Earlier in the month, anti-Trump activists were arrested after attacking a 7-year-old boy by stealing his red "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) hat. The two women were charged with felony hate crimes and robbery.

It is not the first time that US President Donald Trump has mocked his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, for wearing a mask during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Earlier this month, speaking to supporters in Pennsylvania, Trump mockingly insisted that the former vice president likes to wear masks more than anyone he has ever seen.

In a video posted in her Twitter account, rapper Cardi B said that her sister and her girlfriend were "harassed" by Trump supporters, alleging that the couple had been verbally attacked for being an "Afro/Hispanic gay couple".

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, a close associate of a deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is currently detained in a Brooklyn jail facing six charges including sex trafficking and enticement of underage girls for Epstein.

Earlier on Tuesday, it was reported that Air Force Two with US Vice President Mike Pence on board had to return to the Manchester airport in New Hampshire, due to a possible "bird strike". Fox News, however, initially reported the story in a different way.

The Trump administration has been accused of interfering with federal agencies so as to shape coronavirus-related guidelines to fit with Trump's political agenda and put his COVID-19 response in a good light.

Facebook will take an array of measures to “restrict the circulation of content” if the November 3 US presidential election devolves into chaos and unrest, according to a Tuesday report by the Financial Times.

According to media reports, the incident with US Vice President Mike Pence's plane could have been caused by a "bird strike". Pence was in New Hampshire for a campaign event in Gilford.

TORONTO (Sputnik) - A US judge entered a not guilty plea on behalf of a 53-year-old Canadian woman charged with making threats against President Donald Trump after her ricin-laced letter addressed to the White House was intercepted by the FBI.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States is committed to preserving Israel's qualitative military edge (QME) in the Middle East, US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper said before a meeting with Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz at the Pentagon.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claims that US President Donald Trump's administration gave its approval to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to carry out recent "covert and terrorist operations" against an array of targets in the country.

The area around the Washington Monument has been covered in 20,000 miniature US flags, each representing 10 deaths from the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in the United States. With just 4% of the world’s population, the US is responsible for 20% of all COVID-19 deaths.

During recent weeks, Republicans and Democrats have been engaged in heated debate over the federal budget, set to expire at the end of September. The deal between the parties will keep the government funded through 11 December, gaining more time to agree on a new budget.

Congressional Democrats launched a new line of attack against US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, accusing him of trying to stuff the Supreme Court with conservative judges so the ongoing GOP challenge to overturn Obamacare would succeed.

International online marketplace Amazon has found itself at the center of another racist merchandise debacle after allowing a third-party vendor to sell trucker hats emblazoned with “Black Lives Don’t Matter.”

US President Donald Trump, in his re-election campaign, promised to end America's "endless wars", particularly vowing to reduce the US military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Launched in 2016, The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently mapping the surface of Bennu, the so-called 'doomsday asteroid', formed from fragments of an ancient planetoid destroyed during the formation of the solar system.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was optimistic about the economic rebound from the COVID-19-nduced slump. But Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell credited the $2.2 trillion stimulus passed in March for the recovery, and warned things could get worse without a second package.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Fox News Sunday television anchor Chris Wallace has selected the topics for President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to debate in the first of their three nationally broadcast faceoffs next week, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) announced on Tuesday.

The death of Associate Justice Ruth Ginsburg has added to the political polarisation in Washington: while Donald Trump is about to fill the Supreme Court seat, Democrats are appalled at the prospect of a court controlled by conservatives for decades to come. US academics have discussed potential scenarios of how the partisan struggle may evolve.