NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

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CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Racial tensions roiling US pose target for election meddling

8:46 pm September 5, 2020

Washington: The tensions coursing through the United States over racism and policing are likely targets for adversaries seeking to influence the November election, lawmakers and experts warn — and there are signs that Russia is again seeking to exploit the divide. Earlier this year, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pulled down dozens of accounts with names like “Blacks Facts Untold” that […]

Harris’ mostly virtual campaign to get Wisconsin road test

8:34 pm September 5, 2020

Sacramento: Kamala Harris told a friendly crowd of Hollywood donors on Thursday they’d be surprised by how many states she’s visiting daily, if only virtually. Earlier in the week, she’d campaigned before supporters in Minnesota, California and Connecticut, and she was greeting Missouri donors next. Harris hasn’t been on a plane in more than a month. Three weeks after joining Joe Biden as […]

Child care crisis pushes US mothers out of the labour force

8:23 pm September 5, 2020

New York: Angela Wynn had just launched her own project management business, hitting a career stride after years of struggle that began with earning an undergraduate degree as a single mother. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, forcing many schools to shift online. The now-married mother of five saw little choice but to give up her […]

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

AP FACT CHECK: Trump on McCain; Biden’s stretch on virus

7:15 pm September 5, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump said he never called John McCain a loser — he did — and denigrated the record of the late Republican senator on veterans affairs despite routinely appropriating one of McCain’s crowning achievements on that front as his own. Trump distorted events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the past week and his own hand in them before a furor […]

Trump denies calling US war dead ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’

11:32 pm September 4, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump defended himself Friday against accusations that he mocked American war dead as his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, intensified efforts to frame the election as a referendum on the president’s character. The allegations, sourced anonymously in The Atlantic, describe multiple offensive comments by the president toward fallen and captured U.S. service-members, including calling World War I dead at […]