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Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Supreme Court ends Trump emoluments lawsuits

10:01 pm January 25, 2021

Washington: The Supreme Court on Monday brought an end to lawsuits over whether Donald Trump illegally profited off his presidency. The justices threw out Trump’s challenge to lower court rulings that had allowed lawsuits to go forward alleging that he violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause by accepting payments from foreign and domestic officials who stay […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

US passes 25 million confirmed cases of COVID-19

11:46 pm January 24, 2021

New York: The United States has surpassed 25 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The new milestone, reported Sunday by Johns Hopkins University, is a grim reminder of the coronavirus’ wide reach in the U.S., which has seen far more confirmed cases and deaths than any other country in the world. The U.S. accounts for roughly […]

Fauci says vaccine goal would cover 67 million

11:41 pm January 24, 2021

Washington: Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that President Joe Biden’s goal of administering 100 million vaccinations in the first 100 days actually means about 67 million Americans should be protected from COVID-19 during that time. Fauci, the government’s top infectious diseases expert, said the president’s goal refers to 100 million shots, not people. Current vaccines require two shots. […]

Citizenship data is latest rollback of Trump census efforts

11:15 pm January 23, 2021

Washington: The US Census Bureau is suspending efforts to create neighborhood-level statistics on the citizenship of residents, using 2020 census data, in the latest rollback of Trump administration census-related initiatives that critics feared would be used to favor Republicans and whites during the drawing of state and local districts. As part of an order President Joe Biden signed Wednesday on the 2020 census, […]

In a first for Spain, Jesuits admit to decades of sex abuse

11:41 pm January 22, 2021

Madrid: The first comprehensive internal inquiry on sex abuse allegations by a religious order in Spain has identified 81 children and 37 adult victims by 96 Jesuits since the late 1920s, a much higher number than the cases that had so far been publicly known. Associations of victims are welcoming the disclosure, but they see it falling short since […]