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COVID conspiracy shows vast reach of Chinese disinformation

12:18 pm February 15, 2021

Brussels: It took just three months for the rumor that COVID-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to spread from the fringes of the Chinese internet and take root in millions of people’s minds. By March 2020, belief that the virus had been human-made and possibly weaponized was widespread, multiple surveys indicated. The Pew Research Center found, for […]

Wisconsin presidential recount in 4th day, with few changes

Florida GOP fights to animate Trump’s base without president

12:20 pm October 10, 2020

Panama City: Nearly 300 Republicans packed shoulder-to-shoulder maskless and sweating inside a Holiday Inn conference room this week in the heart of the Florida Panhandle to see their party’s biggest political stars not named President Donald Trump. With Trump grounded in Washington, they chanted and cheered as the governor, the self-described “Trumpiest” Florida congressman and the president’s eldest son […]

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

Indian-American Nikki Haley among star speakers on first day of Republican convention

11:52 pm August 23, 2020

Washington: Popular Indian-American Republican politician and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, will be among the star speakers on the first day of the Republican National Convention beginning on Monday, according to a list released by the Trump campaign on Sunday. The four-day RNC will formally nominate 77-year-old incumbent President Donald Trump as the party’s candidate for […]

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 […]

Ousted ambassador felt ‘big threat;’ Trump assails her anew

11:28 pm November 15, 2019

Washington: Former US Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch provided chilling detail in Trump impeachment hearings Friday of the big threat she felt upon suddenly being ousted from her post and learning President Donald Trump had denounced her in his July phone call with Ukraine’s president. In that call, Trump assailed her as bad news and said she was […]