2020 Election Live Updates: Trump Administration Continues Attacks on Mail-In Voting

2020 Election Live Updates: Trump Administration Continues Attacks on Mail-In Voting

A new paper by an M.I.T. elections expert predicts that the outcome of this year’s presidential election — and the problem known as the “lost vote,” in which legitimate ballots go uncounted — could fuel post-election allegations of a rigged election. The paper, by Charles Stewart III, highlights how Mr. Trump’s claims about problems with … Read more

Police video depicting me as a free man a white lie: Congress leader Saifuddin Soz reconfirms ‘house arrest’

Police video depicting me as a free man a white lie: Congress leader Saifuddin Soz reconfirms ‘house arrest’

Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Saifuddin Soz on Friday claimed that the government had resorted to underhanded means to make false claims about his freedom. Saifuddin Soz has allegedly been under house arrest since August 5, the day Article 370 was abrogated. The government has told the Supreme Court that he was never … Read more

Back to school: Gear for teachers who want to up their online game | ZDNet

Back to school: Gear for teachers who want to up their online game | ZDNet

Education takes on all forms. There’s traditional K-12, college, corporate communication and training, specialized online resources, and even YouTube. In this back-to-school guide, I’m not going to limit my suggestions to one discipline of education.  I’m also staying away from software recommendations because teachers need a lot of different types of software, but much of … Read more

View: Credit offtake, increasing business confidence could be the focus of MPC review meet

View: Credit offtake, increasing business confidence could be the focus of MPC review meet

By Saugata BhattacharyaConcerns on persisting, higher-than-expected consumer price index (CPI) inflation will prompt some questions on further easing at the next Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC) review meeting. But the main concern will remain growth contraction and demand destruction.The balance of probability is that MPC will pause on a further cut (after a sequence of cuts … Read more

Hedge fund star charged with indecent assault

Hedge fund star charged with indecent assault

Image copyright Shutterstock Crispin Odey, one of Britain’s highest-profile hedge fund managers and political donors, has been charged with indecent assault. He is alleged to have assaulted a woman over the age of 16, at an address in Chelsea in July 1998, the Crown Prosecution Service said. Mr Odey, a backer of Brexit and Boris … Read more

Why Black women are more likely to have fibroids than any other race group

Why Black women are more likely to have fibroids than any other race group

“It was like I was four months pregnant,” the 23-year-old told CNN. She had also been experiencing heavy menstrual bleeding for years, with her periods sometimes lasting for up to 10 days. “I was wearing double pads and changing almost by the hour,” Odili said. The writer, from Nigeria, would also become doubled over with … Read more

Why the R number is important to fight coronavirus

Why the R number is important to fight coronavirus

Governments around the world keep talking about R0, also known as the “Reproduction-number” or “R-number”. It’s a measurement that lots of countries are using when it comes to making decisions about lockdowns, what restrictions should be kept in place and which ones should be lifted. But what exactly is the R number and why does … Read more