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Trump denies calling US war dead ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’

11:32 pm September 4, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump defended himself Friday against accusations that he mocked American war dead as his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, intensified efforts to frame the election as a referendum on the president’s character. The allegations, sourced anonymously in The Atlantic, describe multiple offensive comments by the president toward fallen and captured U.S. service-members, including calling World War I dead at […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump faces pushback for urging people to vote twice as test

10:17 pm September 3, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump is facing a backlash for urging voters in North Carolina to vote by mail and then try to vote again in person to test the mail-in ballot system in the Nov. 3 election. Trump was asked by a television reporter during his trip Wednesday to Wilmington, North Carolina, if he had […]

Portland protesters target city’s mayor amid rising tensions

3:01 pm September 2, 2020

Portland: Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon, shifted their focus to the city’s mayor, and police declared a riot as people broke windows, vandalised a business and set a small fire inside the upscale apartment building where Mayor Ted Wheeler lives. The demonstration that began late Monday and extended into Tuesday fell on Wheeler’s 58th birthday and featured […]

Trump spins baseless tale of ‘thugs’ flying to protests

2:46 pm September 2, 2020

Chicago: President Donald Trump is recycling a baseless conspiracy theory to claim that recent protests have been orchestrated by powerful people in “dark shadows” intent on undermining his reelection prospects. The claims first took root on Facebook and Twitter earlier this year after racial justice protests swelled across the country following the deaths of Black Americans in […]

Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

Trump still faces skepticism in suburbs following convention

10:16 pm August 29, 2020

Washington: Pat Newell backed Donald Trump in 2016. But after Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention this week included no mention of the police shooting of Jacob Blake that spurred demonstrations in her hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin, the white retired public relations specialist said the president still had work to do before she’ll commit to voting for him […]