NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

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Trump to pardon women’s suffrage leader Susan Anthony

9:46 pm August 18, 2020

Washington: As he works to curry favor with women voters, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will pardon Susan B. Anthony, a women’s suffrage leader arrested for voting in 1872 in violation of laws permitting only men to vote. Trump’s support has been eroding among suburban white women in battleground states since his last […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Trump pushes back against Michelle Obama speech

7:22 pm August 18, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump is pushing back against former first lady Michelle Obama, claiming that her husband’s Oval Office performance is what catapulted him into the White House. In her remarks Monday night at the Democratic National Convention, Mrs. Obama declared Trump was “in over his head” and the “wrong president for our country.” In tweets Tuesday morning Trump taunted […]

Donald Trump ‘wrong’ president for US, says former first lady Michelle Obama

6:44 pm August 18, 2020

New York: Michelle Obama has ripped through Donald Trump at the opening of the Democratic National Convention, saying he is the “wrong president for our country” and urged Americans to vote for his challenger Joe Biden “like our lives depend on it.” In an emotional recorded message to the convention, the former US first lady said last four years had been […]

People Matters TechHR: Industry leaders converge to rewrite HR & Worktech playbook

5:54 pm August 18, 2020

New Delhi: The current COVID-19 crisis has called for rewriting the HR and Worktech playbook. It is about embarking on a journey of opportunities, of resetting your focus, accelerating your impact for now and “bouncing forward” to the next. People Matters TechHR 2020 that was held from 10th – 14th August brought together the most progressive business […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

3 Mississippi police officers indicted in death of Black man

11:38 pm August 17, 2020

Jackson: Three Mississippi police officers have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Black man last year, according to a recently unsealed indictment. A Hinds County grand jury indicted the officers in the January 2019 death of George Robinson, 62, according to the August 5 indictment. It accuses the officers — Desmond Barney, Lincoln Lampley and Anthony Fox — with “willfully, unlawfully and […]