President Donald Trump’s supporters faced off with protesters shouting “Black Lives Matter” Saturday in Tulsa as the president held his first campaign rally in months amid public health concerns about the coronavirus and fears that the event could lead to violence in the wake of killings of Black people by […]
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Trump ‘pleaded’ with Xi Jinping to help win 2020 US polls, says John Bolton
President Donald Trump had pleaded with president Xi Jinping to help him win a second term during trade negotiations and also endorsed the Chinese leader’s concentration camps for Uygur Muslims, writes John Bolton, the former US national security adviser, in an upcoming book widely previewed in American media Wednesday. Among […]
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On Kim-Trump summit anniversary, North Korea vows to build up military
North Korea on Friday again vowed to build up its military force to counter what it perceives as US threats and said there would be little reason for a personal relationship between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump if Washington persists with sanctions and pressure. On the two-year […]
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Huawei troops see dire threat to future from latest Trump salvo
Huawei’s leafy campus in southern China has been engulfed in a state of emergency since the Commerce Department in May banned the sale of any silicon made with U.S. know-how — striking at the heart of its semiconductor apparatus and aspirations in fields from artificial intelligence to mobile services. Its stockpiles of […]
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US has 2 million coronavirus vaccine doses ‘ready to go’: Donald Trump
President Donald Trump said on Friday that the US has already produced two million vaccine doses for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) that are “ready to go” if they “check out for safety”. “We had a meeting on vaccines yesterday. We are doing incredibly well. We can have some very positive […]
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‘A great day for George Floyd,’ says Trump as he hails strong jobs report for US
President Donald Trump on Friday declared it was “a great day” for George Floyd as he discussed a strong jobs report for the country and efforts to bring about racial equality. Joe Biden, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, said Trump’s comments about Floyd were “despicable.” Trump’s comments about Floyd came as he […]
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Joe Biden, Donald Trump campaigns targeted by foreign hackers: Google
Campaign staffs for both President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden have been targeted recently by foreign hackers, Google researchers said Thursday, highlighting persistent data security concerns ahead of the November US election. A tweet from Google’s threat analysis chief Shane Huntley said the internet giant warned the Biden […]
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Hackers group targets California University leading Covid-19 research
A group of hackers with a history of targeting healthcare organizations executed a successful ransomware attack this week on the University of California, San Francisco. UCSF confirmed it was the target of an “illegal intrusion” but declined to explain which portion of its IT network may have been compromised. Researchers […]
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Trump confronted defense chief Esper over comments on protests
President Donald Trump confronted his Defense secretary, Mark Esper, after the Pentagon chief publicly opposed the idea of deploying the military to contain protests, according to people familiar with the matter. Separately, the president later asked top advisers if they thought Esper could still be effective in his position, two […]
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James Mattis takes charge of US military pushback to President Donald Trump
Former US defence secretary James Mattis joined White House protesters in spirit on Wednesday with a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump’s handling of the protests calling him the only President in his lifetime “who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try”. Mattis […]
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US defense chief opposes deploying troops to quell protests
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Wednesday he does not support invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty forces to quell civil unrest for now, despite President Donald Trump’s threats to militarize America’s response to mass protests. Trump said this week he could use military forces in states that fail to crack […]
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First Lady Melania Trump asks people to stay inside their homes
US First Lady Melania Trump has urged people to obey curfew, clear streets and spend time with their loved ones, in the wake of violent protests sparked across the country by the custodial killing of African-American George Floyd. The 46-year-old man was handcuffed and pinned to the ground in Minneapolis […]
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Perils for Pentagon as Trump threatens to militarize response to civil unrest
“Battlespace” was the word Defense Secretary Mark Esper used to describe protest sites in the United States. The top US general reinforced that image by appearing in downtown Washington in camouflage during a Monday evening crackdown. Helicopters that could easily be mistaken for active duty US military ones staged show-of-force […]
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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg still under fire over inflammatory Trump posts
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t budging over his refusal to take action on inflammatory posts by President Donald Trump that spread misinformation about voting by mail and, many said, encouraged violence against protesters. His critics, however, are multiplying. Some employees have publicly quit over the issue and civil-rights leaders who met with […]
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Trump describes protests in US as ‘terror’, threatens to deploy military
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to deploy US military troops in towns and cities where local officials failed to stop the violence, looting and vandalism that have accompanied protests, which he described as “terror”, against the death of an African American man in police custody. In a speech from […]