More than 100,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 — the disease caused by the novel coronavirus— since the pandemic began two months ago, according to data tracked by Johns Hopkins University.

The sobering milestone comes after a Memorial Day long weekend that saw U.S. President Donald Trump go golfing for the first time since the coronavirus was declared a national emergency on March 13.

The first cases of COVID-19 on U.S. soil were recorded in Washington state on Jan. 20. In early May, a revised coronavirus mortality model by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) predicted close to 135,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 by early August, as social-distancing measures for quelling the pandemic

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Snoop Dogg Explains Why He Plans To Vote For The First Time Ever In November

Snoop Dogg is ready to be part of the democratic process.

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Snoop Dogg Is 'Definitely' Going to Vote for the First Time in 2020: 'I Can't Stand to See This Punk in Office'

Snoop Dogg is going to make his voice heard at the polls. The rapper called in to Big Boy's Neighborhood discuss the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests on June 4, and shared that it'll be his first time casting a ballot.

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Mint Lite | India emerges from lockdown, diamonds pile up & other news to know

George Floyd’s killing continue, and companies like Nike and Amazon have spoken out against racism. Corporates usually don’t show solidarity but this time, speaking up seems to be an imperative.

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

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

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

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

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Joe Biden Formally Clinches Democratic Presidential Nomination

Joe Biden formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Friday, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald Trump that will play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest. “It was an honor to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded," Biden said in a statement Friday night, ”and I am proud to say that we are going into this general election a united party." The former vice president has effectively been his party's leader since his last challenger in the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders, ended his campaign in April.

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

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

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Biden formally clinches Democratic presidential nomination

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden has formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald Trump that will play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest.“It was an honor to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded," Biden said in a statement Friday night, ”and I am proud to say that we are going into this general election a united party."The former vice president has effectively been his party's leader since his last challenger in the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders, ended his campaign in April.

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

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

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

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

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Joe Biden formally clinches Democratic presidential nomination

Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife Dr. Jill Biden, speaks to California voters during a Super Tuesday election night party at Baldwin Hills Recreation Center in Los Angeles, California on Tuesday March 3, 2020.

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Joe Biden officially clinches Democratic presidential nomination

Joe Biden formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Friday, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald Trump that will play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest.“It was an honour to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded,” Biden said in a statement Friday night, ”and I am proud to say that we are going into this general election a united party.”The former vice-president has effectively been his party’s leader since his last challenger in the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders, ended his campaign in April.

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

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

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

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

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Biden formally clinches Democratic presidential nomination

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Friday, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald Trump that will play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest.The former vice president has effectively been his party's leader since his last challenger in the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders, ended his campaign in April. But Biden pulled together the 1,991 delegates needed to become the nominee after seven states and the District of Columbia held presidential primaries Tuesday.Biden reached the threshold three days after the primaries because several states, overwhelmed by huge increases in mail ballots, took days to tabulate results.

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White House Forces Reporters To Ditch Social Distancing

The White House abandoned social distancing for reporters attending President Donald Trump’s Rose Garden event Friday because “it looks better,” according to the aide who ordered it.

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Trump allows commercial fishing in marine conservation area

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

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U.S. will allow Chinese airlines to operate two round-trip flights per week

Chinese airlines operate a limited number of flights to the U.S., backing down from a threat to ban the flights.The decision came one day after China appeared to open the door to U.S. carriers United Airlines and Delta Air Lines resuming one flight per week each into the country.The U.S.

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Trump evokes Floyd after hailing strong jobs report

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

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White House forces reporters to ditch social distancing

NEW YORK – The White House abandoned social distancing for reporters attending President Donald Trump's Rose Garden event Friday because “it looks better,” according to the aide who ordered it.Seats for reporters at recent White House events had been placed 6 feet apart to protect against the spread of the coronavirus.

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Listen to Meek Mill’s emotive new protest song, ‘Otherside of America’

Meek Mill has released an emotive new protest song, ‘Otherside of America’ – you can listen to it below.On the track, which comes a week after the death of George Floyd, Mill explores inequality and racism in America and opens with comments US President Donald Trump made about the Black community in 2016.Floyd, 46, died in Minneapolis last week (May 25) following an altercation with police officers. Floyd, who was African American, was killed when a white police officer appeared to kneel on his neck as he lay on the ground during an arrest.Officer Derek Chauvin has since been sacked and charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter.

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

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

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

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

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Lauding 'force' against protests, Sen. Cotton raises profile

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Trump heads to rural Maine but won't escape demonstrators

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Coronavirus treatment: Medical journal Lancet withdraws study flagging HCQ risks

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

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

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

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Two elite medical journals retract coronavirus papers over data integrity questions

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

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Raw feelings abound as Senate turns back to Russia probe

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Immigrants anxious as they await Supreme Court DACA decision

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

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

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Piers Morgan And Rudy Giuliani Go Head To Head In Heated Exchange: ‘You Sound Completely Barking Mad’

It was a real war of words between Piers Morgan and Rudy Giuliani this week.

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Brexit: Government won’t rule out US trade deal allowing chlorinated chicken into UK

Downing Street won’t rule out a Brexit trade deal with Donald Trump allowing chlorinated chicken onto British shelves.

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Trump praises Boris Johnson over vaccine fight as Transatlantic tensions simmer

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

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Brajendra Navnit is India's new ambassador to WTO

Navnit who was till recently served as a joint secretary in the prime minister's office will replace the current ambassador JS Deepak in Geneva for a period of three years

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

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

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GOP reckons with polarizing candidates amid civil unrest

WASHINGTON – The Republican Party is facing a reckoning over some of its most divisive candidates. So far the results are mixed, and that's dicey for the GOP as a country shuddering from coast-to-coast civic unrest hurtles toward November elections.

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Protests eclipse pandemic, but White House fears resurgence

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

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Obama steps out as nation confronts confluence of crises

WASHINGTON – Former President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election.

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West Point prepares for graduation, some cadets test positive

Cadets in formation at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (U.S. Department of Defense imagery)

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Senate passes fix for small-business coronavirus relief

WASHINGTON – The Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to make it easier for businesses struggling during the coronavirus pandemic to take advantage of a payroll subsidy program that's been a central part of Washington's response to the corresponding economic crisis.

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Ex-defense chief Mattis rips Trump for dividing Americans

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

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States jockey to host Trump as he accepts GOP nomination

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

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WATCH LIVE: Former President Obama hosts town hall in the wake of George Floyd’s death

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

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

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Obama steps up public role as U.S. confronts anti-racism, coronavirus crises

Former U.S. President Barack Obama is taking on an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election.

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West Point preps for graduation, some in class test positive

More than 15 members of West Point's graduating class tested positive for the coronavirus upon their return to the the U.S. Military Academy, which is preparing to host President Donald Trump for an unusual graduation ceremony that has been criticized as too risky during a pandemic.

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

More than 100,000 Americans have died due to the coronavirus

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