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'Resisting America for 40 years': Russia and Iran put on a show of Unity against the US
•Russia and Iran have a host of differences. But as Russia’s conflict with the West intensifies, Russian officials are increasingly willing to look past those differences.
Amazon fails to protect data; a look at lobbyists who kill US consumer privacy protections
Fp Staff •The company gathers a vast array of information on its US customers, and it started making that data available to all upon request early last year, after trying and failing to defeat a 2018 California measure requiring such disclosures
Joe Biden likely to massively increase annual refugee admissions to 1,25,000
•The number fell to a historic low under former US president Donald Trump, with just 6,740 refugees arriving in 2020
US Election 2020: Joe Biden continues virtual campaign from home during lockdown as worries over fundraising, digital presence pile up
•Joe Biden has no foreseeable plans to resume in-person campaigning amid a pandemic that is testing whether a national presidential election can be won by a candidate communicating almost entirely from home
Coronavirus Outbreak: With 90% of federal stockpile used, US runs low on masks, shield, medical equipment; toll rises to 14,795
•The Strategic National Stockpile is nearly out of the N95 respirators, surgical masks, face, shields, gowns and other medical supplies desperately needed to protect front-line medical workers treating coronavirus patients
Donald Trump's foreign interference remarks: US president using media to rally base, stay in spotlight ahead of 2020
Anindad •Donald Trump’s braggadocio came on a day on which his eldest son Donald Trump Jr was grilled by the Senate Intelligence Committee,
Donald Trump's comment on accepting information from foreign countries on presidential opponents invites Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren’s criticism
•President Trump said he would be willing to accept foreign information on presidential opponents on the same day his son, Donald Jr faced questioning for Russian contacts
'Heather Nauert unqualified to be UN ambassador': Rights groups ask Donald Trump admin to withdraw nomination
•Some rights and advocacy groups have opposed President Donald Trump's decision to nominate chief State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as America's next envoy to UN, saying she is “unqualified” and lacks the foreign policy experience crucial for the post.
Heather Nauert to replace Nikki Haley as US' ambassador to UN, but her 'lack of expertise' raises eyebrows
Fp Staff •Heather Nauert has not been the first person from Fox News to be appointed in the Trump administration.
North Korea warns of returning to nuclear policy if United States does not end tough economic sanctions
•At a historic summit in Singapore in June, US President Donald Trump and Kim signed a vaguely-worded statement on denuclearisation.