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Mexico tops 35,000 deaths, 4th highest toll

4:34 pm July 13, 2020

Mexico City: Mexican officials say the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths has passed 35,000, making it the country with the fourth highest total. A count by Johns Hopkins University has only the United States, Brazil and Britain with more confirmed deaths from the new coronavirus. Sunday’s rise to 35,006 confirmed deaths moved Mexico, a country […]

Pelosi likely speaker again, but might require high-wire act

Reopening schools presents biggest risk for spread of COVID-19: Pelosi

10:51 pm July 12, 2020

Washington: Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi on Sunday opposed the Trump administration’s move to reopen schools and other educational institutions amid the coronavirus crisis, warning that going back to classes presents the biggest risk for the spread of the disease. Pelosi’s comments came days after President Donald Trump said that he is going to put […]

Trump's counter to Democratic convention? Swing state trips

Trump threatens to cut federal aid if schools don’t reopen

11:53 pm July 8, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to withhold federal funding if schools don’t reopen in the fall, and he lashed out at federal health officials over school reopening guidelines that he says are impractical and expensive. Taking to Twitter to voice his frustration, Trump argued that countries including Germany, Denmark and Norway have reopened schools “with no problems.” The Republican president also repeated […]

US says foreign students must leave if classes go fully online; Indians to be hit badly

7:32 pm July 7, 2020

Washington DC: In a move that will adversely impact hundreds of thousands of Indian students, the US immigration authority has announced that foreign students will have to leave the country or risk deportation if their universities switch to online-only classes in this fall semester due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in […]

MP records 1,357 new coronavirus cases, ten deaths

US dips under 50,000 new coronavirus cases

4:20 pm July 5, 2020

Baltimore: The United States has dipped under 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time in four days, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, but experts fear celebrations for the July 4th Independence Day weekend will act like rocket fuel for the nation’s surging outbreak. Johns Hopkins counted 45,300 new coronavirus infections in the U.S. on […]