AUGUST 18, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 17: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he leaves the White House for a trip to Minnesota and Wisconsin August 17, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump said he may travel to Iowa to survey damage from last week's powerful storms and that a memorial service will be held at the White...
AUGUST 18, 2020
Miles Taylor called himself the "opening salvo" on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Miles Taylor accompanies Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen during a trip to Honduras to meet with President Juan Hernandez and security ministers in Tegycugalpa, Honduras, March 27, 2018. - Dept. of Homeland Security/Flickr.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff at the Department of...
AUGUST 17, 2020
Democrats plan to use the first night of their virtual convention to preview their general-election argument against President Trump, criticizing his response to the coronavirus pandemic and handling of recent protests against police, excerpts of Monday’s speeches show.
The four-day, mostly virtual event comes as former Vice President Joe Biden—who is expected to be formally nominated this week...
AUGUST 17, 2020
In this January 27, 2019, file photo, Sen. Kamala Harris launches her own campaign for president at a rally in her hometown of Oakland, California. - Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters
Presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris has chosen "Pioneer" as her Secret Service code name, a law enforcement official told CNN on Monday.
Harris was put under Secret Service protection...
AUGUST 17, 2020
Joe Biden on multiple monitors speaking at a virtual fund-raiser in Wilmington, Del., last week. Recent polling suggests his lead over President Trump has shrunk slightly. - Carolyn Kaster/AP
A wave of new national surveys shows that Joe Biden maintains a significant if slightly diminished lead over Donald J. Trump, leaving him in a stronger position to...
AUGUST 17, 2020
Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj passed away on Monday following a cardiac arrest at his home in New Jersey. He had turned 90 in January this year.
Jasraj was in the US when the coronavirus-led lockdown happened and decided to stay back in that country. "With profound grief we inform that Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj ji breathed his...
AUGUST 17, 2020
A massive can of worms has been opened in India after a report in the Wall Street Journal claimed that Facebook ignored applying its hate speech rules to BJP leaders in India.
The expose has raised questions over the ties between the ruling BJP and Facebook, putting into focus the role of a top executive of the social...
AUGUST 17, 2020
Just as an internal speculation over the AIADMK’s chief ministerial candidate seemed to have emerged from no apparent trigger, ministers from the ruling party in Tamil Nadu have now come up with up with another out-of-the-blue demand -- Madurai should be made the state’s second capital.
A day after the Madurai West wing of the AIADMK urged Chief...
AUGUST 17, 2020
Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton bashed the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic and slammed its decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization.
"We should be having intense diplomatic conversations with health experts, logistics experts and others about how we are going to finally get to a safe and...
AUGUST 17, 2020
Then-President-elect Trump talks to members of the media in December 2016. (Jabin Botsford/TWP)
Two months ago, President Trump was so incensed by a CNN poll showing him trailing Joe Biden by 14 points that his campaign sent the cable outlet a cease-and-desist letter.
On Monday morning, Trump cited the very same poll as evidence that the 2020 campaign...
