CHICAGO (NYTIMES) – Fourteen people were shot on Tuesday night (July 21) near a funeral home on the South Side of Chicago, a city where President Donald Trump has said he wants to send federal agents to help curb violence.  The details of the shooting, which comes amid a surge of gun violence in the city, […]

In his first coronavirus briefing in months, Trump said the pandemic will probably get worse before it gets better. United States President Donald Trump, in a shift in rhetoric on facial coverings, encouraged Americans on Tuesday to wear a mask if they cannot maintain social distance from people around them in an effort to curb […]

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden accused the Trump administration on Tuesday (July 21) of “egregious tactics” in cracking down on protests in Portland, Oregon, saying the response by federal agents was stoking divisions in the country. Biden, who leads Republican President Donald Trump in opinion polls ahead of the Nov 3 election, […]

Larry Householder and four other men with ties to state politics charged with conspiracy to commit racketeering. Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, a Republican, and four other men with ties to state politics were arrested on Tuesday in a $60m federal bribery case, in one of the largest corruption cases in the state’s history, a […]

Donald Trump has said the coronavirus pandemic “will probably get worse before it gets better” as he told Americans to wear masks when they cannot socially distance. The US president, speaking at a COVID-19 briefing at the White House on Tuesday evening, referred to what he calls the “China virus” as a “vicious and dangerous […]

Defence secretary reviews US global military footprint with an eye to competing more effectively with China and Russia. The Pentagon is considering “adjustments” to its military presence in South Korea and around the globe as it shifts from years of countering insurgencies and armed groups in the greater Middle East to focusing on China, the […]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Donald Trump will resume regular televised coronavirus briefings Tuesday in a possibly fraught bid to restore his standing with US voters who accuse him of badly fumbling the pandemic response. Early in the crisis that has now left more than 140,000 people dead in the United States and triggered mass unemployment, […]

Memorandum means undocumented migrants will not be counted when US congressional districts are redrawn. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Tuesday that aims to prevent undocumented migrants who are in the United States from being counted when US congressional voting districts are redrawn in the next round of redistricting. US Census experts and lawyers […]

WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Voters in the crucial battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina will begin casting ballots in September, giving President Donald Trump and Joe Biden just weeks to make their cases to voters. The first absentee ballots will be sent out in North Carolina starting on Sept 4. Voters in Pennsylvania will […]

DALLAS (BLOOMBERG) – US airlines hammered by the catastrophic loss of passengers during the pandemic are confronting a once-unthinkable scenario: that this crisis will obliterate much of the corporate flying they’ve relied on for decades to prop up profits. “It is likely that business travel will never return to pre-Covid levels,” said Adam Pilarski, senior […]