- PoliticsThe Telegraph
Former US election security chief says Trump team's fraud allegations are 'farcical'
The top US cybersecurity official fired by Republican President Donald Trump for saying the November 3 election was the most secure in American history said on Friday that voter fraud allegations made by Mr Trump and his allies are "farcical". Chris Krebs, the former director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told the CBS 60 Minutes program that allegations of US voting machines being manipulated by foreign countries were baseless. Sidney Powell, a Trump attorney cut loose by the Trump legal team this week, had put forward a conspiracy theory that election systems created in Venezuela at the behest of the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez helped tip the US election to Democratic President-elect Joe Biden. She and others have also alleged that voting machines had flipped votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden and some US voting information was stored on servers in Germany.
- PoliticsCosmo
Trump had a tantrum-style meltdown and Twitter has exploded
His tiny desk has been getting a lot of attention too...
- PoliticsThe Independent
Where could Donald Trump move if he loses the election?
President Trump said in October that he might have to leave the country if he is beaten by Joe Biden. He now trails the Democrat in most of the key states remaining to be declared
- CelebrityINSIDER
14 celebrities who have come out as LGBTQ in 2020
Stars like Lili Reinhart, Nikki Blonsky, Niecy Nash, and Jameela Jamil have all come out this year.
- PoliticsMiami Herald
Trump laying national-security landmines that could blow up in Biden’s face | Opinion
One could almost hear a collective national sigh of relief over the announcement by Emily Murphy, the Trump loyalist who heads the General Services Administration, that presidential transition planning could begin. Nevertheless, the Trump administration continues to inflict, unabated, grave damage on the nation’s well-being, whether driven by anger and intent, incompetence, spite or some perverse combination of all of these.
- BusinessYahoo Finance
24 nations with highest external debt; How much does India owe?
External debt is the portion of a country's debt that is borrowed from foreign lenders, including commercial banks, governments or international financial institutions. These loans, including interest, must usually be paid in the currency in which the loan was made. To earn the required currency, the borrowing country may sell and export goods to the lending country.With great external debt comes great responsibility. Countries resort to foreign borrowing to maintain financial liquidity and stimulate growth. For rich nations facing a downturn, taking a loan at low interest rates can be more desirable than raising taxes. For emerging nations, this kind of financing is even more essential to cover for domestic resource gaps and pay for programmes that can help reduce poverty and foster longer-term growth. There is, however, a well-known problem with debts: borrowing money is easier than paying it back.A debt crisis can occur if a country with a weak economy is not able to repay the external debt due to an inability to produce and sell goods and make a profitable return. The International Monetary Fund is one of the agencies that keeps track of countries' external debt. The World Bank, too, publishes a quarterly report on external debt statistics.If a nation is unable, or refuses, to repay its external debt, it is said to be in sovereign default. This can lead to the lenders withholding future releases of assets that might be needed by the borrowing nation. Such instances can have a rolling effect. The borrower’s currency may collapse and the nation’s overall economic growth will stall.Here is a list of countries by external debt as of early 2020. Where does India stand in this list? Guess which country has maximum external debt?Reference source: www.gfmag.com, wikipedia, investopedia
- PoliticsFirstpost
Milwaukee County vote recount ends with Joe Biden adding 132 votes to his margin
The US president-elect won Wisconsin by nearly 20,600 votes, and his margin in Milwaukee and Dane counties was about 2-to-1













