The Senate voted 52-48 on Monday to confirm Amy Coney Barrett in the United States Supreme Court, giving the court a conservative 6-3 majority that could determine the future of the Affordable Care Act and abortion rights. All Democrats in the House voted against Barrett’s confirmation, as did Republican Susan …
Read More »2020 U.S. Elections: Nearly 59 Million Americans Have Already Voted, But Waiting For Poll Result Could Be Long, Report Says
More than 58.7 million Americans have voted in the 2020 presidential election thus far, topping all anticipated ballots in the 2016 polls, but an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots has led to the possibility that the result is delayed in counting votes. it may extend beyond November 3, according to …
Read More »‘That’s no way to talk about friends’: Biden scolds Trump for ‘disgusting’ India
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Saturday criticized US President Donald Trump for calling India “dirty” and admonished him for speaking that way about “friends.” “President Trump called India ‘dirty’,” Biden wrote in a tweet. “It’s not about how you talk about your friends, or how you solve global challenges …
Read More »More than 50 million have voted at the beginning of the US presidential elections: Report
More than 50 million Americans have voted early in the White House race that pits President Donald Trump against Democrat Joe Biden, a group monitoring the vote said on Friday. Voters are breaking vote-casting records before Election Day on November 3 to avoid crowded voting centers and long lines for …
Read More »Trump’s allied groups invest $ 30 million in Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court
Conservative nonprofit groups plan to spend about $ 30 million by the end of the month defending Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation before the United States Supreme Court, according to people familiar with the activities. The money has funded an avalanche of publicity and grassroots activities, mostly in battle states, that …
Read More »2020 US Presidential Elections | Back on campaign trail, Obama lashes out at Trump
Less than two weeks before election day, the former president urges blacks not to give in to apathy Less than two weeks before Election Day, former US President Barack Obama campaigned in Pennsylvania for his former Vice President and Democratic candidate Joe Biden. At a drive-in movie theater in Philadelphia, …
Read More »‘It will come after you’: Democratic voters ‘threatened’ to vote for President Trump
Democratic voters in at least four battle states, including Florida and Pennsylvania, received threatening emails, purporting to be from the far-right group Proud Boys, warning “we will chase you” if the recipients did not vote for President Donald Trump. (Click here for full coverage of the 2020 U.S. elections) The …
Read More »Barack Obama arrives at Joe Biden’s campaign in the final stretch of the White House race
Former US President Barack Obama kicks off Joe Biden’s election campaign Wednesday in an attempt to garner support for his former vice president among young Americans and black voters in the final stretch of the White House race. As the 59-year-old Obama makes his first campaign appearance in person at …
Read More »‘So much work to do’: how Joe Biden is planning the transition
If Joe Biden defeats President Donald Trump next month, he will quickly face a new challenge: raising a new administration to lead a divided nation through a series of historic crises. After making Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic a centerpiece of his campaign, Biden will have to show that …
Read More »Microphones to be muted in final showdown between Trump and Biden to stop disruptions
In the last debate, in September, Trump interrupted Biden 71 times, compared to the former vice president who interrupted Trump 22 times, the Axios news site reported. The two candidates were supposed to have had a second debate last Thursday, but the commission changed the rules to allow an online …
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