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Trump defenders take the impeachment stage to make his case

11:44 pm February 12, 2021

Washington: After a prosecution case rooted in emotive, violent images from the Capitol siege, Donald Trump’s impeachment trial shifts on Friday to defense lawyers prepared to make a fundamental concession: The violence was every bit as traumatic, unacceptable and illegal as Democrats say. But, they will say, Trump did not order it. Acknowledging the horrors of the […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Lawyer who defended Trump accustomed to political disaster

4:50 pm February 12, 2021

Washington: Bruce L Castor Jr answered his cellphone, but he had no time to talk. “I’m 12 minutes from prime time,” he said, before heading to the well of the US Senate to defend his client, Donald Trump, as one of two defence lawyers in the ex-president’s second impeachment trial. It may have marked the high point for […]

Democrats pushing Biden’s COVID-19 bill through House panels

3:22 pm February 12, 2021

Washington : Democrats pushed half of President Joe Biden’s USD 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan through a House committee Thursday, advancing USD 1,400 payments for millions of Americans and other initiatives that Republicans call too costly, economically damaging and brazenly partisan. The Ways and Means Committee approved its USD 940 billion chunk of Biden’s proposal on a 25-18 party-line vote, highlighting a frenzied […]

Biden conveys to Xi concerns over China’s unfair economic practices, assertive actions

11:37 pm February 11, 2021

Washington: US President Joe Biden has expressed his ”fundamental concerns” about China‘s coercive and unfair economic practices, its crackdown in Hong Kong, human rights abuses in Xinjiang and increasingly assertive actions in the region, as he spoke with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time since taking office. The phone call between the two leaders came hours after the Pentagon announced a task force […]

5 killed in massive crash on icy Texas interstate

11:17 pm February 11, 2021

Fort Worth : Police say five people were killed Thursday in a massive crash involving 75 to 100 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate. Fort Worth police say the number of injured is still unknown as they are still at working the accident. A winter storm is dropping freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the US First responders […]