AUGUST 8, 2020
President Trump on Saturday attempted to bypass Congress and make dramatic changes to tax and spending policy, signing executive actions that challenge the boundaries of power that separate the White House and Capitol Hill.
At a news event in Bedminster, N.J., Trump said the actions would provide economic relief to millions of Americans by deferring taxes and, he...
AUGUST 8, 2020
Muslim pilgrims wearing face masks and keeping social distance last week during the annual Haj pilgrimage in Mecca. - Saudi Press Agency/Via Reuters
When researcher Monica Gandhi began digging deeper into outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, she was struck by the extraordinarily high number of infected people who had no symptoms.
A Boston homeless shelter had 147...
AUGUST 8, 2020
Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, has donated tens of millions of dollars to pro-Trump efforts. - John Locher/AP Photo
When President Donald Trump connected by phone last week with Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson — perhaps the only person in the party who can cut a nine-figure check to aid his reelection — the...
AUGUST 7, 2020
As if 2020 couldn't get any worse, President Donald Trump is depriving us of the last happy place on the internet: TikTok .
Well, maybe. The president on Thursday issued an executive order that blocks people and companies from making transactions with ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok. It's not 100% clear what this entails, but it...
AUGUST 7, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Russia has undertaken a broad effort to damage Democratic Joe Biden’s bid for the presidency, while China prefers that President Trump not win reelection, a senior intelligence official said Friday.
Iran also is seeking to undermine U.S. democratic institutions and President Trump, and to divide the country ahead...
AUGUST 7, 2020
Students at Stuyvesant High School leave after classes in New York on March 13, 2020. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday, Aug. 7, 2020 that he would allow children statewide to return to classrooms for the start of the new school year, citing the state's success in battling the coronavirus pandemic. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews
New York...
AUGUST 6, 2020
Sri Lanka's strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa staged a political comeback on Friday as his party registered a landslide victory in the twice-postponed general elections, according to the final results released by the elections commission.
The official results declared showed that the Sri Lanka People's Party (SLPP) alone had won 145 seats and with its allies have 150 seats, a...
AUGUST 6, 2020
President Trump on Thursday issued an executive order barring any transactions between U.S. companies and the Chinese parent company of TikTok beginning in 45 days, the latest action in the administration's campaign against the app.
The order essentially forces the parent company, ByteDance, to divest from TikTok, or face a ban from operating in the United States. The...
AUGUST 6, 2020
Customs authorities on Thursday sought to allay fears over safety regarding the storage of nearly 700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate at a container freight station near Chennai.
The storage became a cause for serious concern in the backdrop of the explosion of the chemical in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut on Tuesday, which killed 135 people and...
AUGUST 6, 2020
Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Thursday called for world peace on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
Dalai Lama urged governments, organizations and individuals to ‘rededicate themselves to making the achievement of peace the centre-piece of our lives’.
It is worthwhile to mention here that Japan on Thursday...
