AUGUST 15, 2020
The Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee is seen on Aug. 5. - Stacy Revere/Getty Images
The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped all of 2020′s major events, including the political conventions. Want to know what to expect and who is scheduled to speak? Keep reading.
When is the Democratic National Convention?
The DNC will be held over four days, starting Monday, Aug....
AUGUST 15, 2020
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (August 15) unfurled the tricolour flag at Red Fort in the national capital for the seventh time on the occasion of India's 74th Independence Day. With this, PM Modi became the first non-Congress Prime Minister to have hoisted the flag for the most number of times.
He's now behind the...
AUGUST 15, 2020
A legend of the Indian cricket team, MS Dhoni, whose finest hour was to captain India to their second ODI World Cup title in 2011 on home soil, announced his retirement from the international game on August 15.
Dhoni, who will lead the Chennai Super Kings into battle in the upcoming IPL in UAE, posted a video on...
AUGUST 15, 2020
A USPS worker wearing a mask puts envelopes in a mailbox in New Jersey in August 2020. USPS delays have led to worries about mail-in ballots this fall. - Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images
The US Postal Service warned 46 states and Washington D.C. in July that tens of millions of voters could effectively be disenfranchised because their mail-in...
'AUGUST 14, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), joined by Senate Minority Leader Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), speaks on Capitol Hill on Aug. 5. - Carolyn Kaster/AP
Democrats say that President Trump’s assault on the U.S. Postal Service has handed them a new political message in the 2020 election, with a chance to make inroads with constituencies who have...
AUGUST 14, 2020
Joe Biden's running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, has faced baseless accusations that she might be ineligible to serve as vice president because her parents were immigrants .- MANDEL NGAN
White House hopeful Joe Biden on Friday leveled fierce criticism at Donald Trump, with his campaign saying the president has resorted to "abhorrent" lies about Democrat Kamala Harris's eligibility...
AUGUST 13, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Lawmakers and pundits Thursday criticized President Donald Trump for entertaining questions raised about the eligibility of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., to run for vice president, as “very serious.”
Presumptive Democratic nominee...
AUGUST 13, 2020
In this October 9, 2016, file photo, then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens to a question during a town hall debate at Washington University in St Louis. - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Thursday that if President Donald Trump loses the presidential election this fall, she believes he won't go "silently into...
AUGUST 13, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday warned Americans that President Donald Trump is "going to do everything he can to suppress the vote" in a searing response to Trump's opposition to much-needed funding for the US Postal Service.
Trump had admitted earlier in the day that he opposes the additional funding in a coronavirus relief bill because he doesn't...
AUGUST 13, 2020
Virginia reported 1,054 new cases and 10 deaths from the coronavirus on Thursday. The new cases mark the highest single-day number since Saturday.
Currently, the Commonwealth has 99,428 confirmed cases, and 2,248 confirmed deaths with 868 COVID hospitalizations reported which is 16 fewer compared to Wednesday's numbers.
Last Friday, Virginia reported its largest single-day increase in new COVID-19 cases...
