Ceremonies spearheaded by Mr. Biden and Kamala Harris marked the federal government’s first official nod to the staggering death toll from the pandemic. President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday led a national memorial observance on the eve of his inauguration to honour the 400,000 Americans who have perished from COVID-19 duringContinue Reading
Traders on floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: New York Stock Exchange U.S. stock futures moved higher on Monday evening as Wall Street looked to bounce back from a rough week ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 125Continue Reading
MOSCOW: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny flew home to Russia on Sunday despite Russian authorities’ stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years, his plane from Berlin landing at a different Moscow airport from the one it was meant to fly to. It was the first time NavalnyContinue Reading
Messaging platform says it’s ‘doing a lot more to clear up misinformation’ on privacy and security on the app Following a severe backlash over the latest update to its privacy policy, Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Saturday said it has pushed back the policy roll out by three months to May 15.Continue Reading
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, appears on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC JPMorgan Chase beat analysts’ estimates for fourth-quarter profit on better-than-expected trading results and a boost from releasing money previously set asideContinue Reading
President Donald Trump may hire a law professor who spoke at his rally before the riot at the US Capitol to help defend him in an impeachment trial over a charge that he incited the violence, according to two people familiar with the matter. John Eastman, who joined Trump’s personalContinue Reading
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to urge Vice President Mike Pence to start the U.S. Constitution’s 25th Amendment process of removing President Donald Trump from office, although the vice president already has said he will not do so. To invoke the 25th Amendment, Mr. Pence and aContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: The decision by tech companies to clamp down on President Donald Trump‘s ability to speak to followers through mainstream social media may force him to tap more traditional methods of communication or more isolated conservative online channels during his final days in office, experts say. Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc,Continue Reading
Calling on an increasingly vocal political Opposition to engage in “civilised politics without misleading the public”, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he was ready to don his former role as war-time Defence Secretary, a period that critics associate with repression and reprisals. According to a statement from the President’sContinue Reading
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies remotely via videoconference in this screengrab made from video during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled, “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,? on Facebook and Twitter’s content moderation practices, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 17, 2020. Reuters Twitter on FridayContinue Reading
