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Donald Trump pardons former White House aide Steve Bannon, other allies in final acts of clemency
•Key strategist and advisor to Trump during his 2016 campaign, Bannon was charged in August 2020 with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border
Ex-Trump advisor Steve Bannon's Chinese host a high-profile irritant to Beijing's Communist Party
•Guo Wengui on whose yacht US president Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was arrested has rankled China's ruling party by launching accusations of corruption on social media
Donald Trump's ex-advisor Steve Bannon arrested on corruption charges in border wall scheme
•Federal prosecutors alleged that Bannon and three others defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign to build a wall along the southern border of the United States
Nikki Haley quits as Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, say US media reports
Fp Staff •Haley, 45, is the first ever Indian American appointed to a Cabinet-level position by any president.
New Yorker editor David Remnick cancels Steve Bannon invite after high profile dropouts and outrage; says he's 'changed his mind, there's a better way to do this'
•Facing widespread outrage, The New Yorker has dropped plans to interview Steve Bannon during its festival next month. The former Donald Trump aide and ex-chairman of Breitbart News was supposed to be a featured guest during a prestigious gathering that over the years has drawn some of the world's most prominent artists and public figures
Donald Trump focuses on 'winning' at Charleston rally, while former associates Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen face jail time
•With two men who played prominent roles on the president's campaign convicted of multiple criminal charges, the investigations circled ever closer to Donald Trump. But for all that, Trump spent more than an hour at a rally in Charleston speaking of his accomplishments in office.
US midterm elections 2018: Top data cruncher bullish on Democrats' edge, gives party 3 in 4 chance of taking House majority
Fp Staff •America’s best known data cruncher on elections Nate Silver is bullish on Democrats winning the House at the midterm elections 2018. FiveThirtyEight is giving Democrats a 3 in 4 chance of winning enough seats for a majority and it comes with a big caveat: “Relatively small shifts could allow Republicans to keep control of the House, or could turn a blue wave into a tsunami.”
US midterm elections 2018: Donald Trump predicts hardline immigration agenda will power Republicans to victory; says America will see a 'red wave'
•US president Donald Trump sharply accused congressional Democrats of allowing open borders and crime to fester, using a White House event on Monday to stoke a fall campaign fight over immigration and the U.S. southern border.
In US midterm season, Stormy Daniels lawyer Michael Avenatti considers 2020 bid; fears Democrats bringing 'nail clippers to a gunfight'
•An attorney who has bedeviled US President Donald Trump during the past year over his personal relationships and immigration policies made a presidential pitch of his own to Democratic voters in New Hampshire on Sunday.
US midterm election 2018: Donald Trump acolyte Steve Bannon warns Republicans they will 'get smoked' if they lean on traditional playbook
•During a Sunday interview with The Associated Press, the former chief strategist to Trump said he believes the GOP would lose 35 to 40 seats in the House if the election were held today, thereby ceding their majority to Democrats he's convinced will pursue impeachment.