North Carolina

Laura cleanup begins; weeks without power or water ahead

10:28 pm August 29, 2020

Lake Charles: The destructive storm surge has receded, and the clean up has begun from Hurricane Laura, but officials along this shattered stretch of Louisiana coast are warning returning residents they will face weeks without power or water amid the hot, stifling days of late summer. The U.S. toll from the Category 4 hurricane stood at 14 deaths, […]

Trump denies calling US war dead 'losers,' 'suckers'

Trump accepts Republican nomination, calls Biden ‘destroyer of American greatness’

7:16 pm August 28, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump castigated his Democratic rival Joe Biden as “the destroyer of American greatness” and assured voters that he will end the raging coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the economy and quell the civil unrest, as he accepted the Republican nomination for a second term in office. “This election will decide whether we save the American dream” or […]

Republican party re-nominates Trump as presidential candidate and Pence as his running mate

11:11 pm August 24, 2020

Washington: The Republican National Convention on Monday formally re-nominated President Donald Trump as the party’s presidential candidate for the November 3 election. Trump, 74, who faces a formidable challenge from former Democratic vice president Joe Biden, 77, is scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech from the South Lawn of the White House on August 27. The once in four-year GOP (Grand Old […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

How starving public health fuelled a COVID fire in Florida

8:52 pm August 23, 2020

Jacksonville: On a sweltering July morning, Rose Wilson struggled to breathe as she sat in her bed, the light from her computer illuminating her face and the oxygen tubes in her nose. Wilson, a retiree who worked as a public health department nurse supervisor in Duval County for 35 years, had just been diagnosed with COVID-19-induced pneumonia. She had […]

Biden ally Clyburn brings civil rights legacy to DNC

3:02 pm August 17, 2020

Washington: 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 […]