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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

For pandemic jobless, the only real certainty is uncertainty

8:40 pm August 9, 2020

Chicago: For three decades, Kelly Flint flourished as a corporate travel agent, sending everyone from business titans to oil riggers around the planet. Then came the worst pandemic in a century, leaving her jobless and marooned in an uncertain economy. Furloughed since March, Flint has dipped into her retirement account to pay her bills, frustrated that her USD 600 […]

Thousands without heat, water after tornadoes kill dozens

US lifts travel advisory; urge citizens not to visit India, China

2:19 pm August 7, 2020

Washington: The US has lifted the highest level of its global health travel advisory for Americans due to the coronavirus pandemic and restored the previous country-specific system without changing the status of over 50 countries, including that of India and China. The US state department issued the Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory — the […]

US orders China to close consulate in Houston to ‘protect American intellectual property’

9:50 pm July 22, 2020

Beijing: The United States said Wednesday that it has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston “to protect American intellectual property” and the private information of Americans. China strongly condemned the move, the latest in a series of steps by the Trump administration as it ratchets up pressure on the world’s second-largest economy over […]

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

Trump lags Biden on people of colour in top campaign ranks

11:49 pm July 11, 2020

Washington: Amid a summer of racial unrest and calls for more diversity in leadership, President Donald Trump lags Democratic rival Joe Biden in the percentage of people of colour on their campaign staffs, according to data the campaigns provided to The Associated Press. Twenty-five percent of the Republican president’s senior staff are nonwhite, compared to 36 per cent of Biden’s senior […]

Pandemic, racism compound worries about Black suicide rate

8:14 pm July 11, 2020

Chicago: Jasmin Pierre was 18 when she tried to end her life, overdosing on whatever pills she could find. Diagnosed with depression and anxiety, she survived two more attempts at suicide, which felt like the only way to stop her pain. Years of therapy brought progress, but the 31-year-old Black woman’s journey is now complicated […]