The TikTok and WeChat app icons are seen on a smartphone screen. Associated Press NEW YORK — A looming U.S. ban on the Chinese app WeChat won’t target people who use the app to communicate, according to a government court filing Wednesday. President Donald Trump issued orders on Aug. 6 that targeted …
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Getty Images CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer took a page from President Donald Trump’s name-calling book on Tuesday when he referred to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “Crazy Nancy” in a discussion about the stalled talks over a new round of coronavirus relief measures. Sound familiar? By now, it …
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The reactions keep coming after excerpts from famed journalist Bob Woodward’s new book said that President Donald Trump knew early on that the coronavirus was “deadly stuff” but wanted to “play it down.” Woodward himself has drawn considerable criticism for not reporting Trump’s comments sooner — and the president has …
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Social-media reaction came swiftly as President Donald Trump called out Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’s widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, as a financial backer of the Atlantic magazine, appearing AAPL, +0.06% to suggest in a tweet posted early Sunday that his supporters embark on a harassment campaign against her. The Atlantic, which …
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President Donald Trump at a news conference on Monday evening defended his decision to visit Kenosha, Wis., as he also declined to criticize the teen accused of fatally shooting two protesters in that small city. The president was asked at the news conference about whether he had considered not making …
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A protester speaks with Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. Getty Images “ ‘Do you wonder why America, in the first time in decades, has seen this level of violence? It’s you who have created this level of hate and division. It is you who have not found a way to say …
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President Donald Trump on Thursday night made an effort to turn his Democratic challenger’s campaign rallying cries against him, as he accepted the Republican Party’s nomination and delivered the last speech at the GOP’s four-day convention. “In America, we don’t turn to government to restore our souls. We put our …
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President Donald Trump on Monday tied the latest gains in the stock market to his coronavirus-aid moves on Saturday, as he spoke at a news conference that was interrupted by a shooting outside the White House. “So we issue those executive orders, and the stock market went up 358 points …
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President Donald Trump on Friday evening signaled he is close to issuing executive orders to make an end run around a stalled stimulus package with Congressional Democrats but stopped short of issuing them. Trump said the orders might be issued before next week. “They are being drawn by the lawyers …
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