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A largely virtual St. Patrick's Day was planned for New York City on Wednesday, one year after the annual parade celebrating Irish heritage became one of the city's first coronavirus casualties. Although the city's usual huge parade with floats and marching bands was canceled, Mayor Bill de Blasio joined parade leaders and several dozen National Guard troops in marching up Madison Avenue early Wednesday morning to keep the tradition alive. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3lmTsLg

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A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive, with the head of Homeland Security acknowledging the depth of the problem but insisting it's under control and saying he won't revive a Trump-era practice of immediately expelling teens and children. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3rXQDCG

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The United States on Wednesday identified 24 more senior Chinese officials it classifies as being instrumental in quashing Hong Kong's freedoms as it warned foreign banks were now banned from doing any business with them. The decision came shortly before talks were set to begin between senior US and Chinese officials in Alaska -- the first such meeting since President Joe Biden took office -- and Beijing blasted the latest designation. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3bS64H8

At the Custard Stand restaurant in Webster Springs, West Virginia, Angie Cowger worries Democrats' goal of raising the hourly minimum wage to $15 would be the death knell for her business. Roughly half her employees make about $9 an hour. Cowger can't imagine raising prices on hot dogs and ice cream by enough to cover $15, so she would expect to lay off workers, perhaps having customers place orders on a screen rather than with a cashier. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/30NJvwW

Republican voters in the United States are increasingly hostile toward illegal immigrants, Reuters/Ipsos polling shows, an unease that the Republican Party is moving to capitalize on in its bid to retake Congress. The poll findings, based on surveys conducted before and after Donald Trump's presidency, show that Republicans are becoming more unified around the former president's hardline views on immigration, even as the rest of the country has become more welcoming. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3vxFdYA

Some nations, mostly European, suspended the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, which also has a tie-up with the Serum Institute of India, after some reports of blood clotting. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3lmbkpA

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"I would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly," Trump said during an interview. This was Trump's most explicit endorsement for the national mass vaccination campaign since he left office in January. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3vAGVIE

Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to help Donald Trump in last November's presidential election, according to a declassified intelligence assessment that found broad efforts by the Kremlin and Iran to shape the outcome of the race. Tuesday's report also says China "considered but did not deploy" influence operations intended to affect the outcome. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/38NrHX7

The US sanctioned an additional 24 Chinese and Hong Kong officials over Beijing's ongoing crackdown on political freedoms in the semi-autonomous city, including a decision to overhaul Hong Kong's electoral system. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cCZWlb

The US sanctioned an additional 24 Chinese and Hong Kong officials over Beijing's ongoing crackdown on political freedoms in the semi-autonomous city, including a decision to overhaul Hong Kong's electoral system. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3cCZWlb

"I would recommend it to a lot of people that don't want to get it and a lot of those people voted for me, frankly," Trump said during an interview. This was Trump's most explicit endorsement for the national mass vaccination campaign since he left office in January. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3vAGVIE

Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized influence operations to help Donald Trump in last November's presidential election, according to a declassified intelligence assessment that found broad efforts by the Kremlin and Iran to shape the outcome of the race. Tuesday's report also says China "considered but did not deploy" influence operations intended to affect the outcome. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/38NrHX7

President Joe Biden has said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should resign if the state attorney general's investigation confirms the sexual harassment allegations against him. Cuomo is facing allegations that he sexually harassed or behaved inappropriately toward multiple women, including several former staffers. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/3ttFREJ

Russia sought to undermine Biden's candidacy because it viewed his presidency as opposed to the Kremlin's interests, though it took some steps to prepare for a Democratic administration as the election neared, according to a declassified US intelligence assessment. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/30NEqVr

Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said Tuesday. A 21-year-old man was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, US Election 2020 news on Times of India https://ift.tt/38PZzT9

In what left many flummoxed here, the Chinese embassy announced, apparently for the purpose of resuming people-to-people exchanges in an orderly manner, that it will restart normal visa services for people who have been administered a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine. Although China has made similar announcements in 19 other countries, India is not among the nations where any Chinese vaccine is available. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2P0birc