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Donald Trump has said he will leave the White House if Joe Biden is formally confirmed as the next US president by the electoral college. The president has refused to accept defeat in the 3 November vote, and told reporters on Thursday it would be “hard” to concede. He also once again repeated unsubstantiated claims […]
United States will reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq from 4,500 to 2,500 by mid-January, before Joe Biden takes over. The Pentagon also outlined a modest withdrawal of US forces days after Trump fired former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who had insisted on the need to maintain troop levels in Afghanistan to […]
US election officials have said the 2020 White House vote was the “most secure in American history”, rejecting President Donald Trump’s fraud claims. “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” a committee announced. A joint statement was released by the Election Infrastructure […]
American people have spoken. Joe Biden will be their 46th president with Kamala Harris will serve as his deputy. However, President Trump is still insisting the race was not over. Mr Trump threw out baseless allegations of voter fraud, promised a flurry of legal action and fired off all-caps tweets falsely insisting he’d “WON THIS […]
US President Donald Trump has been on the receiving end of a lot of social media trolling since the election night. During the crucial counting days, Mr Trump has come under severe criticism for spreading misinformation alleging voter fraud. Now the spotting of a “moving truck” allegedly parked outside the White House has been causing […]
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took the lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia for the first time on Friday, putting him on the verge of winning the White House. Three days after polls closed, Biden has a 253 to 214 lead in the state-by-state Electoral College vote that […]
The US Senate has confirmed Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in a victory for President Donald Trump a week before the presidential election. Mr Trump’s fellow Republicans voted 52-48 to approve the judge, overcoming the unified opposition of Democrats. Her appointment seals for the foreseeable future a 6-3 conservative majority on the […]
US president Donald Trump was escorted out of a press briefing after secret service agents shot and wounded a man who claimed to be armed outside the White House. An agent walked to the stage as President Trump was reading his statement and led him away. The president returned minutes later to say the situation […]
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, has tested positive for coronavirus, the White House confirmed. Mr O’Brien, 54, has been self-isolating and working from home. He was picked to replace John Bolton as national security adviser last September, after Mr Bolton left amid a rancorous fallout with President Trump. The aide has mild […]
The coronavirus pandemic has forced most parts of the world to go into lockdown to contain the spread of the deadly disease. This has paused most of the world’s work including the education of children. According to a UNICEF report at least 1.725 billion learners are affected due to school closures. While many nations have no […]
US President Donald Trump has directed his administration to “reform” the H-1B visa system and move in the direction of merit-based immigration, White House officials have said. “Moving to a merit-based immigration system,” the White House said in a statement soon after Trump issued a proclamation to temporarily suspend H-1B and other work visas till […]
President Donald Trump launched his comeback rally on Saturday by defining the upcoming election as a stark choice between national heritage and left-wing radicalism. But his intended show of political force amid a pandemic featured thousands of empty seats and new coronavirus cases on his own campaign staff. Trump ignored health warnings to hold his […]