President Trump signed an $8.3 billion spending bill Friday aimed at fighting the coronavirus outbreak, the culmination of a bipartisan effort by Congress and the White House to provide funds to federal agencies, as well as state and local governments, to battle the disease.
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It's the second time this week Trump will speak to reporters in a rare White House briefing room press conference, signaling the seriousness the Administration is placing on the coronavirus that has now infected more than 85,000 worldwide and killed 2,900. The closures and quarantines around the world have spooked investors and the stock market took a dramatic tumble this week.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., announced late Thursday night that he would not support additional witnesses in President Trump's "shallow, hurried and wholly partisan" Senate impeachment trial, seemingly ending Democrats' hopes of hearing testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton and paving the way for the president's imminent acquittal as soon as Friday night.
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Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was planning to take out four embassies, including the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, when the decision was made to take him out, President Donald Trump said in an interview recorded Friday. "We will tell you that it was probably going to be the embassy in Baghdad," Trump told Fox News' Laura Ingraham during their interview, which will air in full Friday night at 10 p.m. ET.