US Election Special

How to manage Election Induced Anxiety


By Juhee Jhalani Ph.D. Do you find yourself compulsively checking the news over your phone? Scrolling endlessly through social media channels for updates about the upcoming election? Are you losing sleep feeling tense about the outcome of the election? Do you catch yourself overthinking if the election doesn’t go the way you would prefer it...

‘Pathetic’ that Pompeo promised to release more of her emails before election: Hillary


New York: Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said it was "pathetic" that State Secretary Mike Pompeo promised the release more of her emails ahead of the 2020 election. Pompeo made the pledge to release more of Clinton's State Department emails in an interview with Fox News earlier this month, saying "we've got the emails, we're...

Trump makes gains but Biden still leads in battlegrounds


Washington: President Donald Trump gained on his Democratic challenger Joe Biden in national polling averages, and in nine of 12 contested states. But Biden still holds a sizable lead in the national polls and is still ahead of Trump in 10 of the 12 states that could decide the election. Biden's average lead is only 3...

Fox’s news section ‘found no role for Joe Biden’ in Hunter deals


New York: A Fox News investigation "found no role for Joe Biden" in the business dealing of his son, Hunter, the network said on Sunday. The admission was made by Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins, reports Salon. Jenkins explained that the news organization had been provided documents by Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden's former business partner. "You're talking about...

Justice Barrett pledges independence


Washington: After Judge Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed by a partisan GOP vote on Monday evening following a rapid process to get her on the Supreme Court before Election Day, she was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas and declared her “independence” as a judge from private political preferences. “It is the job of a senator to pursue...

Trump stands for America, prosperity and freedom


Exclusive to The SATimes By Christopher Hyland Deputy Political Director for Ethnic Constituencies - 1992 Clinton for President Campaign   President Trump leads America to social, international and economic achievement exemplified by: Federal prison reform resulting in thousands being released from Biden supported draconian Clinton era laws; Middle East and Kosovo/Serb Peace; and the highest levels of employment, pre Covid-19, in...

Last bastion of democracy – and decency strikes back


In the next couple of days, America’s great experiment of democracy is at risk of failing. In 1776, disgusted with monarchy and fearful that the US would succumb to tyranny, our Founding Fathers set up a three-branch system of government. Today it faces its greatest challenge, the stress of which is shredding the very...

What If? Three possible outcomes of Election 2020


By Nawaz Merchant Days to go before the November 3 election, tensions are high. Counselors report record levels of anxiety from seniors suffering loneliness and financial worry; from working people of whom twelve million have lost jobs; students missing social connection; many blacks feel their very existence threatened; youth concerned about climate change, unable to...

Kamala’s niece angers Hindus and irks Dems for showing her as Durga


By Surekha Vijh Washington DC: Hindu groups are seeking an apology from Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s niece, Meena Harris, for tweeting an image showing Harris as Goddess Durga. The image showed the Senator with a trident slaying President Trump depicted as buffalo-demon Mahishasura, and Joe Biden as lion, Durga’s vahana. "Your tweeting a caricature of the feminine divine, Maa Durga, with...