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Summary List Placement A congressman from New Jersey filed a complaint seeking to disbar President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani after attempts to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden's win. Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat from New Jersey, filed a complaint to the New York State judicial conduct body to revoke Giuliani's license, the congressman tweeted Tuesday. "In his capacity as a public spokesman and...

Summary List PlacementWithout calling him out by name, former President Barack Obama vented his frustration at President Donald Trump's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. During a Tuesday night interview with "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert, the former president recognized that it was no easy task to respond to a rapidly-spreading coronavirus pandemic. "This would have been hard for anyone," Obama said, but added...

Summary List Placement An anonymous senior Trump campaign advisor said they think Trump "basically just conceded" after the president tweeted he recommended the start of the Biden-Harris transition, The Washington Post reported. Emily Murphy, the Trump-appointed head of the General Services Administration, sent a letter earlier Monday to President-elect Joe Biden allowing him to access resources to begin the presidential transition. "As the Administrator...

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Summary List PlacementPresident Donald Trump made a plea to female voters in the suburbs Tuesday, saying "Suburban women, will you please like me? Please. Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?" Trump addressed the group of voters he has struggled to reach during a campaign rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, saying he was no longer referring to them as a "suburban housewife" because...

Summary List PlacementPresident Donald Trump revealed details into his bout with COVID-19, saying he had some "congestion" in his lungs while he was hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center. The president appeared in an interview Friday with Fox News' Dr. Marc Siegel during Tucker Carlson's show. Siegel, a physician and professor of medicine at New York University, has mostly praised the Trump administration's response...

Summary List PlacementThe next presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has been scrapped, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced in a Friday statement. The Commission on Presidential Debates canceled the upcoming debate scheduled for October 15, which was changed from an in-person event to a virtual meeting after Trump and several other people in the White House tested...

Summary List Placement A prestigious medical journal published an unprecedented editorial criticizing President Donald Trump, and citing his administration and other US leaders for their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The New England Journal of Medicine, which was started in 1812, published an editorial Wednesday ahead of the upcoming election — the first time the medical journal has ever addressed elections. "This crisis has...

Summary List Placement Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he and President Donald Trump "shouldn't have a debate" if the president still has COVID-19, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. The next debate between Biden and Trump is scheduled for October 15. Biden said he's "looking forward to being able to debate" Trump, but "we're going to have to follow very strict guidelines." "I think...

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Summary List Placement A top communications official at the Department of Health and Human Services, pushed a bizarre conspiracy theory warning of a left-wing revolt if President Donald Trump is re-elected. Michael Caputo, assistant secretary for public affairs at the HHS, made the remarks in a 26-minute Facebook Live chat over the weekend, The New York Times first reported on Monday. Caputo said without...

Summary List PlacementRetired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry, said he "absolutely" became a "Never Trumper" in light of the president's attacks against him. Following Vindman's congressional testimony for the president's impeachment inquiry, Trump accused the decorated veteran of being a "Never Trumper." When Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut asked at the time if Vindman identified with...

During an eventful press briefing on Monday, President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed that in 1917, the Spanish Flu "probably ended the second World War." World War II began more than two decades after the pandemic in 1939. The president likely misspoke and meant to reference World War I, the final months of which overlapped with the deadly spread of the flu pandemic, which also...

Microsoft announced in a statement Sunday that it will continue discussions to acquire US operations of the popular video app TikTok. The announcement comes after President Donald Trump told reporters that his administration was looking into banning the Chinese-owned app citing security concerns, sparking widespread concern and panic among creators on the social media platform. The company said in the statement that it is...

As the US sees record-high surges in coronavirus cases, the White House is seeking to undercut the country's top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has criticized the US response to the virus. White House trade advisor Peter Navarro penned an op-ed for USA Today Tuesday attacking Fauci and saying the infectious disease expert "has been wrong about everything" — from mask wearing...

Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, called on him to resign in her first public appearance since publishing a scathing tell-all about the president and the Trump family. Mary Trump spoke in an exclusive interview with ABC News on Tuesday following the publication of her new book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man." Three...

President Donald Trump has lashed out at his former national security adviser John Bolton over the slew of allegations against the Trump administration in Bolton's coming book. Bolton made various claims about the president, including that Trump showed approval for concentration camps in China and urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to support his reelection. In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Trump accused...

Top White House officials shelved expert guidance to reopening America from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, despite the report being greenlit by the CDC director, the Associated Press reported. The first 17 pages of the report — which spanned more than 60 pages — was initially released by the AP on May 7, after the White House killed its release on April...