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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - President Donald Trump warned Republicans who officially backed his bid for a second term on Monday that November’s election could be “rigged” despite offering no evidence, as the party began outlining its vision for the future on the first night of its national convention. Trump spoke on the first day of the sharply scaled-back Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, after receiving enough votes to win the nomination to take on his Democratic rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, in the Nov. 3 election. The president repeated his assertion that voting by mail, a long-standing feature of American elections that is expected to be far more common during the coronavirus pandemic, will lead to widespread fraud. Independent election security experts say voter fraud is extraordinarily rare in the United States. “The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election,” Trump said. “We’re going to win.” The four-day conve

BEDMINSTER, N.J. - U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a news conference on Saturday at 3:30 ET (1930) GMT at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, the White House said. Trump on Friday vowed to unilaterally suspend payroll taxes and extend enhanced coronavirus unemployment benefits after negotiations with congressional Democrats on a broad pandemic aid package collapsed.

WASHINGTON/BEDMINSTER, N.J. - The top U.S. counterintelligence official on Friday warned that Russia, China and Iran will all try to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, with Russia already trying to undercut Democratic candidate Joe Biden. In an unusual public statement, William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said the three countries were using online disinformation and other means to try to influence voters, stir up disorder and undermine American voters’ confidence in the democratic process. President Donald Trump, asked at a news conference in New Jersey how he would respond to interference in the Nov. 3 vote, said: “We’re going to watch all of them, we have to be very careful.” He added that he believed Russia, China and Iran all wanted him to lose the election. Foreign adversaries also may try to interfere with U.S. election systems by trying to sabotage the voting process, stealing election data, or calling into question the v

- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he is signing an executive order providing a payroll tax holiday for Americans earning less than $100,000 a year. Speaking to reporters in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump said the tax holiday would be effective as of Aug. 1, “most likely.”

NEW YORK - U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging his directive to exclude undocumented immigrants from representation, rejecting the accusation it was motivated by racial animus. In a Wednesday night filing in Manhattan federal court, Trump’s lawyers said the U.S. president has longstanding discretion to decide who can be counted when apportioning Congressional seats, and opponents failed to plausibly argue his policy was “merely a pretext” to discriminate against Hispanics. The lawyers also called it “speculative” to suggest the policy could cause irreparable harm, including by reducing immigrants’ participation in the census. That data is used to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds. Trump’s lawyers were responding to lawsuits by New York and 37 other U.S. states, cities and counties, as well as by several nonprofit organizations, over the president’s July 21 directive that seeks to prevent migrants who are in the United S

BEIRUT - Beirut’s catastrophic port explosion has demolished Rita Faraj Oghlo’s house, left her family stranded and may cost her husband Adel his leg. Like many Lebanese, they have endured multi-layered suffering since the Aug. 4 blast, which killed 179 people, injured 6,000 and triggered protests against an elite blamed for political turmoil and economic collapse. Homes and businesses were razed in the country’s commercial heart, uprooting nearly a quarter of a million people. Many of them are now crammed into relatives’ tiny apartments, unable to imagine how they will ever be able to afford their own. “It’s very difficult for us right now,” said Rita, who, along with her injured husband Adel and their children Christy, 2 and Saymen, 8, has moved in with her mother, stepfather and sister. The cost of the operation Adel needs looms large. When the blast sent a mushroom cloud over Beirut, he lay on a road pleading for help in the chaos. One person used a belt as tourniquet. Another, a

MOSCOW - The Kremlin said on Thursday that doctors were doing all they could to help opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is in a serious condition in hospital, and wished him a speedy recovery as it would any other Russian citizen. Navalny, a staunch critic of President Vladimir Putin, was in a coma in a Siberian hospital on Thursday morning after drinking a cup of tea that his spokeswoman said she believed was laced with poison. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said any poisoning would need to be confirmed by laboratory tests. He said the authorities would be ready to consider a request for Navalny to be treated abroad should one be made.