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China orders closure of US consulate in Chengdu
They close our consulate – we’ll shut theirs: tensions between China and the United States escalate still further
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Trump says pandemic ‘will get worse before it gets better’
The daily death toll from Covid-19 in America has risen back up to 1,000 where it has not been since the end of May.
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China see US and UK policy as ‘illegal interference’ – Hudson Institute’s Dr Michael Pillsbury
As tensions rise between Washington and Beijing, we spoke to Dr Michael Pillsbury, Director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute.
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US Civil Rights Leader John Lewis dies
US civil rights leader and former US congressman John Lewis has died aged 80.
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We need to be ‘rethinking our approach to migration’ and seeing migrants as a benefit – Prof Molly Scott Cato
We talk to the author of the report on fertility, Christopher Murray, who is Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington, and Molly Scott Cato, Professor of Economics at Roehampton University and a former Green Party MEP.
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‘The US will need to come to terms with the reality of a China which may be larger and more impactful’ – Victor Gao
Some theorists have called it Thucydides Trap after the historian of the war between Athens and Sparta – the idea being that a declining power and a rising power will always end up at war, even if they try to avoid it.
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US Supreme Court rules prosecutors can see Trump’s tax records
The US Supreme Court has ruled that a New York prosecutor can press ahead with a subpoena to seek President Trump’s personal financial records as part of an investigation into hush money payments, declaring that “no citizen, not even the President…is above the common duty to produce evidence.” But in a separate ruling, the Justices…
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The kids and teens marching for Black Lives Matter
Children have joined in on BLM protests after watching protests on TV and online.
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New York group trying to turn experiences of imprisonment into something positive
The American dream has become the African American nightmare.
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‘Most people have no idea of the human torture, terror and violence’ that maintained slavery – writer CeLillianne Green
We speak to the writer, poet and lawyer CeLillianne Green from her home in Washington DC and began by asking whether making Juneteenth a national holiday in the US would make a difference.
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Jon Stewart: ‘The presidency is supposed to age the president – not the country’
We spoke to Jon Stewart and began by asking him whether he was surprised about John Bolton’s incendiary revelations about his former White House boss, Donald Trump.
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John Bolton’s book is ‘a bunch of nonsense and lies’, says Republican spokesperson
Earlier we were joined from Washington DC by Liz Harrington, spokesperson for the Republican National Committee
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Donald Trump dismisses John Bolton book as fake news
Our Washington Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy reports.
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Mourners in North Carolina queue to pay their respects to George Floyd
Black Lives Matter protesters have started gathering in Washington DC for what organisers hope will be the largest demonstration to take place since the alleged murder by a Minneapolis police officer of George Floyd on May the 25th.
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Trump provokes outrage after saying ‘great day’ for George Floyd as unemployment falls
In the United States, President Trump has caused outrage after suggesting that it was a “great day” for George Floyd.