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Protesters clash with local police and federal agents in Portland, Oregon, on 27 July. Photograph: David Swanson/EPA Downtown Portland saw fresh clashes early on Monday morning, between anti-racism protesters and federal officers using teargas, flash-bangs and crowd control munitions. For a 60th night in succession, protesters gathered to mark the killing of George Floyd by…

President Donald Trump's national security advisor, Robert O'Brien, has tested positive for the coronavirus.O'Brien has "mild symptoms and has been self-isolating and working from a secure location off site," the White House said in a statement Monday."There is no risk of exposure to the President or the Vice President. The work of the National Security…

Talk about a dire situation. The COVID-19 outbreak has clearly done a number of the U.S. economy, plunging it deep into a recession and sending unemployment levels skyrocketing. In fact, jobless claims reached a record high in April, and while things improved slightly in May and June, new restrictions could send the unemployment rate even…

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy accused “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin of lying about him on Monday after the daytime talk show dissected the president’s decision to speak with the controversial media mogul.President Trump sat down for a candid interview with Portnoy last week to discuss a variety of topics, including Twitter and the coronavirus outbreak. The wildly popular interview has been viewed millions of times – but Hostin wasn’t a…

WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is coming under fire for recent comments he made about U.S. history in which he claimed that the Founding Fathers considered slavery a "necessary evil."Cotton made the comments Friday in an interview with The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, which published them Sunday in an article about his efforts to target an…