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Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said he is “getting great care” and “recovering quickly” after testing positive for coronavirus. The 76-year-old former New York City mayor is the latest member in President Trump’s inner circle to contract the disease that has killed more than 280,000 people in the US. In a tweet on Sunday

Donald Trump won the 2020 election and anyone who says otherwise is wrong – at least that is the belief among supporters who turned out to cheer for him at a rally in Georgia. “Four more years!” they chanted at an airfield on the outskirts of the city of Valdosta. To the sound of music

Donald Trump is still making baseless claims of voting fraud in last month’s presidential election. The US president spoke at a rally in Georgia on Saturday – his first since he lost to Democrat rival Joe Biden – to gather votes for two Republican senators. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler face run-offs on 5 January

Joe Biden has said he will not force Americans to take any vaccine – but did warn the country faces a “bleak future” unless swift action is taken to agree on a coronavirus aid bill. His comments come as the country in engulfed in a nationwide spike in the virus that is hampering its economic

New lockdowns have been ordered in America’s most populous state in the face of what its governor has called the “final surge” of COVID-19. Gavin Newsom announced new modified stay-at-home orders for 40 million residents of California after a dramatic rise in coronavirus case numbers. The orders kick-in when a region’s hospitals has fewer than

Joe Biden will ask all Americans to wear face masks for the first 100 days of his term to stop the spread of coronavirus. The president-elect, who has frequently emphasised mask-wearing as a “patriotic duty”, will also order masks to be worn in all US government buildings. Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Mr Biden said:

Donald Trump’s legal battle to overturn the election isn’t going well for him. His legal team continues to lose cases in the key states it so desperately hoped to win back from Joe Biden. They’ve been trying to make the case for a grand conspiracy – concocted by everyone from China, to Venezuela, to Joe

Ivanka Trump has been questioned this week under oath as part of the Washington DC attorney general’s investigation into an alleged misuse of non-profit funds for her father Donald Trump’s inauguration four years ago. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine’s office disclosed in a court filing that the president’s eldest daughter and a senior

The US has recorded its biggest daily death toll of the pandemic so far, on the same day it also reached a record number of COVID-19 patients in hospital. More than 2,670 coronavirus deaths were reported on Wednesday – the equivalent of nearly two deaths a minute – according to Johns Hopkins University. The widely-respected

A captain of a scuba diving boat that caught fire and sank off the coast of California last year has been charged with 34 counts of manslaughter. All the passengers on board and one crew member – a total of 21 women and 13 men ranging in age from 16 to 62 years old –

Donald Trump is said to be considering running for the White House again in 2024, with a campaign launch on the day Joe Biden in sworn in as the 46th US president. NBC claims that people familiar with the discussions say there is “preliminary planning” underway for a 20 January 2021 event and President Trump

Joe Biden is pressing ahead with forming his government by announcing his picks for some of the top jobs in his economic team. A number of his choices are set to make history – together they make up the country’s most diverse economic leadership team ever. His picks include the first woman to head up

Moderna has said it is filing for regulatory approval in the US, and that its vaccine trials have shown no serious safety concerns. The US-based company has also said its vaccine was 94.1% effective, with 100% efficacy against severe COVID-19 in its phase three trial. Efficacy was consistent across age, race and ethnicity, as well

The US is entering into a “precarious situation” just before Christmas, according to the country’s top advisor on COVID-19. Dr Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned a travel-heavy Thanksgiving holiday may make the current situation in America even worse, predicting “a surge superimposed on the surge we are

A mysterious monolith discovered in a remote part of the US has – just as mysteriously – been removed. The 10-12 feet (3-3.6 metres) metal structure was found in Utah last week, planted in the ground and tucked into a red rock cove, sparking speculation about how it had come to be there. But on

A college senior in the US has made history as the first woman to ever play in a Power 5 football game. Sarah Fuller, who can usually be found in goal for Vanderbilt University’s soccer team, was called on to the field during the second half of an American football game against the University of