OCTOBER 23, 2020
Legendary Indian cricket team captain Kapil Dev, who was admitted to hospital after suffering a heart attack, took to social media to tell fans he is 'on the road to recovery'.
He wrote, "Thank you everyone for all the love and concern. I am overwhelmed with good wishes and well on the road to recovery".
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OCTOBER 23, 2020
Joe Biden did a better job in the final debate on Thursday, according to a CNN Instant Poll of debate watchers. Overall, 53% of voters who watched the debate said that Biden won the matchup, while 39% said that President Donald Trump did.
Viewers once again said that Biden's criticisms of Trump were largely fair (73% said they...
OCTOBER 22, 2020
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump campaign rally in Gastonia, North Carolina. - Reuters/TOM BRENNER
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump and his intelligence chief have pushed for quick declassification of a document disputing the 2017 intelligence community finding that Russia acted to help Trump get elected in 2016, three U.S. government officials familiar with the matter...
OCTOBER 22, 2020
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In August, Kylie Jenner did something pretty typical: She shared photos from her travels with her nearly 200 million Instagram followers. The backdrop was the bell tower of the American Cathedral in the eighth arrondissement of Paris. In another, she posed in front of a Louis Vuitton storefront. A maskless American...
OCTOBER 22, 2020
A new executive order from President Trump makes it easier to hire and fire civil servants that work on policy, stripping some protections from career employees before a potential change in administration.
Federal employee unions are billing the order as the biggest change to federal workforce protections in a century, converting many federal workers to "at will" employment.
It...
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Lesley Stahl told Vice President Pence that she felt he and President Trump had "insulted 60 Minutes" by giving "set campaign speeches" instead of answering her questions in contentious interviews that the White House preemptively released.
"Mr. Vice President, this was not a rally. This was not just a campaign speech to the public. This was supposed to...
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Quibi's co-founders Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman said the company spectacularly failed just six months after its launch because they "asked people to pay for it before they understood that it was" in an interview with CNBC on Thursday.
The admission comes after Quibi - which billed itself as presenting "fresh content from today's biggest stars, one quick...
OCTOBER 22, 2020
U.S. authorities are blaming Iranian hackers for threatening emails claiming to be linked to the far-right, authoritarian group Proud Boys that were sent to voters in Florida, Pennsylvania and other states.
The emails threatened to "come after" voters who didn’t vote for President Donald Trump. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said late Wednesday that voter registration information had been obtained by...
OCTOBER 22, 2020
A subtle power shift is emerging on Capitol Hill as Republicans face a possible future that might no longer include President Trump.
The shift has been most apparent in the dynamics surrounding negotiations on a new coronavirus relief package.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has sought to avoid a vote on a massive stimulus package that would badly...
OCTOBER 21, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A cybersecurity firm says it has found a hacker selling personally identifying information from more than 200 million Americans, including the voter registration data of 148 million.
The revelation underscored how vulnerable Americans are to email targeting by criminals and foreign adversaries, even as American officials announced that Iran and Russia had obtained...
