NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA COLUMN AT DEMOCRATIC ACCENT SIGNIFIES THE NEWS STORIES, ARTICLES AND OPINION FROM AMERICAN CONTINENT. IT MOSTLY COMPRISES THE LATEST GEOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND OTHER PROMINENT NATIONS IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.

US extends sole remaining nuclear arms treaty with Russia

10:10 pm February 3, 2021

Washington: The United States joined Russia on Wednesday in extending the two countries’ last remaining treaty limiting their stockpiles of nuclear weapons, two days before the pact was set to expire. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement the U.S. would use the five years of the New START treaty’s renewal to pursue limits on all of Russia’s nuclear weapons. That’s after the Trump administration […]

Biden, Yellen say GOP virus aid too small, Democrats push on

8:55 pm February 3, 2021

Washington: President Joe Biden panned a Republican alternative to his $1.9 trillion COVID rescue plan as insufficient as Senate Democrats pushed ahead, voting to launch a process that could approve his sweeping rescue package on their own, if Republicans refuse to support it. Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen joined the Democratic senators for a private virtual meeting Tuesday, both declaring the […]

Dozen state police charged in the massacre of 19 in Mexico

3:27 pm February 3, 2021

Ciudadvictoria: A dozen state police officers have been arrested for allegedly killing 19 people, including Guatemalan migrants, whose bodies were found shot and burned near the U.S. border late in January, Mexican authorities announced Tuesday. Tamaulipas state Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica said all 12 officers were in custody and face charges of homicide, abuse of authority […]

Justice Dept drops Yale admissions discrimination lawsuit

Police: FBI agents involved in a shooting in South Florida

9:52 pm February 2, 2021

Sunrise: Police in South Florida have swarmed a neighborhood following a Tuesday morning shooting involving FBI agents. Multiple law enforcement agencies have gathered near the scene of the shooting in Sunrise, Florida. Another large contingent of law enforcement officers gathered outside a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, where shooting victims were taken, according to television video. The Sunrise Police Department tweeted about […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Police: 6 killed at Oklahoma home, person taken into custody

9:47 pm February 2, 2021

Muskogee: Six people were killed early Tuesday in Oklahoma, including five children, and a person with a gun was taken into custody, police said. Officers responded about 1:30 a.m. to a call of multiple people shot at a home in Muskogee, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of Tulsa, police said in a press release. Once there, officers […]