway at various times in the morning.

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Senate GOP to restrict police choke holds in emerging bill

WASHINGTON – Driven by a rare urgency, Senate Republicans are poised to unveil an extensive package of policing changes that includes new restrictions on police choke holds and other practices as President Donald Trump signals his support following the mass demonstrations over the deaths of George Floyd and other black Americans.Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the sole African American Republican in the Senate, has been crafting the package set to roll out Wednesday.

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GOP candidates balance pros, cons of running with Trump

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is hitting the road again. And while a campaign event with a president who draws TV cameras and raucous crowds can be gold for down-ballot candidates, these days its value can be debatable.

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'Studio City' Actor Scott Turner Schofield Slams Trump's Revoking of Trans Healthcare Protections

Scott Turner Schofield, the first transgender man to be nominated for a Daytime Emmy, called out President Donald Trump's decision to roll back protections for transgender people. “I was floored to learn that three months into a global pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and exactly four years after a gunman murdered LGBTQ+ people, specifically Latinx, at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the Trump administration announced its 150th attack on LGBTQ Americans by erasing protections for transgender people in healthcare,” said Schofield, who received a Daytime Emmy nomination for his work in Amazon's Studio City.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Former U.S. FDA head advises Trump to pause on restarting rallies

Former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr.

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Trump moved Tulsa rally date after learning about Juneteenth

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. – President Donald Trump didn't know the significance to black Americans of the date and location he chose for his first campaign rally since the coronavirus pandemic more than three months ago, key Republican supporters of the president in Congress said Sunday. Trump had scheduled the rally for June 19, known as Juneteenth because it marks the end of slavery in the United States.

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Barack Obama Celebrated As A ‘True Leader’ On Donald Trump’s 74th Birthday: He’s My ‘Real President’

While Donald Trump celebrates his 74th birthday, supporters of Barack Obama, 58,have taken to Twitter, using the hashtag “#ObamaDayJune14th”. The former POTUS may have left the White House four years ago, but his actions certainly haven’t been forgotten, with many hailing him their “true president”. One user wrote, “I will always be thankful I voted twice for and was even alive to experience the Presidency of Barack Obama. A leader and man to admire for any nation in history.”

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Trump rally amid COVID-19 a ‘dangerous move,’ experts say

Donald Trump plans to rally his supporters this coming Saturday for the first time since most of the country was shuttered by the coronavirus. Trump will head to Tulsa, Oklahoma — a state that has seen relatively few COVID-19 cases.But health experts question the decision, citing the danger of infection spreading among the crowd and sparking outbreaks when people return to their homes.

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Donald Trump sparks concerns with 'baby steps' and two-handed water sip at speech

Donald Trump has fired back at comments about his apparent frailty on show during a graduation address.

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Trump rally called ‘dangerous move’ in age of coronavirus

WASHINGTON – After months away from the campaign trail, President Donald Trump plans to rally his supporters this coming Saturday for the first time since most of the country was shuttered by the coronavirus. Trump will head to Tulsa, Oklahoma — a state that has seen relatively few COVID-19 cases.But health experts question the decision, citing the danger of infection spreading among the crowd and sparking outbreaks when people return to their homes.

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Trump prepares to return to campaign trail during pandemic

As new COVID-19 cases flare-up across the U.S., President Donald Trump’s eyes are back on the campaign trail, which he’s set to return to following a three-month hiatus. Trump warmed up with a contentious speech for graduates at a New York military academy, amid tension with top military officials.

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Donald Trump Protesters Gather Outside During His West Point Commencement Speech

Despite the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, 1000 cadets graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point gathered at the university on June 13 to hear President Donald Trump give their commencement address. The socially distanced, in-person ceremony for the US Army’s newest second lieutenants marks Trump’s first graduation address at West Point. Trump, for the most part, stuck to the script while he congratulated the new class on their remarkable achievement.

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Ariana Grande and Anne Hathaway lead support for LGBT community after Donald Trump reverses healthcare protections

Donald Trump reversed healthcare protections for the community.On Friday (12 June), the Trump administration finalised a rule that will remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people regarding healthcare and health insurance.The President’s decision came on the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, where 49 people were killed and 53 others were wounded, as well as in the middle of Pride month.The rule is set to come into effect in mid-August.Celebrities have been condemning the decision, sending support to the LGBT community, particularly transgender people who will be affected by the rule.Ariana shared a screenshot of a headline about the reversal, writing over it: ‘Disgusting.’ Sharing the same screenshot again, she

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Trump reschedules campaign rally after Juneteenth uproar

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Friday that he is rescheduling his first campaign rally in months to a day later so it won’t conflict with the Juneteenth observance of the end of slavery in the United States.Trump had scheduled the rally — his first since early March — for June 19 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Ted Nugent says “Donald Trump was sent here by God”

Ted Nugent has said that he thinks US president Donald Trump was “sent here by God.”Speaking in a new interview, the outspoken rocker explained why he loved Trump, why “hard-earned tax dollars” shouldn’t be used to pay for abortions, and he also called the director of the FBI “the biggest punk-ass crook in America.”“Donald Trump was sent here by God. Just like our founding fathers were touched by divine intervention,” Nugent told LondonRealTV. “Because man was not created to live under the control of kings and emperors and tyrants.

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World joins US protests but leaders restrained about Trump

BERLIN – People have taken to the streets of Berlin, London, Paris and other cities around the world to demonstrate in support of Black Lives Matter protesters in the United States and to vent anger over President Donald Trump’s response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.But at the top, the leaders of traditional allies of the United States have taken pains to avoid criticizing Trump directly, walking a fine line to reconcile international diplomacy with domestic outrage.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau let silence speak for itself when asked to comment on the decision to forcibly clear peaceful protesters outside the White House to make way for a Trump photo-op at a nearby church, standing pensively at his lectern

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Protests in Trump country test his hold in rural white areas

In the lake country 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of Detroit, hundreds danced, prayed and demanded racial justice in Cadillac, a Michigan town that was long home to a neo-Nazi group. It was not an isolated scene.

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Trump addresses West Point grads amid tension with military

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. – His relationship with top military officials strained, President Donald Trump on Saturday will address the graduating class at the U.S.

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Trump reschedules campaign rally after Juneteenth uproar

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Friday that he is rescheduling his first campaign rally in months to a day later so it won't conflict with the Juneteenth observance of the end of slavery in the United States.Trump had scheduled the rally — his first since early March — for June 19 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Black leaders said it was offensive for Trump to pick that day and that place, a city that in 1921 was the site of a fiery and orchestrated white-on-black attack.

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Facebook fires employee who protested inaction on Trump posts

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc fired an employee who had criticized Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's decision not to take action against inflammatory posts by U.S.

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Gabrielle Union, Ariana Grande More Drag Trump For Revoking Trans Health Protections: ‘Disgusting’

It was a bleak day on June 12, when Donald Trump’s administration took away protections for transgender people by opening the door to discrimination in health care. The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a regulation that will “return to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘sex’ as male or female and as determined by biology,” per the department’s statement released on Friday. This ignores gender identity; “for transgender people, the sex they were assigned at birth and their own internal gender identity do not match,” according to GLAAD (short for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation).

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Trump may be stuck with awkwardly worded GOP platform

President Donald Trump said Friday he wants “a new and updated” Republican Party platform after the Republican National Committee voted this week to carry over the 2016 document.But Trump may be stuck with the old platform, which is peppered with jeremiads about the “current administration” that were originally written about President Barack Obama.The trouble began with a fight between Trump and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper over coronavirus restrictions in Charlotte, the host city for the Republican National Convention.

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Regina King Calls Trump's Decision to Host Tulsa Rally on Juneteenth "Infuriating"

Regina King is disgusted Donald Trump will host a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma onJuneteenth. The president's decision also coincides near the anniversary of theTulsa race massacre, which occurred in 1921.

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Jimmy Kimmel Slams Donald Trump’s Response To Racism In America In Hilarious ‘Live’ Cold Open

Jimmy Kimmel is offering a hilarious take on Donald Trump’s response to the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement happening across the world.

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Attendees of President Trump’s Tulsa rally must agree to a coronavirus liability waiver

OKLAHOMA CITY - The sign-up page for guests to register for tickets for President Donald Trump’s rally next week in Tulsa, Oklahoma contains a disclaimer stating attendees “voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19” and agree to not hold Trump’s campaign, the venue or any affiliates liable for any illness or injury.“By attending the Rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Donald J.

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Trump campaign takes no responsibility if MAGA rally-goers get coronavirus

Donald Trump will pack thousands of loyal supporters into an arena in Tulsa, Okla., next week for his first rally since the coronavirus lockdowns started — and if any attendees get COVID-19 from the experience, well, that’s their problem.Anyone who registers for the Trump rally on June 19 must waive the right to sue the president’s campaign or the venue if they later test positive for the virus, according to the rally event page. The Bok Center venue has a capacity of about 19,000 people.“By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present,” the disclaimer on Trump’s campaign website says.

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Robert De Niro slams Trump's response to COVID-19; compares him to 'crazy relative'

Robert De Niro believes that the coronavirus pandemic wouldn't have had such a drastic impact on the United States, which has registered over two million cases and over one lakh deaths till now if President Donald Trump had not responded to the situation like a "crazy relative."During a virtual appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Wednesday night, Robert De Niro ridiculed Donald Trump's response to the global pandemic and said his it is his failure to listen to health experts that enabled the virus to wreak havoc across the nation."This whole thing could have been avoided if Trump had listened to the people in the intelligence community. They kept telling him something was coming.

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Donald Trump may suspend H-1B visas: Report

NEW DELHI : Dampening the 'Great American Dream' of thousands of Indian IT professionals, the Donald Trump administration is said to be considering a proposal to suspend employment visas, including the most coveted H-1B visa. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the proposed suspension could bar any new H-1B holder outside the America from coming to work until the suspension is lifted, though visa holders already in the country are unlikely to be affected.H-1B is the most coveted foreign work visas for technology professionals from India.

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Trump Supporters Must Agree Not to Hold Him Liable if They Get Coronavirus at His Tulsa Rally

President Donald Trump is holding a rally next week in Tulsa, Oklahoma and anyone who registers for tickets to the event must agree that they will not sue the campaign if they catch coronavirus at the rally.

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Donald Trump blasted for trolling Black Lives Matter activists by holding rally in race massacre city

anti-racism campaigners by holding a rally in a city hit by a horrific race massacre nearly a century ago. To rub salt in the wound the US president is also holding the event next week on Juneteenth- a holiday marking the end of slavery in the country.

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Black Tulsans call Trump rally plan 'a slap in the face'

OKLAHOMA CITY – Black community and political leaders called on President Donald Trump to at least change the Juneteenth date for a rally kicking off his return to public campaigning, saying Thursday that plans for a rally on the day that marks the end of slavery in America come as a “slap in the face.”From Sen.

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Trump fumes as protesters stake out festive zone in Seattle

SEATTLE – Following days of violent confrontations with protesters, police in Seattle have largely withdrawn from a neighborhood that protesters have transformed into a festival-like scene that has President Donald Trump fuming. Trump taunted Gov.

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President Trump heads to Dallas for race relations talk, fundraiser

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was ready to discuss race relations and policing on Thursday before a friendly audience in Dallas as he weighs executive action on police reform in response to the national outcry over following the death of George Floyd.Notably, Dallas’ mayor and three top law enforcement officials, all of whom are black, won’t be on hand for the roundtable discussion at the Dallas campus of Gateway Church.Dallas Plice Chief U. Renee Hall, Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown, and Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot did not receive invitations to the event, according to their offices.

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Trump OKs sanctions against international tribunal employees

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lobbed a broadside attack Thursday against the International Criminal Court by authorizing economic sanctions and travel restrictions against court workers directly involved in investigating American troops and intelligence officials for possible war crimes in Afghanistan.The executive order signed by the president marks his administration’s latest attack against international organizations, treaties and agreements that don't hew to its policies. Since taking office, Trump has withdrawn from the Paris climate accord, the Iran nuclear deal and two arms control treaties with Russia.

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