Some states have mandated mask-wearing in public, while others have left it to counties and cities to issue rules. With COVID-19 cases on the rise in 42 states across the United States, federal health officials recommend that all Americans over the age of two wear cloth face coverings in public to contain the spread of […]
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a decorated army war veteran, was fired by Trump after his testimony. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a former White House aide who became a key figure in the impeachment of President Donald Trump, is retiring from the Army alleging “a campaign of bullying, intimidation, and retaliation” by Trump, according to a […]
President Donald Trump had insisted that US officers would stay in Portland until the violence got under control. Oregon police prepared Thursday to take over protecting a federal courthouse in Portland that’s been a target of violent protests, in a deal between the Democratic governor and the administration of US President Donald Trump that aimed […]
WASHINGTON – As China-US relations plunge, the next three to four months are particularly worrisome, US-based China analysts say. “I don’t anticipate that we will see stability,” Ms Bonnie Glaser, Senior Adviser for Asia and Director of the China Power Project at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) told The Straits Times Asian […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – For several years, it has been the stuff of his opponents’ nightmares: that President Donald Trump, facing the prospect of defeat in the 2020 election, would declare by presidential edict that the vote had been delayed or cancelled. Never mind that no president has that power, that the timing of federal […]
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (REUTERS) – The epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States showed signs of shifting to the Midwest on Thursday (July 30) while Sunbelt states were hopeful that new infections and deaths were starting to decline. The Covid-19 outbreak was moving into Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska “because of vacations […]
It is a matter of law that Donald Trump cannot delay the US presidential election. Only the passage of an act by the US Congress can change the date of an election, and there is zero chance that this divided Congress will do that. “Never in American history – not even during the Civil War […]
WASHINGTON – As strategic competition with China, and China’s conduct in handling the coronavirus pandemic, become hot political issues in the United States, Americans’ views of China have continued to sour, according to a new Pew Research Centre survey. Today, 73 per cent of US adults say they have an unfavourable view of the country, […]
Mary Trump claims her uncle hired someone to take the SAT college entrance exam for him in secondary school in the US. A memoir by President Donald Trump’s niece due to be published next week describes the president as a pathological narcissist who cheated on the SAT college entrance examination and has embraced “cheating as […]
Coronavirus caused the United States’ economy to shrink by a record 32.9% in the second quarter of 2020. Figures released Thursday morning showed that US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell by the greatest amount between April 1 and June 30 since records began in 1947. GDP is the value of all goods and services produced […]