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US election 2020
On 3 Nov, America chooses its president for the next 4 years
Biden signs executive orders reversing Trump decisions on COVID, climate change
- Fresh off his inauguration Wednesday, President Biden began his term with executive orders on measures ranging from curbing the coronavirus pandemic to addressing racial inequality, many of which roll back measures enacted by former President Donald Trump’s administration.
- The Independent
Biden reverses Trump rollback and tightens limits on toxic pollution from coal power plants
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan says regulation would ‘further reduce power plant pollution that can contain toxic metals such as mercury, arsenic, and selenium’
- The Independent
Biden dismisses hecklers at Virginia event: ‘This is not a Trump rally. Let ’em holler’
‘Off-year election, the country’s looking. This is a big deal,’ Biden says of governor’s race
- Reuters
Tom Brady jokes with Biden at White House about Trump's false election claims
Tom Brady, a U.S. football legend and longtime friend of Donald Trump, gently ribbed the former president and his false claims of election fraud in a White House visit Tuesday. The 43-year-old quarterback joined the rest of his Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the White House on Tuesday to celebrate their Super Bowl victory with President Joe Biden. Wearing a dark suit and sunglasses, Brady stood nearby as Biden hailed the team that beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the Feb. 7 Super Bowl, his first with T
- The Independent
Biden’s Justice Department says it will halt Trump practice of secretly seizing reporters’ phone and email records
Attorney General Garland vows to halt secret seizures of reporters’ records
- The Independent
Biden’s meeting with Merkel is a reminder of just how incompetent Trump was at diplomacy
The former president referred to German chancellor using misogynistic and xenophobic slurs, according to a new book
- The Independent
Trump spread rumor Joe Biden had had a facelift, new book claims
‘Buttigieg? That f***ing guy? Nah,’ Mr Trump reportedly replies when aide says former Indiana Mayor would pose toughest challenge
- The Independent
Trump’s own defence secretary wanted Biden to win on election night, feared he would call in troops: book
Pentagon chief, a longtime Republican, found himself rooting against his boss
- The Independent
Biden lambasts Trump’s ‘big lie’ in impassioned defence of voting rights, asking GOP ‘Have you no shame?’
President condemns tide of voter suppression as critical federal protections face winnowing path to White House
- Reuters
Biden decries Trump's 'Big Lie,' but offers no new path on voting rights
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -President Joe Biden, under pressure from U.S. civil rights leaders, on Tuesday called it a "national imperative" to pass sweeping voting rights legislation that has stalled in Congress, but he did not outline a path to overcome Republican opposition. Numerous Republican-controlled states have passed new voting restrictions this year, a push encouraged by Biden's Republican predecessor Donald Trump. In a passionate speech in a city considered the nation's birthplace, Bid
- The Independent
Poll reveals Americans happier than ever as Trump claims Biden has brought US to ‘brink of ruin’
Former president unleashed criticism against current administration at Republican conference on Sunday
