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Friday 23 October 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is preparing to unveil plans to probe the president’s capacity to govern after contracting Covid-19.
It was announced earlier that the candidates would “participate from separate remote locations”.
White House aides said Donald Trump has returned to the Oval Office.
An attending physician at Walter Reed Medical Centre said “the irresponsibility is astounding” and was done “for political theatre”.
Donald Trump is to leave the White House to attend a medical centre after testing positive for Covid-19.
Scientific studies have shown hydroxychloroquine can do more harm than good when used to treat symptoms of Covid-19.
Hundreds have already been sent to Kansas City to help quell violence.
Robert Trump had objected to Mary Trump publicly discussing family members.
“Far fewer protesters showed up last night than anticipated!” the US President tweeted.
Trump tweeted that more mail-in voting would lead to a “rigged election” in November. The US President votes by mail-in voting.
“We’ve got to make Trump a one-term president,” Sanders said.
The US government said that 2018 saw the first decline in drug overdose deaths in almost three decades.
There is scepticism over the plan’s chances of success in the Middle East.
Donald Trump had threatened to target cultural sites in Iran.
Thousands of Iraqis chanted “Death to America” as they joined the funeral procession for General Qassem Soleimani.
A 14-hour session was shut down by the House Judiciary Committee.
The 77-year-old officially launched his campaign online this morning.
House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Trump “could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants if he wants”.
Carter was US president from 1977 to 1981.
He made the comments at the first permanent English settlement in the United States, marking 400 years of representative democracy.
The US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a lower court judge who said Trump violates the Constitution when he blocks his critics.
Trump claims that E Jean Carroll is “totally lying” about the accusation.
The White House has described the story as “completely false and unrealistic”.
The US President warned against the rise of his rival Democrat party.
Trump will stay at his Doonbeg golf resort in Clare for the next two nights.
The US President is in Japan ahead of a state visit.
Officers have been deployed to a road security box at the entrance to the airport.
It’s all a question of being ‘natural born”.
Stone is charged with lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction in relation to his contacts with WikiLeaks.
The senator is seeking to become the first African-American woman to hold the office of US president.
Her announcement comes ahead of what is expected to be a wave of high-profile candidates throwing their hats in the ring.
It was the first time the senator directly addressed the issue, which has come to light in recent months.
An Irish tenor sang at Washington National Cathedral today.
Footage shared by Sarah Huckabee Sanders was used to justify the suspension of Jim Acosta’s press pass yesterday.
Emails released under the Freedom of Information Act show how the public reacted to a now-postponed visit by Trump to Ireland.
“We had fun,” he told journalists in New York.
The duration of the US president’s stay in Ireland is yet to be determined.
The US President has ordered Attorney General Jeff Sessions to root out the author of the piece.
It comes after Donald Trump accused technology firms of “censorship” and suppressing conservative voices.
“I owe my loyalty to the Constitution,” Brett Kavanaugh told the committee. “No one is above the law in our constitutional system.”
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
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