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Thousands rally in Virginia’s capital for gun rights

9:13 pm January 20, 2020

Richmond: Gun-rights activists — some making deliberate displays of their military-style rifles — began to descend on Virginia’s capital city Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation. Several thousand activists — mostly white and male, many clothed in camouflage and waving flags with messages of support for President Donald […]

Warren vows to cancel college debt without awaiting Congress

9:14 pm January 14, 2020

WASHINGTON: Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren says she’d order her secretary of education to cancel up to $50,000 in college debt for about 95% of student borrowers on her first day in office, effectively erasing outstanding loans for about 42 million Americans. The Democratic senator from Massachusetts vowed in a proposal released Tuesday to act immediately […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

US: State officials are at the core of 2020 election security

9:23 pm December 26, 2019

SPRINGFIELD: Inside a hotel ballroom near the nation’s capital, a U.S. Army officer with battlefield experience told 120 state and local election officials that they may have more in common with military strategists than they might think. These government officials are on the front lines of a different kind of battlefield — one in which […]

Lanka PM appeals to people to vote peacefully and maintain law & order

8:23 pm November 15, 2019

Colombo: On the eve of Sri Lankan presidential polls, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe urged the people to vote peacefully and maintain law and order to ensure a free and fair election. There are 15.9 million eligible voters who will choose a successor to President Maithripala Sirisina on Saturday. There are a record 35 candidates vying […]

Senior Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings- at center of Trump inquiry- dies at 68

Democrat Cummings, at center of Trump inquiry, dies at 68

8:00 pm October 17, 2019

Washington: Senior Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, who was at the center of the Trump impeachment inquiry, died early Thursday at the age of 68, US media reported. The veteran Baltimore representative passed away at Johns Hopkins Hospital “due to complications concerning longstanding health challenges,” reports said, quoting a statement from his office. As chairman of […]