últimas notícias

We’re ending our live coverage for the day, thanks for following along. Some highlights and links:

• Trump used a freewheeling CDC press conference, intended to provide updates on the coronavirus, as an opportunity to attack Democrats, praise his own intelligence, lash out at CNN and spread false and misleading information about the status of the outbreak.
• The president made false statements about the availability of tests.
• Trump also said he wanted exposed passengers to remain on a cruise abroad so that the number of cases wouldn’t increase in the US.
• The president insulted the governor of Washington state, who is currently overseeing the most serious coronavirus outbreak.
• Trump’s re-election campaign sued CNN for publishing an opinion piece that argued Trump did not stop Russia from helping the campaign during the presidential election.
• The president escalated his attacks on Joe Biden’s cognitive health.
• In a newly released documentary, Bill Clinton claimed the reason for his 1995 extramarital affair with then White House intern Monica Lewinsky was “to manage [his] anxieties”.
• Trump announced Congressman Mark Meadows as his new chief of staff.
• The next debate will be Biden v Sanders, with the latest qualifications ensuring Tulsi Gabbard, who is still a candidate, will not join them on the stage.
• A number of prominent Illinois Democrats endorsed Biden.
• The president called Elizabeth Warren mean, but praised her attacks on Mike Bloomberg.