Donald Trump will expand an existing visa ban to include certain non-immigrant work visas as part of a move to protect U.S. workers amid the economic devastation tied to the coronavirus pandemic, a senior administration official said on Monday.Trump will block the entry of foreign workers on H-1B visas for skilled workers and L-1 visas for workers being transferred within a company through the end of the year, the official said.

The president will also block seasonal workers on H-2B visas, with an exception for workers in the food service industry. The move comes despite opposition from businesses who depend on foreign workers, including major tech companies and the U.S.

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Trump threatens to veto defense bill in order to keep Confederate base names

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is vowing to veto a massive defense bill to keep military bases such as Fort Bragg named after Confederate officers, swimming against sentiment in his own party and imperiling a 3% pay raise for the troops.Trump took to Twitter late Tuesday to threaten a veto of a $741 billion annual Pentagon authorization bill because it would require a host of military bases named after Confederate figures to be renamed within three years.Trump rival Sen.

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Trump tours 200th completed mile of U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona

As U.S. President Donald Trump gears up his re-election campaign, he headed to Arizona on Tuesday, with a focus on border security. Trump participated in a commemoration of the 200th mile of the new border wall built on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Trump’s fireworks event at Mount Rushmore to be met with coronavirus worries, protests

Donald Trump will begin his Independence Day weekend on Friday with a patriotic display of fireworks at Mount Rushmore before a crowd of thousands, but even in a part of the country where many remain supportive of the president, the event has drawn controversy and protests.Trump is expected to speak at the event, which has issued 7,500 tickets to watch fireworks that he previewed on Thursday as a “display like few people have seen.” The president will likely enjoy a show of support, with the state Republican Party selling T-shirts that feature Trump on the memorial alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

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Trump's Rushmore trip draws real and figurative fireworks

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – President Donald Trump will begin his Independence Day weekend on Friday with a patriotic display of fireworks at Mount Rushmore before a crowd of thousands, but even in a part of the country where many remain supportive of the president, the event has drawn controversy and protests. Trump is expected to speak at the event, which has issued 7,500 tickets to watch fireworks that he previewed on Thursday as a “display like few people have seen.” The president will likely enjoy a show of support, with the state Republican Party selling T-shirts that feature Trump on the memorial alongside George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

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Coronavirus cases now rising in 40 U.S. states as Texas orders mandatory mask use

U.S. states — Arizona, California, Florida and Texas — reported a combined 25,000 new confirmed coronavirus cases Thursday as the infection curve rose in 40 of the 50 states heading into the July Fourth holiday weekend.With the number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide climbing past 50,000, an alarming 36 states saw an increase in the percentage of tests coming back positive for the virus.

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Govenor of Texas, Greg Abott, orders wearing of face coverings in public in most of state

Texas Governor, Greg Abbott, a Republican and ally of US President Donald Trump, has issued an executive order requiring face coverings in public spaces as the state marks record numbers of new infections.

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Father of 19-year-old killed in CHOP says he got condolence call from President Trump, but not Seattle's mayor

SEATTLE - The family of a 19-year-old shot and killed at the edge of the Seattle CHOP zone was laid to rest today in Kent.The father of Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr. told us, he still hasn’t received a call about his son’s death from the Mayor of Seattle Jenny Durkan, but he got a condolence call this morning from President Trump."Incredibly, Donald Trump called me," said 50-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson Sr. "The President of the United States called me today.

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'Plague from China' should have never happened: Donald Trump on coronavirus

coronavirus infection, saying the "plague from China" should have never happened but it did especially when the United States had just signed a brand new trade deal with the Asian giant."Plague from China, that is what it is, should have never happened but they did allow it to happen. We had just signed a brand new trade deal and the ink wasn't even dry when it came over," Trump said at during the "Spirit of America Showcase" in the Grand Foyer of the White House.On Tuesday, Trump signed a proclamation making July "Pledge to America's Workers Month."Meanwhile, several states are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases that public health experts warn could quickly worsen if states continue reopening.

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US posts largest single-day jump in new COVID-19 cases

President Donald Trump held a White House press briefing today in which he said the 4.8 million jobs added in June prove that the economy is "roaring back" from the impact of COVID-19 and that more signs of the recovery will be apparent before the general election on Nov 3. "This is the largest monthly jobs gain in the history of our country," he said.

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Trump 2020 campaign accused of using symbol that critics say resembles Nazi eagle logo

Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has a new “America First” logo, and many critics on Twitter say it looks a lot like the Nazi eagle used by Adolf Hitler and modern white supremacist groups.

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Trump 2020 campaign accused of ‘ripping off’ Nazi eagle logo

Donald Trump‘s re-election campaign has a new “America First” logo — and it looks a lot like the Nazi eagle used by Adolf Hitler and modern white supremacist groups, according to many critics on Twitter.The logo, which can be found on T-shirts sold through the Trump campaign website, shows a stylized eagle grasping a circle containing the American flag.

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Coronavirus: Trump says U.S. economy is ‘roaring back’ as they ‘put out the flames’ of COVID-19

U.S. President Donald Trump made a last-minute address to the nation from the Briefing Room at the White House Tuesday morning alongside United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin.

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Coronavirus: Trump says U.S. has COVID-19 ‘under control’ as total deaths pass 130,000

Speaking to reporters in the White House on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his opinion that the U.S. federal government has COVID-19 “under control” even as multiple states report surging infection rates.

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Coronavirus: Mnuchin says Trump doesn’t need to wear a mask, just the ‘rest of us’

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the Trump administration doesn’t believe President Donald Trump needs to wear a mask, because everyone around him is tested regularly, but that “the rest of us” do.

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Trump touts U.S. job gains as coronavirus cases hit record highs

Donald Trump at a press briefing on Thursday celebrated a government report showing the country gained 4.8 million jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 11.1 per cent last month, even as coronavirus cases surge across the country.Trump took the victory lap as the coronavirus cases spike in states with large economies such as California, Texas and Florida, prompting local governments to once again shutter bars and other businesses where the deadly respiratory disease is thought to spread easily.“Today’s announcement proves that our economy is roaring back,” Trump said, rattling off different sectors that saw job gains according to the monthly report.

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President Trump supports new round of direct coronavirus payments

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he supports a fresh round of government payments to individuals to help them weather the coronavirus pandemic but “it has to be done properly.”Trump also said he wants payments larger than the $1,200 the government sent to most individuals earlier this year. He did not say how big he’d like the payments to be.Trump complained about creating disincentives for people to go back to work, but appeared to be confusing the direct federal payments with a $600-per-week federal supplement for anyone collecting state unemployment benefits.The $600 federal unemployment benefit runs out at the end of July and lawmakers are deciding whether to extend it.

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Trump changes tone amid U.S. coronavirus outbreaks: ‘I think masks are good’

Donald Trump said Wednesday he thinks it makes him look like the Lone Ranger — and he likes it.“I’m all for masks. I think masks are good,” Trump told Fox Business in an interview.

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Dr Hilary warns the US heading for 'real trouble' due to obesity amid covid-19 pandemic

Dr Hilary Jones has warned that the US is heading for "real trouble" over the coronavirus pandemic, citing obesity and its citizens not abiding by guidelines.

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Trump promises massive July 4 firework display despite DC’s coronavirus concerns

Donald Trump’s July Fourth celebration on the National Mall will feature one of the largest fireworks displays ever and as many as 300,000 face masks will be given away to those who want them — but despite health concerns from D.C.’s mayor, no one apparently will be required to wear them.Trump made no mention of the masks or of the pandemic overall in a tweet Wednesday on his Independence Day pIans. He thanked corporate donors for supporting “what will, without question, be a special evening.”Special thank you to the @UnitedWarVets, @GrucciFireworks, @Scotts_MGro, and @FedEx — for their support of what will, without question, be a special evening! #Salute2America https://t.co/QmI58d1gcD— Donald J.

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US buys all of world’s remdesivir, preventing other countries from acquiring drug for months

According to The Guardian, the U.S.

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Trump says he looks like Lone Ranger in a mask and likes it

WASHINGTON – After long resisting wearing a mask in public, President Donald Trump said Wednesday he thinks it makes him look like the Lone Ranger — and he likes it.“I’m all for masks. I think masks are good,” Trump told Fox Business in an interview.

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Coronavirus: Trump says he thinks COVID-19 will ‘sort of just disappear. I hope’

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has avoided being seen in public wearing a face covering, said on Wednesday he would wear a mask if he were in close quarters with other people in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

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Trump says he still believes coronavirus will ‘sort of just disappear’

novel coronavirus cases, United States President Donald Trump said he still believes the virus will “just sort of disappear” at some point.“I think we’re going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think at some point that’s going to sort of just disappear, I hope,” he said during an interview on Fox Business on Wednesday.Trump ludicrously claimed to Fox Business just now that "I think we're gonna be very good with the coronavirus.

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Trump's DC July 4th: fireworks and face masks

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s July 4th celebration in Washington will feature one of the largest fireworks displays ever, officials said Wednesday, and as many as 300,000 face masks will be given away to those who come down to the National Mall, although they won't be required to wear them.

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Republicans, with exception of President Trump, now push mask-wearing

WASHINGTON – In Republican circles — with the notable exception of the man who leads the party — the debate about masks is over: It’s time to put one on.As a surge of infections hammers the South and West, GOP officials are pushing back against the notion that masks are about politics, as President Donald Trump suggests, and telling Americans they can help save lives.Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, on Tuesday bluntly called on Trump to start wearing a mask, at least some of the time, to set a good example."Unfortunately, this simple, lifesaving practice has become part of a political debate that says: If you’re for Trump, you don’t wear a mask.

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Donald Trump buys up virtually all stocks of working Covid-19 drug remdesivir

Donald Trump has bought up virtually all stocks for the next three months of a drug shown to work against Covid-19.

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Russia denies it issued bounties against U.S. soldiers as White House distances Trump from reports

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, denied reports that country operatives had offered bounties to the Taliban against U.S. troops and that no American representatives had raised the question with Russia.

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U.S. buys up worldwide stock of remdesivir, drug seen as potential COVID-19 treatment

remdesivir, a drug that’s proven effective for severely ill patients of the novel coronavirus — leaving hardly any for Canada and the rest of the world.The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday it has secured more than 500,000 treatment courses of the drug from its sole manufacturer Gilead Sciences for American hospitals through September. Each treatment course uses an average of over six vials of the drug.

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Donald Trump 'more and more angry at China' over coronavirus spread

coronavirus, as American health officials warned they were not in "total" control of the pandemic."As I watch the Pandemic spread its ugly face all across the world, including the tremendous damage it has done to the USA, I become more and more angry at China," Trump tweeted.As I watch the Pandemic spread its ugly face all across the world, including the tremendous damage it has done to the USA, I become more and more angry at China.

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‘We won’t be social distancing,’ South Dakota governor says of Trump’s Mount Rushmore event

LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will travel to South Dakota this week for a Fourth of July celebration, despite rising coronavirus cases across the United States, and the state’s governor says there will be no social distancing measures in place at the event.Friday’s event, scheduled at Mt. Rushmore National Memorial, will be free and open to the public.

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US could hit 1 lakh new coronavirus cases a day, warns top health expert

coronavirus cases could more than double to 100,000 per day if authorities and the public fail to take steps to suppress the pandemic.Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, a leading member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, said the United States was headed in the "wrong direction" on the pandemic and demanded that Americans wear masks and avoid crowds after lax behavior propelled new outbreaks."I'm very concerned and I'm not satisfied with what's going on, because we're going in the wrong direction," he testified to a Senate panel.Alarming spikes in new cases in southern hotspots Texas and Florida are driving the daily national total of new cases to over 40,000 per day, and they need to be tamped down quickly to avoid

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Biden and Trump agree: November election could be corrupt

ATLANTA – President Donald Trump and his challenger, Joe Biden, have found something they agree on: The November election could be rife with corruption because of how officials handle the voting process.Of course, the Republican incumbent and his Democratic rival place the prospective blame in different places.

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Donald Trump's USA buys up world's entire supply of coronavirus-fighting drug

FREE newsletter is just champion! Get the biggest and brightest stories sent straight to your inboxThe United States has bought up all existing stock of one of two drugs proven to work against Covid-19, which will not be available to any other country on Earth for the next three months.The Trump administration has outbid and out outmanoeuvred all other countries to secure medical supplies for American citizens, leaving next to nothing for the rest of the world, The Guardian reports.

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Coronavirus: Biden attacks Trump’s response to COVID-19, says America’s ‘wartime president has surrendered’

Former U.S. vice-president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden launched a fresh wave of criticism against current President Donald Trump over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that Trump had “failed” Americans.

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U.S. officials investigating April 2019 attack which killed Del. Marine Staff Sergeant

Staff Sergeant Christopher Slutman Top officials in the White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the intelligence.The assessment was included in at least one of President Donald Trump's written daily intelligence briefings at the time, according to the officials.

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Judge temporarily blocks tell-all book by Trump's niece

A tell-all book by President Donald Trump’s niece cannot be published until a judge decides the merits of claims by the president’s brother that its publication would violate a pact among family members, a judge said Tuesday.New York state Supreme Court Judge Hal B. Greenwald in Poughkeepsie, New York, issued an order requiring the niece, Mary Trump, and her publisher to explain why they should not be blocked from publishing the book: “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” A hearing was set for July 10.The book, scheduled to be published in July, was written by Mary Trump, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., the president’s elder brother, who died in 1981.

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Coronavirus: UK to resume clinical trial of anti-malaria drug taken by Donald Trump

A UK study on hydroxychloroquine will resume, just weeks after being halted.

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White House says Trump signed off on Barr request to dismiss U.S. Attorney Berman

During a White House press briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that U.S. President Donald Trump had signed off on a request from Attorney Gen.

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Fallout grows as White House distances Trump from report of bounties on U.S. troops

White House briefing Monday about explosive allegations that Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan — intelligence the president himself was said to have not been fully read in on.Members of Congress in both parties called for additional information and consequences for Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, even as White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany insisted President Donald Trump had not been briefed on the findings because they hadn’t been verified. Eight Democrats were to be briefed Tuesday morning.

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White House: Trump not briefed on 'unverified' bounties

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House said Monday that President Donald Trump wasn't briefed on U.S.

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'White power' flare-up in retirement haven reveals tensions

THE VILLAGES, Fla. – There has always been a low-boil tension in The Villages retirement community between the Republican majority and the much smaller cohort of Democrats, but a veneer of good manners in “Florida's Friendliest Hometown" mostly prevailed on golf courses and at bridge tables. Those tensions, though, flared two weeks ago during a golf-cart parade for President Donald Trump's birthday in which a man shouted, “White Power,” when confronted by anti-Trump protesters.

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Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over killing of top general

Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining U.S. President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, a local prosecutor reportedly said Monday.While Trump faces no danger of arrest, the charges underscore the heightened tensions between Iran and the United States since Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

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Coronavirus: Trump believes it is up to individuals to decide on whether to wear a mask, White House says

During a White House briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that U.S.

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Cuomo calls on Trump to sign executive order requiring face masks

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Coronavirus puts Israel’s West Bank annexation on pause, defence minister says

Israel’s defence minister says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to begin annexing West Bank territory will have to wait due to the country’s coronavirus crisis.Benny Gantz, who also holds the title of alternative prime minister, told his Blue and White Party on Monday that his top priority is helping the country navigate the health and economic crisis stemming from the pandemic.“Anything unrelated to the battle against the coronavirus will wait,” he said. Israeli annexation of West Bank could ignite religious war, Arab League warns Netanyahu has said he wants to begin annexing occupied land as soon as this week, in line with President Donald Trump’s Mideast plan.

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Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over killing of Qassem Soleimani, asks Interpol to help

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, a local prosecutor reportedly said Monday.While Trump faces no danger of arrest, the charges underscore the heightened tensions between Iran and the United States since Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said Trump and more than 30 others whom Iran accuses of involvement in the Jan. 3 strike that killed Gen.

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Trump denies briefing about reported bounties on US troops

President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 20, 2020. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has denied he was made aware of U.S.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
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