US Democrats Meeting Virtually, United Against Trump

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U.S. Democrats opened their national convention Monday night, a four-day virtual affair due to the coronavirus pandemic they hope will help push former Vice President Joe Biden to victory over President Donald Trump in the November election.  FILE – Former Vice President Joe Biden.Former first lady Michelle Obama, progressive Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich, a Trump critic, were  among those who spoke to make the case for the 77-year-old Biden on the convention’s first night.Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer stressed the need to take action to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, citing the efforts of the administration of Biden and formermore

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Trump Takes Campaign to Midwest as Democrats Kick Off Convention Week

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On the day the Democratic Party began its virtual convention, the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, brought his campaign to the heart of the upper Midwest.  In campaign-style stops at airports in Minnesota and Wisconsin on Monday — replicating the rock music soundtracks of his “Make America Great Again” political rallies — the president, speaking to invited clusters of supporters on the tarmacs, accused his presumptive election opponent of being a clueless puppet of “left-wing fascists.”  A victory by the opposition party in November, Trump warned, would mean open borders, economic collapse and other perceived calamities.  Supporters cheer as Presidentmore

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Climate Activists, Traditionalists Square Off in Harvard Alumni Board Vote

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A Harvard University board election pits proponents of two popular causes against each other: those focused on climate change and those who want to keep money and what they describe as special interests out of the contest.Votes are due Tuesday for five open seats on the Harvard University Board of Overseers, a 30-member alumni body that helps set strategy for the Cambridge, Mass. School.Usually nominees come from Harvard’s alumni association. But five of this year’s 13 candidates were nominated by Harvard Forward, a campaign by recent graduates who want the school to divest fossil fuel assets from its $41 billionmore

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Feds Urge Judge to OK Prison Deals for Loughlin, Giannulli

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Federal prosecutors urged a judge Monday to accept deals that call for “Full House” actor Lori Loughlin to spend two months in prison and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, to serve five months for paying half a million dollars to bribe their daughters’ way into college. Ahead of the famous couple’s scheduled sentencing hearings Friday, prosecutors said in court filings that the proposed prison terms are comparable to the sentences other prominent parents charged in the case have received, while accounting for Loughlin and Giannulli’s “repeated and deliberate conduct” and their “decision to allow their children to become complicit inmore

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Trump Says He Wants Faster Postal Service

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President Donald Trump said Monday he wants to “speed up” U.S. mail delivery even as opposition Democrats are planning to vote this week to curb changes at the Postal Service they claim would inhibit the processing of an expected sharp increase in mailed-in ballots in November’s national presidential election.“I have encouraged everybody to speed up the mail, not slow the mail,” Trump told reporters outside the White House, before leaving for campaign appearances in the Midwestern states of Minnesota and Wisconsin.Trump said last week he opposes $28 billion in new funding for the postal agency, part of it to paymore

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Delaware Residents Welcome Back Joe Biden as DNC Moves Online

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The Democratic National Convention this year is entirely virtual, with speakers beamed in from locations around the country. But one small city that rarely gets national media attention is in the spotlight, presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden’s hometown. Esha Sarai reports from Wilmington, Delaware on how residents are anticipating all of the attention.Camera: Esha Sarai     Produced by: Esha Sarai …

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Students Protest Tuition Hikes as Universities Continue Online

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Most U.S. universities are returning to online learning in their fall schedules as the coronavirus pandemic continues, and students are challenging paying full tuition.   Many universities are operating hybrid models — combining courses in person and courses online — while others are remaining online only for the 2020-2021 academic year.  As of July 29, 23.5% of nearly 3,000 U.S. universities and colleges are planning for fully in-person or primarily in-person classes, 14% are proposing hybrid models, and 30% are planning for a fully online or primarily online fall semester, according to data from The Chronicle of Higher Education and Davidsonmore

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Q&A: What’s Happening at the US Postal Service, And Why?

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The U.S. Postal Service is warning states it cannot guarantee that all ballots cast by mail for the Nov. 3 election will arrive in time to be counted, even if ballots are mailed by state deadlines. That’s raising the possibility that millions of voters could be disenfranchised. It’s the latest chaotic and confusing development involving the agency, which has found itself in the middle of a high-stakes election year debate over who gets to vote in America, and how. Those questions are particularly potent in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, which has led many Americans to consider voting bymore

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Trump Making Campaign Stops During Biden’s Convention Week

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U.S. President Donald Trump is campaigning in key battleground election states and blanketing many Americans’ computer screens with his political ads during former Vice President Joe Biden’s Democratic convention week.Trump is visiting four states that could prove crucial for his chances to win a second four-year term in the White House, starting Monday with stops in the midwestern cities of Mankato, Minnesota and Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  Then he is flying to the southwestern city of Yuma, Arizona on Tuesday and to near Biden’s boyhood home in the northeastern city of Scranton, Pennsylvania on Thursday, the same day Biden makes his presidential nomination acceptancemore

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Students Call for Radical Changes to Thailand Government

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Thousands of protesters called for radical changes to the Thai government Sunday — the latest in near daily protests lead by students against the government.Bangkok police estimated 10,000 attendees, which would make the demonstration the largest Thailand has seen since the 2014 coup. Student leaders are demanding new elections to form a new parliament, including the dismissal of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a former general who took power in the 2014 coup and won disputed elections last year. But Sunday’s protests also called for changes to the monarchy  a sensitive subject in Thailand, where anyone criticizing the Royal Family may face long prisonmore

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A Century After Gaining Right to Vote, Do Women Still Face Voter Suppression?

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Feminists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries fervently campaigned for women’s suffrage in the United States by organizing, petitioning and picketing.  One hundred years ago this month they were finally granted the right to vote through passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. From the time the amendment was introduced to Congress in 1878, it took more than 40 years for it to be passed and then ratified by three-quarters of the states. The fight to vote goes back to the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Held at Weslyan Methodist Church, the convention was attended by an estimated 300 people, including abolitionist Frederick Douglass. No women of color were present.  The church is now part of the Women’s Rights At the first women’s rights convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the principle author of the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that called for equality with men, includingmore

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Рай совдепії із безкоштовною освітою, яка насправді була платною. Міфи пропаганди

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Рай совдепії із безкоштовною освітою, яка насправді була платною. Міфи пропаганди.       Для поширення вашого відео чи повідомлення в Мережі Правди пишіть сюди, або на email: pravdaua@email.cz     Найкращі пропозиції товарів і послуг в Мережі Купуй!     Ваші потенційні клієнти про потрібні їм товари і послуги пишуть тут: MeNeedit  

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Хабаровск идет по стопам Беларуси

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Хабаровск идет по стопам Беларуси. 36 дней подряд, 6-е выходные подряд – это все про Хабаровск, который продолжает выходить и требовать справедливость в отношении Сергея Фургала. И с событиями в Беларуси российская повестка заметно ушла в тень. Но ведь события у соседей могут послужить примером, что когда граждане едины и видят несправедливость – они способны добиться своих целей, главное поддержка всей страны       Для распространения вашего видео или сообщения в Сети Правды пишите сюда, или на email: pravdaua@email.cz     Лучшие предложения товаров и услуг в Сети SeLLines     Ваши потенциальные клиенты о нужных им товарах иmore

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Эрдоган оторвал пукину трубу. Турция променяла газпром на азербайджанский газ

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Эрдоган оторвал пукину трубу. Турция променяла газпром на азербайджанский газ. По данным ФТС, в июне в Турцию было прокачано всего 2 миллиона кубометров газа – в 1127 раз меньше, чем в январе, и 585 раз меньше, чем в тот же месяц год назад       Для распространения вашего видео или сообщения в Сети Правды пишите сюда, или на email: pravdaua@email.cz     Лучшие предложения товаров и услуг в Сети SeLLines     Ваши потенциальные клиенты о нужных им товарах и услугах пишут здесь: MeNeedit  

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Сырьевой коллапс: роснефть и газпром летят в тартарары имени обиженного карлика пукина

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Сырьевой коллапс: роснефть и газпром летят в тартарары имени обиженного карлика пукина. Нет времени на раскачку, сказала правящая верхушка путляндии в 2020 году, и бросилась в экономическую пропасть       Для распространения вашего видео или сообщения в Сети Правды пишите сюда, или на email: pravdaua@email.cz     Лучшие предложения товаров и услуг в Сети SeLLines     Ваши потенциальные клиенты о нужных им товарах и услугах пишут здесь: MeNeedit  

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Прозрел обиженный карлик пукин: путляндии выставляют счёт за Грузию и Азербайджан

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Прозрел обиженный карлик пукин: путляндии выставляют счёт за Грузию и Азербайджан. Спустя два дня после предъявления США счёта путляндии за Грузию ей также выставила Турция счёт за Азербайджан. Формально это счёт Армении, но реально – обиженному карлику пукину       Для распространения вашего видео или сообщения в Сети Правды пишите сюда, или на email: pravdaua@email.cz     Лучшие предложения товаров и услуг в Сети SeLLines     Ваши потенциальные клиенты о нужных им товарах и услугах пишут здесь: MeNeedit  

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America Marks 100th Anniversary of Women’s Voting Rights

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Feminists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries fervently campaigned for women’s suffrage in the United States by organizing, petitioning and picketing.  One hundred years ago this month they were finally granted the right to vote through passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. From the time the amendment was introduced to Congress in 1878, it took more than 40 years for it to be passed and then ratified by three-quarters of the states. The fight to vote goes back to the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Held at Weslyan Methodist Church, the convention was attended by an estimated 300 people, including abolitionist Frederick Douglass. No women of color were present.  The church is now part of the Women’s Rights At the first women’s rights convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the principle author of the Declaration of Sentiments, a document that called for equality with men, includingmore

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100th Anniversary of US Women’s Voting Rights  

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One hundred years ago in August, U.S. women were granted the right to vote through the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment was introduced to Congress in 1878 and took more than 40 years to be passed and ratified by three-quarters of the states. VOA’S Deborah Block looks at the history of the women’s suffrage movement and women’s equality today.Produced by: Deborah Block, Kim Weeks   …

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