response.Dr. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, said in an amended complaint filed with a federal watchdog agency that he has been relegated to a lesser role in his new assignment at the National Institutes of Health, unable to lend his full expertise to the battle against COVID-19.

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US was doing great until it was hit by China's coronavirus: Donald Trump

WASHINGTON : Launching another scathing attack on China, US President Donald Trump addressed the second 'Salute to America' on America's 244th Independence Day, saying that the country was doing great until it got hit by a virus that came from China."The power of tariffs being imposed on foreign lands that took advantage of the United States for decades enabled us to make great trade deals where there were none.

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President Donald Trump playing politics with the pandemic: experts

coronavirus, which would become commonly known as COVID-19 — the name of the disease caused by the virus.Since then, a health crisis not seen in more than a century has become more and more politicized.American cities and states have been forced to grapple with a constant unknown — exactly when this virus is going to spike or subside, leaving businesses, lawmakers and residents to approach each situation in one of two ways: with caution or defiance.

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Trump’s ‘strong wall’ to guard against coronavirus outbreak in China had holes: records

Donald Trump has repeatedly credited his February ban on travelers from mainland China as his signature move against the advance of the coronavirus pandemic — a “strong wall” that allowed only U.S. citizens inside, he boasted in May.But Trump’s wall was more like a sieve.Exempted were thousands of residents of the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macau.

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‘People aren’t stupid’: Mike Pence’s U.S. coronavirus spin tests his credibility

Mike Pence has long played the straight man to Donald Trump, translating the president’s bombast into more measured, calming language.His job has become even more difficult. As coronavirus cases spike across large parts of the country despite months of lockdown, Pence has spent the past week trying to convince the American public that things are going very well, even though they’re not.“Make no mistake about it, what you see today is that America is going back to work and the American people are finding a way every day to put this coronavirus farther in the past,” he told CNBC the same day the country reported more than 55,000 new virus cases, a daily record.For public health experts, the optimism has been unmoored from reality.

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Trump plans massive fireworks display for July 4 amid COVID-19

Independence Day celebrations amid a spike of coronavirus cases, U.S. President Donald Trump is going big for what he is promising will be a “special evening” in the nation’s capital.Trump is set hold his “Salute for America” celebration Saturday with a speech from the White House South Lawn that he says will celebrate American heritage, a military flyover over Washington, and an enormous fireworks display that is expected to draw thousands to the National Mall.The celebration comes one day after Trump kicked off the holiday weekend by travelling to Mt.

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Trump says “most people knocking off monuments don’t even know what they are”

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Trump says protesters want to ‘defame’ heroes, ‘wipe out’ history

Donald Trump made a direct appeal to disaffected white voters four months before Election Day, accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history.”The president dug further into American divisions Friday, offering a discordant tone to an electorate battered by a pandemic and wounded by racial injustice following the high-profile killings of Black people. He zeroed in on the desecration by some protesters of monuments and statues across the country that honor those who have benefited from slavery, including some past presidents.

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Trump plans fiery Rushmore rally amid coronavirus threat, protests

KEYSTONE, S.D. - President Donald Trump planned a fiery Mount Rushmore speech Friday night including denunciations of protesters he says are trying to “tear down” the nation's history. He's adding the condemnation of those who pull down statues to a big fireworks show and his more traditional July Fourth praise of America's past and values.Hours before the event, protesters blocked a road leading to the monument.

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Trump plans fiery speech for Mount Rushmore fireworks

KEYSTONE, S.D. - President Donald Trump planned a fiery Mount Rushmore speech Friday night including denunciations of protesters he says are trying to “tear down” the nation's history.

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Wolf's mask order inflames partisan fight over virus

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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For 3rd day in a row, U.S. coronavirus cases surge by more than 40,000

coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic.Governor Gavin Newsom’s order for bars to close in seven counties, including Los Angeles, is the first major rollback of efforts to reopen the economy in the most populous U.S. state.

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Trump wants federal hiring to focus on skills over degrees

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is preparing to direct the federal government to overhaul its hiring to prioritize a job applicant’s skills over a college degree, administration and industry officials say.Trump is set to sign an executive order Friday outlining a new direction for the nation’s largest employer during a meeting of the board that advises the administration on worker policy.

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‘Window is closing’ to control coronavirus in US, says health secretary

2.5 Million CasesUS coronavirus cases now exceed 2.5 million, with over 125,000 reported fatalities -- in both cases the world’s highest. The country’s inability to control the spread of the virus seems likely to result in U.S.

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Global covid-19 cases hit 1 crore as pandemic gains momentum

TOKYO, MINNEAPOLIS : Confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe surged past 1 crore, a chilling reminder that the deadliest pandemic of the modern era is stronger than ever.The milestone is a rebuff to health experts and global leaders — including US President Donald Trump — who had hoped early in the pandemic that it would fade away with the summer heat. Instead, infections are multiplying faster than ever.It took four months after the pathogen first surfaced in the Chinese city of Wuhan to reach 1 million infections.

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Biden slams Trump over reported bounties placed on U.S., NATO troops

Former U.S. vice-president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden slammed President Donald Trump on Saturday over reports Russia had offered bounties to Afghan militants for killing U.S.

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Pence cancels planned bus tour of Florida after coronavirus cases surge

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 27: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence listens as U.S.

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Reality check: Trump suggests if you don’t look for coronavirus, it’ll go away

Donald Trump’s persistent see-no-evil posture on coronavirus testing — if you don’t look for the virus, the cases go away — defies both science and street sense. Yet he took it a step further with a comment suggesting that testing be restrained so the pandemic doesn’t look so bad.His aides passed that off as a joke.

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

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