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Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

After frosty few days, Pence, Trump appear to reach détente

1:31 pm January 12, 2021

Washington: President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence appear to have come to a détente after nearly a week of silence, anger and finger-pointing. The two met Monday evening in the Oval Office and had a “good conversation,” according to a senior administration official. It was their first time speaking since last Wednesday, when Trump incited his supporters to storm […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

Republicans block measure calling for quick removal of Trump: AP report

10:14 pm January 11, 2021

Washington: A House resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke constitutional authority to remove President Donald Trump from office was blocked Monday by Republicans. Here’s the prior report.. As the House prepares for impeachment, President Donald Trump faces a single charge — “incitement of insurrection” — over the deadly riot at the U.S. […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Trump legacy on race shadowed by divisive rhetoric, actions

9:11 pm January 10, 2021

Chicago: President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed in the final months of his presidency — and without a trace of irony — to have done more for Black Americans than anyone with the “possible exception” of Abraham Lincoln. He boasted that the African American unemployment rate dropped to record lows under his watch before the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the economy. Trump heralded his administration’s […]

‘Clear the Capitol,’ Mike Pence pleaded, timeline of riot shows

Whither democracy? Trump puts democracy at peril

6:32 pm January 10, 2021

Aditya Vikram Singh/New Delhi: The recent shootout at Capitol Hill in Washington DC by angry supporters of the outgoing US President Donald Trump, that claimed four lives including a woman who was an American Air Force veteran, is not just shell-shocking but has also confounded the whole world, particularly the democracies across the globe, and […]

Mizoram churches reopen after over 10 months

Senate race thrusts ‘Black America’s church’ into spotlight

11:11 pm January 3, 2021

Atlanta: For decades, the red-bricked Gothic Revival church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached has been a monument to the history of Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the legacy of an activist icon. It took a high-stakes Senate race and a Trump-era cultural debate to thrust Ebenezer Baptist Church into the center of the current […]