MIAMI: Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale had 10 guns in his Florida home and his wife accused him of beating her, police said yesterday, after he was dramatically detained outside his house. Parscale allegedly hit his wife, loaded a pistol and threatened to commit suicide during an argument […]
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LONDON: Donald Trump’s digital campaign team tried to dissuade millions of African Americans from voting in the 2016 US presidential election, Britain’s Channel 4 News channel alleged in a report broadcast yesterday. The channel’s investigative journalists said they had got hold of a file used by Trump’s team four years […]
WASHINGTON: A report that Donald Trump paid little or no federal income tax in recent years sparked broad outrage yesterday, from rich Democrats to teachers and coffee shop workers taking to social media to claim they had paid more taxes than the US president. The #IPaidMoreTaxesThanDonaldTrump hashtag began trending yesterday, […]
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration faces ongoing court battles after two legal setbacks in its efforts to bar US app stores from offering Chinese-owned TikTok or WeChat for download. In two separate rulings, judges have questioned the evidence that data from American users is being accessed by the Chinese government imperiling […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan expressed satisfaction today and said the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure. China has ramped up efforts to get international groups […]
SEOUL: South Korea today expanded the search for a missing fisheries official killed by North Korean troops at sea last week, a day after North Korea accused the South of raising tension by intruding into its territorial waters. South Korea’s military has accused North Korean soldiers of killing the man, […]
BERLIN: Europe and the United States need to face up to a “new Cold War with China” together, regardless of who wins the White House in November, Germany’s point man on transatlantic ties told AFP. With just five weeks to go until the US election, the German government’s coordinator for […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan expressed satisfaction on Monday (Sep 28) and said the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure. China has ramped up efforts to […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump paid just US$750 in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he won the election, The New York Times reported on Sunday (Sep 27), citing tax return data extending more than 20 years. It added that he also paid only US$750 in his first year […]
NEW YORK: With just over a month before the US presidential election, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are set to take the debate stage tomorrow, the first show pitting the rivals against each other that’s sure to have millions of Americans glued to their screens. But in an ultra-polarised climate […]