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Nikki Haley and top Republican leaders call for US boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics in China

America is not a racist country, asserts Indian-American politician Nikki Haley

6:45 pm August 25, 2020

Washington: Describing herself as a proud daughter of Indian immigrants who wore a turban and a saree, top Republican politician Nikki Haley has narrated her story to the American voters, urging them to strongly reject the Democratic Party’s “fashionable” statement that “America is racist.” The 48-year-old former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Haley is the only Indian-American listed so far to be speaking […]

Joe Biden officially accepts Democratic presidential nomination

11:15 am August 21, 2020

Washington: Joe Biden has officially accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, urging the American voters to come together to overcome a “season of darkness” that has cloaked the US for “much too long”. Biden, 77, was introduced by a video that went through the former vice president’s life, and career, and highlighted his role as a father, […]

Kamala Harris scripts history as she accepts Democratic Party’s nomination for US vice-president

8:24 pm August 20, 2020

Washington: Kamala Harris, who scripted history in US politics as she became the first Indian-American and Black woman to get a major party’s vice presidential nomination, has assailed President Donald Trump’s “failure of leadership” that has cost “lives and livelihoods.” Introducing herself as the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants at the virtual Democratic National Convention on […]

Trump denies calling US war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'

US will collapse if Biden is elected president, says Trump

3:03 pm August 14, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump has said that the US would collapse and become the world’s laughing stock if the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee Joe Biden wins the November 3 presidential elections. Trump said Biden’s proposed policies were not good for the country. “Today, we saw Joe Biden continue to politicise a pandemic and to show his appalling lack of […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Despite virus threat, Black voters wary of voting by mail

5:02 pm August 2, 2020

Detroit: Despite fears that the coronavirus pandemic will worsen, Victor Gibson said he’s not planning to take advantage of Michigan’s expanded vote-by-mail system when he casts his ballot in November. The retired teacher from Detroit just isn’t sure he can trust it. Many Black Americans share similar concerns and are planning to vote in person on Election Day, even […]