Trump had planned to travel to Nevada and Colorado for campaign events later in the week. No other rallies are currently scheduled. The move follows an announcement by the campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden, saying they would be cancelling in-person campaign gatherings in favor of “virtual events.” Senator Bernie Sanders has also cancelled events due to the virus. “Out of an abundance of caution from the Coronavirus outbreak, the President has decided to cancel his upcoming events in Colorado and Nevada,” said White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham in a statement....

White flew to the U.S. via Switzerland on Thursday. His release came after an Iranian scientist and Iranian doctor were sent back to Iran, in what appears to be a rare agreement between Washington and Tehran. The Trump administration has so far denied that White was returned as part of a swap. The Trump campaign quickly lauded White’s return, tweeting a video of White thanking the president for his help in securing his freedom....

In a post published on Wednesday morning on his official profile on Truth Social, the former president wrote: “Some really good conversations took place last night, and it’s now time for all of our GREAT Republican House Members to VOTE FOR KEVIN, CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY, & WATCH CRAZY NANCY PELOSI FLY BACK HOME TO A VERY BROKEN CALIFORNIA,THE ONLY SPEAKER IN U.S. HISTORY TO HAVE LOST THE “HOUSE” TWICE!...

After a yearslong pursuit, the committee finally obtained nearly six years’ worth of the former president’s federal income tax returns in November, despite Trump’s effort to block their release by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The committee will meet on Tuesday to decide whether to make Trump’s tax returns public. The former president appears quite sure that the committee will do so, despite his continued opposition and efforts to undermine the authority and legitimacy of the House group....

You know why? Because I’m Jewish. How does that work, you ask? Well, first Trump is a really, really bad guy. He has repeatedly shown himself antisemitic by conviction or convenience, and we have learned nothing new from this particular meal. If you’re saying that the former president is mainstreaming antisemitism for the first time, I have no idea where you’ve been since 2015. Second, antisemitism isn’t new in this country—even though it’s getting worse—and my family is always somewhat on edge, anyway....

The poll, commissioned by German news agency DPA, found that 41 percent of Germans feel Trump is the most dangerous of five globally important leaders, a list which included Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Chinese President Xi Jinping. By contrast, the world leader rated most dangerous by the second-largest share of Germans was Kim, who was selected by 17 percent of respondents....

The number of executions in the first six months of the year is the highest recorded in the past five years, and more than double the 55 from the same period in 2018, according to a new report by the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights. From January until the end of June, 122 people were executed in the ultra-conservative kingdom. Among them are six minors and 58 foreign nationals, from nations including Pakistan, Yemen and Syria....

NBC News Associate Producer Daniel Barnes shared a photo of the attorneys on Twitter, writing: “Spotted this afternoon at the DC federal courthouse: Trump lawyers Evan Corcoran, John Rowley and Timothy Parlatore. Also in the building was prosecutor Thomas Windom.” Windom, an assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., has been involved in investigating efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in relation to January 6, 2021....

As he sought to publicly defend Trump, Graham—according to a newly released excerpt from the upcoming book The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021 first reported by The Independent—reportedly told authors Peter Baker and Susan Glasser that he was cognizant of what the former president had done on the call but described impeaching him over it an “insane” idea before noting the president’s grip on the party. “He could kill fifty people on our side and it wouldn’t matter,” Graham allegedly told the authors, after noting during the conversation that Trump was a “fun guy” to hang out with....

The White House confirmed that Trump will speak at the 2019 House Republican Conference Member Retreat Dinner on Thursday (September 12). According to The Baltimore Sun, the retreat will run on until Sunday and will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Harbor East. The visit will be the first one Trump has made to Baltimore since he continually attacked it and Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings in July....

Omarosa Manigault Newman was appointed Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in January 2017. She first met Trump on the first series of The Apprentice in 2004. During an appearance on the British morning show Lorraine today (October 27), Manigault Newman, 46, spoke about the president’s marriage to his third wife, deeming it “strange.” “I’m very cautious to comment on the dynamics of a marriage because you never know what goes on behind closed doors,” she said....

The development could potentially lead to prosecutors filing criminal charges against Trump. One person who is expected to be a key witness in the probe is Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney. Speculation that Cohen could soon provide damning testimony against his former boss began earlier this month when Cohen met with the Manhattan DA. Cohen has previously said Trump directed him to pay two women—Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal—for their silence during the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election....

The inconceivable may become the almost-inevitable. Such an achievement surely warrants the Prize—until you remember that Netanyahu is widely loathed, and in critics’ eyes leads the controversial government of a country that remains a target of global opprobrium for colonialism, military occupation and alleged human-rights abuses. And that the agreements that Netanyahu has wrangled with Arab states of the Persian Gulf fail to resolve, or even address, the situation of Palestinians—a cause with passionate supporters in Europe, on U....

Trump’s fortune fell from $3.5 billion to $2.4 billion between entering office in January 2017 and departing the White House less than three months ago, according to Forbes. Several of Trump’s major properties suffered declines in value, as did his hotel management and licensing business. However, his Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, saw a considerable improvement in net value. Trump did not divest himself of his businesses when he took office. This decision was controversial and was a cause for persistent questions about ethical issues....

Trump opened his speech by thanking the performers, including the Blue Angels that flew over the mountain right before he took the stage. But after the thanks and a brief history of America’s founding, he took aim at protesters and the left wing. “1776 represented the culmination of thousands of years of Western civilization, and the triumph of not only spirit, but wisdom, philosophy and reason. But yet, as we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for,” Trump said....

“Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere. Big progress being made,” Trump wrote in a message shared to Twitter Monday morning. However, according to individual states’ daily case reports, most have not indicated discernible downward trends in new diagnoses. According to data published by various health departments, as well as Johns Hopkins University’s online tracker, at least 10 U.S. states have seen upward trends in new virus cases reported over the past five days....

The former president was in Youngstown, Ohio, on Saturday night to campaign for Senate candidate J.D. Vance. During his speech, he hit out at The New York Times for reporting that some Republican Senate candidates are seeking to distance themselves from Trump as they move past primary season and try to win the support of the independent voters needed to win battleground states in November. The newspaper reported that Vance had not invited the former president to speak at Saturday’s rally....

Speaking from London, at a press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump suggested that he did not want to comment on the British general election in order to avoid complicating the issue. “It’s going to be a very important election for this great country. But I have no thoughts on it,” the president, who is in the U.K. for the NATO summit in London from December 3-4, said....

Presidential hopeful and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump believes they’re onto something, and weaved it into a speech critical of President Barack Obama’s administration during one of his campaign rallies Sunday in Reno, Nev., a place untouched by the wild-card misery felt in Cincinnati or Minneapolis this weekend. MORE: Lessons learned from wild-card weekend | Tom Brady needs to take a stand on Trump “Football has become soft like our country has become soft,” Trump said, via the Washington Post....

Non-profit The Donkey Sanctuary said the industry which produces the medicine ingredient—a kind of gelatin known as “ejiao”—requires around 4.8 million donkey skins every year. But given that China’s donkey population has reduced from 11 million in 1992—the largest in the world at the time—to 2.6 million today, the industry has been forced to start importing donkey skins from around the world. According to the report, this has placed unprecedented pressure on global donkey populations and even caused them to suffer drastic declines in some countries, such as Kenya, Botswana and Brazil....