India’s weapons procurement from the US jumps to $ 3.4 billion in 2020
By Lalit K Jha WASHINGTON: India’s weapons procurement from the United States (US) jumped from a meagre USD 6.2 million to a whopping USD 3.4 billion in the final year of the Donald Trump’s administration, according to official data. As per the data released by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), the jump in the […]
President-elect? GOP may wait for January to say Joe Biden won
By LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON:Americans waiting for Republicans in Congress to acknowledge Joe Biden as the president-elect may have to keep waiting until January as GOP leaders stick with President Donald Trump’s litany of legal challenges and unproven claims of fraud. Tuesday’s deadline for states to certify their elections — once viewed as a pivot point […]
Joe Biden’s health team offers glimpse of his COVID-19 strategy
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden’s choices for his health care team point to a stronger federal role in the nation’s COVID-19 strategy, restoration of a guiding stress on science and an emphasis on equitable distribution of vaccines and treatments. With Monday’s announcement of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his health secretary and […]
Joe Biden officially secures enough electors to become president
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and NICHOLAS RICCARDI California certified its presidential election Friday and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for Democrat Joe Biden, officially handing him the Electoral College majority needed to win the White House. Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s formal approval of Biden’s win in the state brought his tally of pledged […]
Donald Trump science adviser Scott Atlas leaving White House job
By ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON: Dr. Scott Atlas, a science adviser to President Donald Trump who was skeptical of measures to control the coronavirus outbreak, is leaving his White House post. A White House official confirmed that the Stanford University neuroradiologist, who had no formal experience in public health or infectious diseases, resigned at the end […]
Top secret: Joe Biden gets access to President’s Daily Brief
By DEB RIECHMANN and ZEKE MILLER WILMINGTON: Joe Biden has had his first look as president-elect at the President’s Daily Brief, a top secret summary of U.S. intelligence and world events — a document former first lady Michelle Obama has called “The Death, Destruction, and Horrible Things Book.” Biden has already had eyes on different […]
Wisconsin, Arizona certify Joe Biden wins in presidential vote
By SCOTT BAUER, JONATHAN J. COOPER and TERRY TANG Two battleground states, Wisconsin and Arizona, certified their presidential election results Monday in favor of Joe Biden, even as President Donald Trump’s legal team continued to dispute the results. Biden’s victory in Wisconsin was certified following a partial recount that only added to his 20,600-vote margin […]
Donald Trump says he will leave White House if Electoral College declares President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory
By JILL COLVIN WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory — even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake” — as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states […]
Joe Biden transition OK’d to start as Donald Trump runs out of options
WASHINGTON: The federal government recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, formally starting the transition of power after President Donald Trump spent weeks testing the boundaries of American democracy. Trump relented after suffering yet more legal and procedural defeats in his seemingly futile effort to overturn the election with […]
Q&A: Will Twitter, Facebook crack down on Donald Trump?
By BARBARA ORTUTAY OAKLAND:For the past four years, President Donald Trump has enjoyed the special status of a world leader on Twitter and Facebook, even as he used his perch atop the social media pyramid to peddle misinformation and hurl abuse at his critics. While regular users could have faced being suspended or even booted […]
‘America is back’: Joe Biden pushes past Donald Trump era with nominees
By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, MATTHEW LEE and AAMER MADHANI WILMINGTON: Declaring “America is back,” President-elect Joe Biden introduced his national security team, his first substantive offering of how he’ll shift from Trump-era “America First” policies by relying on experts from the Democratic establishment to be some of his most important advisers. “Together, these public servants will […]
US agency ascertains Joe Biden as winner, lets transition begin
WASHINGTON: The General Services Administration (GSA) ascertained Monday that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the November 3 election, clearing the way for the start of the transition from President Donald Trump’s administration and allowing Biden to coordinate with federal agencies on plans for taking over on January 20. Trump, who had refused […]
Covid-19: FDA allows emergency use of antibody drug Donald Trump received
By Marilynn Marchione WASHINGTON: US health officials have agreed to allow emergency use of a second antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19, an experimental medicine that President Donald Trump was given when he was sickened last month. The Food and Drug Administration authorised use of the Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. drug on Saturday […]
Transfer of power will be orderly and happen right on time: Top Republican leader
By Lalit K Jha WASHINGTON: The transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden’s administration would be “orderly” and happen “right on time,” according to a top Republican leader and Senator Mitch McConnell. Last week, the mainstream media declared Biden as the winner of the presidential election after the 77-year-old former vice president crossed […]
Republicans face court setbacks, Donald Trump law firm steps down
PHILADELPHIA: Republicans suffered setbacks to court challenges over the presidential election in three battleground states on Friday while a law firm that came under fire for its work for President Donald Trump’s campaign withdrew from a major Pennsylvania case. The legal blows began when a federal appeals court rejected an effort to block about 9,300 […]
With victory in Georgia, Joe Biden’s electoral college matches Donald Trump’s in 2016
WASHINGTON: President-elect Joe Biden has wrested Georgia and President Donald Trump has retained North Carolina, major US media outlets have projected, bringing the closely-fought and bitter 2020 presidential race to a close. Trump, who has not yet conceded the election to the projected winner, Biden, has repeatedly asserted, without evidence, that fraud and other irregularities […]