Iran strikes back at Iraqi US bases in revenge
The Iranian military attacked a number of US bases in Iraq, where the US still maintains a presence of more than 5,000 soldiers, to avenge last week's US assassination of top Iranian military official Major-General Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike in Baghdad. The attack occurred hours after Soleimani's funeral ceremony was concluded US President Donald Trump's initial response on Twitter were merely the words "All is well!"
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Donald Trump retweets video of a supporter shouting “White Power”
US President Donald Trump recently retweeted a video of one of his supporters loudly shouting "white power". The supporter was among a group of senior citizens taking part in a pro-Trump rally at a retirement complex in Florida. The footage showed supporters and opponents of the president hurling abuse and swearing at one another
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Trump to restart election rallies
Trump to restart election rallies
US President Donald Trump plans to hold his first re-election campaign rally for several months in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the date that African Americans celebrate the end of slavery. The rally will take place on 19 June. In 1921 the city of Tulsa was the site of one of the worst massacres of black people in US history. He faces re-election in November but is lagging Joe Biden in polls
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US deploys navy to thwart Caribbean drug trade
US President Donald Trump has declared that the US is deploying its warships in the Caribbean to thwart the influx of cocaine and other illegal drugs from Venezuela, with Trump charging Venezuelan President Nicolaus Maduro with plotting to harm the health of American citizens. President Maduro has replied that the move is an attempt to divert attention from the US' rapidly worsening coronavirus crisis.
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Trump revises US coronavirus deaths forecast to 240,000
In his latest daily White House press briefing, US President Donald Trump has revealed that White House coronavirus taskforce response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx now predicts that the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in the country could go up between 100,000 to 240,000 in the best-case scenario over the next two weeks, even if mitigation policies are enacted, with 1.5 to 2 million lives lost in the worst-case scenario.
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