NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are seen onstage ahead of President Donald Trump's acceptance speech for the Republican Party nomination for reelectionon the South Lawn of the White House, Aug. 27, 2020. - Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
False and misleading election-related claims, already running rampant on social media in the wake of this year's race,...
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
A Wisconsin National Guard member helps test Milwaukee residents for the virus at a drive-up test center on Tuesday. - Scott Olson/Getty Images
More than 3 million people in the United States have active coronavirus infections and are potentially contagious, according to a new estimate from infectious-disease experts tracking the pandemic. That number is significantly larger than...
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
FILE - In this Sept.14, 2020, file photo released by India Government Press Information Bureau, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media as he arrives at the Parliament in New Delhi, India. Modi held his first phone conversation with U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, and they agreed to work closely to further advance the Indo-U.S. comprehensive global...
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) puts on a mask Tuesday as he arrives at a committee hearing on the 2020 election. - Bill Clark/Pool/Reuters
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) started off the day by saying he had talked with the secretaries of state in Arizona and Nevada, in addition to the conversation he had acknowledged earlier with Georgia’s...
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
CISA Director Christopher Krebs testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
President Trump on Tuesday fired a top Department of Homeland Security official who led the agency’s efforts to help secure the election and was vocal about tamping down unfounded claims of ballot fraud.
In a tweet, Trump fired Christopher Krebs, who headed the Cybersecurity and...
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
President Donald Trump's order of a further withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq is the latest foreign policy move on a growing list in his final weeks in office that are meant to limit President-elect Joe Biden's options before he takes office in January.
The White House has directed newly installed acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller...
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Hurricane Iota at Category 5 strength Monday. (RAMMB/CIRA)
When Atlantic Hurricane Season 2020 shifted into overdrive in September and forced the National Hurricane Center to turn to the Greek alphabet for naming, meteorologists expressed concerns. Tradition had it that storms whose impact was “particularly deadly or costly” would have their names retired and replaced. But the World...
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
A television screen with an image of President-elect Joe Biden is seen through a window at the White House on Tuesday. - Jabin Botsford/TWP
The very last day that President Trump will be able to pretend he won a second term in office will be Dec. 11. That’s when California has to certify its election results, formalizing President-elect...
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Screenshot Cindy McCain
Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), accused the Trump administration in a new interview of damaging America's reputation worldwide and called President Trump "someone who I don't believe really understands what it means to serve."
McCain told the Washington Post that, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, she struggled to defend the...
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Bollywood Actor Sonu Sood.
Another feather to Sonu Sood's hat! The Happy New Year actor has been appointed the State Icon of Punjab by the Election Commission Of India (ECI). Punjab Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S Karuna Raju, in a statement on Monday, said that his office had sent a proposal to the ECI regarding Sonu Sood's appointment...
