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July 23, 2020 at 7:30 pm

Trump, citing the coronavirus, cancels Florida portion of GOP convention

Bowing to threats posed by the coronavirus, President Donald Trump reversed course on Thursday and canceled the portion of the Republican National Convention to be...

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July 21, 2020 at 5:17 pm

Trump’s actions in Portland mesh with his political message

As President Donald Trump deploys federal agents to Portland, Oregon, and threatens to dispatch more to other cities, his reelection campaign is spending millions of...

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FILE — Woody Johnson, the U.S. ambassador to Britain, who owns the New York Jets, at what at the time was known as New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, Aug. 17, 2010. Johnson told multiple colleagues in February 2018 that President Donald Trump had asked him to see if the British government could help steer the world-famous and lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, according to three people with knowledge of the episode. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times) XNYT197 XNYT197

July 21, 2020 at 4:05 pm

Trump’s request of an ambassador: Steer the British Open to my golf resort

The ambassador’s deputy advised him not to do it, warning that it would be an unethical use of the presidency for private gain, said three...

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July 20, 2020 at 4:09 pm

After Dismissing Coronavirus Surge, Trump Wants to Talk About the Virus Again

WASHINGTON — By the time he canceled the show midseason, even President Donald Trump had grown weary of his televised coronavirus briefings. Angry at the...

July 20, 2020 at 4:01 pm

After Dismissing Coronavirus Surge, Trump Wants to Talk About the Virus Again

WASHINGTON — By the time he canceled the show midseason, even President Donald Trump had grown weary of his televised coronavirus briefings. Angry at the...

President Donald Trump meets with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, shown left, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, not shown, in the Oval Office at the White House, Monday, July 20, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) DCEV205 DCEV205

July 19, 2020 at 3:01 pm

As Trump ignores virus crisis, Republicans start to contradict him

President Donald Trump’s failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak and his refusal to promote clear public-health guidelines have left many senior Republicans despairing that he...

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (Al Drago/Pool via AP) WX476 WX476

July 12, 2020 at 5:39 pm

Trump aides undercut Fauci as he speaks up on virus concerns

President Donald Trump’s advisers undercut the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, over the weekend, anonymously providing details to various news outlets about...

July 11, 2020 at 11:12 am

Business leaders urge Trump to leave DACA alone after court ruling

A group of prominent business leaders urged President Donald Trump on Saturday to leave in place a program affecting roughly 800,000 young immigrants who are...

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FILE – In this Jan. 25, 2019, file photo, former campaign adviser for President Donald Trump, Roger Stone walks out of the federal courthouse following a hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Stone was arrested Friday in the special counsel’s Russia investigation and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File) WX428 WX428

July 10, 2020 at 7:30 pm

Trump commutes sentence of Roger Stone

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone on seven felony crimes Friday, using the power of his office...

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July 6, 2020 at 5:33 pm

Trump Adds to Playbook of Stoking White Fear and Resentment

President Donald Trump mounted an explicit defense of the Confederate flag on Monday, suggesting that NASCAR had made a mistake in banning it from its...

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