JULY 23, 2020
Joe Biden, wearing a mask, arrives to speak at a campaign event Tuesday in New Castle, Del. - (Andrew Harnik/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The team behind the Economist’s 2020 election forecast designed their model to consider lots of factors: polls, economic conditions, presidential approval ratings, political polarization, the presence of an incumbent.
What didn’t get factored in?
“We don’t try to...
JULY 23, 2020
General Financial Rules 2017 amendment news
No more Chinese bidding for government tenders! Modi govt imposes restriction on public procurement
Amid border row with China, the government on Thursday imposed restrictions on public procurement from China and other countries with common border. The Government of India amended the General Financial Rules 2017 to enable imposition of restrictions on...
JULY 23, 2020
Days after Indian and Chinese military leaders agreed on a mutual phased de-escalation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, China has refused to pull back from the strategically significant Pangong Tso lake area and the Gogra Post.
Sources privy to the development have told India Today TV that China is not budging from two...
JULY 23, 2020
Senate Republicans are scrapping the payroll tax cut from their initial coronavirus relief bill in favor of stimulus checks, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday.
"We think the payroll tax cut is a very good, pro-growth policy. But the president's focus is he wants to get money into people's pockets now because we need to...
JULY 22, 2020
President Donald Trump takes questions from journalists during a news conference about his administration's response to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, July 22, 2020, in Washington, DC. - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Billionaire NFL owner and U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson told colleagues he was...
JULY 21, 2020
STR Hospital employees in Wuhan, China seal an airvent to prevent possible airborne transmission of the new coronavirus
Scientists have known for several months the new coronavirus can become suspended in microdroplets expelled by patients when they speak and breathe, but until now there was no proof that these tiny particles are infectious.
A new study by scientists...
JULY 21, 2020
President Trump, in a statement, accused “the radical left” of trying to “conceal the number of illegal aliens in our country.” - Doug Mills/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump directed the federal government on Tuesday not to count undocumented immigrants when allocating the nation’s House districts, a move that critics called a transparent political ploy to help...
JULY 21, 2020
Trump Meets With Cabinet Members, Members Of Congress On Stimulus Payments. - Doug Mills / Getty Images
President Trump said in a tweet Tuesday he is looking forward to watching sports but suggested he would stop watching a game if he sees a player taking a knee during the national anthem.
"Looking forward to live sports, but any...
JULY 21, 2020
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at his Manhattan apartment after being released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement in New York City, May 21, 2020. - Mike Segar/Reuters
Michael Cohen alleges he was sent back to federal prison and put in solitary confinement as...
JULY 21, 2020
Facebook added an information label to a post from President Donald Trump on Tuesday in which he claimed mail-in voting would lead to “the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation’s History,” directing users to a nonpartisan government website with facts about absentee and early voting.
The social media giant announced last week it would be labeling but not...
