Donald Trump is seeking to stop federal funding for certain racial diversity training programs at the White House, which a memo calls “divisive, anti-American propaganda.”The memo from Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought alleges employees have been required to attend training sessions “where they are told that ‘virtually all white people contribute to racism’ or where they are required to say that they ‘benefit from racism,'” citing unnamed media reports.

Trump promotes false conspiracy claiming Kamala Harris ineligible for White House In the memo released Friday, Vought directs all federal agencies to identify any contracts or other spending for training on “critical race theory,” “white privilege” and other.

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Donald Trump hints at covid-19 vaccine ‘surprise’ as Joe Biden demands transparency

coronanvirus vaccine in October, ahead of the November election, as Joe Biden demanded transparency from the government as it studies the shots.“This could’ve taken two or three years, and instead it’s going to be -- going to be done in a very short period of time," Trump said during a news conference in which he criticized Biden for his skepticism that the FDA is operating free of political pressure.“Could even have it during the month of October," Trump added, calling Biden’s doubts “political lies."Many public health officials and scientists have expressed concerns that the Food and Drug Administration is under pressure from the White House to approve a vaccine before Trump faces re-election on Nov. 3.

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Covid-19 vaccine latest flashpoint in White House campaign

White House race as President Donald Trump accused Democrats of “disparaging" for political gain a vaccine he repeatedly has said could be available before the election.“It's so dangerous for our country, what they say, but the vaccine will be very safe and very effective," the president pledged at a White House news conference.Trump leveled the accusation a day after Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democrats' vice presidential candidate, said she “would not trust his word" on getting the vaccine.

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‘Stupid’: Trump demands Biden apologize for challenging him on coronavirus vaccines

Donald Trump, accused by Joe Biden of putting lives at risk in his handling of the coronavirus, on Monday called his Democratic rival “stupid” and demanded an apology for what Trump called anti-vaccine rhetoric.Trailing in national opinion polls as the U.S. death toll from the virus approaches 190,000, Trump unleashed a broad attack against both the former vice president, his opponent in the Nov.

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Kamala Harris meets Blake family, stops by union training facility

MILWAUKEE - Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris met Monday with the family of a Wisconsin man shot by police last month to kick off her visit to the critical swing state, where Vice President Mike Pence was also visiting as the presidential race enters its final phase.Harris gathered with Jacob Blake's father, two sisters, and members of his legal team at a private airport in Milwaukee while Blake's mother and attorney Ben Crump joined by phone. Blake was not part of the conversation, according to a list of attendees released by the campaign.

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Coronavirus: Trump says Kamala Harris should apologize for ‘anti-vaccine rhetoric’

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said that Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris should apologize for her “anti-vaccine rhetoric,” referencing comments she made saying she would not trust Trump over having a safe, effective vaccine by November.

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Trump threatens to defund schools that teach '1619 Project'

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on September 1, 2020, heading to Kenosha, Wisconsin to meet with law enforcement officials and to survey President Trump said Sunday that the Department of Education is examining the use of the New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project in schools, and warned that institutions that teach this alternative narrative of American history could lose federal funding.The project is based on the premise that American history began in 1619 -- cited as the date African slaves arrived in Virginia -- and that everything following this should be viewed through that lens.

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Trump floats using extra $300B in coronavirus relief aid for second stimulus check

President Donald Trump makes remarks as he meets with U.S. tech workers and signs an executive order on hiring Americans in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 3, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

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Donald Trump minimised seriousness of coronavirus outbreak in US: Kamala Harris

elections.""We have a President of the United States who made this a partisan issue. The virus could care less who you voted for in the last election or who you plan to vote for in the next election," the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate said.As per the latest update, the United States -- the worst affected country from the COVID-19 pandemic-- has a total of 6,270,950 cases and 188,810 deaths due to the coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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Sheriff: Five boats sank in Texas Trump parade, no injuries

AUSTIN, Texas - Five boats sank in a Texas lake during a nautical parade in support of President Donald Trump, but no one was injured or killed, officials said Sunday.Boaters began calling for help “almost immediately” after the procession for Trump’s reelection got underway on a lake west of Austin on Saturday, according to Kristen Dark of the Travis County Sheriff’s Office.

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President Trump to campaign in battleground states, Florida and North Carolina, on Tuesday

Photo by the White House WASHINGTON D.C. - President Donald Trump will highlight his environmental agenda as he campaigns in the battleground states of Florida and North Carolina on Tuesday.The White House says Trump will stop in Jupiter, Florida, on Tuesday to remind voters there of his conservation and environmental protection efforts in the Everglades region.For the federal budget year beginning Oct. 1, the White House said, Trump asked Congress for $250 million in annual funding to accelerate construction of infrastructure for the Everglades as part of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration.

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Hundreds gather for U.S. boat parades in support of President Trump

Hundreds of people took part in boat parades Saturday in locations including Austin, Texas, in support of U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of the November election.

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Several vessels sink during Trump supporters’ boat parade in Texas

Donald Trump.“We responded to multiple calls of boats in distress, several of them sank,” but there are no reports of fatalities or injuries and investigators have not determined how many boats sank on the lake near Austin, according to sheriff’s spokesperson Kristen Dark.

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Kamala Harris wouldn't trust Donald Trump on pre-election coronavirus vaccine

coronavirus vaccine is available before November's election, she would not take President Donald Trump's word on its safety and efficacy.Trump faces intense pressure to curb the contagion that has clouded his re-election prospects, sparking worries his administration could rush vaccine research to fit a political timetable."I would not trust Donald Trump and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of (a vaccine)," Harris told CNN."I will not take his word for it."A shot against the virus that has killed over 188,000 in the US and hobbled the world's largest economy has become another flashpoint ahead of the November 3 vote.This week news broke that the US Centers for Disease

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Reality check: A look at Trump’s claims on John McCain, Black Lives Matter protests

Donald Trump said he never called John McCain a loser — he did — and denigrated the record of the late Republican senator on veterans affairs despite routinely appropriating one of McCain’s crowning achievements on that front as his own.Trump distorted events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the past week and his own hand in them before a furor over his reported comments on fallen soldiers diverted his rhetoric.

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Biden slams Trump over alleged comments mocking US war dead

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden declared President Donald Trump "unfit" for the presidency on Friday, delivering an impassioned reaction to a report that Trump — who never served in uniform — allegedly mocked American war dead.The president and his allies have dismissed the report in The Atlantic as false.The allegations, sourced anonymously, describe multiple offensive comments by the president toward fallen and captured U.S.

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Trump, White House deny report he called fallen soldiers 'losers' and 'suckers'

President Trump participates in a Memorial Day ceremony in 2018. (Official White House Photo/Andrea Hanks) A new report details multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S.

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Coronavirus: Trump says shutdowns ‘causing much bigger problems’ amid pandemic

U.S. President Donald Trump said during a rally in Latrobe, Pa. on Thursday that shutdowns amid the COVID-19 pandemic are “causing much bigger problems,” and telling the crowd “you haven’t even opened up the great Commonwealth.”

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Trump mocks Biden’s mask-wearing during Pennsylvania rally

During a rally in Latrobe, Pa. on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump mocked Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s mask-wearing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, asking the crowd, “did you ever see a man that likes a mask as much as him?”

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Trump mocks Biden for wearing mask amid coronavirus, hones ‘law and order’ platform

Donald Trump on Thursday honed the “law and order” message he intends to wield for the next two months against his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, stepping up attacks that his campaign believes are resonating with battleground state voters.“Biden’s plan is to appease the domestic terrorists and my plan is to arrest them and prosecute them,” Trump declared at a rally in Pennsylvania — a state that flipped in his favour in 2016, helping to pave his road to victory. Joe Biden heads to Kenosha, meets with family of Jacob Blake The rally comes as Trump’s campaign is claiming new signs of momentum, including in the longtime Democratic stronghold that Trump won by less than 45,000 votes in 2016.

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COVID-19 remains key election issue for Biden, Trump

With talk of a vaccine in time for Election Day ramping up, both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and incumbent Donald Trump continue to confront the pandemic as a major talking point for the presidential election, now 2 months away.

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Biden to visit Kenosha, Trump appears to urge people to vote twice in latest criticism of mail-in voting

Former U.S. vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is set to visit Kenosha, Wis.

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Trump walks back suggestion that voters should cast ballot twice, urges visit to polls to double-check

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that people who vote early by mail should show up at polling places and vote again if their ballots haven’t been counted, a slight walk back from his comments a day earlier when he suggested people vote twice to test the mail-in system.Trump claims, without evidence, that the Nov. 3 election will be awash in fraud because so many voters will mail in their ballots to avoid being exposed to the coronavirus at polling sites.The president said people could mail in their ballots as early as possible and then follow up with a trip to the polls to see whether their mail-in vote was tabulated.

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President Trump faces pushback for urging people to vote twice as test

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is facing a backlash for urging voters in North Carolina to vote by mail and then try to vote again in person to test the mail-in ballot system in the Nov. 3 election.Trump was asked by a television reporter during his trip Wednesday to Wilmington, North Carolina, if he had confidence in the vote-by-mail system.“They will vote and then they are going to have to check their vote by going to the poll and voting that way because if it tabulates then they won’t be able to do that," Trump told WECT.

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Trump tells voters to vote twice, once by mail and once in person, in Nov. election

Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that voters in the state of North Carolina should vote twice in the November election, once by vote and once by mail, to make sure their vote was counted.“So, let them send it in and let them go vote,” Trump said in an interview with WECT-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina, when asked about the security of mail-in votes. “And if the system is as good as they say it is then obviously they won’t be able to vote” in person.Voting more than once in an election is illegal.

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Trump, Biden will both mark Sept. 11 anniversary in Shanksville

WASHINGTON - Both President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in rural Pennsylvania where one of the hijacked planes crashed in a field, the White House and Biden’s campaign announced Wednesday.It was not immediately clear whether their visits to the memorial in Shanksville will overlap.

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Trump targets Seattle, Portland, NYC, DC by threatening federal funding for ‘anarchist’ cities

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Fox News Poll: Biden tops Trump among likely voters in key states

FILE - A President Donald Trump and a former Vice President Joe Biden supporter converse before the Joe Biden Campaign Rally at the National World War I Museum and Memorial on March 7, 2020 in Kansas City, Missouri.

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White House pushes back on WHO criticism that U.S. coronavirus vaccine moving too quickly

World Health Organization (WHO) after a U.S. health official said a coronavirus vaccine might be authorized for use without completing full trials.The White House also said that the United States would not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and distribute a coronavirus vaccine because of the WHO involvement.About 172 countries are engaging with the WHO’s COVID-19 vaccine plan to ensure equitable access to vaccines, known as COVAX.

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Fox, C-SPAN, NBC moderators for upcoming Trump-Biden debates

WASHINGTON – Representatives from Fox News, C-SPAN and NBC will moderate the upcoming debates between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden.According to the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, the moderators will be:—Chris Wallace of Fox News for the debate Sept. 29 in Cleveland.

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Biden to take aim at Trump’s handling of coronavirus as schools return

Joe Biden plans to hammer U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday for not helping the nation’s schools reopen safely during the coronavirus pandemic, as the Democratic challenger tries to keep the spotlight on the Republican incumbent’s handling of the outbreak and the nation’s overall security.Biden and his wife, Jill, a longtime college professor and former high school teacher, will meet with public health experts to talk about school reopening options.

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Trump visits Kenosha, does not meet with Jacob Blake’s family

Despite warnings that he was not welcome, U.S. President Donald Trump visited Kenosha, Wisconsin anyway, following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. As Jackson Proskow reports, Trump did not meet with Blake’s family.

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Fact Check: Donald Trump’s claims about the Kyle Rittenhouse video

Donald Trump is not waiting for a trial to sort out what happened on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where prosecutors say a 17-year-old with a semi-automatic rifle fatally shot two men on a night of protest and violence. He’s giving an account at odds with the authorities who charged Kyle Rittenhouse with homicide.

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President Trump denies suffering 'series of mini-strokes,' doctor says he 'remains healthy'

WASHINGTON - President Trump on Tuesday denied that he had "a series of mini-strokes" prompting an unscheduled visit to Walter Reed hospital in November 2019.READ MORE: Federal appeals court says it won't step in for now on President Donald Trump's tax records"It never ends! Now they are trying to say that your favorite President, me, went to Walter Reed Medical Center, having suffered a series of mini-strokes," Trump wrote on Twitter. "Never happened to THIS candidate — FAKE NEWS.

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President Trump, AG Barr announce $41M 'to address a surge in violence in Wisconsin'

KENOSHA, Wis. - Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump during a visit to Kenosha Tuesday, Sept. 1 announced $41 million in grant awards to the state of Wisconsin and local jurisdictions within the state "to address a surge in community violence and ongoing civil unrest."According to a news release from the U.S.

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In Kenosha, President Trump calls violence 'domestic terror,' 'anti-American'

KENOSHA, Wis. - President Donald Trump stood at the epicenter of the latest eruption over racial injustice Tuesday and came down squarely on the side of law enforcement, blaming “domestic terror” for the violence in Kenosha and making no nod to the underlying cause of anger and protests — the shooting of a yet another Black man by police.Trump declared the violence “anti-American." He did not mention Jacob Blake, who was badly wounded last week in Kenosha.Soon after arriving in the city, a visit made over the objections of state and local leaders, Trump toured the charred remains of a block besieged by violence and fire.

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Pa. lawmakers ask Trump’s postmaster to return sorting machines

HARRISBURG, Pa. - President Donald Trump's postmaster general was asked to immediately return sorting machines that were removed by U.S. Sen.

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Pres. Trump tours damaged parts of Kenosha, takes part in roundtable on 'Community Safety'

KENOSHA, Wis. - President Donald Trump dove into the latest eruption in the nation’s reckoning over racial injustice on Tuesday, visiting the “destruction” left by rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and declaring it was enabled by Democratic leaders.Soon after arriving in the city, a visit made over the objections of state and local leaders, Trump toured the charred remains of a block besieged by violence and fire. He spoke to the owners of a century-old furniture store that had been destroyed and blasted the Democrats in charge of Kenosha and Wisconsin.“They just don’t want us to come in and then destruction is done,” said Trump, who has offered to send in federal enforcement.

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Right-wing activist killed in Portland mourned by his friends, President Trump

Aaron "Jay" Danielson, 39, was fatally shot in Portland over the weekend amid clashes between supporters of President Trump and counter protesters. (Source: Portland Police Bureau ) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A supporter of a right-wing group who was shot dead on a Portland, Oregon, street was mourned by both friends and President Donald Trump as a victim of mob violence while an online fundraising effort raised tens of thousands of dollars in his memory.Just hours before he was shot in the chest Saturday night, 39-year-old Aaron “Jay” Danielson and a friend were seen heading downtown to protect a flag-waving caravan of Trump supporters.

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Trump visits Kenosha despite objections from local leaders

U.S. President Donald Trump dove into the latest eruption in the nation’s reckoning over racial injustice with a trip Tuesday to Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the objections of local leaders.The city has been riven by protests since the Aug.

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Court blocks release of Trump's tax records until appeal is heard

President Donald Trump at the 2020 RNC NEW YORK - A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked a New York prosecutor from obtaining Donald Trump’s tax returns while the president's lawyers continue to fight a subpoena seeking the records. The three-judge panel ruled after hearing brief arguments from both sides.Trump's lawyers had asked for a temporary stay while they appeal a lower-court ruling that granted Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s office access to Trump's tax returns.

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Trump says he gave no consideration to Kenosha mayor’s request not to visit city

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Pres. Trump to tour damaged parts of Kenosha, emergency operations center at Bradford HS

KENOSHA, Wis. - President Donald Trump will visit Kenosha on Tuesday, Sept. 1 in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake Sunday, Aug.

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‘He probably would’ve been killed,’ Trump says of Kenosha shooting suspect

Donald Trump says Kyle Rittenhouse — a man who has been charged in connection with the shooting deaths of two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., — was “very violently attacked” and “probably would’ve been killed.”“You saw the same tape I saw, and he was trying to get away from them I guess — it looks like — and he fell and then they very violently attacked him and it was something that we’re looking at right now,” Trump said.“I guess he was in very big trouble, he probably would’ve been killed.” Who is Kyle Rittenhouse? Accused Kenosha shooter loves police, guns, Trump The president made the comments during a press conference at the White House Monday evening, after a reporter asked whether Rittenhouse should be condemned for his alleged

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Trump calls shooting of protesters in Kenosha ‘interesting situation’, suggests Rittenhouse could have been killed

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday, Aug.

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Trump and Biden campaigns butt heads over U.S. unrest

As COVID-19 cases surge and protests rage over racial injustice in the U.S., the candidates for November’s presidential election are hitting the campaign trail.

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Joe Biden hits campaign trail, blames Trump for inciting unrest

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Declaring President Donald Trump a “toxic presence,” Joe Biden forcefully condemned the violence at recent protests while also blaming Trump for fomenting the divide that’s sparking it.“He doesn't want to shed light, he wants to generate heat, and he’s stoking violence in our cities,” Biden said Monday.

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'Don't need that right now,' Wisconsin lieutenant governor says of planned Pres. Trump visit to Kenosha

KENOSHA, Wis. - Democrats on Sunday accused President Donald Trump of trying to inflame racial tensions and incite violence to benefit his campaign as he praised supporters who clashed with protesters in Portland, Oregon, where one man died overnight, and announced he will travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid anger over the shooting of another Black man by police.Trump unleashed a flurry of tweets and retweets the day after a man identified as a supporter of a right-wing group was shot and killed in Portland when a large caravan of Trump's supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the city's streets.

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President Trump to visit Kenosha, plans to meet with law enforcement, survey damage

KENOSHA, Wis. - President Donald Trump will visit Kenosha on Tuesday, Sept.

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Trump moves to cancel ‘divisive’ racial diversity training programs at White House

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