MIAMI: Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale had 10 guns in his Florida home and his wife accused him of beating her, police said yesterday, after he was dramatically detained outside his house. Parscale allegedly hit his wife, loaded a pistol and threatened to commit suicide during an argument […]
Day: September 28, 2020
LONDON: Donald Trump’s digital campaign team tried to dissuade millions of African Americans from voting in the 2016 US presidential election, Britain’s Channel 4 News channel alleged in a report broadcast yesterday. The channel’s investigative journalists said they had got hold of a file used by Trump’s team four years […]
WASHINGTON: A report that Donald Trump paid little or no federal income tax in recent years sparked broad outrage yesterday, from rich Democrats to teachers and coffee shop workers taking to social media to claim they had paid more taxes than the US president. The #IPaidMoreTaxesThanDonaldTrump hashtag began trending yesterday, […]
NEW YORK: The percentage of Covid-19 tests taken in New York state that have come back positive has inched up to 1.5 per cent, Governor Andrew Cuomo said yesterday, a worrisome trend for the former epicentre of the US coronavirus epidemic. New York’s positivity rate had hovered around 1 per […]
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration faces ongoing court battles after two legal setbacks in its efforts to bar US app stores from offering Chinese-owned TikTok or WeChat for download. In two separate rulings, judges have questioned the evidence that data from American users is being accessed by the Chinese government imperiling […]
LONDON: Uber has won a legal bid to restore its London operating licence which was taken away by the city’s transport regulator over safety concerns, after a judge decided on Monday (Sep 28) that it was a fit and proper operator. Transport for London refused to grant the Silicon Valley-based […]
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel told the leadership of her party today that coronavirus infections could hit 19,200 per day in Germany if the current trend continues but stressed that the economy must be kept running, Bild newspaper reported. Infections have been generally rising in Germany for weeks. Data from the […]
BEIJING: Beijing on Monday (Sep 28) accused the Trump administration of abusing “national power” by trying to ban TikTok, as a federal court gave the video app’s US operations a stay of execution. A US government order had sought to ban new downloads of the Chinese-owned app from midnight – […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan expressed satisfaction today and said the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure. China has ramped up efforts to get international groups […]
In a recent interview, actor Henry Cavill recalled auditioning and nearly getting the role of James Bond when he was in his early 20s. Henry Cavill is confident he would be a suitable replacement for James Bond. (Photo: Henry Cavill/Instagram) After playing Superman and Sherlock Holmes, Hollywood star Henry […]