Yesterday in America, 1,940 people died from coronavirus. In a single day, 31,935 new infections were recorded. I personally know five people who have been told they have COVID-19. Only one of them was able to get a test and it came back inconclusive. The rest were told by their doctors “don’t bother” because there weren’t enough test kits to …

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw US funding to the World Health Organisation, saying it “missed the call” on the devastating coronavirus pandemic. Mr Trump made the announcement at a White House press briefing on Tuesday (Washington time) as deaths and infections across the United States continued to rise. Mr Trump criticised the organisation, saying it “called it wrong” …

US President Donald Trump says he is considering sealing off New York and parts of neighbouring states in response to the worsening coronavirus crisis. “There’s a possibility that sometime today we’ll do a quarantine, short-term, two weeks on New York, probably New Jersey, certain parts of Connecticut,” Trump said on Saturday before departing the White House. He said New York …

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks’s Toy Story co-star Tim Allen has joked that he should have made him wear Buzz Lightyear’s space suits for protection from coronavirus. Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson revealed they have contracted the virus and Allen was among the stars reacting to the news. Allen, who plays Buzz Lightyear in the animated film series opposite Hanks as Woody, tweeted …

Washington, SANA-US Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has affirmed that the Turkish regime headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been supporting Daesh (ISIS) and al-Qaeda from behind the scenes for long years, and now it has been forced to show this role which it has played against the Syrian Government form years ago. In a video published on her …

US President Donald Trump has ridiculed the historic best picture Oscar win for South Korean film Parasite, telling a campaign rally he wishes for the return of Hollywood classics like 1939’s Gone with the Wind. Parasite is a dark social satire about the gap between rich and poor in modern Seoul. Earlier this month it became the first non-English-language film to …

The State of the Union address gives US presidents the opportunity to update the nation and the world on their progress, policies, hurdles and priorities. Donald Trump’s latest address was just as much about everyone else’s reactions to what he was saying — and not all of them were favourable. Trump was greeted by chanting Mr Trump entered the room …

President Donald Trump has set a record for activity on his favourite social media platform, tweeting and retweeting more than 130 times about his US Senate impeachment trial, the Democrats who want to replace him and much, much more. By 4.25pm on Wednesday (Washington time), Mr Trump had barrelled through his previous record of 123 Twitter postings in a day, …

President Donald Trump’s initial response to Iran’s ballistic missile strikes targeted at American troops was to tweet a reminder the US has “the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far”. The attacks – which were in response to the US state-sanctioned killing of a top Iranian military leader – followed days of threats and promises that the …

Donald Trump has become the third US president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives, setting up a trial in the Senate that will decide whether he remains in office. The House voted on two charges – that the president abused his power and that he had obstructed Congress. Both votes fell along party lines with nearly …