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US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Monday are down to the final full week of campaigning before the November 3 election, as surging coronavirus cases and a Covid-19 outbreak within Vice President Mike Pence’s staff keep the focus of the race on the pandemic. Trump claimed progress in combating the disease even as the United States …

WASHINGTON — Lagging in polls and still showing the lingering effects of a bout with COVID-19, President Donald Trump gathered hundreds of supporters on the South Lawn on Saturday for a political rally without precedent on the White House grounds — until he delivered a GOP convention speech there in August. The White House, currently the worst coronavirus hot spot …

Donald Trump and Joe Biden spent the night throwing haymakers at each other during the most caustic and at time disgraceful debate in modern history. Did it change any minds? That’s hard to say with all the noise. Trump said that Biden wasn’t a smart person, while Biden called the president a liar. It went that way most of the …

WASHINGTON — With the White House transformed into a campaign venue, President Donald Trump accepted the GOP nomination for a second term Thursday night, describing his own record as exemplary and painting rival Joe Biden as a weak-minded liberal who would drive the country into violence and moral decay. “Everything we have achieved is now endangered,” he warned. “This election …

United States President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked Joe Biden for calling on governors to mandate that all Americans wear masks for the next three months, accusing the Democratic presidential candidate of politicising an issue Trump himself has used for political gain in recent months. Trump claimed Biden has been wrong about the coronavirus pandemic at every turn, “ignoring the …

The Supreme Court today threw a temporary lifeline to young immigrants who have been swimming against the current of immigration-restrictionist policies issued by President Donald Trump over the past three and a half years. But big questions remain. Will Trump again try to end the program that is popular with an overwhelming majority of Americans just months before he is …

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed plunging oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, the Kremlin said, as Trump said Moscow is pressing for an end to US sanctions. The two “expressed serious concern regarding the scope of the spread of the coronavirus” and “discussed closer cooperation,” a brief Kremlin statement said. Trump announced …

NEW YORK: Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes conviction was a “great victory” for women, US President Donald Trump said Tuesday — without acknowledging the numerous accusations of sexual misconduct he has faced. The disgraced Hollywood movie producer was found guilty on Monday of rape and sexual assault in a verdict hailed as a historic landmark by the #MeToo movement against sexual …

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has called for Russia to end its support for the Syrian regime’s “atrocities” as he expressed US concern over violence in the Idlib region, the White House said on Sunday. Turkey’s foreign minister also pressed his Russian counterpart over the attacks by Damascus on the last rebel-held bastion in the country. Backed by Russian air power, …

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will visit India on February 24-25 and travel to New Delhi and Ahmedabad, the White House said on Monday. The latter city is the largest in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat and played an important role in Mahatma Gandhi’s life and leadership of the Indian independence movement. Press …