Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered “total declassification” of all the documents related to the alleged interference of Russia in the 2016 presidential elections, which he described as a hoax. “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the […]
Read MoreWashington: Pushing for new roads to reelection, President Donald Trump is going on the offence this weekend in Nevada, which hasn’t supported a Republican presidential candidate since 2004. Trump is confronting local authorities by holding public events Saturday and Sunday after state officials blocked his initial plans for rallies in Reno and Las Vegas because they would have violated coronavirus health guidelines. […]
Read MoreWashington: Mike Pompeo‘s planned speech to the Republican National Convention this week has sparked a fury of criticism for breaking decades of precedent for sitting secretaries of state avoiding overt partisan political activity. Despite State Department assurances that Pompeo will be speaking in his personal capacity and won’t violate prohibitions on federal employees participating in public political events on […]
Read MoreWashington: 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 […]
Read MoreWashington: In October 1960, a young James Clyburn gathered with other students and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr as frustrations mounted over civil rights protests in what was becoming a tumultuous, dangerous year. John Lewis was there. Marion Barry, too. The one-hour meeting at Atlanta’s Morehouse College stretched to 4 am Clyburn, who said he had not “bought into nonviolence,” emerged to view […]
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