As he pushed the narrative that President Donald Trump could still win another term, Vice President Mike Pence gave a shout out to Texas. “I don’t know if you’ve heard about it,” Pence said last week during a speech in Georgia. “So far, just in the last few days, 18 states have joined the Lone Star State to defend the …

Social network firm Reddit said here on Sunday it would buy short-video platform Dubsmash, becoming the latest company to expand in a space dominated by Chinese-owned TikTok. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but a spokeswoman for Reddit said the acquisition was based on a combination of cash and stock. The success of ByteDance’s TikTok has prompted …

Texas families and educators had a flood of questions after state officials made a big announcement that the STAAR tests will be given this school year. State officials announced on Thursday that schools and districts won’t receive letter grades for the 2020-21 school year, but the state tests will still be administered on campus or at other in-person testing sites. Students …

WASHINGTON: Hackers believed to be working for Russia have been monitoring internal email traffic at the US Treasury and Commerce departments, according to people familiar with the matter, adding they feared the hacks uncovered so far may be the tip of the iceberg. The hack is so serious it led to a National Security Council meeting at the White House …

SINGAPORE: Singapore has approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s novel coronavirus vaccine and expects to receive shots by year-end, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday, adding that he planned to be among the early vaccine recipients. The city-state of 5.7 million people expects to have enough vaccines for everyone by the third quarter of 2021 and will make it free for citizens …

LONDON: A single-patient study conducted by British scientists has found that Gilead’s antiviral drug remdesivir could be highly effective against COVID-19, raising questions about previous studies that found it had no impact on death rates from the disease. Published in the journal Nature Communications, the study describes how doctors who gave the drug to a patient with both COVID-19 and …

DORTMUND: Borussia Dortmund have sacked manager Lucien Favre following Saturday’s 5-1 loss at home to promoted VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga, the German club said on Sunday. “We are all grateful to Lucien Favre for his excellent work over the past 2-1/2 years, in which he and his team won two runner-up championships. As a professional and as a person, …

ABU DHABI: Red Bull driver Max Verstappen won the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in dominant style on Sunday for his second victory of the season and 10th of his career. He finished 16 seconds ahead of Valtteri Bottas and 18.4 clear of world champion Lewis Hamilton as Red Bull enjoyed a rare and significant success over both Mercedes cars. …

LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane scored his ninth Premier League goal of the season but Jeffrey Schlupp’s late equaliser left the leaders frustrated in a 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace on Sunday. Kane struck in the 23rd minute with a low long-range shot that decei­ved Palace keeper Vicente Guaita as Tottenham began in confident fashion in the Selhurst Park drizzle. …

KARACHI: Former Pakis­tan Test cricketer Shahid Mahmood expired in New Jersey on Sunday, according to a report. He was 81. Shahid — who was born in the Indian city of Lucknow on March 17, 1939 — toured England in 1962 with the Pakistan side led by Javed Burki and played in the Nottingham Test but went wicketless in six overs …