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According to the ABC News/Ipsos poll, 33 percent of Americans said they approve of the president’s response to the virus outbreak, while 67 percent said they disapprove. This is Trump’s lowest approval rating on his coronavirus response, with a previous low of 39 percent reported in an ABC News/Ipsos poll from early June. The latest poll surveyed 711 U.S. adults from July 7 to 8 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4....

Recognizing the crisis, President Donald Trump and Congress worked together to establish economic protections for workers impacted by COVID-19. Enacted on March 18, 2020, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) provides workers of small- and medium-sized businesses with up to two weeks of paid sick leave for, among other things, an employee’s own health needs or to care for family members affected by coronavirus, and up to 10 additional weeks of paid family and medical leave for parents whose child care access is affected by COVID-19....

The FiveThirtyEight presidential popularity tracker put Trump’s average disapproval rating at 54.3 percent as of Thursday night, and showed his approval rating hovering at just under 43 percent. But when Gallup pollsters surveyed American voters at the same point in October 2012, they found Obama had an approval rating of 50 percent and a disapproval rating of just 45 percent—a 9 point improvement on Trump’s position today. The former president’s net approval rating of 5 percentage points in the week’s leading up to his re-election was also notably better than Trump’s current net disapproval rating of 11....

Trump’s efforts to have foreign governments interfere in U.S. elections—by either investigating his opponents or working to undermine investigations against him—have prompted the Democratic impeachment investigation. But Colbert said Friday that Pence should be equally worried by the pressure on Trump. “If he’s going down, he’s bringing a plus one,” Colbert suggested, in a reference to Pence. The vice president has been caught up in the scandal surrounding Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump is accused of offering military aid in exchange for an investigation into 2020 challenger Joe Biden....

The letter dated October 9 was initially obtained by a reporter from Fox Business and confirmed by the White House as authentic. In it, Trump says he would wreck the Turkish economy if Erdogan went too far with his invasion which followed the U.S. president’s sudden withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region. The letter read: “You don’t want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don’t want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy—and I will....

The commander-in-chief told Fox & Friends on Wednesday morning that the U.S. Postal Service was “not equipped” to handle the processing of millions of ballots, adding to his attempts to dismiss the idea of voting by mail amid the pandemic. Trump has previously made the unsubstantiated claims that a mail-in voting system would increase the likelihood of voter fraud in the coming 2020 presidential election. There is little voter fraud in states where large mail-in voting operations are already in place....

The president made the remarks during a mini-rally at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey with members of the New York City Police Benevolent Association (NYCPBA), the largest police union representing officers from the NYPD, in attendance, Mediaite reported. Trump began his speech by citing several recent incidents where police have been attacked by members of the public. These included an NYPD sergeant who was struck by a hit-and-run driver in the Bronx, a woman who threw a Molotov cocktail at a police vehicle in Brooklyn during a George Floyd protest and an incident where three officers were assaulted on the Brooklyn Bridge....

Trump also said that the temporary hospital set up in the Javits Center in New York City would be converted to specifically fighting coronavirus. “To date,” Trump said about New York City, “FEMA has delivered 4 million N95 mask respirators. Think of that. Four million. Four million. Don’t forget, we’re a secondary source. The states are doing it, and we’re backing them up, but we’ve got 4 million N95 respirators....

Speaking at a bilateral with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meeting in London, Trump appeared unconcerned when pressed about the recently released House Intelligence report containing the call logs. The report indicates that Giuliani made several calls to associates including Devin Nunes, the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, as well as Fox News host Sean Hannity and an unknown person with the phone number ‘-1....

His bizarre behavior? He called a timeout. “Everybody was kind of like, ‘Is he OK?’ ” sophomore forward Ron Baker said with a laugh. Here’s the deal: Marshall, the Sporting News Coach of the Year, hates timeouts. They are not part of his preferred approach to the game. When the game’s out of hand and he wants to get bench players some minutes, sure. But as a primary coaching strategy?...

In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Saban compared Tagovailoa with two of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. “I think he’s a lot like Drew Brees. I always thought Aaron Rodgers was a lot like that as a player, too,” Saban told SI. “Not overly big, accurate with the ball, really good judgment, decision-making. Those guys are the style of player. I would never say the expectation should be he would accomplish what those guys have....

DORTMUND, Germany (Reuters) - Borussia Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel is not convinced Cristiano Ronaldo is out of form saying he expected the Real Madrid talisman to cause his side plenty of problems in Tuesday’s Champions League heavyweight clash. Ronaldo, the all-time top scorer in the competition with 94 goals, has struggled to regain fitness and form since limping off in the Euro 2016 final with a knee injury. The prolific Portuguese has averaged over a goal per game in his seven seasons with Real but has made a slow start to his eighth campaign, missing three games with injury and scoring two goals in four appearances, completing 90 minutes twice....

“I’ve covered a lot of campaigns but I’ve never seen a candidate predict his own death or say so clearly, ‘I may not make it to the end of my first term,’” Carlson said on the Wednesday edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight. “It’s disturbing at that moment.” Carlson was referring to a clip recorded at Biden’s campaign stop in Clinton, Iowa Tuesday. Answering a question about who he would pick as his vice president, Biden said he had some candidates in mind....

The former Republican governor told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday that he would not eliminate the possibility of running for president once again in 2024–even if Trump decides to run for re-election in four years. Christie highlighted several campaign errors from Trump which led to his defeat by President-elect Joe Biden and he urged the president to attend Biden’s inauguration on January 20 despite being disappointed in his loss....

Trump, who leaves office on Wednesday, had previously announced that he wanted the Department of Interior to build the statue garden during an address at Mount Rushmore last July 4, as protestors toppled statues to the Confederacy around the country. “We will never allow an angry mob to tear down our statues or erase our history,” Trump told a crowd of supporters in that address. He described the proposed garden as “a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live....

Dershowitz spoke to Newsweek before Trump announced he was seeking another term in the White House on Tuesday. He said he did not support the former president. Dershowitz was part of the former president’s legal team during his first impeachment trial in the Senate in 2020 and has frequently commented on Trump’s ongoing legal battles. “We’ll know tonight but I think he’ll try to come back but I think he won’t succeed,” Dershowitz told Newsweek ahead of Trump’s announcement at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida....

The congressman’s statement on CBS’ Face the Nation came after he was asked about comments Trump made this week. In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump, who has repeatedly made false claims that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged,” said that he should be retroactively declared the winner or that a “new election should be held. In addition, the ex-president once again suggested that he would pardon rioters who entered the U....

The New York Times cited three people familiar with the testimony who said Vindman—the National Security Council’s Ukraine expert who sat in on the phone call and raised concerns about it to an NSC lawyer—told representatives that two of his attempted changes to the memo were not made. Vindman—an Iraq War veteran and Purple Heart recipient—said some of his suggestions were incorporated into the memo released last month, but that omitted portions included Trump claiming that there were recordings of 2020 rival Joe Biden discussing corruption in Ukraine....

“I don’t want to talk about it, because you know, the last time I took on Elizabeth Warren I thought she was gone. Embers, you know, burning embers down,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in an hour-long interview Monday night. When Warren entered the 2020 race in February, Trump claimed that he had hurt her campaign “very, very badly” by laying the “Pocahontas trap.” Warren opted to take the DNA test, which showed she was somewhere between 1/64th and 1/1024th Native American, after receiving backlash for claiming Native American status during her time in higher education....

Ventilators have been recognized as a vital part of coronavirus care since the virus attacks the lungs. When the lungs cease to function properly, ventilators mechanically “breathe” for the patient. “We’re giving massive amounts of medical equipment and supplies to the 50 states,” Trump said. “We also are holding back quite a bit. We have almost 10,000 ventilators that we have ready to go. We have to hold them back because the surge is coming and it’s coming pretty strong and we want to be immediately able to move it into place without going and taking it so we’re ready to go....