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News that Donald and Melania Trump tested positive to coronavirus adds another twist in an already dramatic election season.

U.S. equity futures and European stocks dropped on Friday morning as the White House cleared the president’s schedule, as both he and the first lady will have to be in isolation until, in the best-case scenario, the third week of October.

Trump is the latest world leader to be affected by coronavirus, including Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro who tested positive in July and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was hospitalized in late March and has since recovered.

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Stephanie Winston Wolkoff released profanity-laden recordings of conversations with her former friend Melania Trump, in which the first lady can be heard dismissing the separation of migrant children from their parents and her role as White House Christmas decorator.

The illegitimate daughter of former Belgian King Albert II won a court battle to use royal titles.

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After being heavily criticised for his failure to disavow white supremacist groups in Tuesday’s debate, Trump finally did so in an interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday, just as NBC News reported that DHS officials were told to express public comments that would portray accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse in a positive light.

The House approved a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill in a largely symbolic step that saw 18 Democrats voting against the bill. The latest unemployment report showed figures consistent with the past five weeks as a total 26.5 million Americans are now receiving some form of government unemployment benefit.

In a bid to cut costs, Boeing announced it would move its 787 Dreamliner production from Seattle, Washington, to North Charleston, South Carolina, by mid-2021—a significant move for the company, founded in Seattle in 1916, that could affect as many as 1,000 jobs in Washington state. 

A New Yorker report revived allegations of misbehavior and sexual harassment against Kimberley Guilfoyle, a top Trump campaign fundraiser who is in a relationship with Donald Trump Jr., that forced the departure from her job as Fox News host in 2018.

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s June 2020 proclamation that suspended the entry of foreign nationals on some temporary work visas, ruling the president cannot cast aside immigration laws passed by Congress.

The Irish Supreme Court ruled that Subway sandwiches contain too much sugar to technically be called—and taxed as—bread.

A reported proposal to convert out-of-use ferries into asylum processing centers in the U.K. has seen swift backlash, with Britain’s Labour party and immigration advocates condemning the idea as “unconscionable.”

Guild Esports, the young esports business co-owned by soccer legend David Beckham, has successfully completed its public market flotation on the London Stock Exchange, with a market capitalization of $52.3 million.

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