WASHINGTON : The US health watchdog has given emergency authorisation for the use of blood plasma to treat coronavirus patients in the country, saying the benefits of the treatment outweighed any potential risks.The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Sunday that over 70,000 patients in the country had been treated with convalescent plasma, which is made using the blood of people who have recovered from coronavirus infections.President Donald Trump welcomed the move by the FDA on the eve of the four-day Republican National Convention which will renominate him to be the party's candidate in the November 3 presidential election."Today I am pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the China virus that will.

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70% of coronavirus relief payments to deceased are now recovered: U.S. officials

Trump administration says that it has recovered nearly 70 per cent of the government novel coronavirus relief payments that went to dead people.The Government Accountability Office said Monday it had been told by the Treasury Department that nearly 70 per cent of the $1.6 billion that had mistakenly gone to dead people had been recovered.The GAO said it could not immediately verify that amount but said its auditors were working with Treasury to determine the exact number of payments that have been recovered. Trump donors among the first U.S.

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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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Blake Shelton Sparks Controversy for His Coronavirus Comment

The Voice mentor Blake Shelton posted a tweet with false information about the COVID-19 pandemic and fans were quick to respond.

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US raises the possibility of early approval for covid vaccine

US Food and Drug Administration raised the possibility in an interview published Sunday that a future vaccine against the coronavirus might be given emergency approval before the end of trials designed to ensure its safety and effectiveness.A request for such extraordinary approval would have to come from the vaccine developer, Stephen Hahn told the Financial Times."If they do that before the end of Phase Three," which involves large-scale human testing, "we may find that appropriate.

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Key takeaways from the Republican National Convention

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump refused to allow the coronavirus to deny him the crowd he craved for the Republican National Convention. He ordered up a scene never before seen at the White House: an American president using the South Lawn as the official backdrop for such overtly political activity.

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Trump Lashes Biden, Defies Pandemic During Republican National Convention

Facing a national moment fraught with racial turmoil and a deadly pandemic, President Donald Trump accepted his party's renomination on a massive White House South Lawn stage Thursday night, boasting of helping African Americans and defying his own administration's pandemic guidelines to address a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd. As troubles churned outside the gates, Trump painted an optimistic vision of America’s future, including an eventual triumph over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 175,000 people, left millions unemployed and rewritten the rules of society.

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GOP convention takeaways: What coronavirus? Fear motivates

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump refused to allow the coronavirus to deny him the crowd he craved for the Republican National Convention. He ordered up a scene never before seen at the White House: an American president using the South Lawn as the official backdrop for such overtly political activity.

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Despite talks, no deal in sight for new round of $1,200 direct payments to Americans

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows resumed talks Thursday over a stalled COVID-19 aid package, but the outlook for any swift resolution appeared bleak as President Donald Trump’s team and congressional Democrats have been unable to agree on a compromise.Pelosi said she told Meadows the Democrats would be willing to meet halfway — at $2.2 trillion — a slight reduction from her last proposal before talks collapsed earlier this month. The White House, which has stuck with its initial $1 trillion offer, had no immediate response.“We have said again and again that we’re willing to meet them in the middle — $2.2 trillion.

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GOP convention takeaways: RNC speakers light on pandemic, heavy on other fears

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

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

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

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

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Ivanka Trump introduces her father at RNC as ‘the people’s president’ and a ‘warrior of the White House’

LOS ANGELES - Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, introduced her father at the Republican National Convention Thursday night.“Four years ago, I introduced to you a builder, an entrepreneur, an outsider and the people’s nominee for president of the United States. Tonight I stand before you as the proud daughter of the people’s president,” Ivanka told the large crowd at the White House to witness her father’s re-nomination acceptance speech.About 1,500 people gathered on the South Lawn of the White House so President Donald Trump could accept his party’s nomination for reelection in front of a roaring crowd.

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At RNC, UFC’s Dana White praises Trump’s response to COVID-19 pandemic

LOS ANGELES - Just a few days before the final night of the 2020 Republican National Convention, UFC President Dana White expressed a serious lack of concern for criticism from those who have opposed his endorsement of President Donald Trump. “That s--t doesn’t bother me,” White said, according to MMA Junkie. “Listen, this is America.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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New school year dawns in Europe despite recent jump in coronavirus cases

masks. Despite resurgent coronavirus infections, similar scenes are unfolding across Europe as a new school year dawns.Virus or no virus, European authorities are determined to put children back into classrooms, to narrow the learning gaps between haves and have-nots that deepened during lockdowns — and to get their parents back to work.Facing a jump in virus cases, authorities in France, Britain, Spain and elsewhere are imposing mask rules, hiring extra teachers and building new desks en masse.While the U.S.

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President Trump's big night: Expect talk of GOP progress, Dem anarchy

First Lady Melania Trump and US President Donald Trump listen to the US National Anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," during the third night of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore, Maryland, August 26, 202 WASHINGTON (AP) - Four years ago, Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president with a dark convention speech that painted a dystopian portrait of America in decline and offered a singular solution: himself.Though Trump has been president for three-and-a-half years, his rhetoric on the state of the nation has remained bleak.

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RNC night 3 takeaways: Republicans push American exceptionalism amid national crises

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Republicans proceeded with the third night of their national convention, but many Americans — particularly those in the path of Hurricane Laura — were focused on more immediate concerns.

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Vice President Pence preserves own presidential prospects

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Mike Pence shuttled through the Capitol's empty, drafty hallways one blustery winter day in search of a breakthrough.It was January 2019, and the government had been partly shut down for weeks in a standoff between his boss, President Donald Trump, and Democrats who refused to fund his border wall.

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RNC Day 3: Speakers mount defense of police amid rising racial tensions in wake of Jacob Blake shooting

RNC Day 3: Speakers praise Trump's efforts to support police, women and front line workers“From Seattle and Portland to Washington and New York, Democrat-run cities across this country are being overrun by violent mobs,” declared South Dakota Gov Kristi Noem, though the protests of racial injustice this summer have been largely peaceful in most locations. “People that can afford to flee have fled.

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

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

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No signs of coordinated fraud or foreign countries targeting mail-in vote, US officials say

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Do Republicans or Democrats benefit from mail-in voting? It turns out, neither

Warren CornwallIn the United States, the coronavirus crisis has thrust a typically wonky debate—the effectiveness of mail-in voting—into the political spotlight. Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, this week again warned that expanding the use of mail-in ballots could give Democrats an edge in the November elections.

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WHAT TO WATCH: Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway and protest pushback at GOP convention

Photo taken in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, Aug. 24, 2020 shows a computer screen displaying U.S.

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

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

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Could US regulators authorize a covid-19 vaccine before the election?

NEW YORK/CHICAGO : U.S. President Donald Trump has said a vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be available before the Nov.

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FDA chief apologizes for overstating convalescent plasma benefits to treat COVID-19

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists and medical experts have been pushing back against the claims about the treatment since President Donald Trump’s announcement on Sunday that the FDA had decided to issue emergency authorization for convalescent plasma, taken from patients who have recovered from the coronavirus and rich in disease-fighting antibodies.Trump hailed the decision as a historic breakthrough even though the treatment’s value has not been established.

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Trump's audience doesn't match Biden's; president hails CNN

NEW YORK – Up is down, down is up.

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Number of new U.S coronavirus cases falling — nearly 1,000 still dying daily

coronavirus is falling — a development experts say most likely reflects more mask-wearing but also insufficient testing — even as the disease continues to claim nearly 1,000 lives in the U.S. each day.About 43,000 new cases are being reported daily across the country, down 21% from early August, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

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Mike Pompeo shattering precedent, sparking fury with GOP convention speech

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

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Eliminating payroll tax could deplete Social Security by 2023, chief actuary estimates

WASHINGTON - Social Security funds would run out as early as 2023 if President Donald Trump opts to permanently cut payroll taxes and there is no alternative source of revenue, according to an estimate from the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration.The estimate was done in response to a request by four Democratic senators who asked the agency to conduct an analysis on the numbers after Trump said he would permanently cut payroll taxes if he’s reelected.Trump previously announced the federal government would defer employee payroll tax collections for the rest of 2020, aimed at boosting an economy rattled by the pandemic and an attempt to bypass Congress after talks on a broader coronavirus relief bill have stalled.During a news

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Fact check: Donald Trump, allies make several false claims on first day of Republican convention

Donald Trump made a dizzying array of misleading claims about voting fraud and health care as fellow Republicans opened their convention with speeches distorting the agenda of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.Trump falsely asserted that he was the one who ensured that people with preexisting medical problems will be covered by health insurance; actually that was Democratic President Barack Obama. Several speakers accused Biden of proposing to defund police, ban fracking, take over health care and open borders — none of that true.A look at statements Monday at the Republican National Convention:: “We protected your preexisting conditions.

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Pompeo to go against own warning by endorsing Trump at Republican National Convention

Mike Pompeo sent a cable to all U.S. diplomatic missions last month warning American diplomats that under federal law they should not take overt sides in the presidential campaign.

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SC Republicans Nikki Haley, Tim Scott cite racial progress in US at RNC

Tim Scott speaks on racism during 2020 RNC.To close out the first night of the Republican National Convention, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Sen.

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

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

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Duo who waved guns at protesters appears at RNC

O'Fallon, Mo. - A white St. Louis couple criminally charged for waving guns during a Black Lives Matter protest outside their home says Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would invite unchecked lawlessness into American suburbs.Mark and Patty McCloskey on Monday at the Republican National Convention reinforced the theme outlined in President Donald Trump’s campaign ads.

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RNC takeaways: Trump in spotlight as convention kicks off

US President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks at the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting at the Ritz Carlton in Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia on August 21, 2020. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump aggressively asserted control over the Republican National Convention on Monday, overshadowing the prime-time speakers, as he made clear he wants voters to focus on him.Here are key takeaways from the first night of the convention:RELATED: Delegates ready to renominate Trump at Republican National ConventionAN OMNIPRESENT CONVENTION PRESENCETrump.

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In FDA’s green light for treating COVID-19 with plasma, critics see thin evidence—and politics

Kai Kupferschmidt, Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.At a highly unusual Sunday night press conference, U.S. President Donald Trump revealed what he described as “a very historic breakthrough” in the fight against COVID-19 that “would save countless lives”: The U.S.

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FDA OKs use of convalescent plasma for COVID-19

Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it has approved plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to be used as a hospital-based treatment for the novel coronavirus under an emergency use authorization (EUA).

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After recovering from COVID-19, Rep. Randy Fine donates plasma to help other coronavirus patients

PALM BAY, Fla. – President Donald Trump has called convalescent plasma a “breakthrough” in fighting the novel coronavirus and a Florida state representative agreed that donating plasma could help effectively treat patients.Rep. Randy Fine, himself, was recently one of the donors hoping to make a difference in another patient’s battle with COVID-19.[RELATED: President Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19 | State Rep. Randy Fine released from hospital following weekslong battle with COVID-19]Fine told News 6 on the day before he went home from Holmes Regional Medical Center that 30% of his lungs were covered with damage from COVID-19.

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Trump complains of roll call coverage; nets cut speech off

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

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Republicans formally nominate Donald Trump; he questions election integrity

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

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PM vows 'UK will get first access' to Oxford University's Covid-19 vaccine if it works

coronavirus vaccine created by Oxford University.The vaccine is being developed by scientists from the university and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.Initial human trials suggest it is safe and creates an immune response to Covid-19. However, it is not likely to be ready until next year.

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Trump's moment: What's at stake for GOP as national convention begins

US President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks at the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting at the Ritz Carlton in Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia on August 21, 2020. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump will try to reintroduce himself — and his party — to voters this week at the Republican National Convention.It will be no easy task.Over the last four years, the GOP has been fundamentally redefined by the instinct, attitude and social media posts of the most divisive president in the modern era.

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President Trump announces plasma treatment authorized for COVID-19

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced emergency authorization to treat COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma — a move he called “a breakthrough,” one of his top health officials called “promising” and other health experts said needs more study before it’s celebrated.The announcement Sunday came after White House officials complained there were politically motivated delays by the Food and Drug Administration in approving a vaccine and therapeutics for the disease that has upended Trump’s reelection chances.On the eve of the Republican National Convention, Trump put himself at the center of the FDA’s announcement of the authorization at a news conference Sunday evening.

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US allows emergency use of blood plasma treatment for coronavirus patients

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