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July 26, 2025

Month: August 2020

Article

Trump to blast Biden as ‘extreme’ in convention speech

August 27, 2020 Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and Kevin Freking, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump plans to tell voters that Democratic rival Joe Biden would pursue the “most extreme set of proposals ever put forward by a major party nominee” when he delivers his […]

Article

Walmart may join Microsoft in bid for video app TikTok

August 27, 2020 Joseph Pisani and Zen Soo, Associated Press

Walmart said Thursday it may join Microsoft to buy the U.S. business of TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned video app that has come under fire from the Trump administration. Microsoft and TikTok declined to comment Thursday. […]

Features

 Smile!: Katy Perry gives birth to a baby girl named Daisy

August 27, 2020 The Associated Press

Katy Perry has given birth to a baby girl named Daisy Dove Bloom. The pop superstar and her partner, actor Orlando Bloom, got UNICEF to announce the news on its Instagram account. Both Perry and […]

Eamon Queeney—The North State Journal
Article

ECU postpones football season opener against Marshall

August 27, 2020 Brett Friedlander

For the second time this week, an in-state college football team has been forced to postpone its season-opening game because of the coronavirus. East Carolina athletic director Jon Gilbert announced Thursday that the Pirates’ game […]

Article

The American Dream of entrepreneurship

August 27, 2020 Carrie Prejean

In 2009 when I was Miss California USA, Donald J. Trump called me into his office. He sat me down and asked an unexpected question — “What do you want to do in life?” Immediately […]

Article

Trump: Acting homeland security secretary will lead agency

August 27, 2020 Ben Fox, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will nominate acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf for the top spot in the agency, rewarding a forceful advocate for administration policy whose leadership has […]

Article

Final 2 Mississippi flag proposals: Shield vs. magnolia

August 27, 2020 Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. — As Mississippi replaces its former flag that had the Confederate battle emblem, five proposals were literally run up a flagpole Tuesday. A group then narrowed the choice to two designs: One with […]

Business

Fed: Rates to stay ultra-low even after inflation picks up

August 27, 2020 Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Reserve announced a significant change Thursday in how it manages interest rates by saying it plans to keep rates near zero even after inflation has exceeded the Fed’s 2% target […]

Business

Nordstrom’s 2Q sales down 53% hurt by pandemic fallout

August 27, 2020 Anne D'Innocenzio, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Nordstrom Inc. on Tuesday reported a larger-than-expected loss and a 53% drop in sales for its fiscal second quarter, during which the pandemic forced the upscale department store chain to temporarily close […]

Article

Pence defends police during Wednesday keynote

August 27, 2020 Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and Kevin Freking, Associated Press

BALTIMORE — Vice President Mike Pence forcefully defended law enforcement as he addressed Republican convention proceedings that unfolded amid new protests in Wisconsin. Wednesday evening’s featured speaker, Pence argued that Democratic leaders are allowing lawlessness […]

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