Trump Leans Into False Virus Claims in Combative Fox News Interview
Date: 19 July 2020
By Katie Rogers
Katie Rogers
The president grew agitated as he was fact-checked on polling, race relations and the coronavirus response by Chris Wallace of Fox News.
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Kuwait Says 91-Year-Old Emir Had ‘Successful’ Surgery
Date: 19 July 2020
By The Associated Press
No further explanation was given for the procedure, which could renew a power struggle in the Gulf nation’s ruling family.
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2 Republican Senators Post Photos of Elijah Cummings in John Lewis Tributes
Date: 18 July 2020
By Christina Morales
Christina Morales
Marco Rubio and Dan Sullivan were each trying to honor Mr. Lewis on social media when they mistakenly posted photos of Mr. Cummings, a Black congressman who died in October.
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Trump Weighs In on the Death of John Lewis, One of His Most Vocal Critics
Date: 18 July 2020
By Katie Rogers
Katie Rogers
The president, who once described Mr. Lewis’s district as “crime infested,” expressed his condolences on Twitter a day after the congressman’s death.
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Trump Promotes Caricature of What Conservatives Want
Date: 18 July 2020
By Maggie Haberman
Maggie Haberman
A series of events during his White House tenure has made clear that Mr. Trump views the voters he calls “my people” through the lens of what he imagines they like.
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Showdown on Beach in Bulgaria Balloons Into Political Crisis
Date: 19 July 2020
By Boryana Dzhambazova and Patrick Kingsley
Boryana Dzhambazova
Bulgaria is gripped by its worst political turmoil since 2013, leading to calls for the government to resign.
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Amid a Pandemic, Supporters Hope John Lewis Can Still Lie in State in the Capitol
Date: 18 July 2020
By Luke Broadwater
Luke Broadwater
More than 40 people have lain in state in the Capitol after their deaths. Some in Congress want the civil rights icon and 17-term congressman to receive the honor, even as the building remains closed to the public.
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Pandemic Is Like an ‘X-Ray’ Revealing Inequality, U.N. Secretary General Says
Date: 18 July 2020
By The Associated Press
António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, said economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could lead to historic poverty and famine.
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Partyers Target German Police Amid Tensions Over Racial Profiling
Date: 19 July 2020
By Melissa Eddy
Melissa Eddy
The police in Frankfurt say people threw bottles and glass at them in the latest case of Germans attacking officers.
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Trump Administration Aims to Block New Funding for Coronavirus Testing and Tracing
Date: 18 July 2020
The resistance to a funding proposal drafted by Senate Republicans has angered several members of the president’s party on Capitol Hill. The F.D.A. has issued emergency approval for pooled testing, a method that allows for much faster tracking of new infections.
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