NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA COLUMN AT DEMOCRATIC ACCENT SIGNIFIES THE NEWS STORIES, ARTICLES AND OPINION FROM AMERICAN CONTINENT. IT MOSTLY COMPRISES THE LATEST GEOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND OTHER PROMINENT NATIONS IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.

Hurricane Delta makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana

11:55 am October 10, 2020

Lake Charles: Hurricane Delta has made landfall in southwestern Louisiana as a Category 2 storm, compounding misery along a path of destruction left by Hurricane Laura only six weeks earlier. The centre of the hurricane blew ashore about 6 pm on Friday near the town of Creole with top winds of 155 kph, pushing a storm surge that could reach […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump administration targets diversity hiring by contractors

11:44 pm October 9, 2020

Washington: American companies promising to hire more Black employees in leadership roles and teach their workforce about racism are getting a message from President Donald Trump‘s administration: Watch your step if you want to keep doing business with the federal government. Trump’s Labor Department is using a 55-year-old presidential order spurred by the Civil Rights Movement to […]

US, Russia said close to deal on nuclear warhead freeze

11:37 pm October 9, 2020

Washington: U.S. and Russian negotiators have agreed in principle to continue freezing their nuclear warhead stockpiles in a bid to salvage their last remaining arms control pact before it expires next year, a person familiar with the talks said Friday. The person said it’s not yet clear if the agreement for a freeze will succeed or translate […]

Louisiana braces to relive a nightmare as Delta nears

11:33 pm October 9, 2020

Lake Charles: Residents in south Louisiana braced to relive a nightmare Friday as rain bands from an approaching Hurricane Delta began soaking the same area that was badly battered by a deadly Hurricane Laura six weeks ago. The city of Lake Charles was already a landscape of towering debris piles still uncollected after Laura. Blue-tarped roofs still […]

Family of woman mistakenly declared dead sues Michigan city

12:21 pm October 9, 2020

Southfield: The lawyer for the family of a suburban Detroit woman who was found to be alive after being pronounced dead filed a USD 50 million lawsuit Thursday against a suburban Detroit community and four of its first responders. Timesha Beauchamp, 20, was placed in a body bag and “left without oxygen for 4 hours, suffering hypoxic […]