WASHINGTON - Kamala Harris made history on Wednesday as the first Black woman to accept a spot on a major party's presidential ticket, a moment intended to galvanize Democratic voters heading into the fall campaign against President Donald Trump.This will be her second time speaking to the Democratic National Convention.

But the stakes are higher than ever before as Harris tries to unite the party behind its presidential candidate, Joe Biden, while also introducing herself to a national audience who may be tuning into the campaign for the first time.She addressed the Democratic National Convention’s third night after former President Barack Obama warned that American democracy itself was at risk if President Donald Trump wins reelection.

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Day after Alice Johnson's RNC speech, Trump grants her full pardon

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump pardoned a woman on Friday who had praised him the night before at the Republican National Convention.Trump pardoned Alice Marie Johnson, who had spent more than two decades serving life without parole for a nonviolent drug offense. She had been convicted in 1996 on eight criminal counts related to a Memphis-based cocaine trafficking operation.

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Will produce Covid vaccine by this year end or sooner, says Donald Trump

vaccine before the end of this year or maybe even sooner. We will defeat the virus and the pandemic, and emerge stronger than ever before," he added.Trump further informed that three vaccines are in the final stage adding that the US "would crush the virus"."We have three different vaccines in the final trial stage.

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Biden, Harris attack Trump’s response to racial unrest ahead of RNC speech

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris stepped up their criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying he’s rooting for violence amid unrest in Wisconsin and blasting him for a lack of leadership on the coronavirus pandemic, hours before Trump’s planned address on the final night of the Republican National Convention.“He views this as a political benefit,” Democratic presidential nominee Biden said on MSNBC about protests in Wisconsin after police shot a Black man earlier this week.

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Crowd of 1,500, many without masks, packed onto White House South Lawn amid pandemic for Trump's RNC speech

Ivanka Trump, daughter and Advisor to the US president speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention from the South Lawn of the White House on August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDA WASHINGTON (AP) - It was a stunning scene in a country where parents and children have been laid to rest without their loved ones present, schools have gone to online-only learning and businesses have shut their doors to halt the spread of the coronavirus.On Thursday night, about 1,500 people gathered on the South Lawn of the White House so President Donald Trump could accept his party’s nomination for reelection in front of a roaring crowd.

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Trump formally accepts Republican re-nomination from RNC stage at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump accepted his party's renomination on a massive White House South Lawn stage Thursday night, breaking with tradition by using the executive mansion as a political backdrop and defying pandemic guidelines to address a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd.As crises churned outside the gates, Trump painted an optimistic vision of America’s future, including an eventual triumph over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 175,000 people, left millions unemployed and rewritten the rules of society.

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On RNC’s final night, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani asks Trump to ‘Make America Safe Again’

NEW YORK - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani slammed Joe Biden as a “Trojan Horse” for the Left and asked President Trump to “make our nation safe again” in a speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention on Thursday.In his speech, Giuliani blamed Democrats for the recent wave of unrest and riots throughout several cities across the United States, criticizing alleged inaction by Democratic officials and claiming that Black Lives Matter and Antifa hijacked the original peaceful protests over the “unforgivable police killing of George Floyd” and turned them “into vicious, brutal riots.” “It is clear that a vote for Biden and the Democrats creates the risk that you will bring this lawlessness to your city, town, or suburb,”

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Protesters gather outside White House to disrupt President Trump’s RNC acceptance speech

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 27: Demonstrators protest U.S. President Donald Trump at Black Lives Matter plaza August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Trump’s acceptance speech expected to target Biden

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to accept his second presidential nomination with a speech from the White House, as the Republican National Convention comes to a close.

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President Trump's big night: RNC acceptance speech aims to paint Biden as 'extreme'

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump plans to tell voters that Democratic rival Joe Biden would pursue the “most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee” when the president delivers his acceptance speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention.Trump has complained that the Democrats' message was too dark and pessimistic when they held their own scaled-back convention last week.

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Kamala Harris says Trump has shown ‘reckless disregard’ for well-being of Americans

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris took aim at U.S.

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Kamala Harris slams ‘profound failure of leadership’ in counter to Trump ahead of final night of RNC

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Kamala Harris speaks in counter to Trump ahead of final night of RNC

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Philadelphia accepts $10M grant for 2020 election plan

Mail-in ballots HARRISBURG - Philadelphia on Thursday accepted a $10 million grant to help it advance an ambitious election plan to buy counting equipment and spread satellite election offices and secure drop boxes around the city to absorb growing demand for voting by mail in November's presidential election.The city's election board, the Philadelphia City Commissioners, voted to accept the grant from the Chicago-based Center for Tech and Civic Life, whose donors include Facebook and Google.Accepting the grant comes as President Donald Trump's campaign is suing to outlaw drop boxes -- used in the primary in the heavily Democratic city of Philadelphia and its suburban counties where Trump lost badly in 2016's election despite prevailing in

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RNC Day 3: Pence, in convention speech, pledges he and Trump will 'make America great again, again'

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Kellyanne Conway's RNC speech serves as exit address from White House

FILE - White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway returns to the West Wing after talking to reporters outside the White House on August 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON (AP) - Kellyanne Conway is making her exit.One of the longest-serving advisers to President Donald Trump is delivering a speech about “everyday heroes” on Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention.

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Harris to deliver speech condemning Trump for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic

Kamala Harris plans to deliver a speech condemning President Donald Trump on Thursday for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The speech will come hours before Trump is set to accept renomination for a second term.Harris will detail a “profound failure of leadership” from Trump and highlight proposals by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to control the virus and confront the economic fallout, Biden’s campaign told The Associated Press.With Trump planning an evening address from the White House lawn, Harris’ afternoon remarks from Washington will be the Democrats’ main counter to the president on the final day of the Republicans’ convention.

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‘You’re not alone’: Melania Trump delivers speech at Republican National Convention

Melania Trump went there.While others at the Republican National Convention spoke about the coronavirus as a challenge successfully conquered, the first lady on Tuesday night used her address from the Rose Garden to acknowledge the pain of lives lost and families upended by the pandemic.“I want you to know you’re not alone,” she said to the tens of thousands of families that have been affected.

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Mike Pompeo hails Trump's America First policy at RNC

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has plunged into the heart of the 2020 presidential race with a speech supporting President Donald Trump’s reelection at the Republican National Convention.The speech was recorded in Jerusalem during an official visit to the Middle East and aired Tuesday at the RNC.The address was roundly condemned by Democrats and others as an inappropriate breach of decades of diplomatic precedent and a possible violation of federal law prohibiting executive branch employees from overt political activism while on duty.

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Herschel Walker says critics calling Trump 'racist' deeply hurt him during RNC address

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Former football player Herschel Walker talked about his 35-year friendship with President Donald Trump at the 2020 Republican National Convention on Monday.Walker, the former Georgia Bulldog and 1982 Heisman Trophy winner recalled meeting Trump and how they developed a deep, personal friendship over the past three decades.The two-time NFL Pro-Bowler discussed how Trump made him feel special and shared with Walker about how it was important for him to know each person personally.He said it hurt him when he heard people calling the president a racist."It hurts my soul to hear the terrible names that people call Donald.

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Mike Pompeo shattering precedent, sparking fury with GOP convention speech

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a joint statement to the press with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (unseen) after meeting in Jerusalem, on August 24, 2020. (Photo by DEBBIE HILL/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent a cable to all U.S.

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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris to get routine coronavirus testing, a notable change

WASHINGTON – In a notable change, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, will now be regularly tested for the coronavirus as the race heats up, a campaign aide confirmed Monday.“This announcement is another step demonstrating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ commitment to turn the page on Trump’s catastrophic mismanagement during the worst public health crisis in 100 years,” said Biden spokesperson Andrew Bates.Bates declined to comment Monday when asked if Biden had been tested yet, though deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said Sunday that he hadn't been.A campaign aide said the decision to move forward with regular testing was based on the recommendations of the campaign’s medical advisers.

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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris to be regularly tested for coronavirus

November's election.Since the coronavirus began spreading widely in the United States in March, Biden has done few public events, most of them close to his Delaware home.But following his formal nomination at last week's Democratic National Convention, the campaign is expanding its health protocols in a new phase of the race that could see the former vice president in closer proximity to the public."Consistent with the transparency Vice President Biden has demonstrated, we will make public if either the Vice President or Senator Harris ever has a confirmed, positive case of COVID-19," a campaign aide told Reuters.The aide said Biden, 77, Harris, 55, and key staff who interact with them would be tested "on a regular basis," in line with the

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FDA commissioner disputes Trump, says no 'deep state' elements delaying coronavirus vaccine

WASHINGTON : The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not made up of "deep state" elements that are trying to delay a coronavirus vaccine as President Donald Trump has suggested, the agency's commissioner told Reuters on Monday.Dr.

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RNC Day 1: Parade of supporters paint Trump's re-election as pivotal to avoid grim future

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Republicans predicted a national “horror movie” should President Donald Trump lose in November, flinging out dark warnings on Monday's opening night of their scaled down national convention.Trump's campaign had promised to offer an inclusive and uplifting prime-time message, hoping to broaden his appeal beyond his hard-core base by featuring the next generation of party stars including two Republicans of color, Rep.

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RNC Day 1: Speakers tout Trump's response to pandemic, paint bleak picture of future if president loses

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RNC Day 1: Republicans formally nominate Donald Trump to face Joe Biden in 2020 election

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - President Donald Trump turned a surprise opening-day appearance at his party’s scaled-down national convention into an opportunity to question the integrity of the fall election, even as his aides promised a diverse and uplifting message once the evening program shifted back to Washington, D.C.

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Trump complains of roll call coverage; nets cut speech off

NEW YORK – The opening of the Republican National Convention on Monday offered quick proof that how it is covered by the news media will be an ongoing sore spot.President Donald Trump complained about spotty coverage of the roll call vote that renominated him as the Republican candidate for president, and some television networks abandoned Trump's informal, 54-minute acceptance speech for aggressive fact-checking.This all took place hours before prime-time hours that would make clear how Republicans, like Democrats a week earlier, would keep viewers interested with a stripped-down convention because of the coronavirus pandemic.Democrats turned the traditional roll call vote into a well-received television production, with delegates

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Republicans formally nominate Donald Trump; he questions election integrity

US President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence give a thumbs up after speaking during the first day of the Republican National Convention on August 24, 2020, in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Chris Carlson / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The Republican Party formally nominated President Donald Trump for a second term in the White House Monday, and then Trump delivered a long and extraordinary speech in which he cast great doubt on the integrity of the election he was nominated to compete in.“The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election,” Trump said as he made an unscheduled appearance at the party's scaled-down convention.

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Republicans formally nominate Donald Trump to take on Biden in the fall

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The Republican Party formally nominated President Donald Trump for a second term in the White House Monday, one of the first acts of a GOP convention that has been dramatically scaled down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.Trump has sought to minimize the toll of the pandemic, but its impact was evident as proceedings began in Charlotte.

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Joe Biden says he’d shut down economy if scientists recommend it

ATLANTA – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would follow public health advisers’ advice if they called for a national shutdown should he take office and the coronavirus had not abated.“I would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives. We cannot get the country moving until we control the virus,” Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday night on ABC News.Asked specifically whether he’d push to shutter economic activity if scientists said it was necessary, Biden replied: “I would shut it down.”The former vice president's remarks came as part of his first joint interview with vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris.

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AP FACT CHECK: Kamala Harris meets constitutional requirements to serve as VP

THE CLAIM: Harris is ineligible to serve as vice president or president because her mother is from India and her father is from Jamaica. Trump said Thursday that he “heard” the California senator doesn’t meet the requirements, adding, “I have no if idea that’s right.”THE FACTS: That’s false.

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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Talk Race, Health Care in First Joint Interview

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would follow public health advisers' advice if they called for a national shutdown should he take office and the coronavirus had not abated. "I would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives.

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Biden has not been tested for coronavirus, deputy campaign manager says

Former vice-president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wear a facemask as he watches fireworks outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, at the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention, held virtually amid the novel coron Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has still not been tested for the novel coronavirus, his deputy campaign manager said on Sunday.Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Kate Bedingfield defended Biden not being tested – saying that the campaign has “put the strictest protocols in place, and moving forward, should he need to be tested, he certainly would be.”Bedingfield added that the former vice president has not had COVID-19.Despite not being tested himself, Biden has laid out a plan for free

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Donald Trump says FDA expands access to Covid-19 treatment with plasma

Covid-19 will be expanded to more sick Americans, widening access to a promising therapy even before researchers fully understand how well it works.“This is a powerful therapy," Trump said at a White House news conference. “Today’s action will dramatically expand access to this treatment."The U.S.

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Coronavirus: Trump says FDA has authorized emergency use of convalescent plasma for COVID-19

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced an emergency use authorization for the use of convalescent plasma in helping treat patients with COVID-19.

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Trump campaign unveils convention speakers, POTUS to speak every night

President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at the White House on Aug. 13, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

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Pelosi says ignore Trump comments on elections, says it’s to ‘suppress the vote’

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Saturday that people need to not pay attention to President Donald Trump in his comments about the election, saying that it’s to “suppress the vote.” She also said that a suggestion by Trump recently that he would have law enforcement at polling sites was a way to “instill fear in people” when they show up to vote.

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President Donald Trump says 2020 Democratic National Convention was 'gloomiest' in history

ARLINGTON, Va. - President Donald Trump sought to cast a more positive light on his presidency Friday after four days of bashing at the Democratic National Convention, saying that where Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden sees “American darkness," he sees “American greatness.”Trump was anxious for his turn in the spotlight after the four-day Democratic National Convention, which was culminated by Biden describing “a perfect storm" hitting the nation under Trump's watch as a result of the pandemic, the jolt to the economy that it delivered and racial unrest after the killing of George Floyd.

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Ozzy Osbourne says Donald Trump is “acting like a fool” with coronavirus response

Ozzy Osbourne has criticised Donald Trump‘s response to the coronavirus crisis, saying the US President is “acting like a fool”.Speaking in a new interview with Rolling Stone, Osbourne questions why Trump ran for President in 2016, before criticising his response to the ongoing pandemic.“If I was running for president, I would try and find out a little bit about politics,” he said. “Because the fucking guy you’ve got in there now doesn’t know that much about it, I don’t think.“It’s not like anyone could be a fucking heart surgeon and just go in with a scalpel.

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Hydroxychloroquine shouldn’t be used at all for Covid, ISDA says

President Donald Trump as a way to deal with the pandemic.IDSA now recommends not to use hydroxychloroquine either by itself or along with the antibiotic azithromycin for patients with the coronavirus, even in hospitals. The society previously called for limited use of hydroxychloroquine in trials.“IDSA’s expert guidelines panel concluded that higher certainty benefits (e.g., mortality reduction) for the use of these treatments are now highly unlikely even if additional high quality data would become available," the group said in a statement.Earlier, a National Institutes of Health panel recommended against using hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin, unless in a clinical trial, because of an increased risk of cardiac arrest.

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says election mail will go through despite cuts

WASHINGTON - New Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Friday he has no plans to restore mailboxes and other agency cuts made since he took over in June, sparking fresh questions over how the Postal Service will ensure timely delivery of an expected surge of mail-in ballots for the November election.It was DeJoy's first time publicly answering questions since summer mail delays brought a public outcry. Testifying before a Senate committee, the ally of President Donald Trump said it was his “sacred duty” that ballots arrive on time.

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Ozzy Osbourne Says Donald Trump Is ‘Acting Like A Fool’ About The Pandemic

Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne isn’t big on talking politics, but can’t hold his tongue this time.

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says ballots No. 1 priority, but details no plan

WASHINGTON - Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, pressed by senators over mail delivery disruptions, said Friday he was unaware of changes that sparked a public uproar, but his responses raised fresh questions about how the Postal Service will ensure timely delivery of ballots for the November election.DeJoy told senators he has zero plans to restore blue mailboxes and sorting equipment that have been removed, saying they are “not needed.” He did say that election mail would continue to be prioritized for delivery as in years past.But while DeJoy distanced himself from President Donald Trump's complaints about mail-in ballots that are expected to surge in the coronavirus pandemic, he told senators could not yet provide a detailed plan about how

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Biden accepts Democratic nomination for president at convention’s final night

Joe Biden vowed to unite an America torn by crisis and contempt Thursday night, accepting the Democratic presidential nomination and achieving a pinnacle in an unfinished quest that has spanned three decades and been marred by personal tragedy, political stumbles and more dynamic rivals.The past hurdles fell away as Biden addressed his fellow Democrats and millions of Americans at home who he hopes will send him to the White House to replace Donald Trump – though his triumphant moment was drained of immediate drama by the coronavirus pandemic, which left him speaking to a nearly empty arena rather than a to a joyously cheering crowd. ‘Come together’: Biden kicks off battle with Trump for U.S.

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‘If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us’: Joe Biden accepts Democratic presidential nomination

During his Thursday speech on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden formally accepted the party’s presidential nomination in the race for the White House against Donald Trump.

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DNC Day 4: Biden seeking unity as he accepts Democratic nomination on last night of convention

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Nielsen says 22.8 million watched convention's third night

NEW YORK – Television viewership Wednesday for the third night of the Democrats' virtual convention, which featured speeches by vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama, rose to 22.8 million viewers.The Nielsen company said the Democrats reached 19.7 million for Monday's first night and 19.2 million for the second night.Four years ago, the third night of Hillary Clinton's nominating convention was seen by 24.4 million viewers.There was no immediate estimate of people who streamed the convention online.

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Barack Obama says Trump treating presidency as ‘one more reality show’

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