APRIL 14, 2020
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (R) interjects as President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a reception for the 25th anniversary of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics at the White House in Washington, October 15, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former U.S. President Barack Obama finally endorsed his vice president Joe Biden’s presidential campaign...
APRIL 14, 2020
Gurdwara Takht Sri Kesgarh Sahib, which usually teems with thousands of devotees each year on this day, was virtually empty with just a handful of them present at the historic gurdwara to mark Baisakhi — the day the Tenth Sikh master, Guru Gobind Singh, established the Khalsa Panth at this historic place in 1699.
Mindful of the directive...
APRIL 13, 2020
Image: President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump at the Oval Office on Nov. 10, 2016. - Win McNamee
As is his wont, Donald Trump has spent weeks making the case that his response to the coronavirus pandemic is great -- at least when compared to Barack Obama's response to H1N1 in 2009. In fact, the incumbent...
APRIL 13, 2020
Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden (C) and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders shake hands ahead of the third Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season hosted by ABC News in partnership with Univision at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas on September 12, 2019.
Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden...
APRIL 13, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence listens as President Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on Friday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
With millions of Americans locked down at home and out of work, President Trump asserted on Monday his authority to reopen the country at a time of his choosing, although questions remain over...
APRIL 12, 2020
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, on Sunday unveiled a plan to "safely reopen" the United States, emphasizing that widespread testing availability and a drastic drop in confirmed COVID-19 cases must take precedent before the country takes such a step.
In a New York Times op-ed, Biden wrote that the U.S. must first acknowledge the...
APRIL 12, 2020
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, and President Trump have publicly disagreed on several issues. - Anna Moneymaker/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump publicly signaled his frustration on Sunday with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, after the doctor said more lives could have been saved from...
AprIL 12,2020
Men leaving an Islamic seminary linked to coronavirus cases in New Delhi last month. They were sent to a quarantine facility.
NEW DELHI — After India’s health ministry repeatedly blamed an Islamic seminary for spreading the coronavirus — and governing party officials spoke of “human bombs” and “corona jihad” — a spree of anti-Muslim attacks has broken out across...
APRIL 12, 2020
Pope Francis reads his “Urbi et Orbi” (“To the City and the World”) message in St. Peter's Basilica with no public participation due to an outbreak of the coronavirus disease on Easter Sunday at the Vatican, April 12, 2020. - Vatican Media/Via Reuters
ROME, ITALY — It was a day of live-streamed Masses, of empty pews, of interrupted...
APRIL 12, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on Friday. - Evan Vucci, AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump is eager to reopen the nation and claims to have "absolute authority" to do so, but experts say the decision on when Americans can ditch coronavirus distancing and return to normal will...
