WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump will leave the White House Wednesday with the lowest approval rating of his presidency, with just 34 percent of Americans supporting the job he has done, a Gallup poll showed. Gallup noted that Trump’s average approval rating during his one-term presidency was…

US President-elect Joe Biden WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — On his first day in office, US President-elect Joe Biden, plans to issue a number of executive orders, including one rescinding the controversial travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries.According to a memo circulated by Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming White House…

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US law enforcement agencies are screening National Guard members to make sure they do not pose a security risk during President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, a four-star general said. Following the Jan 6 riots at the Capitol building in support of outgoing President Donald Trump, it…

LIMA, Jan 18 (NNN-TELESUR) — Lima’s Special Electoral Jury (JEE) excluded Peru’s former President Martin Vizcarra’s (2018-2020) candidacy for Congress over the omission of information about his personal incomes.  The JEE concluded that Vizcarra did not specify all the information about the incomes received from the company Agrotecnica Estuquiña SA, of…

BRASILIA, Jan 18 (NNN-TELESUR) — Hundreds of people made their pots and pan ring out to demand Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro’s resignation due to his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The protest was driven by the chaotic situation in the state of Amazonas, where its capital Manaus experienced a serious lack of hospital beds and…

BUENOS AIRES, Jan 18 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Argentina confirmed the first case in the country of a new coronavirus variant that was first identified in Britain and appears to be more contagious. The new variant was detected in a traveler who arrived asymptomatic in Argentina from Germany at the end of…

SANTIAGO, Jan 18 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chile’s Electoral body reported that more than 3,300 hopefuls have applied for selection to the commission that will rewrite the country’s current constitution, a legacy of dictator General Augusto Pinochet who ruled the country from 1973 to 1990. Applicants had until midnight to register their…

US-bound Honduran migrants clash with Guatemalan soldiers in Vado Hondo, Guatemala VADO HONDO (Guatemala), Jan 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Guatemalan security forces used sticks and tear gas to beat back a large migrant caravan bound for the United States, just days before the advent of a new US administration, which urged travelers…