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Healthcare

CDC indicates COVID infection-fatality rate less than 1%

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020December 19, 2024

Healthcare

Nearly half of all COVID-related deaths directly tied to nursing homes: Report

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020October 29, 2025

Healthcare

COVID-19 death rate is 75% lower in states that didn’t lock down

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020June 20, 2024

World

Inside ‘Office 39’: North Korea’s illicit global smuggling network

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020June 28, 2020

National News

Nunes: Twitter, Google, Facebook are ‘tech tyrants’ that censor conservatives

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020June 20, 2024

National News

Missouri Democratic mayor accused of intimidating defund police protesters after reading names, partial addresses on livestream

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020June 20, 2024

National Security & Defense

DHS asks tech giants to make sure social media platforms aren’t used as tool to promote riots

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020March 5, 2025

National News

John Bolton is a Dr. Strangelove throwback who set himself up as a White House warlord

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020June 28, 2020

National News

Biden VP hopeful Karen Bass slammed over past praise for Fidel Castro

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020August 9, 2025

National News

Occupy City Hall grows in numbers as NYPD budget deadline looms

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020March 29, 2025

World

Trump pushes back on NY Times report on Russian Afghan attacks, says ‘nobody briefed’ him, Pence

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020June 13, 2025

President Trump announced Friday that he signed an executive order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues and threatened those who try to pull them down with “long prison time.” “I just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues - and combatting recent Criminal Violence,” Trump tweeted. “Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country!” The new order enforces laws prohibiting the desecration of public monuments, the vandalism of government property, and recent acts of violence, withholds federal support tied to public spaces from state and local governments that have failed to protect public monuments, and withdraws federal grants for jurisdictions and law enforcement agencies that fail to stop their desecration. It also provides assistance for protecting the federal statues. Meanwhile on Friday evening, Attorney General Bill Barr directed the creation of a task force to counter anti-government extremists, specifically naming those who support the far-right “boogaloo” movement and those who identify as Antifa. The task force will be headed by Craig Carpenito, the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the district of Northern Texas, and will be composed of U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the FBI and other relevant departments, according to a press release. The group will share information with local and state law enforcement and will provide training on identifying anti-government extremists, according to an internal Justice Department memo. The president has been teasing his order related to memorials all week, as historic monuments and statues have become the targets of anger and vandalism during Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd's police custody death in Minneapolis at the end of May. DC'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE WANTS 'PROBLEMATIC' LINCOLN STATUE REMOVED FROM LINCOLN PARK placeholder The initial statues under fire were Confederate soldiers and generals largely in the South due to the treatment of African-Americans, and even some high-level military officials called for the renaming of Army bases named after Confederate generals. The anger has since spread to monuments of former presidents and others deemed to be “colonizers,” such as Christopher Columbus, and even some who fought against slavery. On Friday night, protesters plan to try to tear down the Emancipation Statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park. The statue shows the 16th president holding the Emancipation Proclamation next to a kneeling, shackled slave. Protesters say it does not depict the role slaves had in securing their own freedom. TRUMP ISSUES WARNING AMID VANDALISM, EFFORT TO TOPPLE ANDREW JACKSON STATUE Washington, D.C.’s congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, said Tuesday she would introduce a House bill to remove the “problematic” statue. Last weekend protesters tied ropes and tried to topple a statue of former president Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square Park, but were stopped by law enforcement. In San Francisco, protesters defaced and toppled a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, who led the Union Army during the Civil War. Protesters that same night also tore down statues of St. Junipero Serra and Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner." This week McConnell listed the monuments that have been defaced in recent days—noting that in Portland, Ore., a mob “graffitied a statue of our first President, pulled it down, and burned an American flag over his head. This is George Washington.” placeholder McConnell said another Washington statue was defaced in Baltimore, a statue of Thomas Jefferson was ripped down in Portland, and others were targeted. “This is the general and first President who built our nation, and the author of the Declaration of Independence. Genius statesmen who helped begin this grand experiment that has brought freedom to hundreds of millions and saved the world a few times for good measure,” McConnell said. “And yet a crazy fringe is treating their monuments like vanity statues of tinhorn tyrants.” He added: “Our Founding Fathers are being roped to the ground like they were Saddam Hussein. The list goes on.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP McConnell was referring to the famous moment in 2003 when a 40-foot bronze statue of the Iraqi dictator was roped and pulled to the ground, symbolizing the end of his regime. Fox News' John Roberts, Jake Gibson and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

National News

Trump signs executive order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues

by USNN World NewsJune 26, 2020June 26, 2020

NATIONAL NEWS

Trump Campaign Sues New Jersey Over Mail-in Ballots

By Tom Ozimek The campaign to reelect President Donald Trump has sued New Jersey authorities after Gov. Phil Murphy issued an executive order facilitating widescale mail-in balloting for November’s ...

Virginia State Senator Turns Herself in to Face Charges Over Statue Toppling Incident

By Jack Phillips Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas turned herself in on Tuesday to the sheriff’s office after she was charged in connection to the dismantling ...

Jill Biden’s ex-husband accuses her of affair with Joe Biden in 1970s

By Ebony Bowden, Aaron Feis | New York Post Jill Biden’s ex-husband has accused the potential first lady of having an affair with Joe Biden and says they lied about how they ...

Manhunt underway for attacker in Portland truck assault: police

By Stephanie Pagones | Fox News Portland police on Tuesday identified a suspect in Sunday night’s attack on a truck driver who was seen on video being pulled from the ...

Trump: Susan B. Anthony to get posthumous pardon

By Julia Musto | Fox News Anthony was arrested in 1872 for voting illegally and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and court costs. President Trump announced Tuesday ...

Ted Cruz reacts to DNC opening night, says Dems ‘care more about the woke mob than … working men and women’

By Angelica Stabile | Fox News Senator blasts Dems for ‘not saying a meaningful word about the riots’ in cities across US. The Democratic National Convention is making clear that ...

Michelle Obama’s DNC address fact-checked by AP over ‘distorted’ immigration talking point

By Brian Flood | Fox News Children in ‘cages’ claim is misleading, AP says. The Associated Press fact-checked Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech after she condemned Trump for using ...

Trump hits back at Michelle Obama after searing DNC speech, says he ‘would not be here’ if not for her husband

By Brooke Singman | Fox News Trump’s tweets come after former first lady slammed the president during first night of the 2020 DNC. President Trump on Tuesday hit ...

CDC: New Mexico has highest rate for alcohol-related deaths

By Associated Press New Mexico’s alcohol-related death rate was almost twice the U.S. rate. According to a recently published report by the federal Centers for Disease ...

Trump knocks Biden for not answering reporters’ questions: ‘He can’t come out of his basement’

By Joshua Nelson | Fox News ‘This guy doesn’t come out of his basement, and he hasn’t taken one question,’ the president says. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe ...

South Dakota turns down extra $300-a-week unemployment benefits from Trump administration

By Evie Fordham FOXBusiness ‘South Dakota’s economy, having never been shut down, has recovered nearly 80% of our job losses,’ governor says. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem ...

Robert Trump: brother of president Donald Trump dies aged 71

By The Guardian Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, died on Saturday night aged 71 after being hospitalised in New York, the president said in ...