Qatar Tribune - United States

Ailyn Agonia
DOHA
As the US enters the final weeks of the presidential election and with more than 22 million ballots already cast former vice president Joe Biden maintains lead over President Donald Trump in national polls.
However in the latest Washington Foreign Press Centers virtual briefing Dr Doug Schwartz Director and Vice President of Quinnipiac University Poll has remin

AFP
Washington
President Donald Trump and rival Joe Biden hit the ground Sunday in the swing states that will decide the US election as the campaign turns increasingly vicious 16 days before voting.
Trump scrambling to make up lost ground is on a furious multi-state barnstorming tour hopping from Nevada to California and then back to Nevada for a day of rallies and fundraising.

DPA
Washington
Over 50000 homes and businesses in California are without power on Thursday as the electricity authority seeks to prevent wildfires during a heatwave.
The western USstates Pacific Gas and Electricity Company (PG&E) said it made the power cuts to residents in 24 Northern California counties because high winds combined with low humidity and severely dry vegetation

Washington The US Senate Judiciary Committee will vote next week on Judge Amy Coney Barretts Supreme Court nomination Senator Lindsey Graham said on Thursday.
The vote on October 22 will take place as Senate Republicans push for the rapid confirmation of the 48-year-old conservative jurist before the presidential elections on November 3.
The full Senate will vote on Barretts nominat

AFP
Newton US
Americans are voting early in record numbers with more than 17 million casting their ballots already ahead of the November 3 election between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump.
And while the result of the White House race will not be known until Election Day the early vote indications appear to favor the 77-year-old Biden who has a double-digit lead over T

Ailyn Agonia
Doha
AMERICA is in the middle of what is often described as the most historic US election in a generation and all eyes are on the so-called battleground states or states that remain competitive- that is either candidate has a chance to win.
In the latest Elections 2020 Virtual Reporting Tour (VRT) a programme to enable international journalists to remotely cover t

AFP
Washington
Two captive Americans were freed on Wednesday in Yemen as more than 200 supporters of the countrys Houthi rebels were allowed to return home in an apparent swap involving Saudi Arabia and Oman.
The White House announced the release of US citizens Sandra Loli and Mikael Gidada saying that the two had been held captive by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who control m

AFP
Washington
Donald Trump and White House challenger Joe Biden will duel for airtime in rival televised town hall events on Thursday night after their second head-to-head debate was scrapped following the presidents COVID-19 diagnosis.
Trump set up the scheduling clash by organising his own town hall on NBC at the same time as Biden had arranged his event on ABC.
The presiden

WASHINGTON: AmyConey Barrett deflected when asked questions about presidential powers on the second day of the USSupreme Court nominees confirmation hearing in the Senate while lawmakers also pushed on abortion gun rights and health care.
Does a president have an absolute right to pardon himself? Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy asked onWednesday the second and final day of

DPA
Washington
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked the US top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci arguing that his predictions about how to respond to the novel coronavirus are inaccurate.
Actually Tonys pitching arm is far more accurate than his prognostications. No problem no masks. WHO no longer likes Lockdowns - just came out against. Trump was righ