PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT WAS DESIGNED TO KILL AMERICAN ECONOMY

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• This statement from the U.S. President comes at a time when the U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to rejoin the agreement immediately after he takes over

• Speaking at the recently held G20 Summit, President Trump said the agreement was never mean...

TOKYO STOCKS END HIGHER ON TUESDAY OVER UPCOMING TRANSITION OF POWER IN THE U.S.A

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• Tokyo stocks end higher on Tuesday over the upcoming transition of power in the U.S.A.
• The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended up at 638.22 points.
• The Topix index of all first section issues on the TSE ended at 35.01 p...

PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN LIKELY TO NAME JANET YELLEN AS U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY

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• Financial experts are predicting that this move will shift Treasury's focus heavily toward progressive efforts to tackle growing economic inequality and battling against climate change

• Yellen, who made history in 2014 after she became the first wom...

JAKE SULLIVAN: THE NEXT WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER

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• Sullivan, a long-time aide to Biden has an extensive foreign policy background and has previously served as his national security adviser during the second term of President Barack Obama

• Sullivan was also a part of the delegation of U.S. officials that...

U.S. COVID-19 CASES LIKELY TO REACH 20 MILLION BY JANUARY END

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• This number was forecasted with the help of a mathematical model and was published in the journal Scientific reports

• As compared with the level of social distancing prior to the pandemic, the present-day social distancing reflects an approximate 60 per...

INDIAN-AMERICAN MALA ADIGA: THE POLICY DIRECTOR OF NEXT FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN

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• Starting as a counsel to the associate attorney general in the Obama administration, Ms Adiga has previously served as a senior adviser to Jill Biden

• Ms Adiga has also served as the director for Higher Education and Military Families at the Biden Found...

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION COMES UP WITH A NEW POLICY TO LOWER THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

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• Announcing the new policy at the White House, President Donald Trump said “The drug companies don’t like me too much. But we had to do it.”

• According to the Trump administration, this new policy is likely to save $28 billion over the ...

PRESIDENT TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITHDRAWS MICHIGAN LAWSUIT

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• According to a statement from President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, they have decided to withdraw its lawsuit disputing vote results in the state of Michigan

• Despite the Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden securing nearly 290 elect...

FACEBOOK, TWITTER CEOs TO TESTIFY BEFORE A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON TUESDAY

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• Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of Facebook and Twitter will be testifying in front of a congressional hearing on Tuesday that will go through their content moderation practices

• CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google had previously appeared before the Se...

PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN WILL FOCUS ON PLANS TO REVIVE COVID-STRUCK U.S. ECONOMY

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• After receiving a briefing, Biden will give a speech in his home state of Delaware on rebuilding an economy that has suffered millions of job losses courtesy of the pandemic

• A team of scientific advisers appointed by Biden is scheduled to meet with pha...

JAPAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO URGE JOE BIDEN TO FOCUS ON INDO-PACIFIC REGION

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• Japan Foreign Minister to urge Joe Biden to focus on Indo-Pacific region.
• Toshimitsu Motegi however, will not ask Biden to retract focus from U.S issues.
• The Indo-Pacific concept promotes free trade, the rule of law, and ...

BIDEN WON BECAUSE THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED SAYS DONALD TRUMP

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• Reiterating his claims regarding the election fraud, the President of the United States, Donald Trump on Sunday said Democrat Joe Biden won because the election was rigged

• President Trump tweeted “All of the mechanical “glitches” that...

QUALCOMM GETS U.S. LICENSE TO SUPPLY 4G CHIPS TO HUAWEI

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• According to a statement given by Qualcomm spokeswoman to Reuters, the company received a license for a number of products, which includes few 4G products

• The spokeswoman said these 4G products were related to mobile devices and Qualcomm has other lice...

U.S. REPORTS ITS BIGGEST SINGLE-DAY SPIKE OF OVER 177,000 COVID-19 CASES ON FRIDAY

• Current Total Cases: 11,064,164

• Total Deaths : 249,975

• Cumulative recoveries : 6,788,926

• Top five states that has the maximum number of cases : 

Texas: Cases 1,078,194, number of deaths 19,946. New deaths 216

Calif...

NO EVIDENCE OF COMPROMISED BALLOTS OR CORRUPT VOTING SYSTEMS: U.S. ELECTION OFFICIALS

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• President Trump had claimed that an election equipment maker deleted 2.7 million votes for him nationwide

• Despite the Democrat Joe Biden secured 290 electoral votes to become the 46th U.S. President, the Republicans are still refusing to accept his vic...

ByteDance ASKS FEDERAL APPEALS COURT TO VACATE TRUMP’S ORDER OF SELLING TikTok's U.S. BUSINESS

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• U.S. President Donald Trump had issued an executive order in August that required ByteDance to sell TikTok's U.S. business by November 12 if a 30-day extension by the CFIUS was not granted to it

• According to the reports, ByteDance has asked the fed...

RON KLAIN: THE NEW WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF

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• Klain will also work towards building a diverse, experienced and talented team to help President-elect Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris cope up with the urgent challenges in the front of the nation

• Biden said “Ron has been invaluable ...

JAPAN PM IS EXPECTED TO HOLD PHONE TALKS WITH U.S PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN

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• Japan PM is expected to hold phone talks with U.S President-elect Joe Biden.
• The two are expected to hold talks as early as Thursday.
• Biden is reported to have had phone calls with other world leaders.
• Biden i...

AS COVID-19 CASES ZOOM PAST 10 MILLION, BIDEN ANNOUNCES HIS CORONAVIRUS TEAM

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• Epidemiologist and former Federal Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner David Kessler, Yale public health professor Marcella Nunez-Smith and former surgeon general Vivek Murthy will lead the team

• Meanwhile the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer revealed t...

NEW YORK GOV. CUOMO CALLS PRESIDENT TRUMP’S VACCINE PLAN ‘FLAWED’

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• Calling President Trump’s vaccine plan flawed, Cuomo said “we can’t let this vaccination plan go forward the way that Trump and his administration is designing it.”

• The New York Governor while speaking on “Good Morning Ame...