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Biden likely to break barriers, pick woman to lead Pentagon

8:59 pm November 14, 2020

Washington: President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the department and the presidential Cabinet. Michele Flournoy, a politically moderate Pentagon veteran, is regarded by US officials and political insiders as a top choice […]

German governor apologizes for 'little Merkel' comment

Merkel: US, Germany must stand together on climate change

11:42 pm November 9, 2020

Berlin: The US and Germany must stand “side by side” in handling the coronavirus pandemic, fighting global warming and terrorism, and in working for “an open global economy and free trade,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday. President-elect Joe Biden brings decades of experience in domestic and foreign policy to the job, and “he knows Germany and Europe well,” Merkel said in her […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump, who never admits defeat, mulls how to keep up fight

1:12 pm November 9, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump never admits defeat. But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don’t and get evicted anyway. After nearly four tortured days of counting yielded a victory for Biden, Trump was still insisting the race […]

Biden shores up fragile ‘blue wall’ in industrial north

10:53 pm November 8, 2020

Washington: Joe Biden shored up the Democrats’ “blue wall,” — more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — to rebuild the party’s path back to the White House. And while The Associated Press had called all three states and their combined 46 Electoral College votes for Biden, the Democrat’s relatively narrow margins there reflect the […]

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

Trump rages at ‘bad things’ in counting rooms, claims he ‘won this election by a lot’

11:50 pm November 7, 2020

Washington: Donald Trump on Saturday declared himself as the winner of the November 3 presidential election, even as major American media outlets projected his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, as next president of the United States. “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” tweeted Trump as major American media outlets declared that he has lost the […]