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Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. President Joe Biden continues to brush off calls for him to step down as the Democratic nominee. Bill Priano/Getty Images As Biden recovers from COVID-19 in Delaware, there are growing calls for him to withdraw from the race.But the tone of the plea only strengthened his resolve to continue the campaign, The Washington Post reports.Biden is considering returning to the campaign trail soon, possibly with stops in Georgia and Texas. President Joe Biden has been holed up in Delaware since late Wednesday, where he has been recovering from a…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he could impose a 60% tariff on Chinese imports if returned to the White House, and new analysis predicts that this would dramatically slow growth in the world’s second-largest economy and push it to the brink of deflation. UBS economists took into account the impact of President Trump’s 2018 tariffs on China and presented a simplified model of how a new round would play out, assuming China doesn’t retaliate, other countries don’t match the U.S.’s tariffs and some trade flows to other countries. They estimate that a 60% tariff would reduce China’s GDP…
A massive global outage has halted major services around the world, including banking and airline operations, as Microsoft applications and services became unresponsive to users across the globe. Reports say the global outage was primarily caused by a CrowdStrike issue, which prevented Microsoft systems from booting properly and caused them to experience a blue screen of death. The Bank of England was also affected by the massive Microsoft outageEven the Bank of England, the most trusted bank in the UK, faced a major outage due to the same issue as it used Microsoft applications for its banking operations. However, the…
This year marks LeBron James’ fourth year playing for the U.S. Olympic team. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)Before heading to the 2024 Paris Olympics, the U.S. Men’s Basketball National Team has been warming up with exhibition games against some of the teams that will be competing for the gold medal. (Incidentally, the U.S. team has won four consecutive Olympic gold medals.) The U.S. team is already on a three-game winning streak in friendly matches, with wins over Serbia, Australia and Canada, and will face South Sudan this Saturday. The U.S. team’s fourth exhibition game will be held at 3 p.m. ET on…
Four senior members of Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s media team were suspected to have been detained by intelligence agencies on Saturday in a new crackdown on his party.”International media coordinator Ahmed Janjua and three members of his social media team were kidnapped early this morning,” Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said in a statement. CCTV footage released by the party showed Janjua being detained by men in plainclothes in Islamabad at around 4 a.m. PTI said there has been a tough crackdown on the PTI social media team in the past two weeks. “Any attempt to restrict…
Asserting that without a Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh, the youth have no future, party chief Akhilesh Yadav has urged the youth wing to put in all its efforts in the by-elections to 10 assembly seats in the state and the subsequent 2027 Assembly elections. “The state assembly by-elections are approaching and with the PDA in the lead, we must work among the people to lead the Samajwadi Party to victory. Alongside this, we must start preparations for the state assembly elections in 2027. Youth will play a crucial and important role in all these elections,” he asserted. Akhilesh…
The White House confirmed that President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 after an event in Las Vegas on Wednesday.This is the third time the president has tested positive for the virus, and Biden isn’t the only one. COVID-19 positivity rates have risen in recent days, as have emergency room visits and deaths.White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement that Biden, 81, had received the vaccine and a booster shot and was “experiencing mild symptoms.”The majority of cases are still caused by the newest variant of COVID-19, known as KP.3, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…
TAIPEI, Taiwan — At least 11 people have been killed and 30 are missing after severe storms and floods caused a partial collapse of a highway bridge in the country’s northwest, Chinese authorities said, while an equal number of people are missing in the southwest after storms destroyed dozens of homes.The official Xinhua News Agency reported that five vehicles had been retrieved after a bridge in Shaanxi province collapsed at about 8:40 pm on Friday. Photos released by Xinhua showed part of the bridge breaking off at a nearly 90-degree angle, falling into the brown water below.Rescue operations were continuing…
Transport agencies, businesses and governments were rushing Saturday to get all systems back online after hours of disruption. Widespread technology failures.The biggest ongoing impact will be on air travel: Airlines canceled thousands of flights on Friday, and many planes and crew are now in the wrong locations, while airports continue to face check-in and security issues. As of about 9 a.m. EDT on Saturday, flight-tracking service FlightAware listed about 18,000 delayed flights on its website. At the heart of this massive mess is CrowdStrike is a cybersecurity company that provides software to many companies around the world.The company said the…
The Arena Football League season is over, not that the remaining teams have disbanded, and the championship game is being played at the Mall.I think it’s fitting that these relics from the 80s and 90s are coming together. The image makes me feel uncomfortable Arena football games being played in locations other than arenas.The Billings Outlaws defeated the Albany Firebirds 46-41 at the American Dream Mall in New Jersey to win the 33rd AFL Championship.The season ended with eight teams. There were probably twice as many teams at the start of the season. Teams started disappearing almost as soon as…