During a recent debate, political figures made numerous claims on topics ranging from U.S. energy production to healthcare and gun violence, sparking scrutiny over their accuracy. While some assertions, like the U.S. maintaining record oil output and Trump’s impact on the trade deficit, hold up under examination, others—such as claims about Iran’s access to assets…
US Senator and the vice presidential running mate for Republican Donald Trump JD Vance, faced off against Minnesota governor Tim Walz, the Democratic choice of Kamala Harris, in a high stakes debate on Tuesday. With the November 5 election approaching, this debate may mark the final opportunity for both candidates to address voters directly. Here…
WASHINGTON: In one of the earliest hot mic moments in global diplomacy that occurred during his visit to India in 1978, then US President Jimmy Carter, who turned 100 on Tuesday, told his Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, to draft a “cold and very blunt” letter to India’s then Prime Minister Morarji Desai, castigating New…
In an audio clip shared by Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign, Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance could be heard comparing “abortion” to “slavery,” suggesting that both issues inflict deep suffering and possess a morally distorting effect on society.“There’s something comparable between abortion and slavery,” Vance said, “and that while the people who obviously suffer…
WASHINGTON: The US Presidential elections took an ugly and ominous turn this weekend with MAGA Supremo Donald Trump calling Democratic candidate Kamala Harris “mentally impaired” and demanding she be disqualified for letting in foreign criminals into the country to win the elections. Trump made a series of wild and unsubstantiated charges at a rally in…
Representative Image (Picture credit: AP) A missile was fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Saturday, which triggered air sirens in the country.As per the news agency AFP, “The missile force… carried out an operation targeting… ‘Ben Gurion’… Airport,” the Iran-backed group said in a statement, adding it had named the…
Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author ofThe Tipping Point, one of the most important non-fiction books of the 21st century, is back with its dark sequel Revenge of the Tipping Point. While discussing the new book with the Guardian, Gladwell calls out what he calls Harvard’s admission officers’ “bias towards affluent white students”.Pointing out the disparity…
With Kamala Harris narrowly leading in most of the polls against Donald Trump, Asian diplomats would like to put their bet on the Democrat leader for the upcoming US presidential elections when it comes to the tariff policy of the two.Analysts forecast that import tariffs under Harris would probably stay lower than those suggested by…
Donald Trump has vowed to prosecute Google if he is re-elected as the President of the USA for showing only “bad stories” on him while “good” ones for his rival Kamala Harris. Google responded to the claim saying that both the candidates appear in the search results at the top for relevant queries.“It has been…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with former US President Donald Trump in New York on Friday amid growing tensions surrounding US support for Ukraine’s defence against Russia. Zelenskyy stressed the importance of halting the war and said, “I think we have a common view that the war in Ukraine has to be stopped and Putin…
