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President Donald Trump listens to a question while speaking with reporters as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Washington. Trump is en route to Minnesota and Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump: I didn’t ask postmaster to slow down the mail

President Trump said Monday he did not ask Postmaster General Louis Dejoy, a major donor, to slow down the mail and that he wants the United States Postal Service to both run faster and make more money.

August 17, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks as Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump watches, during an event Trump National Golf Club, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, in Bedminster, N.J., with members of the City of New York Police Department Benevolent Association. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump accepts endorsement from NYPD union

A top New York City Police Department union endorsed President Trump after its members were feted at the president's New Jersey golf retreat late Friday.

August 14, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks during an event Trump National Golf Club, Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, in Bedminster, N.J., with members of the City of New York Police Department Benevolent Association. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump to NYC cops: You like ‘Sleepy’ or ‘Slow Joe?’

President Trump used a rally-like meet up with New York City cops Friday to road-test his favored nicknamed for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, saying foreign leaders like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping aren't "sleepy" so the U.S. leader cannot be, either.

August 14, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump: I’d like to address U.N. in-person

President Trump said Thursday he'd like to deliver his speech to the United Nations general assembly in person in September, even if the room in New York is sparsely attended due to the pandemic.

August 13, 2020
In this handout photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, and provided by Russian Direct Investment Fund, an employee works with a coronavirus vaccine at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia. Russia on Tuesday, Aug. 11 became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine for use in tens of thousands of its citizens despite international skepticism about injections that have not completed clinical trials and were studied in only dozens of people for less than two months. (Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/ Russian Direct Investment Fund via AP)

Coronavirus vaccine threatened by ‘cold chain’ issues

Two years ago, health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak in extremely remote parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo faced a quandary -- trial vaccines for the deadly disease had to be stored at sub-freezing temperatures as they traveled deep into tropical forests by helicopter or motorcycle.

August 13, 2020
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump rips Joe Biden mask mandate push

President Trump criticized former Vice President Joseph R. Biden's call for a nationwide mask mandate Thursday, saying states are seeing different rates of transmission and Americans should maintain a degree of individual freedom.

August 13, 2020