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With Trump in hospital, uncertainty reigns. It’s not likely to end any time soon

As the 2020 US presidential election draws near, close to 209,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and over 7.3 million have tested positive to the virus, including president Donald Trump. The announcement of Trump’s positive diagnosis has led to arguably the most extensive case of collective schadenfreude in human history. Taking pleasure in another person […]

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Catching coronavirus could cost Trump election, claims former US ambassador

Catching the coronavirus could have cost Donald Trump the US election, Britain’s former ambassador to Washington has claimed. Lord Darroch, who resigned from his role in 2019 after emails were leaked in which he called the Trump administration “clumsy and inept”, said Trump’s brush with Covid-19 will remind American voters of how badly he has […]

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Donald Trump tests positive for coronavirus days after mocking masks

US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for coronavirus and are in quarantine, days after the politician mocked his rival for wearing face masks. Trump announced his diagnosis in a tweet in the early hours of Friday, following a positive test from one of his closest aides. Hope Hicks returned a […]

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The first sister

Donald Trump is not the only candidate in this autumns’s race for the White House to rely on his family in key advisory roles. LUCIA GRAVES profiles Valerie Biden Owens, the woman who has been at her brother’s side throughout his political career. Ever since he was a kid running for class president, Joe Biden’s […]

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Why we should fear the worst with this year’s US election

The question of whether Donald John Trump, the 45th president of the United States is the worst the country has ever had has long been a valid one. Trump filed for re-election the day of his inauguration, just the first of the precedent-breaking moves that he has made. In doing this he made his very presidency […]

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Joe Biden tells UK government Northern Ireland peace deal must not be ‘casualty’ of Brexit

Biden’s intervention comes as prime minister Boris Johnson faces concerted opposition to government moves that would override the Northern Ireland Protocol, which forms part of the wider ranging divorce agreement with Brussels. The Democratic Party nominee for the White House, who is leading incumbent president Donald Trump in a series of nationwide polls ahead of […]