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.

Collins votes against Barrett, heads home to save Senate job

12:01 pm October 28, 2020

Portland: When Republican Senator Susan Collins had to vote on a Supreme Court justice in 2018, she deliberated under the spotlight for weeks, building suspense that ended with a dramatic floor speech. When she announced her support for President Donald Trump’s nominee, she triggered an onslaught of Democratic anger. On Monday, Collins cast her vote against Trump’s pick without any speech and quickly […]

3 social media CEOs face grilling by GOP senators on bias

11:43 am October 28, 2020

Washington: The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are facing a grilling by Republican senators making unfounded allegations that the tech giants show anti-conservative bias. The Senate Commerce Committee has summoned Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai to testify for a hearing Wednesday. The executives agreed to appear remotely after […]

US company bribed Rs 10 lakh to Indian official for license approval: Department of Justice

11:34 am October 28, 2020

Washington: An American spirit maker has agreed to pay USD 19.5 million to settle a bribery probe in the US after the Department of Justice alleged that it paid a bribe of Rs 10 lakh to a senior Indian government official for the approval of a license to market and sell its “ready-to-drink” products in India. According to its […]

Trump slams media for ‘blocking’ alleged graft cases against Biden

10:48 am October 28, 2020

Milwaukee: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the mainstream media and big tech companies for blocking the alleged corruption cases against his opponent Democratic challenger Joe Biden. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. I think it’s a very sad time and it’ll go down as a very sad era for […]

Trump jealous of COVID’s media coverage: Obama

10:44 am October 28, 2020

Milwaukee: President Donald Trump has turned jealous of COVID-19 media coverage, said former US president Barack Obama in his matter-of-factly speaking style Tuesday, accusing his successor of converting the White House into a “hot zone”. “He’s jealous of COVID’s media coverage!” remarked Obama at a drive-in election rally in Orlando city of Florida, one of […]