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The U.S. reckoning on race, seen through other nations’ eyes

11:43 pm September 27, 2020

Washington: It’s not only in the United States where protests against racial injustice are part of the national conversation. A handful of America’s critics have taken note too, using recent months’ demonstrations and graphic images of police violence to denounce the country at the United Nations’ gathering of world leaders this year. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani invoked the killing of George […]

Harris’ mostly virtual campaign to get Wisconsin road test

8:34 pm September 5, 2020

Sacramento: Kamala Harris told a friendly crowd of Hollywood donors on Thursday they’d be surprised by how many states she’s visiting daily, if only virtually. Earlier in the week, she’d campaigned before supporters in Minnesota, California and Connecticut, and she was greeting Missouri donors next. Harris hasn’t been on a plane in more than a month. Three weeks after joining Joe Biden as […]

Supreme Court formally rejects Trump election challenge cases

Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling

10:48 pm June 30, 2020

Washington DC: The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it easier for religious schools to obtain public funds, upholding a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling. The court’s 5-4 ruling, with conservatives in the majority, came in a dispute over a Montana scholarship program for private K-12 education that also makes donors eligible for up to $150 […]

Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

Trump becomes Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee

10:24 am March 18, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump has become the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee after his home state of Florida awarded him with enough numbers to cross the pledged delegate threshold. As per the national delegate count, Trump on Tuesday had 1,330 pledged delegates in his kitty. Corona outbreak: UP extends ‘shutdown’ till April 2 A […]

Police: 2 dead, 15 hurt in shooting outside Kansas City bar

9:06 pm January 20, 2020

Kansas City: An armed security guard shot and killed a man suspected of fatally shooting a woman and injuring 15 more people outside a bar in Kansas City, Missouri, police said Monday. A motive for the attack shortly before midnight Sunday outside 9ine Ultra Lounge was not immediately clear. Kansas City Police Capt. David Jackson […]