Tag: 2020 US election

• Sunday, November 8th 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Biden's victory speech: time for healing, “let's lower the temperature and listen to each other again”

  

  President-elect Joe Biden declared it was “time to heal” America in his first speech after prevailing on Saturday in a bitter election, even as President Donald Trump refused to concede. Biden made his speech to the Nation from HQ in Wilmington, Delaware, the state he represented in Congress since first elected at age 27.

• Friday, October 30th 2020 - 13:00 UTC

  Argentina and Mexico “vote” for Biden and delay nominations at IDB until after the US election

  

  Mexico and Argentina have delayed a key meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank until after the Nov. 3 U.S. election, delivering an early setback to plans by the bank’s new U.S. chief to install vice presidents from smaller countries.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2020 - 18:16 UTC

  US energy sector anticipates sweeping changes is Biden reaches the White House

  

  Rapidan Energy Group predicts sweeping changes for the energy sector if former Vice President Joe Biden beats US President Donald Trump in November. Biden's policies would have global implications for energy trade, altering US/China relations, the pace of Iran's oil recovery, trans-Atlantic climate action and other factors.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2020 - 08:09 UTC

  Ahead of US presidential election, Facebook will affix labels to political ads shared by users

  

  Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would affix labels to political ads shared by users on their own feeds, closing what critics have said for years was a glaring loophole in the company’s election transparency measures.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 08:29 UTC

  White House confirms: no citizenship question in the U.S. 2020 census

  

  In a stinging defeat for President Donald Trump, his administration has ended its effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 US census, saying that it will begin printing forms that do not include the contentious query.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  In an open letter, US super rich want to pay higher taxes

  

  Some of America's richest people are urging US presidential candidates to back a wealth tax on the super-rich to improve inequality and climate change. “America has a moral, ethical and economic responsibility to tax our wealth more,” they said in a letter.

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 07:22 UTC

  New York mayor de Blasio expected to run for president in 2020

  

  US media have panned him as a potential presidential hopeful and polls suggest an uphill battle, but New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was nonetheless expected Thursday to jump into the crowded 2020 race.