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Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump looks west, eyeing new paths to White House

10:47 pm September 12, 2020

Washington: Pushing for new roads to reelection, President Donald Trump is going on the offence this weekend in Nevada, which hasn’t supported a Republican presidential candidate since 2004. Trump is confronting local authorities by holding public events Saturday and Sunday after state officials blocked his initial plans for rallies in Reno and Las Vegas because they would have violated coronavirus health guidelines. […]

US concerned by China's ongoing attempts to 'intimidate' neighbours: White House

Letters reveal public distaste for booze in JFK White House

7:19 pm September 10, 2020

Boston: It was a tempest in a teapot — or, more accurately, a whiskey tumbler. Presidential transitions are always at least a little tricky. Case in point: Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum have found a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK’s embrace of cocktails at White House events. The letters shed new […]

US job postings rise to 6.6 million in July

11:45 pm September 9, 2020

Washington: US employers advertised more jobs but hired fewer workers in July, sending mixed signals about the job market in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The Labour Department said Wednesday that the number of US job postings on the last day of July rose to 6.6 million from 6 million at the end of June. A […]

Bold hopes for virus antibody tests still unfulfilled

9:55 pm September 7, 2020

Washington: At the height of the coronavirus lockdown, President Donald Trump and his top health advisers trumpeted a new test that would help Americans reclaim their lives — one that would tell them if they already had the virus and were protected from getting it again. Their arrival would help “get Americans back to work” by showing those who might have […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Teen charged in Kenosha killings stalls return to Wisconsin

8:51 pm August 28, 2020

Kenosha: A judge agreed Friday to delay for a month a decision on whether a 17-year-old from Illinois should be returned to Wisconsin to face charges accusing him of fatally shooting two protesters and wounding a third during a night of unrest following the weekend police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. The Illinois judge […]