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.

Data breach at software provider to local governments

2:37 pm September 24, 2020

Dallas: A major provider of software services to local governments and schools across the United States, Tyler Technologies, told customers Wednesday that an unknown intruder broke into its phone and information technology systems. It could not immediately be determined whether ransomware may have been involved. The Plano, Texas-based company, whose website was offline, said in an […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Ex-US Rep from Florida under federal campaign finance probe

2:32 pm September 24, 2020

Miami: The US Justice Department is investigating a former Florida Congresswoman accused of spending at least USD 50,000 of campaign money on vacations and restaurant and luxury hotel bills. The federal department’s Public Integrity Section is looking into the expenditures by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a US Rep from Miami, including a 2017 trip to Walt Disney […]

Fauci says vaccine goal would cover 67 million

Fauci: Wear masks, keep distant after vaccine

12:03 am September 24, 2020

Washington: Dr Anthony Fauci says Americans likely will need to wear masks and stay socially distance to protect themselves from the coronavirus after a vaccine becomes available. the US government’s leading infectious disease expert tells senators at a hearing that a vaccine won’t change conditions overnight. “The vaccine availability will go a giant step to controlling the infection, but […]

Thousands expected to honour Ginsburg at Supreme Court

1:31 pm September 23, 2020

Washington: Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects at the Supreme Court to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the women’s rights champion, leader of the court’s liberal bloc and feminist icon who died last week. Even with the court closed to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic and Washington already consumed […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump praises his efforts in handling virus

11:56 pm September 22, 2020

Washington: US President Donald Trump says he has “done an amazing” and “incredible job” handling the coronavirus, even as the country surpasses 200,000 virus deaths. Trump boasted of his administration’s efforts in an interview with WJBK FOX 2 Detroit at the White House Tuesday just before Johns Hopkins University announced the confirmed US death toll now tops 200,000 people — the […]