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US President Donald Trump has posted a video on his Twitter account that shows Democratic hopeful Joe Biden vowing to eliminate fracking and “end fossil fuel” – right after a clip from debates, where the ex-vice president denied he has ever opposed fracking and dared Trump to put any evidence he made anti-fracking statements on his website. Trump and Biden clashed during their second and final […]

As election day is drawing closer in the US, both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and incumbent POTUS Donald Trump have ramped up their campaigns. The two candidates are scheduled to hold their second and final televised debate on 22 October. The Biden campaign has faced a backlash after showing an advertisement depicting a Michigan investor and tech CEO as a struggling bar owner.The add posted […]

People at a Trump campaign rally that took place in Arizona on 19 October started chanting “Superman” after the US president said that he felt like a superhero upon recuperating from his COVID-19 diagnosis. “People are pandemic’d-out. You know that? They’re pandemic’d-out. That’s why it’s so great what your governor has done. He’s opened up your state. I’m here. And now I’m immune. I can jump into this […]

The recent protests in the Chilean capital Santiago were marked by the devastation of two churches as the initially peaceful rallies that started on Sunday, 18 October, ended up being marred by violence, vandalism and looting. One of the churches, located close to Plaza Italia, got “burned to the ground as hooded protesters cheered”, while the second church, which also “sustained fire damage”, was looted, according […]

The US company Fortitude Ranch will operate its three vacation condos as survival communities on November 3 in anticipation of possible civil unrest that may follow the presidential and general elections, the company’s Vice President for Sales and Business Development Alicia Cachuela told Sputnik. “We are going to open up as a survival community on November 3 and spanning out for several days after that for […]

The Lincoln Project, created by a group of former Republicans that oppose Trump has already spent seven figure sums on TV and digital commercials targeting voters in key states. The project has raised almost $60 million this year. At least 15 billionaires or their spouses have donated to the super-PAC created to thwart Donald Trump’s chances of winning the 2020 presidential election. The biggest contribution was […]

More than 10 million Americans have already voted in the US election, data from the United States Elections Project, led by University of Florida Professor Michael McDonald, shows. According to late Monday data, US voters have cast a total of 10,296,180 ballots in the reporting states, with Florida, Virginia and Michigan in the lead (over 1.6 million votes, over 977,000 votes and more than 965,000 votes, […]

Old footage has surfaced online of Joe Biden making an impassioned plea against packing the Supreme Court. The former vice president and his running mate Kamala Harris have repeatedly avoided commenting on the idea of ‘court-packing’, or increasing the number of Supreme Court justices from 9 to 15, in recent days. President Donald Trump has suggested that the idea would “permanently destroy the Court” if implemented. […]

Instagram has moved to label accounts and posts of “state-controlled media,” following the lead of its parent company Facebook, technology website Engadget reported. According to the outlet, journalist Casey Michel was the first to notice that users in the United States see such labels appearing on their profile pages and posts. Instagram has begun rolling out new “state-controlled media” labels—here are the ones for Kremlin outlets […]

Earlier, reports emerged suggesting that US President Donald Trump would be nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett, of the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, to fill the seat of late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As the US President Donald Trump is expected to announce his pick to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died […]

The partnership between London and Washington will allegedly boost collaboration on the development and research of AI as well as “explainability and fairness”, a US official told Axios. The Trump administration is set to announce it has signed a strategic partnership on artificial intelligence (AI) with the United Kingdom, Axios reported on Friday. “America and our allies must lead the world in shaping the development of cutting […]

The US Department of Defense is “conducting prudent planning” to withdraw all US soldiers from Afghanistan by May 2021 “if conditions warrant”, a Pentagon official told the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on National Security at a House Hearing on the Trump Administration’s Afghanistan Policy. “I’d like to make it clear that [Defense Secretary Mark Esper] has not issued orders to reduce military personnel below this […]

French President Emmanuel Macron called for a “modern new consensus” on tackling global challenges in his speech to the 75th UN General Assembly on 22 September. Europe will not compromise with the United States on Iran sanctions, French President Emmanuel Macron told the UN General Assembly by video. “We will not compromise on the activation of a mechanism that the United States is not in a […]

The two bodies, the biggest to hurl past Earth in the upcoming two weeks, are comparable in size to the world-famous Egyptian landmark, which is almost 140 meters tall and dominates the whole Giza area just outside Cairo. Two massive asteroids will whiz past Earth in the next two weeks, with one estimated at up to 130 meters in diameter and the other at 200 meters […]

US stocks fell dramatically on Monday as investors pulled out of a slew of industries that would be hurt by the pandemic-related lockdowns being considered once more in several countries as outbreaks worsen. At closing bell on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down some 509.72 points, a 1.84% drop, finishing at 27,147.70. The S&P 500, which follows the world’s top companies, fell by 38.41 […]

On 19 September, China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) released a video on its Weibo account that specifically showcased the PLAAF’s combat capabilities. In a brief description for the footage, the PLAAF noted, “we are the defenders of the motherland’s aerial security; we have the confidence and ability to always defend the security of the motherland’s skies”. The footage was published following US Under Secretary of State […]

A top American naval official said at a recent symposium that while significant progress has been made in readying the first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford for duty, the aircraft carrier is not likely to deploy before 2022. The warship was scheduled to enter service in 2018 and the delays have already helped bring down one Navy secretary. At the annual symposium hosted by the Tailhook Association […]

One of these days, avid sky gazers may witness a space rock over 100 meters wide approach Earth, but fortunately, scientists don’t expect it to collide with our planet. Asteroid 2014 QJ33, which NASA is currently keeping tabs on, is expected to enter Earth’s orbit on 17 September, whizzing by at a speed of around 19,371 miles per hour. What’s remarkable is its size – potentially […]

Three anonymous sources close to the Democratic Party told the Washington Post that Senator Bernie Sanders had urged presidential candidate Joe Biden to campaign on expanded healthcare coverage, jobs and wages. US Senator Bernie Sanders has privately urged fellow Democrat Joe Biden to campaign on more radical polices if he wants to beat President Donald Trump. The admission from the Sanders camp came after the Washington […]

With time ticking for the 3 November election, President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden continue to lock horns, notably over whether either of them is fit to take office. Donald Trump has once again claimed that Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden is “possibly” using drugs in order to improve the former vice president’s debate performances during his election campaign. “[…] That’s what I […]

A woman in New Hampshire spiced up a state primary election on Tuesday, entering a polling station wearing a shirt that said “McCain Hero, Trump Zero” and, after being told that, according to state law, she could not wear anything featuring a political message, just took it off and voted topless, The Portsmouth Herald reported. According to state law, no person “shall distribute, wear, or post […]

On Friday, Defence Secretary Mark Esper defended President Donald Trump over claims that POTUS belittled the sacrifice of dead US soldiers by making disparaging comments about them. More than 600 American army veterans have released an open letter to signal their support for Donald Trump after the magazine The Atlantic berated the US president for allegedly making disrespectful remarks about dead American servicemen. “Recent baseless media […]

The Trump administration is reportedly considering adding the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), China’s largest semiconductor foundry, to a trade blacklist. A Pentagon spokesperson told Reuters on Friday the Department of Commerce was considering adding SMIC to a trading blacklist called the Entity List, which would force US buyers to obtain a special license before doing business with the company. SMIC is China’s largest semiconductor foundry, supplying […]

The billionaire earlier said that SpaceX is planning to start the assembly of a prototype for the massive Super Heavy rocket booster this week. It will have more than twice the thrust of the Saturn V, which carried Apollo to the Moon and three times the thrust of the Falcon Heavy. Elon Musk said he hopes to see the Starship perform its first orbital flight test […]

US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his decision to send the National Guard forces to Kenosha to quell violent riots which have been taking place there over the past few days. On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers expressed concern about Trump’s planned Tuesday visit to Kenosha amid an ongoing wave of anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests. Evers called on the president to “reconsider” his […]

The city of Portland has been engulfed in protests, some of which have turned violent or resulted in looting and arsons, for months. However, local authorities have refused to accept assistance from the federal government to quell the unrest, despite pressure from the White House and criticism from President Donald Trump. President Donald Trump is ready to provide additional law enforcement assets to any state governor […]

The gamma ray glow in question was detected by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope in 2008. For years, astronomers have been trying to figure it out. After endless debate, a theory has been proposed that explains the unexpected surplus of gamma ray radiation known as the Galactic Centre GeV Excess. A new study has ruled out that dark matter consists of weakly interactive massive particles […]

In June, former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman Stephen Roach predicted that the US dollar may plummet at least 35 percent against other major currencies in the not-so-distant future as the era of the greenback is apparently coming to an end. Ongoing Washington-Beijing trade tensions along with America’s growing debt may prove factors to herald the beginning of the end of the US dollar era, Bloomberg reports. The […]

Members of the Democratic Party have repeatedly accused President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia in order to get “dirt” on his opponent Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election. However, one member of this year’s Democratic ticket reportedly has no issues with accepting “dirt” on POTUS to win in 2020. Joe Biden’s freshly picked running mate, Kamala Harris was seemingly ready to accept and use […]

Currently, NASA astronaut Drew Morgan, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov are on board the International Space Station (ISS). The three spacemen arrived on the ISS on 20 July and will return to Earth in December or January. A small air leak has been detected on the International Space Station (ISS), possibly in the American segment, but it does not threaten […]

An ex-US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer has been arrested and is now facing life imprisonment after he and a relative allegedly conspired with multiple People’s Republic of China (PRC) officials to relay classified national defense information for more than a decade. Former CIA Officer Alexander Yuk Ching Ma was arrested by federal authorities on Friday, August 14, and charged with “conspiracy to communicate national defense […]

The precise cause of the US president’s criticism remains unclear, although he is known to have an adversarial relationship with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, who attacked the Trump campaign in his Sunday afternoon program over its alleged birther-style attacks against recently chosen Biden running mate Kamala Harris. President Donald Trump took to Twitter Sunday to attack Fox News’ weekend afternoon content, calling it “worse […]

Republicans accuse the Obama administration of launching the since-discredited Russia probe in 2016 to undermine Donald Trump. Their claims may get more credence with the expected revelations of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith. Kevin Clinesmith’s guilty plea should deeply concern the FBI agents who investigated the Trump campaign links with Russia, Senator Lindsey Graham has said. “Something tells me that Mr. Clinesmith knows where the bodies […]