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Trump isn’t the president of Canada

United States President-elect Donald Trump has reiterated his apparent desire to make Canada a 51st American state, sharing a recent social media post about Canadian entrepreneur Kevin O'Leary’s support of the idea.

Juneteenth, recalling end of slavery, marked across US

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, two months after the Confederacy had surrendered. It was about 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Southern states.

Covid cases detected in US earlier than previously reported

These findings were published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. The results expand on findings from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Study that suggested SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was present in the U.S. as far back as December 2019.