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Ajit Singh Dies of Covid-19 : He was diagnosed with Covid, his son said in tweets. New Delhi: Ajit Singh, Union Minister in several governments and one of India's senior most politicians, died on Thursday at 82. The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief had been battling Covid, his son Jayant Chaudhary tweeted. Ajit Singh was diagnosed with Covid on April 20, his son said in tweets. “He battled his condition till the very end and breathed his last today morning,” he said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among those who paid tribute to the politician, known to be a prominent voice of farmers.

US President Joe Biden made his first speech to Congress on Wednesday, marking the eve of his first 100 days in office. He began by paying tribute to his vice president, Kamala Harris, who was standing behind him alongside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying it was about time a president got to say “Madame Vice President”. He went on to lay out an ambitious plan to rebuild the United States in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the damage wrought in deaths and economic destruction. John Nichols, the national affairs correspondent at The Nation, said it was a “classic” presidential s...

By James Finck • 8 hours ago Dr. James Finck All Americans should be concerned about President Biden’s recent executive order on gun control. Try to forget for a moment, if you can, whether you agree with Biden or not and try instead to focus on the procedure. Biden is falling back on the two justifications that other presidents have used to skirt the Constitution, that Congress is not doing its job and that he is only following the will of the American people. However, is that statement true?  In some ways, yes. But, historically speaking, presidents were never supposed to represent th...