JUNE 23, 2020
The Bihar government has raised concerns over Nepal stalling repair work on the Gandak barrage as well as a key embankment on the Lalbakeya river.
The state has taken up the matter with the External Affairs and Jalshakti ministries.
As per a long-standing arrangement, the Bihar government maintains the Gandak barrage afflux on both sides of the border. India...
JUNE 23, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Philadelphia. - Reuters/Bastiaan Slabbers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dozens of Republican former U.S. national security officials are forming a group that will back Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, people familiar with the effort said, in a further sign that President Donald Trump has alienated some members of...
JUNE 23, 2020
President Trump walks across the stage as he speaks about walking down a ramp at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point during a campaign rally at the BOK Center Saturday in Tulsa.
The early June meeting in the Cabinet Room was intended as a general update on President Trump’s reelection campaign, but the president had other topics...
JUNE 23, 2020
President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that he was serious when he revealed that he had directed his administration to slow coronavirus testing in the United States — shattering the defenses of senior White House aides who argued Trump’s remarks were made in jest.
“I don’t kid. Let me just tell you. Let me make it clear,” Trump...
JUNE 23, 2020
FILE - In this Nov. 22, 2019, file photo, Serbia's Novak Djokovic, left, and teammate Viktor Troicki play against Russia's Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev during the Davis Cup quarterfinal doubles match in Madrid, Spain. Another tennis player has tested positive for the coronavirus after taking part in an exhibition series organized by Novak Djokovic in Serbia...
JUNE 22, 2020
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to suspend the issuance of certain temporary worker visas through the end of 2020, cracking down further on immigration after signing a more narrow measure in April.
The order applies to H-1B visas, H-2B visas, H-4 visas, L-1 visas and certain J-1 visas. It is the latest effort by...
JUNE 22, 2020
America's Top Doctor Michael Osterholm
COVID-19 will rage “like a forest fire” in a U.S. that has no clear plan to deal with it and has regressed to a dismissive, “pre-pandemic” attitude, a top infectious disease expert said Sunday.
America’s leadership is unfocused, Dr. Michael Osterholm told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” unlike other parts of the world...
JUNE 22, 2020
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA — Former CIA director and defense secretary Robert Gates said Monday that the U.S. government is paralyzed by political polarization and careerism, which has allowed China, Russia and other rivals to make inroads internationally to America's detriment.
Gates, who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations, said in an online speech...
JUNE 22, 2020
Pedestrians made their way past Flamingo Hotel and Casino along the Strip on Monday in Las Vegas.
PITTSBURGH — After months of lockdown in which outbreaks of the coronavirus often centered in nursing homes, prisons and meatpacking plants, the nation is entering a new and uncertain phase of the pandemic. New Covid-19 clusters have been found in a...
JUNE 21, 2020
Photograph: Jeenah Moon/Reuters
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City will remove a statue of former president Theodore Roosevelt from outside its main entrance.
The move, announced on Sunday, follows incidents across the US in which statues of Confederate generals and leaders and other historical figures linked to slavery and the dispossession of indigenous Americans...
