BREAKING: 'We will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization' and redirecting funds, Pres. Trump says. The announcement followed comments in the Rose Garden highly critical of China.
3:15 p.m.: Trump says US terminating relationship with WHO
In a letter from Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state's Department of Health and Human Services, North Carolina included a number of asks for GOP leaders to"further elaborate on its plans to protect convention participants and the people of Charlotte in accordance with the CDC guidance.
The RNC had initially sent a letter on Thursday to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper outlining some safety protocols, signaling the party's preference to keep the convention in Charlotte after President Donald Trump threatened to pull it. Tributes to lost love ones adorn a fence outside Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery where many victims of COVID-19 are buried, May 28, 2020 in New York.
People wearing face masks as a preventive measure order food at Greys Papaya in Manhattan amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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