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.

A year after Elijah McClain’s death, activists want charges

11:57 pm August 23, 2020

Denver: In the year since Elijah McClain died after being stopped by police in suburban Denver on his way home from a store, the number of people calling for justice to be done in his case has grown to millions of people around the world. Like his family and activists who have been protesting over the Black man’s death […]

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

Indian-American Nikki Haley among star speakers on first day of Republican convention

11:52 pm August 23, 2020

Washington: Popular Indian-American Republican politician and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, will be among the star speakers on the first day of the Republican National Convention beginning on Monday, according to a list released by the Trump campaign on Sunday. The four-day RNC will formally nominate 77-year-old incumbent President Donald Trump as the party’s candidate for […]

TS Marco in Gulf aiming at Louisiana, TS Laura also on way

11:40 pm August 23, 2020

Port-Au-Prince: Tropical Storm Marco is swirling over the Gulf of Mexico heading for a possible hit on the Louisiana coast as a hurricane, while Tropical Storm Laura knocked utilities out as it battered Hispaniola early Sunday, following a track forecast to take it to the same part of the U.S. coast, also as a hurricane. It would be the first time […]

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

Deputies: Trump supporter punches Biden fan in sign dispute

11:15 pm August 23, 2020

Debary: A Florida supporter of President Donald Trump has been charged with a misdemeanor after deputies say he punched a Joe Biden supporter in a dispute between the neighbors over their yard signs. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that Anthony “Tony” Vullo, 55, is charged with misdemeanor battery after Volusia County sheriff’s deputies say he […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

How starving public health fuelled a COVID fire in Florida

8:52 pm August 23, 2020

Jacksonville: On a sweltering July morning, Rose Wilson struggled to breathe as she sat in her bed, the light from her computer illuminating her face and the oxygen tubes in her nose. Wilson, a retiree who worked as a public health department nurse supervisor in Duval County for 35 years, had just been diagnosed with COVID-19-induced pneumonia. She had […]