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COVID-19: Obama lashes out at Trump in call with supporters

12:34 pm May 10, 2020

Washington: Former President Barack Obama harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an absolute chaotic disaster during a conversation with ex-members of his administration. Obama also reacted to the Justice Department dropping its criminal case against Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, saying he worried that the basic understanding of […]

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WH blocking Fauci testimony to House panel, spokesman says

12:47 pm May 2, 2020

Washington: A spokesman for a key House panel said Friday that the White House has blocked Dr. Anthony Fauci from testifying next week at a hearing on the coronavirus outbreak. House Appropriations Committee spokesman Evan Hollander said the panel sought Fauci the highly respected director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases as […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

26 million have sought US jobless aid since coronavirus hit

9:55 pm April 23, 2020

Washington: More than 4.4 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as job cuts escalated across an economy that remains all but shut down, the government said Thursday. Roughly 26 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the five weeks since the coronavirus outbreak began forcing millions of employers to […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

‘Little upset with China’ over coronavirus: Trump

3:08 pm March 23, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump has said he is “upset” with China over its late sharing of information on coronavirus. “They should have told us about this,” Trump told reporters at a press conference in the White House on Sunday. “I’m a little upset with China. I’ll be honest with you, because as much as […]

Coronavirus: Indian-American doctors seek total lockdown and self-quarantine of US

11:23 am March 20, 2020

Washington: Concerned over the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus across the US, an influential group of Indian-American doctors has urged the federal and State governments to enforce a total lockdown and self-quarantine of the entire nation to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections. A total of 218 people have died in the US due […]