An upcoming book by Mary Trump, the daughter of the US president’s late brother Fred Trump Jr., is expected to hit bookstore shelves next Tuesday, two weeks ahead of its expected release date, apparently due to “high demand”.

This year, the United States celebrates its Independence Day amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the impact of a massive anti-racism and anti-police-brutality movement spanning the entire country and raising many controversial issues.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is demanding a group of Chicago Police Department officers come forward and face “the strongest possible action” after surveillance footage showed them eating food, napping and relaxing in the office of US Rep. Bobby Rush (…

George Floyd protesters and “Black Lives Matter” activists have been calling for defunding police and redirecting funds to other areas, such as education and housing, following Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on 25 May.

Earlier in the day, US President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to start withdrawing from Washington DC where it had been deployed earlier amid violent protests against police aggression.

Former US Vice President Joe Biden has been assumed to be the presumptive Democratic candidate to face the incumbent US president, Donald Trump, in the 2020 presidential election, after all other Dem candidates withdrew from the race.

Earlier this week, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called up the National Guard to help deal with civil unrest. This is the first time in 12 years that the Guard has been deployed in the state.

National Security Advisor Michael Flynn resigned less than a month after coming into office in 2017. A subsequent investigation showed that the FBI tricked him into misleading testimony as part of an aggressive Russiagate probe. The DoJ dropped charges…