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George Floyd Death and Aftermath

Attorney General William P. Barr’s Statement on the Death
of George Floyd and Riots (U.S. Department of Justice)
Boulder Police Chief Maris Herold speaks out on death of
George Floyd, May 31, 2020 (City of Boulder Colorado)
Curfews Give Sweeping Powers to Cops, But Are Often
Flouted,, June 3, 2020 (VOA News)
De Blasio Ends New York Curfew Early, June 7, 2020
(VOA News)
George Floyd's Family Demands Justice, June 3, 2020
(VOA News)
Mayor's Statement Regarding Removal of Confederate
Statues, Lynchburg, Virginia, June 4, 2020)
Nation in Turmoil: The George Floyd Protests,
June 3, 2020 (VOA News)
Protesters Again Gather Near White House Demanding
Police Reform, June 7, 2020 (VOA News)
Trump Withdraws National Guard from Washington,
June 7, 2020 (VOA News)
U.S. Attorney General Defends Clearing Park of Protesters
Near White House, June 1, 2020 (VOA News)
Donald J. Trump, the buy American, Hire American President: A Report, 2020 (White House, Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy)

President Trump in the News

America First Energy Plan (White House)
America First Foreign Policy (White House)
America First Foreign Policy (White House)
Bringing Back Jobs And Growth (White House)
Conspiracy Theorists Burn 5G Towers Claiming Link
to Virus, April 21, 2020 (VOA News)
Donald J. Trump Executive Orders Subjects (National
Archives)
Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates React to US Cutting funds
to World Health Organization, April 15, 2020 (Voice of America)
Military Hospital Ships' Core Staff Report for COVID-19
Duty, March 19, 2020 (VOA News)
Pardons Granted by President Donald Trump
(U.S. Department of Justice)
President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States (White House)
President Trump's Executive Orders (White House)
President Trump’s letter to World Health Organization,
May 18, 2020 (The White House)
Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community
Trump: Talks Regarding June 12 Summit "Going
Very, Very Well," May 26, 2018 (Voice of America News)
Trump Acclaims 500th Day in Office, June 4, 2018
(Voice of America News)
Trump Defends Controversial Photo Opportunity
at Church, June 3, 2020 (VOA News)
Trump Demands NYT Turn Over Anonymous White House
Critic, September 6, 2018 (VOA News)
Trump Hedges on Committing to Peaceful Transfer of Power,
September 23, 2020 (VOA News)
Trump Says He Has the Right to Pardon Himself,
June 4, 2018 (Voice of America News)
Trump to Attend WWI Centenary in Paris, November 9,
2018 (VOA News)
Turkey: State of Emergency Extended Another Three
Months, January 10, 2017 (Global Legal Monitor, Library of Congress)
US Supreme Court Weighs Whether Trump Must Release
Taxes, May 12, 2020 (VOA News)
What's Happening (White House Blog)
Trump, Being Treated for COVID-19, Plans to Attend Second Debate With
Biden, October 6, 2020 (VOA News)
Memorandum from the President’s Physician Issued on: October 6, 2020
(White House)

President Trump: Mueller Report

Mueller Report (Voice of America)
Providing for Consideration of the Concurrent Resolution
(H. Con. Res. 24) expressing the sense of Congress that the report of Special Counsel Mueller should be made available to the public and to Congress.
The Trump Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report, December 3, 2019 (Report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Report)

Trump Administration and COVID-19

The CARES Act Works for All Americans (U.S. Treasury Department)
COVID-19 Disaster Declarations (FEMA)
HHS Awards $15 Million to Support Telehealth Providers During
the COVID-19 Pandemic, May 13, 2020 (HHS.gov)
President Trump Announces New Effort to Unleash
U.S. Supercomputing Resources to Fight COVID-19, March 23, 2020 (Energy.gov)
Remarks by President Trump in a Press Briefing on COVID-19
Testing, May 11, 2020 (White House)
Trump Administration Issues Second Round of Sweeping
Changes to Support U.S. Healthcare System During COVID-19 Pandemic (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
USDA Announces Details of Direct Assistance to Farmers
through the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
White House and U.S. Department of State Coronavirus
(COVID-19) Releases (U.S. Department of State)

President Trump: Immigration Issues

81 Migrant Children Separated From Parents Since June,
December 6, 2018 (VOA News)
450 Miles of Border Wall by Next Year? In Arizona,
it Begins, September 12, 2019 (VOA News)
Addressing the Adequacy of DHS Efforts to Prevent Child Deaths in Custody.
Hearing. Committee on Homeland Security. House. (January 14, 2020
Affording Congress an Opportunity to Address
Family Separation, Executive Order, June 20, 2018 (White House)
Amnesty Accuses US of Rights Violations on Mexico
Border (VOA News)
Family Separation: Mexican Border June 2018
Pardons Granted by President Donald Trump (U.S.
Department of Justice)
Report: White House Seeks New Approach on Family Separations at Border
Immigration Judge Blocks Trump's Health Insurance Rule for Immigrants,
November 2, 2019 (VOA News)
Smugglers Cutting Through Trump's 'Virtually Impenetrable' Border Wall,
November 3, 2019 (VOA News)
Trump Administration to Penalize Green Card Seekers on Public Administration,
August 13, 2019 (VOA News)

New, Revised, Updated Pages and Links added to the Government Publications Research Guide

The 3D Elevation Program—Supporting California’s
Economy (U.S. Geological Survey) ADDITION
The Administration's Decision to Deport Critically Ill
Children and Their Families. Hearing. Committee on Oversight and Reform, House, 116th Congress, 1st Session, May 25, 2017
Afghanistan Poverty Status Update – Progress at Risk
(World Bank)
Afghanistan Poverty Status Update – Progress at Risk
(World Bank)
Anthrax UPDATED AND REVISED
Asylum and "credible fear" issues in U.S. immigration
policy, 2011 (Congressional Research Service) ADDITION
Battle of Little Big Horn, Montana, 1876
Brazil ADDITIONS AND REVISION
Case Studies in Insurgency and Revolutionary
Warfare - Algeria 1954-1962 (U.S. Army Special Operations Command) ADDITION
China Rejects Blame for Coronavirus Pandemic,
May 19, 2020 (VOA News) ADDITION
COVID-19
FBI Behavioral Threat Assessment Center Releases
Lone Offender Terrorism Report (FBI)
Fire and Arson ADDITION
Floods and Flooding REVISION AND ADDITIONS
Forests Face Climate Change Competition,
January 7, 2020 (National Science Foundation) ADDITION
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, 2012 (Congressional
Research Service)
Gangs in schools (National Gang Center)
History of U.S. Banking (ADDITION)
Hong Kong (HKSAR) NEW PAGE
Hong Kong : ten years after the Handover, 2020
(Congressional Research Service)
Iowa Census Information (ADDITION)
Japan's Former Justice Minister, Wife Arrested
on Allegations of Vote-buying, June 18, 2020 (VOA News)
Kim Jong Un's Sister Seen as Likely Successor,
April 27, 2020 (VOA News) ADDITION
Laws on Homosexuality in African Nations, 2014
(Law Library of Congress)
Lone Wolf Terrorism NEW CATEGORY
Mexico (REVISED)
Officials Hopeful Australia is Flattening COVID-19 Curve,
April 6, 2020 (VOA News) NEW
An Overview of U.S. mmigration Laws Regulating
the Admission and Exclusion of Aliens at the Border, June 10, 2019 (CRS Legal Sidebar)
Pardons Granted by President Donald Trump
(U.S. Department of Justice)
The Paris Accord UPDATED
Powers of the Mexican Federal Police with Foreign
Country Comparisons (Law Library of Congress)
President Trump’s letter to World Health Organization,
May 18, 2020 (The White House)
Propane (UPDATED)
Public Health Response to the Initiation and Spread
of Pandemic COVID-19 in the United States, February 24-April 21, 2020 (MMWR, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) NEW ADDITION
Records of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force,
1971 -1977
Selections from Theodore Roosevelt's Diary (Library of Congress)
Serial Laboratory Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Among Incarcerated and Detained Persons in a Correctional and Detention Facility — Louisiana, April–May 2020 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
South Sudan UPDATED
Spain ADDED LINKS AND REVISED
Special Report of Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War,
to the President on the Philippines, January 23, 1908 (U.S. War Department)
Sudan,Government (REVISED)
U.S. Immigration Laws for Aliens Arriving
at the Border, 2019 (Congressional Research Service)

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