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Ross, who has been a member of the Cabinet since he was appointed a month after the inauguration, made his case after Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo asked him on Thursday how he thought the coronavirus could impact China’s global economic clout. Countries have limited travel to and from China in order to stymie the spread of the virus. In his answer, Ross began by clarifying that his sympathies were with those who had been affected by the virus....

U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who is a key ally of Trump’s November Democratic rival Joe Biden, has spent the past several months holding hearings on the coronavirus response. His report, released this morning, is the first deep dive into how the Trump administration has responded to the still-raging pandemic that has killed nearly 160,000 Americans. In a six-page report released Thursday morning, Clyburn and his Democrat allies on a special Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis, claim Trump is “directly responsible for tens of thousands of needless deaths, tens of millions of people out of work and mass confusion that has crippled our nation’s response....

As of November 3, immigrants (excluding children, asylum seekers and refugees) will now have to show U.S. officials they will have healthcare within 30 days of arrival, or can pay for upfront medical costs. On the face of it this seems fair. As a green card lottery winner last year, I had to tell the government in visa forms that I would not become a public charge. For some applicants this can already involve providing copies of paychecks and bank statements to prove they can support themselves....

“Mr. Weisselberg also regrets the harm his actions have caused to the Trump Organization and members of the Trump family. He is grateful to them for their continued support throughout this difficult chapter of his life,” Weisselberg’s attorney, Nicholas Gravante, said in a statement, CNBC reported. “Mr. Weisselberg came to court today ready to begin his sentence, and he is grateful that it has now begun.” The statement came shortly after Weisselberg was sentenced to five months in prison for defrauding New York state and New York City by “evading payment of taxes due on $1....

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, who is Trump’s pick to become the next ambassador to Russia, testified to senators that revelations made by former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to impeachment investigators earlier this month about Giuliani’s deep involvement in Ukraine policy matters were accurate and led Trump to lose “confidence in her.” Yovanovitch testified to House lawmakers behind closed doors that Sullivan told her after she was recalled from her Ukraine post earlier this year, it was the result of “a concerted campaign against me, and that the department had been under pressure from the president to remove me since the summer of 2018....

Adams, who served under former President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Monday that Powell had died because “we didn’t take the proper measures” to reduce the spread of the virus. Powell was vaccinated but he was also suffering from multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer that affects the white blood cells and can significantly weaken the immune system. “Colin Powell, he paved the way for all Black people - Democrats, Republicans, independents - to be able to be in these high-profile government positions like secretary of state, like chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, like surgeon general,” Adams told Cuomo....

The former president’s comments regarding President Joe Biden’s son were made during an interview that aired Tuesday on the Real America’s Voice TV show Just the News. Trump repeated an allegation that Hunter Biden’s company received $3.5 million from Elena Baturina, the widow of former mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, an unsubstantiated claim Trump also made during his 2020 election campaign. “Why did the mayor of Moscow’s wife give the Bidens—both of them—three and a half million dollars?...

Speaking to reporters at a press conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday, Trump also claimed Russia would not like to see him win a second term in the Oval Office, despite intelligence officials saying that Moscow was more inclined to work against Biden. The president further said that China would “own” the U.S. if the two country’s ever struck a trade deal under a Biden presidency. Addressing the media, Trump said: “China would love us to have an election where Donald Trump lost to sleepy Joe Biden....

Trump posted an opinion piece on Truth Social on Tuesday, December 27, from the conservative website The Western Journal which has the headline: “Flashback to When Things Were Better: Melania Trump’s WH Christmas Decorations Throughout the Years.” The column, written by Mike Landry, notes that while Jill Biden has “overseen some good White House decorating” over the past two years, including the “we the people” themed one from 2022, they “cannot compare” to what Melania Trump chose when she was first lady....

Biden’s campaign was seen as faltering before his victories on Super Tuesday, in which he won nine states. Sanders only won four, fewer than his campaign was expecting. Biden is also ahead in the current delegate count with 595 to Sanders’ 526. In order to win the Democratic nomination, a candidate must amass 1,991 delegates. Trump said he was ready to run against Sanders “because I thought it was going to happen....

Trump offered congratulations to Chinese President Xi Jinping and the country at large Tuesday in a move which was ridiculed as tone deaf, or ignorant of, intensifying Hong Kong protests which saw one activist shot in the chest just hours before. While protesters called for a “national day of grief” in Hong Kong over the shooting of the 18-year-old, the U.S. president appeared unaware and in solidarity with the country’s police accused of escalating violence....

The Republican voters praise Trump for his time in the White House but insisted that the GOP needs “new blood” in the next presidential election. Many of the former Trump supporters claimed that Florida Governor DeSantis would be a better option. According to recent polls, DeSantis is currently seeing increasingly optimistic signs of support for a presidential run in 2024. Neither Trump nor DeSantis has publicly stated that they’re running for president in 2024, but some believe a Trump announcement is on the horizon....

Trump made the comment on Sunday morning on his social media platform, Truth Social. In it, he says that the perpetrators of both events will not be punished and proceeded to rail against January 6, 2021, riot participants having “their lives ruined,” while seemingly promising again to pardon them should he be reelected in 2024. “[Ten] dead in California shooting, horrible gun wielding ANTIFA protest against our great police in Atlanta - Nothing will happen to them despite night of rage and destruction,” Trump’s post read....

Last weekend, Jason Miller, a long-time adviser and spokesperson for Trump, said that the former president will return to social media by creating “his own” platform that will host “tens of millions” of people after being banned by Twitter. In an interview on Newsmax’s Saturday Agenda, Lewandowski confirmed that the platform will be “launched in the next three to four months.” “It’s going to be an interactive communication tool whereby the president will be able to post things to it and people will be able to repost and communicate directly with him,” he said....

Even those of us who admire Evander Holyfield as a fighter and person admit that his class, courage and craftsmanship do not add up to charisma. Those traits, admirable as they are, left him invisible. When Riddick Bowe laughed out loud the other night, the championship belts hanging off his shoulders, he shouted, “I AM THE MAN!” and created more excitement in two seconds than Holyfield did in two years....

NEW YORK, N. Y. — “Hey, man, you gotta be kidding,” exclaimed one of Walt Frazier’s friends in the lobby of the Marriott Motor Hotel in South Philadelphia. “Man, those threads are too much!” Frazier, the All-Star guard who plays for the New York Knicks, was about to leave for a pro basketball game at the Spectrum. If he didn’t stop traffic with his black sealskin coat, he was sure to trap a few tourists with an eight-button suit, bell-bottom pants, and patent-leather shoes with gray silk uppers and buttons up the side....

THE WORLD’S championship rests with the American League for the thirteenth time since the inter-league classics to decide baseball supremacy were begun in 1903, as compared to eight triumphs for the National League. It was the plucky Washington Senators who brought home the laurels to the junior league this season, defeating the New York Giants in one of the closest and hardest fought Series that had ever marked the championship play, four games to three....

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Step on a cat’s tail and you’ll get an indignant howl. Tread on Wilt Chamberlain, the biggest cat in pro basketball, and the vocal reaction is equally swift. Nobody has ever accused Mr. Chamberlain — the world’s tallest nightclub owner, real estate investor and basketball flinger — of hiding behind a door when his critics start chasing him. Latest to play the game of Wilt Knocking was Jim Pollard, who quietly heaved a few barbs at Mr....

Tsonga had already won two ATP titles this year in Rotterdam and Marseille and, ahead of the French Open, added a third in the inaugural edition of the ATP 250 tournament. The Frenchman delighted the home crowd by earning a 7-6 (7-2) 7-5 triumph against his Czech opponent. Tsonga saved set points to hold and level the first set at 5-5, and went on to dominate the tie-break, which he wrapped up when Berdych smashed a forehand wide....

The former Alabama quarterback dislocated his hip against Mississippi State on November 16 and did not work out at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis last month. According to AL.com, Tagovailoa will begin full workouts on Monday and will participate in Alabama’s pro day, which is currently scheduled for March 24. By returning to training on Monday, the quarterback will give himself a month worth of full workouts ahead of his pro day, which is slated for April 9, two weeks ahead of the NFL draft....