AUGUST 19, 2020
Former national security adviser John Bolton gestures while speakings at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Sept. 30, 2019. - Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
As several prominent Republicans endorsed Joe Biden over President Donald Trump in the first night of the Democratic National Convention, the president's former national security adviser John Bolton said that while he won't...
AUGUST 19, 2020
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has issued notice to Air India and sought its stand on a plea by several pilots challenging the national carrier's decision to terminate their services with effect from August 13.
Notably, Air India had earlier terminated services of more than 40 other pilots. The court also orally asked the national carrier to...
AUGUST 18, 2020
The Delhi Metro Tuesday announced steep pay cuts for its employees on account of an "extreme adverse financial" crisis it is facing, with its services suspended for nearly five months amid the Covid-19 breakout, according to the corporation's records.
The Metro is also struggling to repay loan installment to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
"In view of the...
AUGUST 18, 2020
Republican Voters Against Trump - YouTube
A former senior Trump administration official who is endorsing Joe Biden's presidential campaign said Tuesday that if President Donald Trump wins a second term he will "align with dictators around the world."
"There are people serving very close to the President that have told me verbatim we should expect, quote, 'shock and...
AUGUST 18, 2020
During her career teaching at the Communist Party’s top academy, Cai Xia cheered on signs that China’s leaders might ease their political grip, making her an uncommonly prominent voice for democratic change near the heart of the party.
Now Cai has turned her back on such hopes, and the party has turned against her. She has become the...
AUGUST 18, 2020
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is escorted into court for his arraignment in June. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo)
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released its fifth and final report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, and the notably bipartisan report raises plenty of new questions about that effort’s links to the Trump campaign.
The report, like...
AUGUST 18, 2020
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. - Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday credited public pressure for spurring Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's decision to roll back reforms at the U.S. Postal Service that prompted fears of election interference.
The news that the Postal Service was suspending its “operational initiatives” broke moments before Pelosi’s interview with POLITICO...
AUGUST 18, 2020
Nancy Pelosi - Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated that Democrats might cut their stimulus proposal to seal a deal with Republicans and speed Covid-19 relief, then come back after the November elections with additional agenda items.
Pelosi said she doesn’t want to wait until the end of September when Congress will be attempting to pass a...
AUGUST 18, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republican and Democratic chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee made criminal referrals of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Erik Prince and Sam Clovis to federal prosecutors in 2019, passing along their suspicions that the men may have misled the committee during their testimony, an official familiar with the matter told NBC...
AUGUST 18, 2020
President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Group of 20 summit in Japan last year. - Erin Schaff/NY Times
A Republican-controlled Senate panel that has spent three years investigating Russia’s 2016 election interference and possible ties to the Trump campaign released its final, sprawling report on Tuesday, drawing to a close one of the...
