The US government on Wednesday put forth a last-ditch attempt to derail a defamation lawsuit filed against President Donald Trump by a New York advice columnist who claims he raped her two decades go. The Justice Department is fighting to replace Trump as the defendant in the suit brought by […]
US official defends Donald Trump stepping outdoors without mask
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says President Donald Trump’s “unique” circumstances are why he doesn’t wear a mask even as the government is urging people to do so. Addressing spikes in reported coronavirus cases in some states, Azar said people “have to take ownership” of their own behaviours […]
US has most number of Covid-19 deaths, India is eighth worst-hit country
India currently has the eighth highest number of recorded deaths due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the world, according to a website that monitors the number of cases globally. Worldometer data shows the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Italy are the countries that have had more fatalities because of […]
US Rep. Ilhan Omar’s father dies due to coronavirus
Father of Somalia-born US Representative Ilhan Omar died on Monday night of complications from the novel coronavirus, local media reported. “It is with tremendous sadness and pain to say goodbye to my father,” the Minnesota congresswoman tweeted late on Monday. “No words can describe what he meant to me and […]
18-year-old cleans street after protest in US, gets car and scholarship as reward
The protests against the killing of a black man at the hands of a white policeman have been raging across the United States. The protesters have clashed with the police, threw bombs and other things at them and even burned stuff. All this led to garbage lying around in the […]
US has 2 million coronavirus vaccine doses ‘ready to go’: Donald Trump
President Donald Trump said on Friday that the US has already produced two million vaccine doses for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) that are “ready to go” if they “check out for safety”. “We had a meeting on vaccines yesterday. We are doing incredibly well. We can have some very positive […]
US unemployment rate seen near 20% as Covid slams jobs market again in May
The US unemployment rate likely shot up to almost 20% in May, a new post World War Two record, with millions more losing their jobs, exposing the horrific human toll from the Covid-19 crisis. The Labor Department’s closely watched monthly employment report on Friday could bolster economists’ dire predictions that […]
Hackers group targets California University leading Covid-19 research
A group of hackers with a history of targeting healthcare organizations executed a successful ransomware attack this week on the University of California, San Francisco. UCSF confirmed it was the target of an “illegal intrusion” but declined to explain which portion of its IT network may have been compromised. Researchers […]
Trump confronted defense chief Esper over comments on protests
President Donald Trump confronted his Defense secretary, Mark Esper, after the Pentagon chief publicly opposed the idea of deploying the military to contain protests, according to people familiar with the matter. Separately, the president later asked top advisers if they thought Esper could still be effective in his position, two […]
James Mattis takes charge of US military pushback to President Donald Trump
Former US defence secretary James Mattis joined White House protesters in spirit on Wednesday with a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump’s handling of the protests calling him the only President in his lifetime “who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try”. Mattis […]
US defense chief opposes deploying troops to quell protests
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Wednesday he does not support invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty forces to quell civil unrest for now, despite President Donald Trump’s threats to militarize America’s response to mass protests. Trump said this week he could use military forces in states that fail to crack […]
Hong Kong’s leader decries US ‘double standards’ over protests
Hong Kong’s leader blasted the US for “double standards” in the way it handles protests after the Trump administration vocally supported sometimes-violent demonstrations in the Asian financial hub. “Look at how the local governments handle chaos in the US and what stance they took on a similar level of chaos in […]
Trump describes protests in US as ‘terror’, threatens to deploy military
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to deploy US military troops in towns and cities where local officials failed to stop the violence, looting and vandalism that have accompanied protests, which he described as “terror”, against the death of an African American man in police custody. In a speech from […]
Double whammy: After Covid-19, the US now grapples with protests
The United States has been hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic which started from Wuhan in China and quickly spread across the world. It has the highest number of Covid-19 cases – nearly 18 lakh – as well as the death toll. Many cities in the United States has seen […]
Tear gas fired at protestors as clashes erupt outside White House
Police fired tear gas outside the White House late Sunday as major US cities were put under curfew to suppress rioting as anti-racism protestors again took to the streets to voice fury at police brutality. With the Trump administration branding instigators of six nights of rioting as domestic terrorists, there […]