Trump, who has expressed his disappointment over handling of the coronavirus disease by China, alleged non-transparency and initial non-cooperation from Beijing with Washington on this issue.
India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 daily new coronavirus cases being reported in the past few days, and hospitals are reeling under a shortage of medical oxygen and beds.
But, the Wall Street Journal said that the US labour market is operating with millions fewer jobs than in February, the month before the coronavirus pandemic struck the country's economy.
The United States is going to retain a laser focus on its counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said on Friday, and warned the Taliban of a forceful response to any attack on American forces or disruption of its operations at the Kabul airport.
Biden -- who bagged 253 seats as against Trump's 213 -- appeared to be nearing the magical figure of 270 of the 538 electoral college votes.
The president said he had discussed with Prime Minister Modi on when the US would be able to send actual vaccines to India.
Trump has been aggressively promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
'Not only would it be good to prevent coronavirus disease, it probably would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country'
According to a report in the Daily quoting a senior administration official, there was a "tiny slice" of personal protective equipment left over.
"We have great support from India. We have great support from Prime Minister Modi. I would think that the Indian (American) people would be voting for Trump," the President told reporters at a White House news conference.
Trump has roped in Army Corps of Engineers to build hospitals all over the country, activated the ready reserve components of the Armed Forces and invoked the Defense Production Act to compel General Motors to accept, perform and prioritise federal contracts for ventilators.
At least 85 people have died of coronavirus with the confirmed cases crossing 4,500 in the US.
Trump had taken the coronavirus test on Friday night. The results came out in less than 24 hours.
Currently more than 95 per cent of America's 330 million population are under a stay-at-home order and over 22 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits.
Till Monday, 43,734 confirmed cases of coronavirus were reported in the United States.
US President Donald Trump identified New York, California and Washington as the three major coronavirus hot spots.
Despite accounting for the largest number of fatalities, the death rate, however, in the US is much lower than other countries.
Trump, however, said that the move will not have any impact on those entering the country on a temporary basis.
In addition to Pichai and Nadella, IBM's Arvind Krishna, Micron's Sanjay Mehrotra, Ajay Banga from Mastercard and Ann Mukherjee from Pernod are among the six Indian-Americans among over 200 corporate honchos who will advise the President and offer recommendations on how to revive the American economy.
"We pay for a majority or the biggest portion of their money. They actually criticised and disagreed with my travel ban at the time I did it. They were wrong. They've been wrong about a lot of things. They had a lot of information early and they didn't want to -- they're very -- they seem to be very China centric," the US president charged during his news conference.
It proposes to bring down the corporate tax from the current 35 per cent to 15 per cent, significantly lower individual tax rates, and eliminate several tax rates like the death tax.
The trial began at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle as the first participant received the investigational vaccine.
Spicer will continue to be in his position through August.
The Trump administration has accused WHO of taking side with China in the coronavirus outbreak that has brought America's economy to a standstill.
Over 3,66,000 Americans have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus.
The number of people infected with COVID-19 in teh US climbed to over 140,000 and the death toll reached 2,475.
Trump said the sanction will deny the Iranian Supreme leader access to financial instruments.
Trump said it is 'very, very important' to have offensive capability, as well as defensive capability that's within the schools.
The US and China have sparred over the origin of the virus for days, with a Chinese official promoting conspiracy theories.
The camaraderie between Modi and Trump was on full display as the two leaders heaped praise on each other.
Trump said the relationship with both India as well as the country's Prime Minister Modi "is great".
United States President Barack Obama compared America's relations with Britain and France to his affection for his two wonderful daughters and said he could not choose a favourite between the two closest allies.
Speculation is rising that Vice President Joe Biden is close to a decision on entering the 2016 US presidential race even as the White House has been silent and President Barack Obama evaded queries on the issue.
The threat is real the Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told reporters at a White House news conference.
Cohn served as Trump's chief economic advisor since the beginning of the Administration. During his stay at the White House, he led coordination of Trump's pro-growth domestic and global economic policy agenda, including the passage of historic tax cuts and reforms in December 2017, the official said.
United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday slammed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for making false allegations about rigging of the elections and asked the real estate tycoon to stop whining and make his case to get votes.
"We've vetting very, very strongly. Very, very strongly. But we need help, and we need help by getting that executive order passed," he said.
Obama added that Trump has shown he is "woefully unprepared to do this job" after his comments on military families as well as his handle on foreign affairs.
Obama said every country, every democracy in particular, has tussles over the budget.
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