US President Donald Trump faced a backlash for removing his mask when he returned to the White House and urging Americans not to fear Covid-19, which has killed more than 209,000 people in the country and put him in hospital.

Mr Trump arrived at the White House last night in a made-for-television spectacle in which he descended from his Marine One helicopter wearing a white surgical mask, only to remove it as he posed, saluting and waving, on the mansion's South Portico. "Don't let it dominate you.

Don't be afraid of it," Mr Trump said in a video after his return from the Walter Reed Medical Center military hospital outside Washington where he was admitted on Friday. "I'm better, and maybe I'm immune - I don't know," he added, flanked by

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Trump, Biden go at it — from a distance — in town halls

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden squared off, in a way, in dueling televised town halls that showcased striking differences in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches to a pandemic that has reshaped the nation.Coming just two and a half weeks before Election Day, the events Thursday night offered crystalizing contrasts and a national, if divided, audience.

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Imposing coronavirus lockdown unconstitutional: Trump

Donald Trump, who tested positive for COVID-19 early this month, has said that as a president he cannot remain locked in a basement and he has to meet people despite the risks.Trump, responding to a question at a townhall organised by the NBC News, also defended not wearing a mask as much as his own administration’s public health experts recommend and said that lockdowns imposed by various states across the country to curb the coronavirus cases were "unconstitutional".He said he is not averse to wearing a mask, but “people with masks are catching it all the time."“As a president, I have to be out there. I can’t be in a basement.

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Chris Christie says ‘I was wrong’ not to wear mask at White House amid coronavirus

Chris Christie said Thursday that he was wrong not to wear a mask at the White House, after he and U.S. President Donald Trump both came down with the coronavirus.Christie, in a statement, said he has recovered from COVID-19 after a weeklong stay in a hospital’s intensive care unit.

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Trump insists pandemic almost over, Biden says he did 'nothing'

US President Donald Trump delivered a combative defence at a town hall style event last night, while his Democratic rival Joe Biden - offering a glaring contrast in style in a rival town hall - accused him of doing "nothing" to end the pandemic.

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Trump acknowledges he may owe $400 million to unknown sources during town hall

Donald Trump acknowledged that he may owe $400 million to unknown sources during a town hall television event on Thursday.The amount was originally revealed after a New York Times investigation that also claims Trump paid around $750 in taxes in the 2016 and 2017 tax years and no taxes for 10 of the last 15 years. ‘I don’t want to pay taxes,’ Trump says while disputing NYT report in debate with Biden “When you look at the amount of money, $400 million is a peanut, it is extremely underlevered (sic),” Trump told NBC host Savannah Guthrie.

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US Presidential debate: Trump pushes Biden on his son Hunter and dealings with Burisma

U.S. President Donald Trump pushed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday during the first U.S.

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President Trump returning to Central Florida

OCALA, Fla. – Final preparations are underway at the Ocala International Airport ahead of President Donald Trump’s campaign rally on Thursday.The event marks the second time the president has visited Central Florida this week. On Monday, Trump held a campaign rally in Sanford.News 6 political expert Jim Clark said that the president is attempting to energize his base to ensure voter turn out.“He needs a huge turnout,” Clark said. “He needs to get people to go to the polls.

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Savannah Guthrie Presses President Trump on COVID-19 Diagnosis at Town Hall

QAnon, pressing him and not letting him evade answering. The town hall was a replacement of sorts for the debate Mr.

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Former NJ Gov. Chris Christie says he was wrong not to wear mask at White House

(Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday that he was wrong not to wear a mask at the White House after he and President Donald Trump both came down with the coronavirus.Christie, in a statement, said he has recovered from COVID-19 after a week-long stay in a hospital's intensive care unit.

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Biden, Trump squabble over coronavirus response in dueling town halls

Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, as the two candidates held dueling televised town halls after their second planned debate was canceled.The prime-time split-screen showdown offered a stark reminder of how deeply unusual this year's campaign has been amid a coronavirus pandemic that has infected nearly 8 million Americans, including the president himself. Millions have already voted early ahead of Election Day on Nov.

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President Donald Trump says he did an “amazing job” handling coronavirus

Trump said Thursday he did an “amazing job" handling the coronavirus pandemic and defended his retweets of conspiracy theories while Democrat Joe Biden at the same moment was faulting the president’s leadership on the pandemic and stewardship of the economy.The two candidates -- who appeared in dueling televised town halls Thursday night -- contrasted sharply in style and substance, with Biden giving what amounted to a public policy seminar while Trump discussed topics including the far-right conspiracy theory movement QAnon’s views on pedophilia.“We saved 2 million people," Trump said on NBC in Miami, as he praised his handling of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 217,000 in the U.S.

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Trump holds rally in N.C. as early voting begins

U.S. President Donald Trump held a rally in North Carolina on Thursday, just as the polls for early voting opened.

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Nebraska Sen. Sasse rips Trump over COVID-19, foreign policy

WASHINGTON – Republican U.S. Sen.

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Whoopi Goldberg Joy Behar Doubt Donald Trump Ever Had COVID-19: ‘He’s A Liar’ — Watch

Whoopi Goldberg, 64, and Joy Behar, 78, are now wondering if Donald Trump, 74, lied about his COVID-19 diagnosis. Despite testing positive for the virus on Oct. 1, Trump left the hospital just four days later and resumed his campaign rallies on Oct. 12. So, Whoopi went out on a limb on the Oct. 15 episode of The View to admit, “The more he talks, the less I think he had it, personally.”

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Trump's election-eve drug discounts for seniors get snagged

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s plan to mail millions of seniors a $200 prescription savings card has hit legal and budget roadblocks, making it unlikely the government can carry it out before Election Day. Democratic lawmakers have raised questions about whether the administration has the authority to order on its own billions of dollars in Medicare spending for what the Democrats say are political reasons.

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Tiffany Trump Faces Backlash For Throwing Lavish Birthday Party Amid Pandemic: ‘Bye Tiffany’

As the number of COVID-19 deaths nears 16,000 in Florida, Tiffany Trump celebrated her birthday with multiple lavish, massive birthday parties across Miami. President Donald Trump‘s daughter partied the night away on October 11 with a group of friends, popping bottles of champagne, dancing, and even sharing a birthday cake decorated with her Instagrams. #ByeTiffany started trending on Twitter on October 15 after a PAC called MeidasTouch produced a video targeting the First Daughter for celebrating as Americans’ lives were ruined by coronavirus.

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Coronavirus: Trump extends ‘best wishes’ to Kamala Harris’ staff after 2 test positive

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday extended his “best wishes” to Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her staff after her communications director and a flight crew member tested positive for COVID-19.

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Why Trump’s covid-19 antibody cocktail won’t be widely available

Donald Trump credited for his swift coronavirus recovery won’t become widely available because it’s impossible to make enough for everyone who might need it, according to the Swiss pharmaceutical giant working on scaling up production.“We’ll never be able to produce enough," said Bill Anderson, drugs chief at Roche Holding AG, which is working together with US biotech Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. on the project.

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Melania Trump Says Barron Trump Tested Positive for COVID-19, Now Negative

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Dueling town halls for Trump, Biden after debate plan nixed

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden will compete for TV audiences in dueling town hall meetings instead of meeting face-to-face for their second debate as originally planned.The two will take questions in different cities on different networks Thursday night: Trump on NBC from Miami, Biden on ABC from Philadelphia.

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Rambling Donald Trump insists Covid-19 is 'China virus' as 'to me corona means Italy'

Donald Trump said "to me corona means Italy" before calling it the "China virus" as he detailed his own fight with the killer bug.

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White House staff infected with coronavirus begin returning to work, spurning masks

coronavirus spread through the White House, staffers have begun trickling back to the West Wing, saying they only had mild symptoms and again spurning the use of masks despite criticism that they have been careless about the outbreak.With U.S. President Donald Trump declaring himself immune after his own bout with COVID-19 required hospitalization, his aides at the White House, his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee are steadily recovering from a sickness that sidelined many of them just weeks before the Nov.

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AP Explains: Trump seizes on dubious Biden-Ukraine story

WASHINGTON – Looking to undermine rival Joe Biden 20 days before the election, President Donald Trump’s campaign has seized on a tabloid story offering bizarre twists to a familiar line of attack: Biden’s relationship with Ukraine. But the story in the New York Post raises more questions than answers, including about the authenticity of an email at the center of the story.

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First lady Melania Trump says son Barron was positive for Covid-19, now negative

Melania Trump says her 14-year-old son, Barron, had tested positive for the coronavirus but has since tested negative.The White House initially said he had tested negative, after both of his parents tested positive earlier this month.The first lady said Wednesday that subsequent testing showed Barron had also come down with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.He has since tested negative, she said, as have both she and President Donald Trump.After she and the president received their positive results Oct. 1, Mrs.

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Trump and Biden vying for battleground North Carolina

With the U.S. presidential election just weeks away, both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are honing in on a battleground state.

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Melania Trump Reveals Barron Tested Positive For COVID-19 As Donald Continues To Falsely Claim Immunity

Let’s make one thing clear: as the coronavirus crisis wears on, no one has done more damage in the United States — and possibly the world — than President Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump's son Barron tested positive for Covid-19 after his parents caught virus

Donald Trump's 14-year-old son Barron has tested positive for COVID-19 but exhibited no symptoms. First Lady Melania Trump told how the youngster contracted the virus after both of his parents tested positive.

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Barron Trump Tested Positive for COVID-19 Earlier This Month

COVID-19 earlier this month, first lady Melania Trump announced in a personal essay posted on the White House website. The 14-year-old has since tested negative, as have the first lady and the president, since the two contracted the virus earlier this month. Mr.

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Donald Trump stifles coughs as he struggles through speech recovering from Covid-19

Donald Trump stifled a cough as he gave a speech with a noticeably raspy voice during a White House speech today.

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'Totally Under Control' Directors on White House Corruption and Trump's COVID Diagnosis (Exclusive)

Donald Trump, an oft-repeated turn of phrase the president used in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic to describe his administration's handling of it. The day Gibney finished the film, months after the virus arrived in the U.S.

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Trump's son Barron, 14, recovers after testing positive for Covid-19

President Donald Trump's teenage son Barron contracted Covid-19 after both his parents tested positive, First Lady Melania has revealed.

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Barron Trump Tested Positive for Coronavirus Alongside Parents Donald & Melania Trump

Barron Trump also tested positive for coronavirus.

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Donald Trump's son Barron caught coronavirus says First Lady Melania

Barron Trump, the son of President Donald Trump and Melania Trump, tested positive for coronavirus, the First Lady has confirmed.

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First lady: Barron Trump tested positive for COVID-19

WASHINGTON – Melania Trump says her 14-year-old son, Barron, had tested positive for the coronavirus but has since tested negative. The White House initially said he had tested negative, after both of his parents tested positive earlier this month.

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Barron Trump Tested Positive For COVID-19, Melania Reveals: ‘My Fear’ Had Come ‘True’

Melania Trump, 50, has confirmed that her 14-year-old son Barron Trump tested positive for the Coronavirus. The First Lady revealed the news in a first-person essay about her experience with disease published on the White House website. “Naturally my mind went immediately to our son. To our great relief he tested negative, but again, as so many parents have thought over the past several months, I couldn’t help but think ‘what about tomorrow or the next day?'” she wrote in the piece, published on Oct. 14.

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Melania Trump says she has tested negative for COVID-19, reveals son Barron tested positive

First lady Melania Trump (L) looks at her son Barron Trump after U.S. President Donald Trump delivered his acceptance speech for the Republican presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House August 27, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Barron Trump also tested positive for coronavirus, Melania Trump reveals

Donald Trump‘s youngest son, Barron Trump, tested positive for the novel coronavirus after both of his parents announced they had contracted the virus.First Lady Melania Trump revealed the 14-year-old tested positive for COVID-19 in a statement released Wednesday afternoon. Trump says coronavirus treatment at military hospital is ‘going well’ after diagnosis According to Melania Trump, her son is “a strong teenager” and “exhibited no symptoms.”“In one way I was glad the three of us went through this at the same time so we could take care of one another and spend time together,” the statement reads.

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Trump has shown little respect for U.S. science. So why are some parts thriving?

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The Latest: Barrett faces more questions from Senate panel

WASHINGTON – The Latest on the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett (all times local):9 a.m.Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is back before the Senate Judiciary Committee to face more questions from senators at her confirmation hearing. Tuesday’s session lasted nearly 12 hours.

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Murphy: No COVID-19 outbreak stemming from Trump fundraiser

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (Photo by Edwin J. Torres/Governor's Office)TRENTON - New Jersey officials aren’t aware of any COVID-19 outbreak stemming from the campaign fundraiser President Donald Trump held recently at his Bedminster golf club, Gov.

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Trump, Biden to hold dueling town halls Thursday instead of originally scheduled debate

MIAMI - President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will compete Thursday night on different networks by holding separate town hall events, instead of the second presidential debate. Trump will hold a one-hour town hall event in Miami, moderated by anchor Savannah Guthrie and airing on NBC News. Guthrie will moderate a conversation between Trump and a group of Florida voters.This combination of pictures shows President Donald Trump (L) and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden squaring off during the first presidential debate at the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio on Sept.

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Trump to face voters’ questions in NBC town hall

WASHINGTON D.C. – In lieu of a formal debate, President Donald Trump has agreed to answer voters' questions during a town hall program sponsored by NBC News on Thursday night.The event will be held outdoors at the Perez Art Museum in Miami.NBC News says it has a statement from National Institutes of Health clinical director Dr. Clifford Lane indicating he and White House coronavirus task force member Dr.

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‘There is no plan’: ‘Totally Under Control’ explores Trump administration’s COVID-19 failure

COVID-19 pandemic and the country plunges headlong towards a critical election, it’s apt timing for a documentary like Totally Under Control.It acts as both a primer on what’s happened with the Trump administration’s handling of the novel coronavirus in the U.S.

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Fighting in swing states, Trump also forced to play defense

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is being forced to play Electoral College defense with a trip to Iowa, a state he won handily in 2016 but where Democrat Joe Biden is making a late push.Trump's heavy travel this week, including his rally Wednesday in Des Moines, reflects his uphill climb three weeks before the election.

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Coronavirus: Trump claims individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 are ‘now immune’

Curing a rally in Johnstown, Pa., on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the COVID-19 pandemic less than two weeks after announcing he tested positive for the virus, saying he is “immune” and telling “everyone fighting to recover” that they are “right now immune” as well.

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Trump’s new claims on coronavirus immunity are ‘extremely dangerous,’ experts say

Donald Trump is now pushing a new message: that he’s become immune to the novel coronavirus, and so is everyone else who’s contracted it.But health experts say that kind of message is dangerous — not only because there’s not enough scientific data to support it, but because it’s another example of the president downplaying the severity of the pandemic. Cases of coronavirus reinfection raise concerns over immunity Trump began touting his immunity over the weekend, after his physician Dr.

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Trump's handling of Covid-19 pandemic 'erratic' just like his presidency: Biden

coronavirus pandemic has been "erratic" just like his presidency, his Democratic challenger Joe Biden has said, terming the US president's leadership as "chaotic and divisive" that has cost Americans far too much.The former vice president said Trump was playing games with people's lives and “the only senior Donald Trump seems to care about" is himself."His handling of this pandemic has been erratic just like his presidency.

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'Veep' Creator Armando Iannucci Compares Trump COVID-19 Diagnosis to 'Death of Stalin,' 'Chernobyl'

Veep creator Armando Iannucci compared his own film,The Death of Stalin, and acclaimed HBO dramasWatchmen and Chernobyl to President Donald Trump's handling of his COVID-19 diagnosisin a recent piece for the New York magazine vertical Intelligencer. In his biting recap of the White House's actions and messaging around the medical treatment of "the Supreme Leader," the writer-directorcriticized the president's doctors, supporters and Trump himself for pushing a "vision of him defeating the virus" in the vein of dictators and authoritarians.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
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United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
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