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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.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered for Black Lives Matter rallies and marches Saturday night in Portland, Oregon, as often violent nightly demonstrations that have happened for 100 days showed no signs of ceasing.

Molotov cocktails thrown in the street during a march sparked a large fire and prompted police to declare a riot. Video posted online appear to show tear gas being deployed to clear protesters from what police said was an unpermitted demonstration. Several people were seen being detained.

SHAVER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Three fast-spreading California wildfires sent people fleeing Saturday, with one trapping campers at a reservoir in the Sierra National Forest, as a brutal heat wave pushed temperatures into triple digits in many parts of state.

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.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Peter Strzok spent his FBI career hunting Russian and Chinese spies, but after news broke of derogatory text messages he had sent about President Donald Trump, he came to feel like he was the one being hunted.

There were menacing phone calls and messages from strangers, and anxious peeks out window shades before his family would leave the house. FBI security experts advised him of best practices — walk around your car before entering, watch for unfamiliar vehicles in your neighborhood — more commonly associated with mob targets looking to elude detection.

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.”

New York, Sep 5 (PTI) Newly declassified White House tapes disclose former US president Richard Nixon speaking disparagingly about Indians and reveal the bigotry he and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger held that influenced US policy toward India and South Asia under his presidency.

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.