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Trump urges Congress to amend 'wasteful' coronavirus aid bill

President Trump called the $900 billion bipartisan Covid stimulus package "a disgrace.

President Donald Trump has rejected a $900 billion bipartisan Covid stimulus package, calling it "a disgrace". We get the latest from Politico's Daniel Lippman in Washington. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, prosecutors said American retail giant Walmart filled hundreds of thousands of questionable prescriptions, "knowingly" violating vetting rules and fueling the country's opioid crisis. We get the latest from Wall Street Journal Justice Department reporter Sadie Gurman. Exercise bike-maker Peloton has bought a US-based fitness equipment company after customers in the States complained of long waits for their bikes, caused by log jams at ports. Expert on global supply chains Willy Shih, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, explains the move. Also in the show, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Mike Johnson reports on the global chocolate industry, and the plight of some cocoa workers, both children and adults, who have been trafficked across borders in west Africa. US President Donald Trump has issued an order that all future federal buildings must be "beautiful" and preferably built in a classical Greek or Roman style. A reasonable instruction? We ask Robert Ivy, Chief Executive of the American Institute of Architects. Plus, we find out how the pandemic has impacted ticket sales for the world's biggest lottery, El Gordo, which was drawn in Spain on Tuesday.

(Picture: US President Donald Trump. Picture credit: Reuters.)

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Wed 23 Dec 2020 01:06GMT

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