Leaders in Greater Manchester have accused the British government of trying to force them to agree to the strongest possible Covid-19 restrictions using “selective” hospital data, after London set a deal deadline for noon Tuesday. UK Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said that if the deal between the British government and the local leaders in Greater Manchester, including Mayor Andy Burnham, isn’t inked by 12 p.m. […]
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After giving a deadline to the Trump administration to reach an agreement for a Covid-19 stimulus plan, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) slammed officials for wording changes she says are “unacceptable.” In a letter sent out to House Democrats on Sunday, the House Speaker did not sound optimistic on a stimulus deal being reached anytime soon. The specific disagreement at the moment appears to come down to […]
A man casts his ballot for the 2020 presidential election at an early voting location in Alexandria, Virginia. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images A man casts his ballot for the 2020 presidential election at an early voting location in Alexandria, Virginia. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images A federal court has extended Virginia’s voter registration deadline after an accidentally clipped fiber optic cable took […]
A federal judge upheld Minnesota’s extension for counting mail-in ballots late Sunday after it was challenged by a pair of Republican electors in the state. A state court agreement had allowed ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 to be counted if received within seven days of the election. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephen Maturen/Getty Images A federal judge upheld Minnesota’s extension for counting mail-in […]
Swing state’s governor Gretchen Whitmer has raised concerns after she refused to say when the votes from her state in the November election would be announced, claiming deadlines are set by “people with political agendas.” “Michigan will be able to announce results, but we are not going to have artificial deadlines set by, you know, people with political agendas,” the governor told CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’ […]
The online entertainment news site Deadline has issued a mea culpa after accidentally publishing a draft story claiming Vice President Mike Pence had contracted Covid-19, fueling a flurry of rumors about the VP’s health. The premature story went well beyond the type of placeholder draft that news organizations often create for obituaries, featuring wild speculation from “armchair epidemiologists” who conjectured that Pence’s ‘bloody eye’ seen during […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/09/1080714078_0:0:3071:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_0926b3c4e025522177a141c6f2849db8.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010091080714057-do-not-publish-deadline-mistakenly-releases-draft-article-claiming-pence-contracted-covid-19/ Last week, US President Donald Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, tested positive for COVID-19, and the 74-year-old president was hospitalized for 3 days. Trump’s infection was followed by a significant number of White House officials contracting the disease. Vice President Mike Pence tested negative for the virus. US news website Deadline apologized on Thursday for […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called Democrats latest COVID bill a political stunt as negotiators attempt to reach a relief agreement before the election. AP hide caption toggle caption AP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called Democrats latest COVID bill a political stunt as negotiators attempt to reach a relief agreement before the election. AP The Senate voted 84 — 10 to approve a […]
US President Donald Trump said he would not give TikTok, the Chinese video app, more time to sell off its US-based assets, insisting a deal must come within days despite reports the firm is seeking to skirt the sale altogether. The original deadline for the sale will not budge, Trump told reporters on Thursday. That means TikTok’s Beijing-based owner, ByteDance, has less than a week to […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009101080423652-trump-says-no-extension-will-be-issued-over-tiktok-sale-deadline/ US President Donald Trump said on Thursday there would be no extension to the September 15 deadline mandating Chinese social media company TikTok sell its US operations. “TikTok is moving along, we’ll see what happens. It’ll either be closed up or they’ll sell it,” Trump told reporters on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Thursday as he prepared […]
Earlier Sunday, the Israeli cabinet scrapped its weekly meeting amid a months-long dispute over the budget, sparking fears that elections would be called automatically on Monday night in the absence of a last-minute deal in the Knesset to push back the deadline. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that he had accepted an offer to extend negotiations on the nation’s budget. In a televised address […]
Wisconsin belongs to the category of swing states (states that could reasonably be won by either candidate) and was instrumental in Trump’s victory in 2016. Democrats have long claimed that West launched his presidential campaign to divert Arfican American votes from Joe Biden. The rapper in turn accused Democrats of conspiring against him. Kanye West’s name will not appear on the presidential ballot in Wisconsin, because […]
27 Jul, 2020 01:13 Follow RT on A US national flag has been pulled down at the US Consulate General in Chengdu, after Beijing ordered Washington to shut down the diplomatic facility in a tit-for-tat response for the closure of Chinese consulate in Houston. The flag was lowered around 6:18am local time, according to Chinese media, which earlier reported a deadline for the eviction set sometime […]
West previously missed the registration deadlines in a number of US states, including Texas, but qualified for the presidential ballot in Oklahoma by paying a fee. Representatives for Kanye West have filed signatures for the rapper to appear on the US presidential ballot in the state of Illinois, just four minutes before the State Board of Elections deadline on 5 pm local time, Fox News reported, […]
An economic relief check distributed by the IRS to help with hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It may take some time for the IRS to get through its backlog of work. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP An economic relief check distributed by the IRS to help with hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It may take some time for the IRS to […]
MOSCOW, JUNE 10 — RT extends the deadline for entries for the 2020 Khaled Alkhateb Memorial Awards, an annual international competition that recognizes the best journalism from conflict zones, until June 30. The competition, now in its third year, was established in honor of RT Arabic freelancer, Khaled Alkhateb, who died reporting from the frontlines in Syria. “Even the pandemic couldn’t stop war correspondents from doing […]
India 08:09 GMT 01.06.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): Two major Indian airlines – IndiGo and GoAir – have come under scrutiny since their Airbus A320 Neo aircraft, powered by American Pratt & Whitney engines, reported a series of technical failures last year. The deadline for replacing the engines has since then been extended multiple times. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has granted three […]
Regulation is a topic that makes many crypto enthusiasts sick to their stomachs, but CoinDesk’s Aaron Stanley and Amy Davine Kim, the chief policy officer at The Chamber of Digital Commerce, take you on a whirlwind journey through a new set of rules governing crypto exchanges created by a powerful intergovernmental organization. But, really, they’re not voluntary. They’re rules every crypto exchange must follow or suffer […]