President Trump’s economic team wants to encourage the public to return to work and resume normal life, including going to restaurants and taking vacations, in its proposals for the next coronavirus relief package.114
As darkness fell and curfews hit across the eastern U.S., cities were reporting a day mostly of calm, through it was hard to know if the mood would hold or give way to violence as in recent nights.2,152
The decision to use gas and rubber bullets on a crowd of peaceful protesters before President Trump walked to a damaged St. John’s Church and posed for photos drew broad criticism while garnering praise from conservative backers.693
The Trump administration is taking the initial step to prepare tariffs against a range of trading partners unless they back off proposals to impose taxes that would fall heavily on the major American internet companies.
Joe Biden, who is poised to earn enough delegates to formally clinch the Democratic presidential nomination this month, will enter the general election campaign on offense in a group of states President Trump won in 2016.727
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper told the GOP that he couldn’t guarantee that the state could hold a “full” convention in Charlotte in August, prompting President Trump to again threaten to move the gathering to another state.
The Trump administration Tuesday tightened its web of sanctions around the Maduro regime in Venezuela, blacklisting four companies allegedly involved in the country’s oil sector.12
