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As Dr. Anthony Fauci prepared to throw out the first pitch of MLB’s season, President Donald Trump broke some baseball news of his own. Trump announced in the middle of a COVID-19 press briefing last Thursday that he had been invited to throw out the first pitch at a New York Yankees game. He would do so on Aug. 15, a date that saw the rival Boston Red Sox visiting Yankees Stadium. It turns out that announcement was news to the Yankees, according to a New York Times report published Monday.

US president Donald Trump is waging war on the streets of America but the strongman approach is fomenting resistance, according to those on the ground. US federal agents fired tear gas canisters at Black Lives Matter demonstrators in downtown Portland on Friday, US time, during the 56th straight day of protests amid growing scrutiny over the use of border patrol officers in the city. Security forces have frequently tear-gassed and clubbed demonstrators during the unrest. The US Justice… Source link

Donald Trump in 2000 with, from left, his then-girlfriend Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. (Davidoff Studios Photography / Getty Images) At President Trump’s news conference Tuesday, which was supposed to be about COVID-19, he was asked an easy question. Not about the pandemic. Not about reopening schools. About Ghislaine Maxwell, alleged accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison by suicide one year ago, or so official reports say, before he could be tried on… Source link

WASHINGTON — During a campaign-style speech last week in the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump lamented that his efforts to turn Joe Biden’s son into a political vulnerability for the Democrat had flopped. “But Hunter — where’s Hunter?” Trump said, referring to the younger Biden’s lucrative position on the board of a Ukrainian gas company while his father was vice president. “And you all know about Burisma, but nothing happens. Nobody cares.” It’s one of many… Source link

Washington (AFP) – In a break with tradition, the White House of President Donald Trump has removed the portraits of two recent presidents, Bill Clinton and George W Bush, from the building’s entrance hall, CNN reported Friday. The two paintings were moved from the Grand Foyer, where the portraits of recent presidents usually hang, to the Old Family Dining Room, which CNN described as “a small, rarely used room that is not seen by most visitors.” It said the room was mainly used to store… Source link

With coronavirus infections spreading fast and COVID-19 deaths climbing yet again, most Americans say the country is not ready to send children back to school this fall — and they emphatically reject every aspect of President Trump’s new effort to force public schools to fully reopen, according to the latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll.   The survey, which was conducted between July 11 and 14, found a remarkable consensus on the issue of school reopening that transcended party lines,… Source link

With the coronavirus surging and the economy in tatters, President Trump seems to have decided that his surest path to reelection lies in portraying Joe Biden, his Democratic rival, as a “puppet of the militant left” who will allow “thugs” and “angry mobs” to “tear down” monuments to “our heritage” — including Confederate symbols and statues of early slaveholding presidents. Trump’s latest campaign ad hits all these notes, claiming that “you won’t be safe in Joe… Source link