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With virus surge, US to keep travel restrictions for now

Biden surveys Texas weather damage, encourages virus shots

9:04 am February 27, 2021

Houston: President Joe Biden heard firsthand from Texans clobbered by this month’s brutal winter weather on Friday and pledged to stick with them “for the long haul” as he made his first trip to a major disaster area since he took office. Biden was briefed by emergency officials and thanked workers for doing “God’s work.” He promised the federal […]

NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars, will search for signs of life

2:01 pm February 19, 2021

Washington: After a nearly seven month journey through space, Perseverance — the largest and the most advanced rover NASA has ever sent to another world — successfully touched down on the surface of Mars on Friday in a nail-biting landing that marks its first step in the search for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. Packed […]

US Coast Guard searching for 6 boaters off the Florida coast

11:24 pm February 13, 2021

Fort Pierce: The US Coast Guard continued its search for six people Saturday, three days after their boat apparently capsized off Florida‘s Atlantic coast. The search began Friday morning when a boater rescued a Jamaican national who said six others were with him when their 18-foot vessel overturned on Wednesday 23 miles offshore from Fort Pierce. They were en route from Bimini, Bahamas, […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Trump defenders take the impeachment stage to make his case

11:44 pm February 12, 2021

Washington: After a prosecution case rooted in emotive, violent images from the Capitol siege, Donald Trump’s impeachment trial shifts on Friday to defense lawyers prepared to make a fundamental concession: The violence was every bit as traumatic, unacceptable and illegal as Democrats say. But, they will say, Trump did not order it. Acknowledging the horrors of the […]

How a leading anti-Trump group ignored a crisis in its ranks

6:37 pm February 11, 2021

Washington: Last June, the Lincoln Project was on a high. Led by several prominent former Republican consultants, its slickly produced ads attacking President Donald Trump made it perhaps the best known of the so-called Never Trump organisations. The group tried to claim a higher moral ground in an effort to purge Trump from the GOP. Money flowed in by the tens of millions […]