Neera Tanden was a health advisor in the administration of former President Barack Obama. (Archive) President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Center for American Progress executive director Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget, and economist Cecilia Rouse, as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, …
Read More »Donald Trump says he will not ‘change his mind’ on allegations of voter fraud
WASHINGTON: In the first television interview since losing his re-election bid, President Donald Trump indicated on Sunday that he will never give in to Joe Biden and abandon his conspiracy theory of massive voter fraud. “It’s not that you’re going to change your mind. My opinion won’t change for six …
Read More »Donald Trump says he will not change his mind on the claims of election fraud in the US.
Trump’s legal team has yet to provide evidence that stands up in court. (ARCHIVE) Washington: In the first television interview since losing his re-election bid, President Donald Trump indicated on Sunday that he will never give in to Joe Biden and abandon his conspiracy theory of massive voter fraud. “It’s …
Read More »How close is Iran to producing a nuclear bomb? – world News
A 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is eroding and efforts to revive the pact face a new challenge with the assassination of Tehran’s top nuclear scientist. The agreement’s restrictions on Iran’s atomic work had one goal: to extend the “time to break” for Tehran to produce enough …
Read More »Rouhani accuses Israel of killing nuclear scientist
DUBAI: Iran’s president on Saturday accused Israel of killing a prominent Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of planning a secret nuclear bomb program, state television reported. Iran’s clerical and military rulers have threatened revenge for Friday’s assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who according to Iranian media died in hospital …
Read More »‘Joe Biden will be a president who represents the best of us’: Kamala Harris
Joe Biden will be a president who will represent the best of America, his deputy and vice president-elect Kamala Harris has said, stating that he is a leader the world will respect. Harris, who praised the 78-year-old president-elect, said Friday that Biden will be a president for all Americans. Read …
Read More »Court tells Donald Trump: ‘Calling the vote unfair doesn’t do it like that’
A federal appeals court flatly dismissed President Donald Trump’s claim that the election was unfair on Friday and refused to freeze Joe Biden’s victory in the key state of Pennsylvania. In a scathing review of Trump’s campaign arguments that the president was misled in his Nov. 3 re-election bid, three …
Read More »Iran accuses Israel, US of assassination of nuclear scientist
Iran has accused Israel and the United States of being behind the assassination of one of its top nuclear scientists on Friday and vowed revenge, dramatically increasing tensions in the Persian Gulf in the final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was the head of research and innovation at …
Read More »Biden’s victory hides a dire warning for Democrats in rural America.
Democrats once ruled Koochiching County in the blue-collar Iron Range of northern Minnesota. But in this month’s presidential election, President Donald Trump won it with 60% of the vote. That’s not because voters are suddenly shifting to the right, said Tom Bakk, who represents the area in the state Senate. …
Read More »Trump says he will leave the White House even though his election victory was ‘stolen’
WASHINGTON: Still unable to accept defeat in an election he has lost by most accounts, United States President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will nonetheless leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes the victory of the Democrat Joe Biden. “I certainly will, and you know it,” Trump …
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