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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign reboot is getting a reboot.

He will take baby steps back out onto the road Friday after a multiweek hiatus caused by a nationwide surge in coronavirus cases and after his planned comeback in Oklahoma turned into a debacle.

Trump, trailing in the polls, is eager to signal that normal life can resume despite a rampaging virus that has killed more than 130,000 Americans. He’ll hold his first in-person fundraiser in a month on Friday in Florida and then a rally on Saturday night in New Hampshire.

(AP) --- Political pressure from the White House and a series of “crazy in the middle of the night” texts, emails and phone calls caused top federal weather officials to wrongly admonish a weather office for a tweet that contradicted President Donald Trump about Hurricane Dorian in 2019, an inspector general report found.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was returned to federal prison Thursday, after balking at certain conditions of the home confinement he was granted because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Records obtained by The Associated Press said Cohen was ordered into custody after he “failed to agree to the terms of Federal Location Monitoring” in Manhattan.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The death of a Black man found hanging from a tree in a Southern California city park last month was ruled a suicide Thursday following a police investigation prompted by outrage from the family who said authorities initially were too quick to rule out the possibility he was lynched.

DUNMORE, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden turned his campaign against President Donald Trump toward the economy Thursday, introducing a New Deal-like economic agenda while drawing a sharp contrast with a billionaire incumbent he said has abandoned working-class Americans amid cascading crises.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting President Donald Trump’s complaints that he’s being harassed, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a New York prosecutor’s demands for the billionaire president’s tax records. But in good political news for Trump, his taxes and other financial records almost certainly will be kept out of the public eye at least until after the November election.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 09 (APP): The annual mean global temperature is likely to be at least 1.8° Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900) in each of the coming five years (2020-2024) and there is a 20% chance that it will exceed 2.7°F in at least one year, according to a new climate prediction issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations’ specialized agency.

WASHINGTON, July 9. /TASS/: The United States and Russia are not enemies and cannot afford not talking to each other, Russia’s Ambassador to US Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday.

"It is very difficult to talk about Russia-U.S. relations. Too many contradictions have accumulated," he said during a video conference, organized by the Washington-based Center for the National Interest. "There is an ongoing debate on who is more at fault for their deplorable current state. There are contrasting views on who should take the first step towards the other side."

WASHINGTON/NAIROBI, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US government formally launched talks with Kenya aimed at setting up a free trade agreement that could form the basis for deals with other African nations.

“Kenya is a recognized leader across the continent, an important strategic partner of the United States, and there is enormous potential for us to deepen our economic and commercial ties,” said United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

WASHINGTON, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he saw progress in reopening travel with the European Union shut by the coronavirus pandemic but offered no timeline.

The European Union declined to include the United States, where COVID-19 cases are rising, in a safe list of nations whose nationals can visit the bloc.

Pompeo said the United States and European Union were discussing “procedures and protocols” to put in place to resume travel.