AUGUST 24, 2020
The House voted this weekend to block the Trump administration’s handpicked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy from continuing changes to Postal Service operations that have contributed to widespread delays in mail delivery this summer. The House bill would infuse $25 billion into postal coffers, in part to handle the crush of mail-in ballots expected this fall. Senate leaders...
AUGUST 23, 2020
An eruption of scandals and dysfunction last week in some ways encapsulates the volatile Trump presidency and the baggage the president brings into the fall contest. - Anna Moneymaker / NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When President Trump’s strategists mapped out their plans for the critical week leading to the Republican National Convention that would nominate him for...
AUGUST 23, 2020
The Food and Drug Administration authorized use of convalescent plasma, the antibody-rich blood component taken from recovered Covid-19 patients, for the treatment of serious coronavirus cases.
The agency’s action Sunday, called an emergency-use authorization, permits use of the treatment on hospitalized Covid-19 patients. The Wall Street Journal reported last month the move was coming.
For Covid-19 patients and the...
AUGUST 23, 2020
Anthony Scaramucci speaks to reporters during his brief tenure as White House communications director in 2017. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images
Anthony Scaramucci, who served as the White House communications director for 11 days in 2017, called President Donald Trump's decision to speak all four nights of the Republican National Convention "beyond ridiculous" during...
AUGUST 23, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Houston, Texas. - Reuters/CALLAGHAN O'HARE
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday said the number of deaths due to the new coronavirus had risen by 1,006 to 175,651 and reported 5,643,812 cases, an increase of 45,265 cases from its previous count.
The CDC reported its tally...
AUGUST 23, 2020
2020 MotoGP: Miguel Oliveira
A dramatic Styria GP saw Portugal get its first premier class race winner as Miguel Oliveira flipped the cards in his favour at the very last corner in the final lap. With this, Oliveira grabbed himself and his team (Red Bull KTM Tech 3) their first MotoGP race win, in his 150th Grand Prix....
AUGUST 23, 2020
“I haven’t slept for the last two days as I have been consistently getting calls. And I was so taken aback when last evening, Kokilaben (Rupal Patel) called me on my personal number. It was an unbelievable experience as I never expected the video would reach her,” shared Yashraj Mukhate, the latest social media sensation.
The 24-year-old from...
AUGUST 23, 2020
India has rejected China's demand to disengage by equal distance near Pangong Tso lake area as it would mean "loss of territory for its own side", sources in the government sources said.
"The Chinese have suggested that to resolve the dispute in the Finger Area both sites should show disengagement equidistantly to create a buffer zone," top government...
AUGUST 23, 2020
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) said on Saturday that an asteroid identified as 2018VP1 is heading towards planet Earth.
In a statement, the space organisation went on to state that there is a 0.41 per cent chance of the 6.5 feet-long asteroid hitting the planet. This prediction was based on 21 observations of the asteroid over the...
AUGUST 22, 2020
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, older sister of Donald Trump, sits in the balcony during Trump's election night rally in New York. The fastest way for federal judges facing investigation by their peers to make the inquiry go away is to utter two words, "I quit." That’s how...
