AUGUST 11, 2020
California senator Kamala Harris is the first black and Asian-American woman nominated for vice president. - JOSH EDELSON
Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden on Tuesday named Kamala Harris, a high-profile senator from California, as his vice presidential pick.
Here is how US politicians and celebrities
Black Lives Matter Movement, Business have reacted to her nomination:
- Barack Obama -
Former...
AUGUST 11, 2020
The July 23, 1984, cover of TIME with Geraldine Ferraro. Diana Walker
Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris to be his vice presidential candidate for the 2020 presidential election, his campaign announced Tuesday. Harris will be the third woman selected as a running mate on a major presidential party ticket.
She follows in the footsteps of Geraldine Ferraro, who became...
AUGUST 11, 2020
Former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) after a Democratic presidential debate in Houston in September. - Win McNamee/Getty Images
Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has chosen Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate, elevating a former presidential candidate whose most electric campaign performance came when she criticized his record on...
AUGUST 11, 2020
Daughters are entitled to equal property rights under the amended Hindu Succession Act, ruled the Supreme Court in a landmark judgement on Tuesday
Giving its verdict on the disputed question of law that is more than a decade old, a three-judge bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra held that daughters will have the right over parental property even...
AUGUST 11, 2020
The U.S. Postal Service, especially essential during coronavirus lockdowns, has been in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump as he looks to undermine mail-in voting. - Alexi Rosenfeld via Getty Images
Voters don’t like Donald Trump, and he knows it. Faced with historically low approval in an election year, he’s doing everything he can to make sure voters...
AUGUST 11, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow Tuesday. - Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
MOSCOW, RUSSIA — Russia on Tuesday became the first country to officially register a coronavirus vaccine and declare it ready for use, despite international skepticism. President Vladimir Putin said that one of his daughters...
AUGUST 11, 2020
Former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are in the lineup for next week's nominating convention, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced Tuesday. - Scott Olson/Getty Images
The Democratic National Convention Committee announced a lineup on Tuesday for next week's nominating convention that will feature at least seven of the women under consideration to be...
AUGUST 9, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a signing event for an executive order on "hiring American" in a darkened Cabinet Room of the White House with curtains drawn and the lights low in Washington, U.S., August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Trump’s new executive actions to disburse coronavirus relief without Congress sparked confusion and frustration on Sunday...
AUGUST 9, 2020
Top Democrats on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump's executive actions on coronavirus relief as "absurdly unconstitutional" and "way off base."
The measures, which Trump signed on Saturday and sidestep Congress after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on Friday, provide an additional $400 per week unemployment benefits among other relief measures such as a temporary payroll tax cut.
Trump...
AUGUST 8, 2020
India's external affairs minister on Saturday termed technology as "new parameter" to measure "power and influence" while adding that it can never be "politically neutral".
"Today there are new parameters and technology is certainly one of them because what they do is they create relationships, in some case dependencies, convergencies...technology has never been politically neutral, how one approaches...
