North Carolina

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

60 charged in USD 300M phone scam targeting elderly victims

11:26 pm October 28, 2020

Minneapolis: Sixty people have been charged in a widespread magazine telemarketing scam that authorities say netted USD 300 million from more than 150,000 elderly and vulnerable people nationwide, the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota announced Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald called the scam the largest elder fraud scheme in the country. MacDonald said the 60 defendants face […]

Trump aide says ‘we’re not going to control the pandemic’

10:10 pm October 25, 2020

WASHINGTON: The coronavirus has reached into the heart of the White House once more, less than a week before Election Day, as it scorches the nation and the president’s top aide says “we’re not going to control the pandemic.” Officials on Sunday scoffed at the notion of dialing back in-person campaigning despite positive tests from […]

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

Trump tends to his electoral map, Biden prepping for debate

12:47 pm October 21, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump is hopping from one must-win stop on the electoral map to the next in the leadup to a final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory of the 2020 campaign. Democrat Joe Biden has been taking the opposite approach, holing up for debate prep in […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Pandemic overwhelms Trump’s message in critical N. Carolina

2:40 pm September 28, 2020

Winston-Salem: President Donald Trump is fighting to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, howling with unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and warning that violent mobs are infiltrating the suburbs. But on a recent morning along Arbor Street, a peaceful tree-lined road with stately brick Colonials and Tudors near Winston-Salem, the women who are the targets of Trump’s messages […]

Supreme Court formally rejects Trump election challenge cases

Trump to nominate female judge for Supreme Court

12:28 pm September 20, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump is likely to nominate a female candidate to the US Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. “I will be putting forth a nominee next week. I could say most likely it would be a woman. I think I can say that. If […]