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Teachers fear reopening of schools amid high infection rates in US
The President is pushing for schools to re-open despite the rampant spread of coronavirus.
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‘If you [ban] one app, what road is it taking the US down in terms of censoring?’ – says social media commentator on TikTok ban
We spoke to Matt Navarra – a social media industry commentator who has previously worked in digital communications for the UK government.
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TikTok parent company to divest US operations after Trump declares ban on app
It’s already banned in India, but now the hugely popular social media app TikTok is threatened with being shut down in America.
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US law professor says Donald Trump has ‘undermined the credibility of mail-in ballots’
We spoke to Dr Gloria Browne-Marshall, professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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Donald Trump suggests delaying US election
President Trump has floated the idea that this autumn’s presidential election should be delayed, saying that problems with postal ballots mean it will not be fair.
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‘Company felt it tried to do its best to improve its privacy practices’ – former Facebook public policy director, Matt Perault, on response to Cambridge Analytica scandal
Matt Perault is a former public policy director for Facebook and he testified before the same House committee last year.
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Tech bosses grilled together for first time by Congress
Today for the first time, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet, which owns Google, are all appearing in front of the House subcommittee on market dominance.
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President Trump security adviser tests positive for Covid
President Trump’s National Security adviser Robert O’Brien has tested positive for coronavirus
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Portland police declare ‘unlawful assembly’ as protesters continue to clash with federal agents
There’s been another night of unrest in the US state of Oregon as thousands of protesters took to the streets again in support of racial justice.
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‘None of us can breathe until we get justice for George Floyd’ – Floyd family lawyer Benjamin Crump
We spoke to George Floyd’s family’s attorney Benjamin Crump
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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 trails Biden in election polls – as he announces plans to tackle gun violence
In America, the latest polls show Donald Trump trailing his democratic rival Joe Biden by seven points.
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Immunity ‘loophole’ used by suspect in Harry Dunn death scrapped
The family of Harry Dunn, the teenager killed in August last year, have welcomed news that the US and UK have agreed to close a loophole giving diplomatic immunity to family members of US staff at a Northamptonshire airbase.
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Polls today do not matter ‘what matters is the number of people who turn out to vote’ – former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett
We spoke to the former senior political adviser to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett
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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.