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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Census, like Post Office, politicised in election year

7:18 pm August 29, 2020

Orlando: The postal service isn’t the only staid federal agency to be drawn into a political battle in 2020. Unlike the department charged with delivering mail, however, the U.S. Census Bureau has been here before. It has found itself targeted by politicians repeatedly since it conducted its first nationwide head count in 1790. The reason […]

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 […]

Melania Trump taking Rose Garden turn to pitch her husband

1:49 pm August 25, 2020

Washington: When Melania Trump addresses the Republican convention from the White House, it will be the most that many Americans have seen of their first lady since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic that has come to define her husband’s administration. Out of the public view for much of the year, Mrs Trump will step into the spotlight Tuesday night to argue […]

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

We just have to make this ‘China virus’ go away and it’s happening: Trump

11:13 am August 25, 2020

Washington: Americans have to “make this China virus go away” and it is happening, President Donald Trump has said, as he thanked the frontline workers for their incredible efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Trump appeared in a taped Oval Office conversation with a group of frontline workers – doctors, nurses, firemen, policemen, postal workers. This was not the first time […]

Pompeo shattering precedent, sparking fury with RNC speech

11:15 pm August 24, 2020

Washington: 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 […]