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The Trump administration is considering dissolving the White House coronavirus task force within several weeks, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Olivia Troye, a senior adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, has told officials on the task force to expect the group to complete its activities in the coming weeks. “We’re having conversations about that,” Pence …

Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly tried to convince members of the Trump administration that they should abandon their efforts to have the Supreme Court strike down all of Obamacare ahead of the November election. Barr told Vice President Mike Pence, White House counsel Pat Cipollone, members of the Domestic Policy Council, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, …

A Chinese intelligence report warned President Xi Jinping and other Communist Party leaders that Beijing is facing the highest level of hostility since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest, sources with knowledge of the report told Reuters. The report, composed by the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a state-backed think tank associated with China’s …

The Trump administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove the US from dependency on a China-based supply chain and weighing imposing new tariffs to punish the Communist Party in Beijing for its response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report on Monday. The economic damage and death toll from the COVID-19 outbreak has prompted …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is projecting the U.S. coronavirus daily death toll to reach about 3,000 people by June 1, with 200,000 new cases per day by the same date, the New York Times reported on Monday. The projections were compiled into charts currently used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “There …

President Donald Trump stated that he is “very confident” the U.S. will discover a coronavirus vaccine in the next seven months, following news that his administration has organized a “Manhattan Program-esque” project to fast-track development. “We are very confident that we’re going to have a vaccine at the end of the year, by the end …

US stocks dropped Monday as the coronavirus crisis stoked fresh US-China tensions and struggling airlines suffered another blow. The Dow Jones industrial average fell as much as 362.53 points, or 1.5 percent, to 23,361.16 as the Trump administration’s efforts to blame China for the pandemic sparked fears of a new trade war. The S&P 500 …

Actor and Democratic Party activist Alec Baldwin has fired off another screed in which he claims President Donald Trump “has a degenerative mental illness that is costing 1000’s of lives.” “I’ve seen a few ppl in my lifetime who were pre-nuts, but had a lot of $ to conceal/distract. Overtime, they went full blown,” Alec …

The Trump administration said this week that Planned Parenthood will not receive any of the coronavirus-relief funding earmarked for small businesses that are struggling amid the pandemic. The administration will not grant the mammoth abortion provider any funding from the $670 billion Paycheck Protection Program, according to reports. “Through the Paycheck Protection Program, President Trump is …

President Trump is entering a new phase of coronavirus management that will likely determine whether he is reelected, as he embarks on his first major post-pandemic travel, encouraging states to reopen economies shuttered by quarantines. One of the questions he faces is whether the country can return to something like normal without sacrificing the hard-fought …