Trump pardons 11 convicted criminals using presidential powers
US President Donald Trump has announced pardons for 11 convicted white-collar criminals in the wake of his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, amid a flurry of sackings of aides and staff that he considers disloyal. The criminals pardoned include former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, convicted of attempting to sell a Senate seat, and Bernie Kerik, former New York police commissioner convicted of tax fraud.
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Donald Trump retweets video of a supporter shouting “White Power”
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Trump to restart election rallies
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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
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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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