WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that seeks to protect the U.S. electricity system from cyber and other attacks in a move that could eventually put barriers on some imports from China and Russia. Trump declared in the order that the threat to the U.S. power system represents a […]
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in November. In an interview with Reuters in the Oval Office, Trump talked tough on China and said he was looking at different options in […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats on Wednesday proposed a bill that would require a U.S. coronavirus supply czar to oversee critical medical supplies, while the top Senate Republican doubled down on demands for business protections. Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives unveiled companion bills requiring the Pentagon to name a civilian officer to […]
The former neighbour of Tara Reade, the woman who alleges Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, has spoken out and said Reade told her about the alleged assault back in the mid-1990s. Lynda LaCasse has publicly spoken up to corroborate Reade’s allegations in recent interviews with news outlets, saying Reade disclosed details about the […]
(Reuters) – The Democratic primary for the U.S. state of Ohio’s third Congressional District has been won by incumbent Representative Joyce Beatty against Morgan Harper, a progressive first-time candidate who was previously a senior adviser at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Ohio held mostly mail-in primaries due to the coronavirus pandemic after voting originally scheduled […]
(Reuters) – Alumni of Senator Bernie Sanders’ unsuccessful presidential campaigns on Tuesday said they had started a new political fundraising group to support onetime rival Joe Biden. The group, Future to Believe In PAC, announced ambitions to rally Sanders’ supporters to vote against Republican President Donald Trump, “with a focus on young voters of all […]
Boris Johnson is back in Downing Street and his return to work is undoubtedly a moment of success in this grim coronavirus crisis. The prime minister has survived this horrible disease, but sadly tens of thousands of others have not. He was away for three weeks and the country he leads has changed beyond recognition. […]
WASHINGTON — After two months of frantic response to the coronavirus, the White House is planning to shift President Donald Trump’s public focus to the burgeoning efforts aimed at easing the economic devastation caused by the pandemic. Days after he publicly mused that scientists should explore the injection of toxic disinfectants as a potential virus […]
The US president said he was surprised how healthy Mr Johnson sounded. The Prime Minister is recovering at Chequers with fiance Carrie Symonds after falling gravely ill with coronavirus and requiring intensive care. President Trump said: “He called me a few days ago, I will tell you, he sounded incredible. I was actually surprised, I […]
WASHINGTON — They long for what’s being lost: the ability to publicly question officials at committee hearings, to chat across the aisle, to speak from the House and Senate floor for all of America, and history, to hear. Congress wants its voice back. With no real plan to reopen Capitol Hill any time soon, the […]