YouTube bans Trump for one week over concerns of 'ongoing potential for violence'
YouTube said it is temporarily banning the outgoing US president and also disabling comments on his channel.
President Trump drags Canada into U.S. election debate, spins voter fraud theory from Elections Canada tweet
U.S. President Donald Trump is now using Elections Canada to get his point across that Democrats used an electronic voting system called Dominion to cheat.
US election: Merkel's foreign minister says Trump's claims 'adding fuel to fire'
Germany's foreign minister says the US president is 'acting irresponsibly' by making false claims of election fraud.
US election: Stocks end week higher as Joe Biden leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia
Stocks were mixed Friday, but closed the week higher as investors weighed up the final votes being counted in the US election.
US election: European stocks closed up as US vote goes down to the wire
European stocks swung sharply on Wednesday as vote counting continued in the US election, with investors closely following results in key states.
US election: Donald Trump unlikely to concede if he loses to Joe Biden, betting markets say
Betting markets sentiment is predicting Trump not conceding should he lose to his Democratic rival today.
How the US election outcome will impact the EU
The US-EU relationship will need to evolve, no matter who wins.
Trump news: Fears of new White House super-spreader debacle as president invites guests to public event
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Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly says telling the president that things he wanted to do were illegal was like 'French kissing a chainsaw'
Kelly said Trump "had to be restrained and told what he could and could not legally do," a new tell-all book about the president says.
Week Ahead: Brexit negotiations, US central bank meetings, key company results
A raft of data is due, showing unemployment numbers across Europe and the US, as well as economic sentiment and GDP.
Trump appears to ask Melania to smile during photo op at chapel that infuriated church leaders
President Donald Trump appeared to tell the first lady, Melania Trump, to smile, during a visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, a day after his visit to the St John’s Episcopal Church outraged religious leaders.In footage taken of the visit to the shrine on Tuesday, the president was filmed briefly saying something to Ms Trump, before smiling for the photographers, who were documenting their visit.
Coronavirus: US government to borrow record $3tn in three months to tackle crisis
The US government's borrowing is five times higher than the previous record for a single quarter.
Trump brands FBI top brass ‘human scum’, calls CNN reporter ‘brainless’, and says he’s ‘not a fan’ of Mitt Romney in freewheeling press conference
Mitt Romney, CNN, the top brass at the FBI at the beginning of 2017 — these were just some of the targets of a verbal lashing from Donald Trump at the daily White House coronavirus briefing on Sunday.While Mr Trump, the vice president Mike Pence, and other White House coronavirus task force officials spent nearly an hour at the podium mounting a public relations campaign to paint the administration’s response to the health crisis in positive colours amid outside criticism from Democrats and health experts, the question-and-answer portion of the briefing turned characteristically chaotic as the president clashed with reporters.
Coronavirus: Trump says teenage son Barron ‘isn’t as happy as he could be’ as quarantine frustrations hit White House
Donald Trump offered a rare personal insight into the life of his 14-year-old son Barron Trump and how he is faring in quarantine during his latest White House briefing on the coronavirus outbreak.The president had tweeted a message of encouragement to the nation’s frustrated Little League baseball players earlier in the day, telling them to “Hang in there!”
Trump news: Trump mocked for telling fearful Americans to 'stay calm. It will go away' and 'good things are going to happen' in bizarre Coronavirus speech
Despite blustering in public that the coronavirus is “Fake News!” and being weaponised against him, Donald Trump is reportedly fretting about the growing crisis behind the scenes, with one ex-West Wing official telling Vanity Fair: “He’s just now waking up to the fact that this is bad, and he doesn’t know how to respond.”The White House has said that the president himself has so far not been tested for the disease, despite coming into contact with several Republican allies who have since gone into self-isolation, including new chief of staff Mark Meadows and congressmen Doug Collins, Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar.
Coronavirus: Republican senator tells Trump to ‘let the professionals do the talking’ after he repeatedly contradicts expert health advice
A senior Republican senator has told Donald Trump to “let the professionals do the talking” after the president repeatedly contradicted medical experts in recent weeks.Mr Trump has sought to downplay the threat posed by coronavirus in the US, even as public health officials have warned of the potential for a serious outbreak.
Chris Matthews: High profile hosts come out in support of disgraced commentator after sexual harassment allegations
Some women in media who know or have worked with the now-former host of MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews, have come to his defence since his abrupt retirement from the network over sexual harassment allegations.Mr Matthews resigned on air Monday night. He opened the show, announced his retirement, and when the show went to commercial and returned, Mr Matthews was no longer behind the desk.
Super Tuesday: Mike Bloomberg 'didn't realise' Elizabeth Warren is still in Democratic race
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared to belittle Senator Elizabeth Warren’s campaign during a campaign visit to Texas.While walking through a neighbourhood with a press gaggle, Mr Bloomberg was asked if a “third place finish would be good” on Super Tuesday.
Trump administration quietly cuts funding to the nation’s poorest schools
Thanks to an under-the-radar bookkeeping change at the Department of Education, hundreds of rural schools across the US are set to lose vital funds.As reported in the New York Times, the department has changed the eligibility criteria for the Rural and Low-Income School Programme, which provides funding for school districts in some of the poorest parts of the country.
