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Posted on August 14, 2021 World

Taliban advances in Afghanistan ‘deeply concerning’, says Pentagon – as it happened

• UN calls on Taliban to ‘immediately halt offensive’, citing humanitarian concerns
• Pentagon says leaders concerned by Taliban’s speed
• CDC officially recommends Covid booster shots for immunocompromised people
• July was hottest month Earth has ever recorded, scientists confirm
• Biden’s eviction moratorium survives first legal test
• Taliban seize four more provincial capitals in Afghanistan

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Posted on April 8, 2021 US NEWS World

Biden says he’s ‘not open to doing nothing’ on infrastructure amid Republican criticisms of plan – as it happened

• President says jobs plan is ‘largest investment’ since second world war
• UK Covid variant now dominant in US, says CDC director
• Biden to make gun policy announcement Thursday – White House
• Half of US adults on track to receive at least one vaccination by weekend
  
• Trump breaks silence on Matt Gaetz allegations
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Posted on April 6, 2021 US NEWS World

Biden’s $2tn infrastructure plan ‘needs to be changed’, says key Democrat Manchin – live

• Joe Manchin says he does not like plans to raise corporate taxes
• President tries to build momentum in Congress to pass plan
• Joe and Jill Biden celebrate easter with masked-up Easter bunny
• CDC director says risk of Covid surface transmission is low
• How Biden’s $2tn infrastructure plan seeks to achieve racial justice

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Posted on January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 US NEWS World

Andrew Yang launches New York mayoral run and calls for universal basic income

Democratic presidential candidate says ‘We need to make New York the Covid comeback city’ and vows to fix ‘mass transit mess’

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Posted on January 7, 2021September 21, 2021 US NEWS World

Trump promises ‘orderly transition’ but continues election lies after Congress certifies Biden as US president – live

• Four dead after pro-Trump mob storms Capitol
• Full report: Congress certifies Joe Biden as president
• Trump promises ‘orderly transition’ but continues election lies
• Twitter, Facebook and Instagram lock Trump’s accounts
  
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Posted on November 12, 2020September 21, 2021 US NEWS World

Joe Biden names former Ebola tsar Ron Klain as chief of staff – as it happened

• Biden’s lead over Trump in the popular vote surpasses 5m
• ‘An embarrassment’: Biden criticizes Trump’s refusal to concede
• Pompeo promises smooth transition to ‘second Trump administration’
• Conservative supreme court justices suggest Obamacare will be upheld
• The misinformation media machine amplifying Trump’s election lies
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Posted on November 12, 2020September 21, 2021 US NEWS World

Republicans aren’t conceding – and Democrats are bringing a knife to a gun fight

The Republicans’ bid to overturn the election is a full-scale emergency – and yet the Democratic strategy seems to be to pretend it isn’t happening

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Posted on October 17, 2020September 21, 2021 US NEWS World

Biden accuses Trump of trying to wish away Covid ahead of Wisconsin rally – live

• Trump to hold Wisconsin rally despite Covid warnings
• Can Biden overcome racist legacy of crime bill he backed?
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Posted on July 4, 2020September 21, 2021 US NEWS World

Donald Trump marks Independence Day with incendiary Mount Rushmore speech – live

• President says US under assault from ‘far-left fascism’
• US coronavirus deaths near 130,000
• Supreme court gives conservatives blues – what’s really going on?
  
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Posted on April 8, 2020September 21, 2021 Corona Virus Health US NEWS

Coronavirus US live: US sees largest single-day Covid-19 death toll reported by any country

• US sees highest one-day death toll from coronavirus
• US scammers seek to capitalize on fears
• Black Americans dying in greater numbers from Covid-19
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