JUNE 20, 2020
India on Saturday strongly rejected China's claim of sovereignty over Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh, asserting that attempts by the Chinese side to "advance exaggerated and untenable" claims are not at all acceptable.
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said China's claim over Galwan Valley was not in accordance with its own position in the past,...
JUNE 20, 2020
Image: A rainbow appears behind the Lincoln Memorial as Fitzpatrick prepares to begin her day, coincidentally Juneteenth, with a sunrise walk in Washington (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
TULSA, OKLAHOMA — Millions of Americans on Friday observed Juneteenth, a holiday to mark the end of slavery in the United States that has taken on a new urgency following the...
JUNE 19, 2020
US Vice President Mike Pence listens as Texas's Governor Greg Abbott and US President Donald Trump speak to the press after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House May 7, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Vice President Mike Pence declined to...
JUNE 19, 2020
Former US Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met with small business owners in Yeadon, Pa., on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Senator Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic nomination and the economy collapsed this spring, two pillars of President Trump’s re-election strategy collapsed at the same time: his plan to run on prosperity and against a far-left opponent....
JUNE 19, 2020
A federal judge appeared skeptical on Friday about the Trump administration's effort to block former national security adviser John Bolton from releasing his new tell-all book next week.
Judge Royce C. Lamberth said there seems to be little he could do to stop the book titled "The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir" from being...
JUNE 19, 2020
Visitors to the River Walk pass a restaurant that has reopened in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
As coronavirus cases surge in states across the South and West of the United States, health experts in countries with falling case numbers are watching with a growing sense of alarm and disbelief, with many wondering why virus-stricken U.S....
JUNE 19, 2020
Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, his first since the pandemic shut down much of the country. - Doug Mills/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump on Friday morning issued a thinly veiled threat to individuals who want to protest his campaign rally scheduled for Saturday evening in Tulsa, Okla., adding...
JUNE 19, 2020
Friday is Juneteenth and all around the DMV and nation commemorates and rallies are planned to honor the holiday.
"It was not the end of slavery," Nkechi Taifa, the Commissioner for the National Reparations Commission said.
June 19th has been declared Juneteenth. Taifa explained how on this day in 1865, Union Gen. Gordon Grainger, along with Union soldiers, arrived...
JUNE 19, 2020
The rupee settled at 76.19 against the US dollar on Friday as strengthening of the US currency and amid buying seen in the domestic equity market.
The rupee opened at 76.28 against the US dollar, regained some lost ground and finally settled for the day at 76.20 against the US dollar, down 6 paise over its previous close....
JUNE 19, 2020
The United States doesn't need more widespread lockdowns to bring its COVID-19 outbreak under control, despite the fact that the national daily infection rate has stayed flat, leading government expert Anthony Fauci said Thursday.
Speaking to AFP, the physician-scientist added he was optimistic the world would soon have a vaccine that would end the pandemic, calling early trial...
