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California to sue over Trump order revoking foreign student visas
On Monday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said foreign students enrolled in fully online programs for the fall semester would not be allowed to...
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Citizens chafe under new restrictions as countries see fresh COVID-19 infections
The US remains by far the worst affected country, with over 132,000 deaths, while Brazil - whose virus-skeptic President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for the disease - is a distant second with close to 67,000 deaths from almost 1.7 million cases.
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US tops 3 mln known infections as coronavirus surges
Authorities have reported alarming upswings of daily caseloads in roughly two dozen states over the past two weeks, a sign that efforts to control the transmission of COVID-19 have failed in large swaths of the country.
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US under siege as pandemic accelerates, Britain eases quarantine
Florida, which now has more than 169,000 cases, is a key focus of public health experts who worry about a surge in southern and western US states.
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US coronavirus cases rise by 47,000, biggest one-day spike of pandemic
California, Texas and Arizona have emerged as new US epicentres of the pandemic, reporting record increases in COVID-19 cases.
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US could hit 100,000 new virus cases a day: Fauci
Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, a leading member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, said the United States was headed in the 'wrong direction' on the pandemic.
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Top Democrats ask US spy chiefs for briefing on Russia bounty reports
The New York Times report, which has been confirmed by several American and British media outlets, said that US intelligence concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit offered rewards to Taliban-linked militants to kill troops of the US-led coalition in Afghanistan.
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Top US, China diplomats meet in Hawaii as tensions flare
Hours after the meeting ended, China announced that its top parliamentary body will review draft Hong Kong national security legislation during a session that began on Thursday.
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Trump says US will not lock down again amid rising coronavirus cases
Trump’s comments come after White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin both said the United States could not shut down the economy again.
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China warns of countermeasures in response to US Uighurs law
China’s foreign ministry said in a statement the United States must bear all the consequences of any responses from Beijing and urged Washington to stop harming China’s interests.
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'This is about livelihoods': US virus hotspots reopen despite 2nd wave specter
As Florida reported its highest daily tally of new coronavirus cases on Thursday, Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled a plan to restart public schools at “full capacity” in the autumn, arguing the state’s economy depended on it.
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Struggling to unite country, Trump reopens re-election campaign
The Republican has struggled to find the right tone to address the explosion of protests against years of police abuses and what many African-American leaders, and others, say is systemic racism
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US tops two million coronavirus cases: Johns Hopkins
The pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 112,900 people in the United States, which leads the world in the number of confirmed infections with 2,000,464, according to the Baltimore-based school's latest count.
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ANALYSIS: George Floyd protests show how US has retreated as a world leader
America, the land of the ethno-racial melting pot, is once again facing what the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal optimistically called The American Dilemma in 1944.
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This is what led to the George Floyd protests in the US
George Floyd’s death followed several widely publicised incidents that exposed the deep racial fissures in American society.
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Memorial for George Floyd set for Thursday after days of protest, rage
The Reverend Al Sharpton, a television political commentator and civil rights activist who will give a eulogy at the service, struck an optimistic tone on Thursday morning, praising the unity of marchers protesting at police brutality.
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Violence spreads in US as Trump faces anger for ordering force
Once-in-a-generation protests have brought a multiracial and overwhelmingly peaceful coalition into the streets for the past week but each night has descended into mayhem, with both activists and officials blaming rabble-rousers.
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Russia not welcome at G7, Canada's Trudeau says
Russia was expelled from what was then the G8 in 2014 when Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, was US president, after Moscow annexed the Crimea region from Ukraine.
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WHO says it wants to keep working with US
US President Donald Trump said Friday he was severing US ties with the WHO, which he says failed to do enough to combat the initial spread of the novel coronavirus.
