Category: US NEWS
Coronavirus live news: global Covid-19 cases pass 13m as WHO warns against ‘shortcuts’
Cases rise by 1m in five days; 5.4m Americans have lost their health insurance; Hong Kong reimposes social distancing measures. Follow the latest updates
- Global cases pass 13m
- WHO chief warns against ‘shortcuts’
- California orders closure of bars and indoor operations of restaurants and theatres
- ‘Compelling’ evidence air pollution worsens coronavirus – study
- Fauci sidelined as Trump’s White House steps up briefing campaign
Coronavirus live news: Melbourne locks down as global cases pass 12m
Trump’s Tulsa rally ‘likely contributed’ to city’s surge in cases; infections worldwide pass 12m; nearly 3,000 miners infected in Chile. Follow the latest updates
- ‘This lockdown seems different’: second time around, Melbourne is on edge
- US cases rise by world record 60,000 in one day
- Trump criticises Fauci and says US in a ‘good place’ as cases top 3m
- Pence pushes to reopen schools amid fears CDC is bowing to Trump’s demands
- Scientists join forces to investigate airborne risk of coronavirus
Mary Trump’s book: eight of its most shocking claims about the president
- Trump ‘paid someone to take his exams’
- President emotionally ‘scarred’ by abusive father
- Trump shaped by ‘sociopath’ father, niece writes in memoir
First Thing: the US is a Covid ‘leader’, but not in the way Trump thinks
White House press secretary says ‘the world is looking at us as a leader’ as the US approaches 3m infections. Plus, Facebook faces its biggest boycott
Read moreUS politics: Delaware and New Jersey vote as coronavirus cases approach 3 million – live updates
- New Jersey and Biden’s home state of Delaware vote in primaries today
- Pompeo suggests US “certainly looking at” banning TikTok
- $1.2m bail set for driver that hit Seattle protesters, killing Summer Taylor
- Phoenix police fatally shoot man in parked car, sparking new wave of protest
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Donald Trump marks Independence Day with incendiary Mount Rushmore speech – live
John Bolton says he won’t vote for Trump and hopes he is a one-term president
Promoting his book, former national security advisor says president ‘doesn’t have the competence to carry out the job’
Read moreGeorge Floyd: Barr denies police are systemically racist as protests sweep US – live
- Attorney general denies White House protesters were peaceful
- Peaceful protests sweep US as calls for racial justice reach new heights
- A week that shook a nation: power of protests leaves Trump exposed
- ‘Tearing apart America’: How friends and foes now view Trump’s rule
- ‘George Floyd happens every day’: police killings the media forgot