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.

They also weighed in against a $1.5 trillion aid package backed by moderates in both parties that earned praise from the White House.All the key players in the entrenched impasse over a COVID-19 rescue package instead focused their energies on finger-pointing and gamesmanship, even as.

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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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Trump expects to announce choice for Justice Ginsburg's replacement at week's end

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says he expects to announce his pick for the Supreme Court on Friday or Saturday, after funeral services for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.He told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that he had a list of five finalists, “probably four,” and that he is pushing for a confirmation vote before Election Day.President Donald Trump speaks at a "Great American Comeback" rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on September 19, 2020. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) Trump disparaged reports that Ginsburg had told her granddaughter it was her wish that a replacement justice not be confirmed until the inauguration of a new president.

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The Latest: Trump says he's narrowed court list to 4 or 5

WASHINGTON – The Latest on the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (all times local):8:56 a.m.President Donald Trump says he’s narrowed his list of candidates to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to four or five candidates.In a Monday interview with “Fox & Friends,” the president confirmed that among the top contenders are Indiana’s Amy Coney Barrett and Florida’s Barbara Lagoa, both appellate court judges he appointed. Trump also indicated that Allison Jones Rushing, a 38-year-old appellate judge from North Carolina, is also on the short-list.

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Trump: Court finalists at 4 or 5, announcement by week's end

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says he expects to announce his pick for the Supreme Court on Friday or Saturday, after funeral services for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.He told “Fox & Friends” on Monday that he had a list of five finalists, “probably four,” and that he is pushing for a confirmation vote before Election Day. Trump disparaged reports that Ginsburg had told her granddaughter it was her wish that a replacement justice not be confirmed until the inauguration of a new president.

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Trump's Ohio suburb slide signals peril in industrial north

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Peggy Lehner, a Republican state senator in Ohio, doesn't sugarcoat what she has seen happen to support for President Donald Trump in her suburban Dayton district. “It hasn’t ebbed.

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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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GOP hopeful Supreme Court battle will help shift election

WASHINGTON – Four years ago, the allure of conservative Supreme Court appointments helped persuade skeptical Republicans to support Donald Trump for president. Two years ago, a contentious clash over Trump's choice of Brett Kavanaugh for the court was credited with bolstering GOP gains in the Senate in an otherwise bad midterm election.And now, just 44 days before Trump's reelection will be decided, Republicans are again looking to a Supreme Court nomination fight to unite a deeply fractured party as it faces the very real possibility of losing the White House and control of the Senate this fall.

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Trump says Supreme Court Justice nominee “most likely” will be a woman

U.S. President Donald Trump said that his Supreme Court Justice nominee will be “most likely a woman” after Justice Ruth Ginsburg’s death on Friday, adding that the choice of a woman would be “appropriate.”

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Trump promises to replace Ginsburg with a woman - and soon

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is promising to put forth a female nominee in the coming week to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, pushing the Republican-controlled Senate to consider the pick without delay.Taking the stage Saturday night at a North Carolina rally to chants of “Fill that seat,” the president said he would nominate his selection despite Democrats' objections.

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Trump says Supreme Court pick will 'most likely' be a woman, announcement could come 'next week'

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA - AUGUST 24: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Charlotte Convention Center on August 24, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Trump backs proposed TikTok deal with Oracle, Walmart

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said Saturday he's given his “blessing” to a proposed deal between Oracle and Walmart for the U.S. operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned app he's targeted for national security and data privacy concerns.Trump said the proposed deal will result in a new company likely to be based in Texas and under the control of U.S.-based Oracle and Walmart.“I have given the deal my blessing,” he said.

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GOP senators confront past comments on Supreme Court vote

WASHINGTON – Republican senators weighing what to do about the vacancy on the Supreme Court are facing questions about their own past comments amid complaints by Democrats that their views have shifted with changing political reality.President Donald Trump has urged the GOP-run Senate to consider “without delay” his upcoming nomination to fill the seat vacated by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday. The move comes just six weeks before the election.A look at what key Republican senators were saying in the past — and what they are saying now — about filling a seat on the Supreme Court during an election year.

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Elected officials face challenge on coronavirus vaccine as Trump rushes production

Donald Trump is escalating his promise for a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day.But across America, Democrats, independents and even some Republicans do not trust his administration to produce a safe and effective vaccine on such an aggressive timeline. Such hesitancy threatens to exacerbate the public health risk for millions of Americans whenever a vaccine is released.With the Nov.

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Here are the 20 names President Donald Trump added to his Supreme Court list in 2020

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Sept. 9 announced he had added 20 names to a list of Supreme Court candidates that he's pledged to choose from if he has vacancies to fill.The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 87 left the nation's highest court with an empty seat on Sept.

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Trump to Senate: Vote 'without delay' on his SCOTUS pick

US President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives for a "Great American Comeback" rally at Bemidji Regional Airport in Bemidji, Minnesota, on September 18, 2020.

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US to have COVID-19 vaccine for every citizen by next April, believes Trump

Donald Trump said on Friday he expects to have available enough doses of a coronavirus vaccine for every American by April.

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Trump shifts on Puerto Rico, releases aid as election nears

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced the release Friday of $13 billion in assistance to repair years-old hurricane damage in Puerto Rico and pledged to restore its economy, setting aside his past bitter treatment of the island and its leaders as he courts Puerto Rican voters in the U.S., particularly in the crucial swing state of Florida.Trump has spent much of his administration blasting Puerto Rican officials as corrupt and inept, and he has opposed spending to rebuild a power grid and other infrastructure that was wiped out by the Hurricane Maria in September 2017.

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Trump, Biden absorb news of Ginsburg death on the fly

BEMIDJI, Minn. – Minutes into yet another Donald Trump campaign rally, the world got word that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. But no one told the president.No one passed him a note.

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Vote to be held for Trump’s nominee to replace Ginsburg on U.S. Supreme Court: McConnell

Donald Trump’s next nominee to the Supreme Court will get a Senate vote, following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.McConnell’s vow capped off a statement his office released just hours after Ginsburg’s death from pancreatic cancer. It’s due to immediately kick off a bitter political fight over replacing the pioneering justice less than two months before November’s presidential election, and four months before the end of Trump’s first term.

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Mitch McConnell says Trump Supreme Court nominee will receive vote by full Senate

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement Friday that a Supreme Court nominee by President Donald Trump will receive a vote on the floor of the Senate following news of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing.Democratic nominee Joe Biden disagreed in a statement, declaring that "voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice to consider.”“This was the position that the Republican Senate took in 2016, when there were nearly nine months before the election.

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Trump calls Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘an amazing woman,’ Biden says she ‘stood for all of us’

BEMIDJI, Minn. - President Donald Trump called the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “an amazing woman” on Friday after apparently learning of her death from reporters. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Ginsburg “stood for all of us.”“She just died? Wow.

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McConnell pledges to bring Trump's SCOTUS pick up for a vote

WASHINGTON – The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday cast an immediate spotlight on the vacancy on the high court, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowing to bring President Donald Trump’s nominee to a vote with just over six weeks before the election.McConnell, in a statement released just over an hour after Ginsburg’s death was announced, declared unequivocally that Trump’s nominee would receive a vote, even though the Republican-controlled Senate did not give President Barack Obama’s pick a vote in the months ahead of the 2016 election.The death was poised to upend the presidential election, further stirring passions on a deeply divided nation as the campaign pushed into its stretch run.Trump took the

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Dems drop Pompeo contempt threat after records turned over

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.

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Coronavirus: Trump says they’re looking at reopening Canada-U.S. border possibly by end of year

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USDA plans additional $14B for farmers reeling from virus

DES MOINES, Iowa – The federal government said Friday that it will give farmers an additional $14 billion to compensate them for the difficulties they have experienced selling their crops, milk and meat because of the coronavirus pandemic.The U.S. Department of Agriculture released details of its plan that it said will provide “financial assistance that gives producers the ability to absorb increased marketing costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic." President Donald Trump first mentioned the aid in a speech Thursday night in Wisconsin, a presidential battleground state that is considered vital for his chances to win a second term.The additional payments illustrate the importance of farmers as a voting block to Trump's reelection.

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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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In N. Carolina Senate race, Tillis calibrates ties to Trump

RALEIGH, N.C. – When President Donald Trump fired up a crowd at a North Carolina airport last week, he gave a shout-out to the home-state senator fighting in his own tough reelection battle that could decide control of the chamber.Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, Trump said, has “been by my side!”But at that moment, Tillis wasn’t.

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At Pennsylvania town hall, Biden blasts Trump's 'criminal' virus response

Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden participates in a CNN town hall event on September 17, 2020 in Moosic, Pennsylvania.(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) MOOSIC, Pa - 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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5 Things to Know for Today

HOW MINNESOTA IS SHAPING UP Donald Trump almost won there in 2016 but the state has moved farther away from the president since, and polls suggest Joe Biden has built a consistent lead in the unlikely battleground.2. VIRUS CLUSTERS AT FRENCH UNIVERSITIES Students have contracted COVID-19 at schools like the centuries-old Sorbonne University in Paris, an experience that is a warning to other European universities that are preparing to reopen.3.

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Trump and Biden hit unlikely battleground state of Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS – Minnesota has backed Democratic presidential candidates for nearly half a century and rarely receives much attention during the final stages of the race, when campaigns typically focus their resources on more traditional swing states like Florida or Pennsylvania.But Minnesota will feel like a genuine battleground on Friday when President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, campaign here to mark the beginning of early voting.They're expected to avoid the urban core of Minneapolis to focus on rural and working class voters, some of whom shifted to Republicans for the first time in 2016.

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Biden rejects Trump claim that Covid-19 vaccine is imminent

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has bluntly contradicted President Donald Trump's suggestion that a coronavirus vaccine may be only weeks away, warning Americans they cannot trust the president's word.

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At town hall, Biden blasts Trump's 'criminal' virus response

MOOSIC, Pa. – 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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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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Trump heats up culture war in appeal to Wisconsin voters

MOSINEE, Wis. – President Donald Trump stepped up his rhetoric Thursday on cultural issues, aiming to boost enthusiasm among rural Wisconsin voters as he tries to repeat his path to victory four years ago. Making his fifth visit to the pivotal battleground state this year, Trump views success in the state’s less-populated counties as critical to another term.

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Trump giving misleading information about potential COVID-19 vaccine

U.S. President Donald Trump is not a doctor and has no medical training at all, but he’s contradicting medical experts, suggesting widespread COVID-19 vaccinations are just weeks away.

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Trump downplays legacy of slavery in appeal to white voters

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump intensified efforts to appeal to his core base of white voters on Thursday by downplaying the historical legacy of slavery in the United States and blasting efforts to address systemic racism as divisive.The president’s comments marking the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the Constitution amounted to a defense of white culture and a denunciation of Democrats, the media and others who he accused of trying to indoctrinate school children and shame their parents’ “whiteness.”He also argued that America's founding “set in motion the unstoppable chain of events that abolished slavery, secured civil rights, defeated communism and fascism and built the most fair, equal and prosperous nation in human

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Ex-Pence adviser says Trump bungled virus; she's for Biden

WASHINGTON – A former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence who also served on the White House coronavirus task force says President Donald Trump once suggested that COVID-19 might be a good thing because it would stop him from having to shake hands with “disgusting people."Olivia Troye is the latest former member of the Trump administration to speak out against him and urge voters to deny him a second term.

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AP-NORC poll: Trump faces deep pessimism as election nears

WASHINGTON – Less than seven weeks before Election Day, most Americans are deeply pessimistic about the direction of the country and skeptical of President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Roughly 7 in 10 Americans think the nation is on the wrong track, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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Report: Much needs doing to shield nursing homes from virus

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is claiming “resounding vindication” from an independent commission's report on the coronavirus crisis in nursing homes, but some panel members say that’s a misinterpretation of their conclusion that much remains to be done to safeguard vulnerable residents.Nursing home residents account for less than 1% of the U.S. population but more than 40% of the coronavirus deaths, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

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House condemns racism against Asian Americans amid pandemic

WASHINGTON – The House voted Thursday to condemn racism against Asian Americans tied to the coronavirus outbreak, approving a Democratic resolution on a mostly party-line vote. Republicans called the legislation an election-year effort to criticize President Donald Trump and “woke culture on steroids.” The resolution, approved 243-164, calls on all public officials to condemn anti-Asian sentiment and to investigate hate crimes after a rise in aggression and violence from those blaming people of Asian descent for the pandemic.

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Trump says he can talk GOP into going for 'larger' virus aid, including stimulus checks

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that Republicans should “go for the much higher numbers" in the stalled stimulus negotiations with Democrats.

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Mexican president vows to pay US water debt, thanks Trump

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s president vowed Thursday to repay the country's water debt to the United States, even if it means asking farmers in Mexican states along the U.S. border to pitch in.

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Austria corrects Trump’s ‘forest city’ claim: ‘We don’t have exploding trees’

Donald Trump’s claim that people in its country live in “forest cities.”Trump recently cited Austria and other European countries as models of good forest management that U.S. states like California, which has seen devastating wildfires lately, should learn from.

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ANALYSIS: President Trump promotes ‘magic thinking’ as pandemic strategy

Donald Trump always claims to have a few good tricks up his sleeve.Only this isn’t a performance, it’s a pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 Americans.Despite having two world-leading scientific agencies at his disposal — the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases — Trump has decided he’s better served by ignoring facts and science.Instead, he has regularly embraced what could best be described as “magic thinking” — promising, or perhaps even believing the impossible, instead of dealing with reality.First came Trump’s public claims about the virus itself, which were never rooted in anything but his own wild guesses: “One day it will just disappear,” said Trump, promising the virus

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Michael Stipe labels Donald Trump a “sack of lies” and calls for better Covid-19 strategies

Michael Stipe has criticised Donald Trump and urged for safer coronavirus management in his former hometown of Athens, Georgia.The former R.E.M.

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Meet the man who told Trump climate change is real

Anne C. Mulkern, E&E NewsOriginally published by E&E NewsWade Crowfoot, a California Cabinet secretary, didn’t plan on confronting President Donald Trump on extreme heat and wildfires.

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Bill Kelly: Trump’s denial of science is killing America

about 400,000 Americans could perish from COVID-19 by the end of this year.Sadly, it didn’t have to be that way, but the lack of leadership and the outright lying to the American people by Donald Trump, has transformed a bad situation into a catastrophic disaster.He lies about the gravity of the situation, he lies about a possible vaccine.

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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

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

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