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TOPLINE More Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic than at any point since it began, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday, as the president has largely ignored the surging number of Covid-19 cases across the U.S. and pushed to reopen schools. WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 09: U.S.…

People fill out voter registration forms in Minneapolis. The Democratic data firm TargetSmart found that new voter registrations had plummeted amid the coronavirus pandemic. | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images It was a flicker of hope for Donald Trump in an otherwise dismal summer. Late last month, the Democratic data firm TargetSmart found that while new voter…

In his push to get schools and colleges to reopen this fall, President Donald Trump is again taking aim at their finances, this time threatening their tax-exempt status. Trump said on Twitter on Friday he was ordering the Treasury Department to re-examine the tax-exempt status of schools that he says provide “radical indoctrination” instead of…

Donald Trump has claimed that until he became US president “nobody ever heard” that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. The US president’s improbable claim came during a roundtable discussion on Venezuela at his Doral golf resort in Florida, in which he largely ignored the issue of the South American country and instead praised his administration’s…

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn. | Carolyn Kaster, File/AP Photo Four years ago, Michael Flynn, an intelligence officer with a three-decade military career, became a MAGA star introducing Donald Trump at raucous campaign rallies. Now, after a prolonged battle against what Trump’s biggest supporters see as a rigged judicial system staffed by Obama-era bureaucrats,…