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The American government has figured out how the influential spiritual Fethullah Gülen can be expelled. That message NBC News based on four anonymous sources.

The US government has imposed sanctions on seventeen Saudis for their role in the case of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul. Among them are the Saudi consul general in Istanbul, Mohammed al-Otaibi, and the members of a team that are held responsible for killing Khashoggi in the diplomatic mission.

Security advisor Mira Ricardel will have a new position within the US government, after first lady Melania Trump urged her departure earlier this week. Government spokeswoman Sarah Sanders announced that she should leave the White House.

In the trial against President Donald Trump CNN receives support from an unexpected angle. Fox News supports the channel in the legal battle against the White House. CNN wants reporter Jim Acosta to regain access.

Donald Trump has called for to stop recounting the votes cast in Florida for the Senate and a new governor. The American president posted via Twitter of irregularities at the ballot box. He thinks that the Senate seat should go to Rick Scott and that Ron DeSantis should become the new governor of Florida. Scott and DeSantis, like Trump, are members of the Republican party.

The woman who accused former candidate chief judge Brett Kavanaugh for a Senate committee of sexual misconduct is still threatened more than a month later. Also, this Christine Blasey Ford has not yet been able to resume her work at Palo Alto University, reports American media.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, member of the American Supreme Court, resumed her work from her hospital room barely two days after her fall. 'She is joking again,' says her cousin Daniel Stiepleman. She ended up in hospital on Thursday when she broke three ribs at the dive.

In the ongoing battle between Trump and the American media a new point has been reached. Images that were distributed by the White House, with the main role for CNN journalist Jim Acosta, would have been manipulated.

The Provisional Justice Minister Matt Whitaker does not intend to stay aloof from the investigation that special prosecutor Robert Mueller is doing about possible Russian interference in the 2016 American election campaign.

The American chief judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg (85) was admitted to the hospital with three broken ribs. She was injured when she fell in her office, says a spokesperson for the Supreme Court. Ginsburg then went home, but decided to go to the hospital the next morning.

Now that Donald Trump has put his Justice Minister Jeff Sessions aside, the big question is what will happen to the research of former FBI director Robert Mueller. As a special prosecutor, he has far-reaching powers to review the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Democratic politicians are very worried. But the first Republican senators have also spoken.

US President Donald Trump has dismissed Justice Minister Jeff Sessions. Trump announced the dismissal of Sessions via Twitter. The relationship between Sessions and Trump had been difficult for months.

It looks like President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will be working together again for the US presidential election in 2020. At a press conference, Trump asked Pence on Wednesday that he would like to be his' running mate 'again in two years' time.

If the Democrats use their newly acquired majority in the House of Representatives to start all kinds of investigations into Donald Trump and his entourage, the president will not be left unanswered. 'Then we will be forced to consider investigating all leaks of secret information and many other cases from the Senate,' said Trump via Twitter.

A planned meeting between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and North Korean officials will not take place this week. A new date is not yet known.

In the mid-term elections in the US, 38.9 million people voted in advance. This often happened by letter. The ElectProject research institute reported that this number is considerably larger than at the ballot box four years ago. Then there were about 20.5 million voters who voted early.

With the mid-term elections, the Americans can make it clear that 'undermining the democratic institutions and values' must be stopped by the Trump government. The Democratic former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave her compatriots that message via a few messages on Twitter.

President Trump has already voted early by post. And with him a record number of Americans. Everything seems to indicate a big turnout for these congressional elections. In spite of rain along almost the entire east coast, polling stations report great pressure.

The American channels NBC and Fox News have stopped broadcasting a controversial election spot by President Donald Trump and the Republican Party about the migrant caravan in Mexico. The video can no longer be seen on Facebook. The transmitters gave no reason for keeping the commercial and kept it at the actual announcement that it is no longer being shown on the channels.

The American president Donald Trump does not assume that he has a conversation with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin at the end of the week in Paris. 'I'm not sure if we will have a meeting in Paris, probably not,' Trump said in Washington on Monday. 'So far we have not arranged anything.'

The two sons of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have made an appeal to CNN in which they demand that the body of their father be returned. They want to bury the remains in Saudi Arabia. Salah and Abdullah Khashoggi say that their family can not mourn without the body of their father and can not process his death.

Former Donald Trump lawyer says that the current US president was regularly racist before he was elected. Michael Cohen told the magazine Vanity Fair that Trump once told him that 'black people are too stupid to vote.'

The American president Donald Trump has been looking forward to new sanctions with a kind of film poster. 'Sanctions are coming. November 5, 'is on a photo of Trump, which he shared via Twitter.

The assignment for the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi came from someone from 'the highest circles of the Saudi government', but not from King Salman. The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan writes this in an opinion piece for the American newspaper The Washington Post.

Twitter has destroyed more than 10,000 accounts that have been distributing automated messages to discourage US voters from voting in the Congressional Congress this week. The senders did whether the messages came from Democrats.

The Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman described the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the days after his disappearance as a dangerous Islamist, member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He said, according to The Washington Post, in a telephone conversation with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and safety advisor John Bolton before Riyadh admitted that the columnist had died in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

The US wants to send inspectors to North Korea to view nuclear complexes there. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that he would like to discuss this next week during a meeting with his North Korean colleague.

Children born on American territory will no longer automatically receive US citizenship if it is up to President Donald Trump.

The US military sends 5200 troops to the border with Mexico. These include armed soldiers, a general said at a press conference in Washington. He stated that President Donald Trump made it clear that guarding the border is important for national security.

The United States may announce new import duties in December on all Chinese products and services that have sprung up to date. Preparations would be made in case the reconciliation talks between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping about the trade war come to nothing.