Mueller castigates Trump’s decision to commute Roger Stone’s sentence – live

US sports are beginning to resume, but not without a few problems along the way. Major League Soccer is hosting a month-long tournament in Florida, a hotspot for Covid-19 at the moment. The tournament is taking place at Disney World, where the NBA expects to resume its season at the end of the month.

On Sunday, a match between DC United and Toronto FC was postponed after one player rested positive for Covid-19. Two teams, FC Dallas and Nashville, have already withdrawn after positive tests.

“The results of yesterday’s tests for DC United and Toronto FC produced an initial unconfirmed positive Covid-19 case for one player and an inconclusive test for another player. Because of the arrival time of the clubs in Orlando, the league’s protocol called for retesting both teams this morning and to await the results of those tests prior to playing the match,” the league said in a statement.

Major League baseball is due to restart on 23 July, while the NFL is scheduled to start at the beginning of September.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats will take legislative action in the wake of Donald Trump’s decision to commute the jail sentence of his former campaign adviser, Roger Stone.

Calling Trump’s decision “a threat to our national security,” Pelosi told CNN on Sunday that House Democrats aim to restrict the president’s powers of clemency.

Mitt Romney and Robert Mueller are among the many figures to have voiced concern over Trump’s commutation of the sentence.

Good morning. There are plenty of news lines around today as reaction continues after Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of his former campaign adviser, Roger Stone. The president himself was seen on Saturday wearing a mask in public for the first time during the pandemic.

That decision came as records are set for coronavirus cases across the US, particularly in the south and southwest of the country.