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Will Smith reveals title of his upcoming memoir, calls it 'labour of love'
Will Smith's inspirational memoir is set to be published by Penguin Press on November 9 and will explore his personal trajectory from his childhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to his iconic roles in 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and an array of hit films like 'Ali' (2001) and 'Hitch' (2005).
Updated on Jun 20, 2021 07:21 PM IST
ANI |
Groundhog Day: Not snow nor pandemic keeps Punxsutawney Phil from his job
The spectacle that is Groundhog Day at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, will still go on but because of the coronavirus pandemic, revelers won't be able to see him and celebrate in person: This year, it's all virtual.
Published on Feb 02, 2021 05:10 PM IST
AP |
New Covid-19 variant found in eight US states: Official data
The strain has also been found in Colorado, Texas, New York, Georgia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, in a total of 63 cases.
Published on Jan 09, 2021 02:45 PM IST
AFP |
Trump again turns to top court, challenging Pennsylvania loss
The latest filing, announced on Sunday, takes the unorthodox step of trying to overturn three separate Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions with a single appeal.
Updated on Dec 21, 2020 09:29 AM IST
Bloomberg| Posted by Mallika Soni
Customer leaves $5,000 tip for waitress, restaurant shares ‘thank you’ post
This post was shared on Anthony’s At Paxon’s Facebook page, an Italian restaurant in Pennsylvania, US.
Published on Dec 16, 2020 08:41 AM IST
Sanya Budhiraja
Joe Biden captures electoral votes from all states Donald Trump contested
Many Republicans have refused to recognize Biden’s victory, indulging Trump’s baseless claims about a stolen election and saying he had a right to pursue legal challenges and to let the process play out.
Updated on Dec 15, 2020 02:45 AM IST
Bloomberg | Posted by Kanishka Sarkar
Supreme Court dismisses GOP lawsuit; Biden names Austin as defence secretary
Austin will become the first Black person to lead the Pentagon if he is confirmed by Senate. Announcing the nomination, Biden said Austin had shown “exemplary leadership, character, and command”.
Updated on Dec 09, 2020 12:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington | Yashwant Raj , edited by Vinod Janardhanan
US Supreme Court rejects Pennsylvania Republicans’ attempt to block Biden victory
According to The Hill, the Tuesday order, which was unsigned and included no noted dissents, came ahead of the midnight “safe harbour” deadline, which provides states with a kind of immunity from congressional oversight into the election results that are certified in time.
Published on Dec 09, 2020 11:30 AM IST
Washington | Asian News International| Posted by Mallika Soni
Biden assembles administration as Trump cries foul in another call-in
Trump called into a briefing his lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis gave Republican legislators of Arizona, which has been wrongly portrayed as a “hearing”, as he had in Pennsylvania last week.
Updated on Dec 01, 2020 10:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington | Yashwant Raj , edited by Vinod Janardhanan
US court tosses suit on mail-in votes
Pennsylvania officially certified Biden’s victory there on November 24. The lawsuit had also sought to stop certification.
Updated on Nov 30, 2020 05:05 AM IST
Washington | Agencies, Washington
Pennsylvania high court rejects lawsuit challenging election
The state Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, threw out the three-day-old order, saying the underlying lawsuit was filed months after the expiration of a time limit in Pennsylvania’s expansive year-old mail-in voting law allowing for challenges to it.
Updated on Nov 29, 2020 09:52 AM IST
Associated Press | Posted by Shivani Kumar
Donald Trump loses yet another legal battle, will campaign in Georgia
A US federal appeals court dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to block Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, from certifying President-elect Joe Biden as the winner
Updated on Nov 28, 2020 10:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington, DC | Yashwant Raj
Appeals court rejects Donald Trump’s challenge of Pennsylvania race
Trump’s lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court despite the judges’ assessment that the “campaign’s claims have no merit.”
Published on Nov 28, 2020 06:58 AM IST
Philadelphia | Associated Press | Posted by Arpan Rai
Donald Trump calls into Pennsylvania event, urges overturning election
Trump had planned to travel to the hearing in Gettysburg on Wednesday, people familiar with the matter said, but scrapped the trip earlier in the day. The hearing included a series of witnesses raising suspicions or allegations or wrongdoing, with few specifics.
Updated on Nov 26, 2020 04:53 PM IST
Bloomberg | Posted by Ayshee Bhaduri
Pennsylvania certifies Biden as winner of presidential vote
President Donald Trump, who lost the state’s 20 electoral votes to Biden, has made Pennsylvania a centerpiece of his unsuccessful legal attempts to invalidate the election results.
Published on Nov 24, 2020 09:44 PM IST
Harrisburg | Associated Press | Posted by Kunal Gaurav
Thanksgiving could make or break US coronavirus response
As governors and mayors grapple with an out-of-control pandemic, they are ratcheting up mask mandates and imposing restrictions on small indoor gatherings, which have been blamed for accelerating the spread of the coronavirus.
Updated on Nov 24, 2020 08:18 PM IST
Pennsylvania | Associated Press | Posted by Kunal Gaurav
Trump relents finally, tells officials to cooperate with Biden transition team
The president insisted he was not giving up. “Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail!” he wrote in a tweet.
Updated on Nov 24, 2020 10:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington | Yashwant Raj , edited by Vinod Janardhanan
Trump campaign asks appeals court to halt Biden from being declared Pennsylvania winner
The campaign said a lower-court judge erred in dismissing the case outright, rather than review additional allegations the campaign had dropped from the case but wanted to restore.
Updated on Nov 24, 2020 04:41 AM IST
Washington | Reuters | Posted by Shivani Kumar
Trump’s legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none
The strategy may have played well in front of television cameras and on talk radio to Trump’s supporters. But it has proved a disaster in court, where judges uniformly rejected their claims of vote fraud and found the campaign’s legal work amateurish.
Updated on Nov 23, 2020 04:16 AM IST
Philadelphia | Associated Press | Posted by Shivani Kumar
Trump campaign appeals dismissal of Pennsylvania election suit
The campaign’s filing on Sunday, with the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, had been expected.
Updated on Nov 23, 2020 03:19 AM IST
Bloomberg | Posted by Shivani Kumar
Why US judge termed Trump’s legal claim in Pennsylvania as ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’?
The judge said that the court has not been able to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought millions of votes to be invalidated.
Updated on Nov 22, 2020 04:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by Kunal Gaurav
Judge throws out Trump bid to stop Pennsylvania vote certification
US Middle District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, turned down the request for an injunction by President Donald Trump’s campaign, spoiling the incumbent’s hopes of somehow overturning the results of the presidential contest.
Updated on Nov 22, 2020 06:29 AM IST
Associated Press | Posted by Shivani Kumar
Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania lawsuit is ‘incoherent conspiracy,’ voters say
President Donald Trump has “utterly failed” to produce evidence of voter fraud while seeking to scrap tens of thousands of votes over technical disputes related to mail-in ballots, the groups said in a filing.
Updated on Nov 22, 2020 05:26 AM IST
Bloomberg | Posted by Srivatsan K C
Donald Trump’s challenge to election results hits hardest at Black voters
While the Trump campaign says it is merely targeting places where fraud is most likely to have occurred, the racial cast to the president’s attempt to cling to power has drawn criticism from Democrats.
Updated on Nov 21, 2020 05:31 PM IST
Bloomberg | Posted by Arpan Rai
US judge skeptical of Donald Trump bid to halt Joe Biden win in Pennsylvania
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said during the hearing that there was “widespread, nationwide voter fraud” in the Nov. 3 election, as the Republican president also has claimed, but offered no evidence.
Updated on Nov 18, 2020 06:34 AM IST
Reuters | Reuters | Poste by Kanishka Sarkar
President Donald Trump drops key claim in Pennsylvania lawsuit over US election result
The campaign had in an earlier lawsuit sought to block the state from certifying its election result and asked for setting aside 682,479 ballots that it alleged had been counted “illegally, in secret” as its poll watchers were not allowed to observe the counting
Updated on Nov 16, 2020 10:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington, DC | Yashwant Raj
Donald Trump’s campaign drops claim of illegal absentee ballots in Pennsylvania lawsuit
Ahead of a Tuesday hearing in the case, Trump’s campaign dropped the allegation that hundreds of thousands of mail-in and absentee ballots, 682,479, to be precise, were illegally processed without its representatives watching
Updated on Nov 16, 2020 01:03 PM IST
Pennsylvania | Associated Press | Posted by Ayshee Bhaduri
‘No evidence’ of lost or changed votes: US election officials
The statement came hours after Trump retweeted a baseless claim that an election equipment maker “deleted” 2.7 million votes for him nationwide and switched hundreds of thousand from him to Biden in Pennsylvania and other states.
Updated on Nov 13, 2020 06:29 AM IST
Washington | Agence France-Presse | Posted by Kanishka Sarkar
Trump challenges Pennsylvania voting, ropes in attorney general
Trump has refused to accept the outcome of the election called for Biden unanimously by media outlets, not conceded the election and continued to file lawsuits.
Updated on Nov 10, 2020 11:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Washington | Yashwant Raj , edited by Vinod Janardhanan
‘A history of election problems in this country’: Trump tweets again
“We should look at the votes. We’re just beginning the tabulation stage. We should look at these allegations. We’re seeing a number of affidavits that there has been voter fraud,” Trump tweeted.
Updated on Nov 08, 2020 08:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by Prashasti Singh