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...
AUGUST 16, 2020
Chetan Chauhan addresses the media in his role as selector for the Afro-Asia Cup in 2007 © AFP/Getty Images
Chetan Chauhan, Sunil Gavaskar's longtime opening partner (between 1973 and 1981), has died from complications after he was diagnosed with Covid-19 in early July, according to PTI. He was 73.
Chauhan tested positive for Covid-19 on July 12, and...
AUGUST 16, 2020
A march against mandatory vaccinations in Melbourne, Australia, in May. But despite vaccine skepticism in some pockets of the country, demand for the flu vaccine was high this year. - Michael Dodge/EPA, via Shutterstock
As public health officials look to fall and winter, the specter of a new surge of Covid-19 gives them chills. But there is a...
AUGUST 16, 2020
A Republican canvasser visited Tiffany Blythe in Mooresville, N.C., last month. - Travis Dove / NY Times
MOORESVILLE, N.C. — It wasn’t the most obvious spot for a flag that people usually buy to make a big statement. But there it was, peeking out from the inside wall of a garage, the white “Trump 2020” lettering just visible...
AUGUST 16, 2020
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the Hotel DuPont in Wilmington, Del., Aug. 13, 2020. Carolyn Kaster/AP
More Americans approve than disapprove of Joe Biden's choice of Sen. Kamala Harris for the 2020 Democratic ticket by a 25-point margin, 54-29%, in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Approval of the pick ranges from 86-8% among Democrats...
