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Supreme Court formally rejects Trump election challenge cases

Religion and the death penalty collide at the Supreme Court

5:13 pm February 13, 2021

Washington : The Supreme Court is sending a message to states that want to continue to carry out the death penalty: Inmates must be allowed to have a spiritual adviser by their side as they are executed. The high court around midnight Thursday declined to let Alabama proceed with the lethal injection of Willie B. Smith III. Smith had objected to […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Trump defenders take the impeachment stage to make his case

11:44 pm February 12, 2021

Washington: After a prosecution case rooted in emotive, violent images from the Capitol siege, Donald Trump’s impeachment trial shifts on Friday to defense lawyers prepared to make a fundamental concession: The violence was every bit as traumatic, unacceptable and illegal as Democrats say. But, they will say, Trump did not order it. Acknowledging the horrors of the […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Lawyer who defended Trump accustomed to political disaster

4:50 pm February 12, 2021

Washington: Bruce L Castor Jr answered his cellphone, but he had no time to talk. “I’m 12 minutes from prime time,” he said, before heading to the well of the US Senate to defend his client, Donald Trump, as one of two defence lawyers in the ex-president’s second impeachment trial. It may have marked the high point for […]

Democrats pushing Biden’s COVID-19 bill through House panels

3:22 pm February 12, 2021

Washington : Democrats pushed half of President Joe Biden’s USD 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan through a House committee Thursday, advancing USD 1,400 payments for millions of Americans and other initiatives that Republicans call too costly, economically damaging and brazenly partisan. The Ways and Means Committee approved its USD 940 billion chunk of Biden’s proposal on a 25-18 party-line vote, highlighting a frenzied […]

5 killed in massive crash on icy Texas interstate

11:17 pm February 11, 2021

Fort Worth : Police say five people were killed Thursday in a massive crash involving 75 to 100 vehicles on an icy Texas interstate. Fort Worth police say the number of injured is still unknown as they are still at working the accident. A winter storm is dropping freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the US First responders […]