National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien attends a briefing on Enhanced Narcotics Operations at the US Southern Command in Doral, Florida, on July 10, 2020. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump‘s national security advisor Robert O’Brien has tested positive for the coronavirus. Bloomberg first reported O’Brien’s diagnosis, citing people familiar with the
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The flag of the People’s Republic of China flies in the wind above the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in San Francisco, California on July 23, 2020. Philip Pacheco | AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON — A researcher who took refuge in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco after allegedly lying to
A pair of MQ-9 Reapers from the 46th Expeditionary Attack Squadron are parked on the flightline at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, June 9, 2020. Senior Airman Isaiah J. Soliz | U.S. Air Force WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a measure this week that will allow U.S. defense contractors to sell more armed drones
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives at his Manhattan apartment after being released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement in New York, May 21, 2020. Mike Segar | Reuters Michael Cohen was released from prison Friday, a day after a judge ruled
The U.S. Consulate in Chengdu is pictured on July 23, 2020 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. officials would not address Friday whether the Trump administration intends to comply with an order to close an American Consulate in China, a move that comes
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to reporters following the Senate Republicans weekly policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 16, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Republicans do not plan to release a coronavirus relief bill until next week, but their proposal has mostly taken shape as Senate GOP leaders and
A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard at the entrance to the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan province on September 17, 2012. Goh Chai Hin | AFP | Getty Images China’s Foreign Ministry announced Friday it is revoking the license for the U.S. consulate general in the southwestern city of Chengdu. The ministry also ordered
U.S. President Donald Trump stands next to a U.S. map of reported coronavirus cases as he speaks about the administration’s plan for reopening schools during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) news briefing at the White House in Washington, July 23, 2020. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to cancel the Jacksonville, Florida,
The Republican coronavirus relief plan will extend enhanced unemployment insurance “based on approximately 70% wage replacement,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday. He spoke to CNBC about the state of negotiations hours after Senate Republicans and the Trump administration said they reached a tentative deal on legislation they say will serve as a starting point in
Republicans are considering extending the enhanced unemployment insurance benefit at a dramatically reduced level of $400 per month, or $100 a week, through the rest of the year, sources told CNBC. Congress passed a $600 per week, or $2,400 a month, boost to jobless benefits in March to deal with a wave of unemployment unseen
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus response news briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 21, 2020. Leah Millis | Reuters President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is “in the process of developing a strategy” to combat the coronavirus pandemic, adding that that plan of action has “developed as
President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered kind words to Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite criminally charged with procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by the late investor Jeffrey Epstein. “I just wish her well, frankly,” Trump said of Maxwell, during a White House press conference on the coronavirus pandemic. Maxwell, 58, last week was ordered held
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he does not expect Congress to pass a new coronavirus relief bill by the end of July — meaning a key financial lifeline will likely expire. “I envision that this bill doesn’t get done by the end of July,” the California Republican told CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” saying he expects
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about reopening the country during a speech in Darby, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 2020. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday pledged that if he is elected president, he will end President Donald Trump’s so-called Muslim travel ban on his
Rashad Robinson speaks onstage during the BET “Finding Justice” Atlanta premiere at The Foundry At Puritan Mill on March 04, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. Paras Griffin | Getty Images As protests against racial inequality continue, the nonprofit Color of Change is turning to major companies and police forces around the country to push for significant
President Donald Trump declined Sunday to say he would accept the results of the 2020 election, adding that he will “have to see” and claiming without evidence that mail-in voting will “rig the election.” Trump’s comments came during a wide-ranging interview with “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace in which he criticized so-called cancel culture
New York Congressional candidate Jamaal Bowman campaigns the day before election day on June 22, 2020 in Edenwald Houses in the Bronx borough in New York City. Stephanie Keith | Getty Images Jamaal Bowman, a progressive candidate running in his first ever political campaign, has defeated longtime Rep. Eliot Engel in the New York Democratic
Supporters of Confederate statues and symbols display a Confederate flag under a U.S. flag during the Lee-Jackson Day state holiday in Lexington, Virginia, U.S. January 17, 2020. Jonathan Drake | Reuters WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Friday unveiled what’s effectively a ban on public displays of the Confederate flag on U.S. military installations. The policy