AUSTIN: The FBI said yesterday it was investigating an incident in which a convoy of vehicles flying flags in support of President Donald Trump’s re-election bid surrounded a bus carrying campaign staff for Democratic challenger Joe Biden on a Texas highway. Friday’s incident — captured on video that was retweeted […]
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AUSTIN: A group of Texas Republicans have lost one of two legal challenges they brought in the hope of halting drive-through voting in Houston and having more than 120,000 votes thrown out. In a brief order issued yesterday, the Texas Supreme Court denied a request by conservative activist Steven Hotze […]
NEW YORK: One of America’s top government scientists, Anthony Fauci, has issued an urgent plea for a change in US policy on the coronavirus, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Trump administration in the final days of a hard-fought election campaign. Fauci, in an interview in the Washington Post yesterday, […]
SYDNEY: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today named finance minister Grant Robertson as deputy prime minister in her new government after Labour Party deputy leader Kelvin Davis ruled himself out from standing. Robertson, who will continue as finance minister, will replace Winston Peters of Labour’s previous coalition partner New […]
WASHINGTON: As the US awaits election day tomorrow, misleading claims from President Donald Trump and his opponent Joe Biden are circulating on hot-button issues including the Covid-19 pandemic, the economy and healthcare. AFP examines inaccurate claims from both candidates below. ‘Super predators’ Trump claimed in tweets yesterday that Biden called […]
United States: Donald Trump, challenger Joe Biden and their top surrogates barrelled through crucial states in the industrial Midwest and coastal southeast yesterday, pressing closing arguments in a frantic sprint days ahead of the US presidential election. Using some of his most urgent language yet, Trump warned of “bedlam in […]
WASHINGTON: The White House coronavirus task force has warned that much of the country is in the grips of an “unrelenting” rise in Covid-19 cases, urging tough countermeasures, while at least nine states yesterday reported record daily increases in new infections. The hardest-hit regions in the West and Midwest encompass […]
TAMPA: Donald Trump and Joe Biden dueled over the crucial state of Florida yesterday, painting radically different visions of the United States as big new GDP figures showed the economy getting back on track even as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates again. With Trump touting an early end to the health […]
However, campaigning in Wimington, Delaware, Biden did promise “we will start on day one doing the right things.” President Donald Trump, on the other hand, has pledged to “vanquish the virus.” Focused firmly on Covid-19, Joe Biden vowed Wednesday not to campaign in the election homestretch “on the false promises […]
Appeals for better coordination have become louder amid a resurgence of the epidemic in Europe after a relative lull in the summer months. EU leaders aim to make progress on common testing and vaccination strategies at a video conference on Thursday and step up coordination in fighting the fast-expanding Covid-19 […]