President Donald Trump
Microsoft plans to buy US arm of TikTok
Microsoft said Microsoft and Chinese company ByteDance have provided notice of their intent to explore a deal resulting in Microsoft owning and operating the TikTok service in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Trump banning TikTok in US
Donald Trump has announced that he is banning Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok in the US.
Trump commutes former advisor’s prison sentence
President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant and former advisor Roger Stone.
Covid-19 in US: Trump suggests slow testing to avoid bad statistics
Amid alarming rise in Covid-19 cases , President Donald Trump on Saturday asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing because robust testing turns up too many cases of virus infection.
Ex-President Obama steps forward as US confronts historic crises
At a time when the US stands in front of a confluence of historic crises, former President Barack Obama has started stepping forward, emerging from his political hibernation and taking on an increasingly public role.
The US has been rocked by a series of crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election, reports AP.
Obama is signalling a willingness to sharply critique his successor, President Donald Trump, and fill what many Democrats see as a national leadership void. On Wednesday, he held a virtual town hall event with young people to discuss policing and the civil unrest that has followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Trump signs executive order targeting social media companies
President Donald Trump escalated his war on Twitter and other social media companies Thursday, signing an executive order challenging the lawsuit protections that have served as a bedrock for unfettered speech on the internet.
Many countries are driving blind as they reopen, expert warns
India's trains will start rolling again and millions in the Philippines will be able to leave their homes, even as an expert warns that many countries are driving blind as they reopen because they haven't set up strong systems to track new outbreaks of the coronavirus.
In televised town hall, Trump pushes for economic reopening
Anxious to spur an economic recovery without risking lives, President Donald Trump on Sunday insisted that "you can satisfy both" — see states gradually lift lockdowns while also protecting people from the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 60,000 Americans.
Trump speculates that China released virus in lab 'mistake'
President Donald Trump on Thursday speculated that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible "mistake," and his intelligence agencies said they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may have resulted from an accident at a Chinese lab.
Coronavirus: US death toll tops 58,000
Death toll in the USA from coronavirus surged past 58,000 as the country reported more than one million confirmed cases.