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3,500 US companies sue over Trump-imposed Chinese tariffs

3,500 US companies sue over Trump-imposed Chinese tariffs

-- 2020-09-27 16:49:20

About 3,500 US companies, including Tesla Inc, Ford Motor, Target Corp, Walgreen Co and Home Depot have sued the Trump administration in the last two weeks over the imposition of tariffs on more than...

US election winner might not be named for months: Trump

US election winner might not be named for months: Trump

REUTERS 2020-09-26 12:21:51

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Americans might not know the winner of the November presidential election for months due to disputes over mail ballots, building on his criticism of a met...

Top US Republicans assure voters of peaceful transition after splitting with Trump

Top US Republicans assure voters of peaceful transition after splitting with Trump

REUTERS 2020-09-25 12:10:39

US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other top Republicans on Thursday repudiated President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, assuring American voters th...

US imposes fresh sanctions on Iran

US imposes fresh sanctions on Iran

Reuters 2020-09-25 10:48:24

The United States has blacklisted several Iranian officials and entities over alleged gross violations of human rights, including slapping sanctions on a judge it said was involved in the case of an I...

Trudeau says Canada enters second wave of pandemic

Trudeau says Canada enters second wave of pandemic

Reuters 2020-09-24 11:41:07

Canada has entered a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday (local time), warning that the country was on the brink of a surge if people did not follo...

US election will end up at Supreme Court, says Trump

US election will end up at Supreme Court, says Trump

REUTERS 2020-09-24 11:00:57

US President Donald Trump declined on Wednesday to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the November 03 election to Democratic rival Joe Biden and said he expected the election battle to...

J&J becomes fourth company to start Phase 3 trials of Covid-19 vaccine in US

J&J becomes fourth company to start Phase 3 trials of Covid-19 vaccine in US

-- 2020-09-24 10:35:50

A fourth Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating an investigational Covid-19 vaccine has begun enrolling adult volunteers, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on Wednesday. The trial is de...

US Covid-19 deaths surpass 200,000 mark

US Covid-19 deaths surpass 200,000 mark

-- 2020-09-23 10:25:14

The US coronavirus death toll has passed 200,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). More than 6.8 million people are known to have been infected in the US, more than in any other...

At UN, Trump demands action against China over coronavirus

At UN, Trump demands action against China over coronavirus

Reuters 2020-09-23 10:14:52

US President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that China must be held accountable for having “unleashed” Covid-19 on the world, prompting Beijing to accuse...

Mexico’s confirmed coronavirus cases cross 700,000, actual toll unknown

Mexico’s confirmed coronavirus cases cross 700,000, actual toll unknown

Reuters 2020-09-22 10:48:29

Mexico surpassed 700,000 confirmed coronavirus cases on Monday even as health authorities cited what they described as nearly two months of slowing infection rates. On Monday, the Health Ministry rep...

Trump admin rushes to toughen visa process for skilled foreign workers

Trump admin rushes to toughen visa process for skilled foreign workers

REUTERS 2020-09-22 10:10:38

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, before his departure on campaign travel to Fayetteville, North Carolina, US, September 19, 2020 &mdash...

US Covid-19 deaths to cross 200,000 mark

US Covid-19 deaths to cross 200,000 mark

REUTERS 2020-09-21 16:09:23

The death toll from the spread of coronavirus in the United States was approaching over 200,000 lives on Monday, more than double the number of fatalities in India, the country reporting the second-hi...

Sudden top court vacancy poses new ‘wild card’ for US presidential race

Sudden top court vacancy poses new ‘wild card’ for US presidential race

REUTERS 2020-09-20 14:59:30

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has injected a volatile new element into the last stretch of a turbulent US presidential race, potentially shifting the focus away from the coron...

Global coronavirus cases now stand at 30,673,633

Global coronavirus cases now stand at 30,673,633

-- 2020-09-20 11:13:57

Coronavirus cases across the globe reached 30,673,633 on Sunday, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The death toll from Covid-19 stood at 95...

US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies

US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies

-- 2020-09-19 11:14:33

Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a heroine to the American left after overcoming entrenched sexism in the legal profession to ascend to the US Supreme Court, where she championed gender equality and other l...

Trump offered to pardon Assange in exchange for Democrats' emails

Trump offered to pardon Assange in exchange for Democrats' emails

-- 2020-09-18 19:32:29

US President Donald Trump offered to pardon Julian Assange if the WikiLeaks founder provided the source for the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails before the 2016 U.S. presidential electi...

Five more countries ‘seriously considering’ Israel deals

Five more countries ‘seriously considering’ Israel deals

White House chief of staff says 2020-09-18 16:43:10

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Thursday that five more countries are seriously considering striking a normalisation deal with Israel after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed...

Trump, Biden to campaign in Minnesota as early voting begins

Trump, Biden to campaign in Minnesota as early voting begins

-- 2020-09-18 16:30:23

US President Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, will both travel to the key Midwestern state of Minnesota on Friday, as early voting begins there ahead of November’s election....

Global coronavirus cases top 30 million

Global coronavirus cases top 30 million

Reuters 2020-09-18 10:28:47

Global coronavirus cases exceeded 30 million on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, with the pandemic showing no signs of slowing. India was firmly in focus as the latest epicentre, although Nort...

Hurricane Sally weakens, brings massive flooding to US Gulf Coast

Hurricane Sally weakens, brings massive flooding to US Gulf Coast

REUTERS 2020-09-17 13:53:43

Hurricane Sally moved northeast Thursday, where it was expected to bring more than a foot of rain to some areas, one day after it flooded streets and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of home...

Biden leads as Trump message yet to motivate suburbs

Biden leads as Trump message yet to motivate suburbs

REUTERS 2020-09-17 12:24:57

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads Republican President Donald Trump nationally among likely US voters by 9 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Trump’s...

World 'dangerously unprepared' for next pandemic

World 'dangerously unprepared' for next pandemic

-- 2020-09-15 11:38:10

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), an independent body created by the World Health Organization and the World Bank, in a new report on Tuesday decried that the coronavirus pandemic had r...

Retirements, layoffs may leave scars on US economy

Retirements, layoffs may leave scars on US economy

-- 2020-09-14 22:24:13

Judith Ramirez received a letter this month that she’d been dreading: The Honolulu hotel that furloughed her from a housekeeping job in March, during the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus pa...

Amazon to recruit 100,000 more workers

Amazon to recruit 100,000 more workers

-- 2020-09-14 16:48:17

Amazon.com Inc on Monday said it is recruiting 100,000 more workers - the fourth hiring spree it has announced for the United States this year - to keep pace with e-commerce demand that jumped during...

Search on for survivors as wildfires torch millions of acres in US

Search on for survivors as wildfires torch millions of acres in US

Reuters 2020-09-13 21:49:08

Crews were to resume searching for the dead on Sunday among blackened ruins left by massive wildfires raging in three western US states, where millions of acres have burned in weeks and "mass fatality...

Facebook takes down posts that falsely claim who started Oregon wildfires

Facebook takes down posts that falsely claim who started Oregon wildfires

REUTERS 2020-09-13 13:20:30

Facebook has started removing false claims that the deadly wildfires in Oregon were started by various left-wing and right-wing groups, a spokesman for the social media company said on Saturday, after...

Search on for wildfire dead, Trump to visit California

Search on for wildfire dead, Trump to visit California

REUTERS 2020-09-13 12:51:50

Search and rescue crews using dogs combed through neighborhoods left in blackened ruins by massive wildfires burning across three states on Saturday, and US President Donald Trump said he would travel...

Mass evacuations as wildfires hit Oregon

Mass evacuations as wildfires hit Oregon

REUTERS 2020-09-13 12:16:11

An unprecedented spate of deadly wildfires raging across Oregon kept half a million people under evacuation alert on Friday even as weary firefighters took advantage of improved weather to go on the o...

Russia, China dismiss allegations of bids to hack Biden, Trump camps

Russia, China dismiss allegations of bids to hack Biden, Trump camps

-- 2020-09-12 19:54:31

Russia and China dismissed on Friday allegations by Microsoft Corp that hackers linked to Moscow and Beijing were trying to spy on people tied to both US President Donald Trump and Democratic challeng...

Canada reports zero COVID-19 deaths for first time since March

Canada reports zero COVID-19 deaths for first time since March

-- 2020-09-12 18:26:16

Canada reported zero COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours for the first time since March 15, according to public health agency data released late on Friday. Canada’s death toll from the pandemi...