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What Biden”s Cabinet picks say about how he plans to govern

9:25 pm January 10, 2021

Washington: Joe Biden promised that his presidency would mean a return to normalcy. His Cabinet picks help demonstrate how he plans to deliver. The president-elect announced his final nominees this past week, completing a diverse team of two dozen people. He noted Friday that this will be the “first Cabinet ever” to reach gender parity and include a majority of people […]

‘Clear the Capitol,’ Mike Pence pleaded, timeline of riot shows

Whither democracy? Trump puts democracy at peril

6:32 pm January 10, 2021

Aditya Vikram Singh/New Delhi: The recent shootout at Capitol Hill in Washington DC by angry supporters of the outgoing US President Donald Trump, that claimed four lives including a woman who was an American Air Force veteran, is not just shell-shocking but has also confounded the whole world, particularly the democracies across the globe, and […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Cohen seeks to dismantle Trump legacy, one podcast at a time

8:34 pm January 9, 2021

New York : The rehabilitation of Michael Cohen has reached a surreal new stage: Quizzing the actor Ben Stiller about his approach to impersonating him on “Saturday Night Live.” Since September, President Donald Trump‘s former lawyer and fixer has been producing a podcast from the Park Avenue apartment where he is serving the remainder of his prison sentence for lying […]

Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts to be blocked until inauguration, says Zuckerberg

11:53 pm January 7, 2021

Washington: In an unprecedented move, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s accounts on its popular social media platforms – Facebook and Instagram – would remain suspended until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on January 20. Announcing the decision, Zuckerberg said the risk of allowing President Trump to continue to use the platform during this period is ”simply too great.” Trump’s account will be […]

Biden picks Indian-American Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general

9:17 pm January 7, 2021

Washington : US President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday nominated Indian American Vanita Gupta to be the associate attorney general and roped in Judge Merrick Garland for the position of attorney general. He also announced the nominations of Lisa Monaco as deputy attorney general and Kristen Clarke for assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division. ”Our first-rate nominees to […]