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New York, Sept 5, IRNA - A former advisor to the US Republican Party told IRNA on Saturday that with the protests continuing, US President Donald Trump’s conditions are shaky, though is too early to call him the loser of the loser of the October elections.

No one should, just based on the polls, come to the conclusion that Trump will be a one-term president, said James George Jatras.

Jatras added that the polls in 2016 said that Hillary Clinton would be the president, but some voters hid their inclination toward Trump from the pollsters for some reason.

NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. equities decreased in the past week as investors rotated about of the tech sector while digesting a slew of key economic data.

For the week ending Friday, the Dow slid 1.8 percent, the S&P 500 lost 2.3 percent, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq dipped 3.3 percent.

The S&P U.S. Listed China 50 index, which is designed to track the performance of the 50 largest Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges by total market cap, logged a weekly decline of 3.2 percent.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s attorney general on Saturday moved to form a grand jury to investigate the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died earlier this year after Rochester police placed a hood over his head and held him down.

“The Prude family and the Rochester community have been through great pain and anguish,” Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement about Prude’s death, which has sparked nightly protests and calls for reform. She said the grand jury would be part of an “exhaustive investigation.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Ahead of Labor Day, unions representing millions across several working-class sectors are threatening to authorize work stoppages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement amid calls for concrete measures that address racial injustice.

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen’s tell-all memoir makes the case that President Donald Trump is “guilty of the same crimes” that landed his former fixer in federal prison, offering a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s alleged role in a hush money scandal that once overshadowed his presidency.

Of all the crises Cohen confronted working for Trump, none proved as vexing as the porn actress Stormy Daniels and her claims of an extramarital affair with Trump, Cohen writes in “Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump.”

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 05 (APP): A move by Western nations and their supporters, including India, seeking to delete from two UN General Assembly resolutions an endorsement of “win-win” cooperation concept of global economic development that is associated with China, failed at the 193-member body’s first in-person meeting since March.

NEW YORK (AP) — Showcasing Black Americans at the Republican National Convention to allay white voters’ fears that President Donald Trump is a racist. Sharing touching stories about the president’s concern for the military. Painting Democrat Joe Biden as an unacceptable alternative who threatens the American way of life.

NEW YORK (AP) — On the campaign trail with President Donald Trump, the pandemic is largely over, the economy is roaring back, and murderous mobs are infiltrating America’s suburbs.

With Democrat Joe Biden, the pandemic is raging, the economy isn’t lifting the working class, and systemic racism threatens Black lives across America.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 04 (APP): Diplomatic sources at the United Nations Friday brushed aside as “outlandish” India’s call for the removal of the Kashmir dispute from the Security Council’s agenda under the agenda item of “India-Pakistan Question”, saying a member state could not change the agenda unilaterally.

The agenda is set in accordance with the established rules and procedures and can be changed only by a consensus decision of the 15-member Council, it was pointed out.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 04 (APP): The United Nations top envoy in Afghanistan has told the UN Security Council that formal negotiations between Afghan government representatives and the Taliban will take place in “the coming days, not the coming weeks,” and lauded the role of Pakistan and some other countries in setting the stage for the peace process.