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.

60,000 in Southern California to evacuate after blaze grows

Weather, reinforcements helping in California wildfire fight

9:34 pm August 26, 2020

Vacaville: Firefighters hard-pressed by some of the largest wildfires in California history scrambled Wednesday to take advantage of cooler weather and an influx of aid as they carved and burned containment lines around the flames to prevent more land from burning. “Every percent of containment is hours and hours of sweat and blood up on […]

Laura now forecast to be a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane

8:24 pm August 26, 2020

Galveston: Hurricane Laura is forecast to rapidly power up into a “catastrophic” Category 4 hurricane, even stronger than previously expected, as it churns toward Texas and Louisiana, swirling wind and water over much of the Gulf of Mexico. Satellite images show Laura has become “a formidable hurricane” in recent hours, threatening to smash homes and sink entire communities. […]

Dyson’s ‘Long Time Coming’ addresses history of racism in US

11:53 pm August 25, 2020

New York: One of the country’s most prominent scholars on race has a new book out in December. Michael Eric Dyson’s “Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America” will be released Dec. 1, St. Martin’s Press announced Tuesday. The book traces the history of racism from slavery to the killing of George Floyd. “Dyson […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Man charged with murder, assault in Kentucky mall shooting

8:00 pm August 25, 2020

Lexington: Police have arrested the man they say is responsible for a shooting at a Kentucky mall that killed one and wounded two others. Xavier Hardin, 19, was charged Monday evening with murder and two counts of assault, Lexington police said in a statement. The shooting happened Sunday afternoon outside a store in Fayette Mall, leading officers to evacuate the […]

Nikki Haley and top Republican leaders call for US boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics in China

America is not a racist country, asserts Indian-American politician Nikki Haley

6:45 pm August 25, 2020

Washington: Describing herself as a proud daughter of Indian immigrants who wore a turban and a saree, top Republican politician Nikki Haley has narrated her story to the American voters, urging them to strongly reject the Democratic Party’s “fashionable” statement that “America is racist.” The 48-year-old former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Haley is the only Indian-American listed so far to be speaking […]