President says number of US cases is good news Trump threatens to withhold funding from Michigan and Nevada over vote by mail Trump suggests hosting G7 in person Florida scientist says she was fired for refusing to change Covid-19 data ‘to support reopen plan’ Coronavirus – latest global updates Get a fresh perspective on America […] More
US elections 2020 In an election year where door-to-door campaigning is limited, strategists are having to explore new ways of rallying voters Donald Trump at the White House earlier in May. The Trump campaign has been much more aggressive about offering various groups for supporters. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Diving into the campaign […] More
Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, the US president’s oldest sons, have attracted fierce criticism for attacking Joe Biden and Democrats in terms most observers considered beyond the pale even in America’s current toxic political climate. Trump Jr posted to Instagram a meme which baselessly insinuated that Biden, his father’s probable opponent at the polls […] More
US elections 2020 Intelligence director releases names in Flynn surveillance case Obama alumni dismiss ‘sideshow’ as distraction effort Opinion: Trump is seeking to distract from his failures Joe Biden’s name was on a list of Obama officials said to be involved in ‘unmasking’ Michael Flynn. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump has ratcheted […] More
US elections 2020 Mike Garcia will replace Hill, who resigned amid scandal in 2019 after securing the first Democratic victory in district in decades People vote at a voting station for the special election between the Democratic state assemblywoman Christy Smith and Republican businessman and ex-navy pilot Mike Garcia, in Santa Clarita, California. Photograph: Mark […] More
Play Video 0:37 The Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has said Barack Obama should have ‘kept his mouth shut’ instead of criticising Donald Trump, and called his intervention ‘classless’. McConnell was speaking to Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump in an online fundraiser on Monday night McConnell tells Obama to ‘keep his mouth shut’ after Trump criticism More
Play Video 1:01 Days after tweeting about ‘Obamagate’ and accusing his predecessor, Barack Obama, of committing crimes, US president Donald Trump was asked to specify what those exactly were. He replied: ‘Obamagate, it’s been going on for a long time, it’s being going on from even before I got elected and it’s a disgrace that […] More
Opinion Donald Trump Midwesterners were already doubting Trump. Covid could seal his political fate Art Cullen The genius may think we are suckers, but in Iowa we don’t ruin good corn liquor with Clorox An empty street in Perry, Iowa, home of a Tyson pork processing plant. Photograph: Jack Kurtz/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Drake Custer is a […] More
