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Washington DC, President Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House physician announced late Thursday.
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Washington DC, President Trump officially nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court .The president revealed his choice at a Rose Garden ceremony on Saturday. Now the focus shifts to a looming confirmation fight that is expected to conclude with Barrett becoming the youngest member of a 6-3 conservative majority court.
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Washington DC, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vowed on Friday night that Republicans will move to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.
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WASHINGTON DC, In response to President Trump’s Executive Orders signed August 6, 2020, the Department of Commerce announced prohibitions on transactions relating to mobile applications (apps) WeChat and TikTok to safeguard the national security of the United States. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has demonstrated the means and motives to use these apps to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and the economy of the U.S. Today’s announced prohibitions, when combined, protect users in the U.S. by eliminating access to these applications and significantly reducing their functionality.
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Washington DC, President Trump has a busy week on the diplomatic front announcing Serbia and Kosovo have each committed to economic normalization. After a violent and tragic history and years of failed negotiations, my Administration proposed a new way of bridging the divide. By focusing on job creation and economic growth, the two countries were able to reach a real breakthrough on economic cooperation across a broad range of issues.
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Washington DC, President Trump signed a memorandum yesterday to hold local politicians accountable for refusing to protect their communities from ongoing riots, lootings, and mass property destruction.
Per the memo, Federal agencies will identify what funds are provided to Seattle, Portland, New York City, and other jurisdictions that have allowed violence, lawlessness, and property damage to persist. Agencies will also determine what authorities are available to withhold these funds if and when necessary.
Where permissible, the Administration will restrict eligibility for certain Federal grants until these jurisdictions take the necessary steps to protect their residents.
President Trump announced Sunday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for convalescent plasma for emergency use to treat patients sickened by the novel coronavirus as a therapeutic.
Trump, who has been looking to announce progress in fighting the virus, touted the news as a “historic breakthrough” against the “Chine virus” at a White House news conference on Sunday, saying it would “dramatically expand access to this treatment.Not resisting further temptation the President hoped the press had a great time at their convention.
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Washington DC,President Trump said he will pardon Susan B. Anthony, the leader of the women’s suffrage movement who was arrested for violating male-only voting laws in 1872, the pardon comes 100 years to the day after the 19th Amendment, which ensured women’s right to vote, was ratified.
Anthony, a strong anti-slavery pioneer who died in 1906, had been arrested in 1872 for violating laws that had permitted only men to vote in the presidential election. She was then indicted, tried and convicted for voting illegally and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and court costs. Ever the dramatic flare, the historic New Yorker described her two-day trial in June 1873 as “the greatest judicial outrage history has ever recorded,” according to The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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Ramsey NJ, Frank Pallotta, Republican Congressional candidate in New Jersey’s 5th District released the following statement regarding the Historic Peace Agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates:
“Thank you to President Trump for helping to broker this historic deal. This is a great day for the security of Israel and overall peace in the Middle East,” said Pallotta.
“I look forward to so-called bipartisan Josh Gottheimer’s statement actually giving the President credit for this incredible advancement and his strong leadership, but we understand he may need to clear it with Nancy Pelosi first,” he continued.
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Bedminister NJ, President Trump announced the slew of executive actions from his private club in Bedminster, N.J., where he is spending the weekend after lawmakers on Capitol Hill were unable to reach an agreement with White House negotiators.
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Washington DC, President Trump took action earlier today to prevent Americans from being displaced by foreign workers and offshore labor using federal dollars. In a new executive order the President combats the misuse of H-1B visas, which too often have been exploited to replace qualified U.S. workers with lower-cost foreign ones. President Trump is directing all federal agencies to focus on hiring Americans for lucrative federal contracts, and it requires that only U.S. citizens be appointed to the government’s competitive service.
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Washington DC, on Friday President Trump’s announcement that he plans to ban Chinese-owned TikTok has halted a potential acquisition of the popular app by Microsoft, with both companies waiting for more information for the U.S. government, according to several people involved in the talks.
The two companies were in advance stages of negotiating a deal that could have been announced as soon as Monday. Under the deal, TikTok’s owner Bytedance would sell the U.S. operation of TikTok to Microsoft, while continuing to operate the rest of the global video app out of a European headquarters. It’s unclear if the companies would share technology, such as through a licensing arrangement, or whether Microsoft would rebuild and operate the company. One option under consideration would have had Bytedance eventually separate its China business by listing it as a public company.
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Washington DC, For more than a month, there has been a sustained assault on American civilians, law enforcement officers, public and private property, and national treasures such as the Lincoln Memorial. These attacks aren’t the actions of peaceful protesters—they are the violent criminal acts of rioters, arsonists, anarchists, and left-wing extremists.
Continue reading Vandals of Public Monuments Will Face Federal Prosecution
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Washington DC, President Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 means the statute could be used for the first time in the 21st century.
The U.S. federal law allows the president to deploy military troops within the nation to suppress civil disorder, insurrection and rebellion, among other threats. It allows the president to federalize the National Guard and use U.S. armed forces to combat insurrections against states and the federal government.
Continue reading The Insurrection Act of 1807 has been invoked 14 times in US History
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WASHINGTON DC, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), author of the House-passed Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and who has promoted human rights as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for forty years, said: