Nov 28 2024
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said on Sunday that he would withdraw from the presidential race. “While it has been my intention to seek re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for […]
U.S President Donald Trump was impeached by the House for a second time Wednesday — going down as the first in history — after being charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege at the Capitol that stunned the country last week. In a swift collapse of his final days in office, the […]
Social media giants rose as one Wednesday to collectively bar U.S President Donald Trump’s incendiary speech on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the wake of the armed ‘supporter’ riots that stunned the country as lawmakers moved ahead to affirm President-elect Biden’s electoral win at the country’s Capitol. Hundreds of pro-Trump protesters pushed through barriers set […]
President Donald Trump made clear Saturday he had no intention of relinquishing his baseless claims that last month’s election was stolen from him, telling a raucous crowd at his first post-poll rally he would somehow still win. In a speech remarkable for its twisting of reality more than a month after the November 3 election, […]
The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election on Monday, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy. The incumbent then relented after suffering back to back legal and procedural defeats in his seemingly futile effort to […]
US President-elect Joe Biden expressed frustration Monday over Donald Trump’s refusal to cooperate on the White House transition process, saying “more people may die” of coronavirus without immediate coordination on fighting the surging pandemic. Biden was declared winner of the November 3 election but Trump has not conceded, and his administration has so far failed […]
President Donald Trump has yet to admit defeat in the US election. But with a word here, a slip there, he is raising the prospect ever more plainly. In a tweet Sunday morning, Trump appeared accidentally to acknowledge Joe Biden’s victory — before quickly reversing course to claim he won, and again push unsubstantiated claims […]
Four astronauts were successfully launched on the SpaceX Crew Dragon “Resilience” to the International Space Station on Sunday, the first of what the US hopes will be many routine missions following a successful test flight in late spring. Three Americans — Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker — and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi blasted off […]
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced the members of his coronavirus task force– a group made up entirely of doctors and health experts– in an avowed, top priority science backed enactment once he is seated in the White House on January 20. While his historic win is currently contested by Donald Trump, calling the election […]
“I am honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me and in Vice President-elect (Kamala) Harris. In the face of unprecedented obstacles, a record number of Americans voted,” Biden said on Twitter after Democrat Joe Biden captured the U.S. presidency on Saturday. Several major television networks said, as voters narrowly […]
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday kickstarted the “Biden Fight Fund,” touting it as the “largest election protection effort ever assembled” after President Donald Trump’s camp filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, calling for a halt to vote counting. “To make sure every vote is counted, we’re setting up the largest election protection […]
