The casino, the last of the Atlantic City casinos bearing Donald Trump's name, will close in September.
Obama has made combating global climate change a top priority of his presidency
Clinton, who was joined by Senator Tim Kaine, is on a bus tour in Pennsylvania and Ohio with her vice presidential running mate
Hours before the party's convention, Chairwoman of the Democratic party Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned.
The PM has been named second year running; other contenders include Google's Sundar Pichai, US President Barack Obama, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi.
Hillary Clinton has ended her Democratic presidential primary campaign on a winning note as she defeated her party rival Senator Bernie Sanders in the US capital, setting the stage for a fierce showdown with Republican opponent Donald Trump in November.
Over 650,000 emails have been found on a laptop shared by Hillary Clinton's close aide and her husband as the Democratic presidential nominee's woes escalated just over a week before the election with the Federal Bureau of Investigation set to review the newly-discovered data.
Here are 7 things you need to know, including some you probably didn't know, about this historic debate.
Khizr Khan, 66, father of Army Captain Humayun Khan, hit the campaign trail for the first time along with Hillary Clinton to make an emotional endorsement of the Democratic nominee.
"This year, I was honoured to kindle the first-ever diya in the Oval Office -- a lamp that symbolises how darkness will always be overcome by light. It is a tradition that I hope future presidents will continue," Obama said on the White House Facebook page, which became viral on social media.
Its governing allies are not happy on the economy and complain of ignored concerns but find themselves unable to be assertive.
Kamala Harris, who is running for US Senate from California, said Trump's comments are "predatory and they make me sick. They are vile and Trump must be stopped".
A growing wave of lawmakers have called on the defiant US presidential nominee Donald Trump to drop out of the race in the wake of a video showing him make crude sexual remarks.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week, in 14 images.
Clinton's defeat in Michigan is an indication of the challenges she might face in the rest of her presidential campaign.
Kamala Harris could be US President in 2020. These badass moments show us why.
Hillary Clinton's campaign has pushed back against rumours circulating that her health is failing and slammed Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump for pushing "deranged conspiracy theories."
The United States intelligence community in a new declassified file has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering an "influence campaign" to help Donald Trump win the White House and denigrate his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in a bid to undermine public faith in the American democratic process.
The three presidential debates scheduled this time are September 26 (Hempstead, New York), October 9 (St Louis) and October 19 in Las Vegas.
We bring you a collection of some of the best photographs taken in the week gone by.
A win for Trump, 69, as latest polls indicate, could very well bring the billionaire real estate magnate very closer to the magical figure of 1,237 delegates needed the win the party's presidential nomination for the November 8 election.
Photographs from moments that shaped the world last week.
If you are confused about the US presidential elections, here's a simple guide by Smita Prakash to explain how it works.
Religious and political leaders joined celebrities, sports stars and tens of thousands of ordinary people on Friday in bidding farewell to Muhammad Ali, the boxing champion who jolted America with his showmanship and won worldwide admiration as a man of conviction.
The second debate soon turned ugly with the Republican nominee going on the offensive with personal attacks, but Democratic rival accuses him of diverting attention from the lewd tapes.
The highly anticipated matchup between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump finally happened, and it didn't disappoint. Here are all the highlights from the first presidential debate.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week, in 13 images.
'Huma Abedin must follow through in the footsteps of her illustrious mentor Hillary Clinton to carry the movement forward to empower American women,' says Kaleem Kawaja.
The shock move comes days after Comey testified on Capitol Hill about the FBI's investigation into Russia's election meddling and a possible collusion between the country and Trump's campaign.
The shooting took place at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando.
Here are the big takeaways from the debate.
Wearing pink, pointy-eared hats to mock the new US president, throngs of protesters descended on the US capital and other cities around the globe to show Donald Trump they won't be silent over the next four years.
In this series, Rediff.com presents a selection of the year's most enduring moments year from around the world.
Clinton and Sanders, meeting for the debate in Brooklyn just days before the crucial presidential primary in New York on April 19, minced no words as they attacked each other.
Bill Clinton was the first husband to give a speech on behalf of his wife as the nominee of a major party.
The gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in rural Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland -- the capital of Oregon -- and then went on to other classrooms gunning down his victims, witnesses said.
US presidential aspirants Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on Friday tried to woo minority Latino and African American voters as they sparred over issues like race and their records on immigration during a Democratic debate.
Amid growing anti-Muslim rhetoric in the US poll campaign, President Barack Obama today made his first visit to a mosque as part of his effort to assure the religious minority of their safety and security and celebrate religious diversity of the country.
Clinton win potentially disrupts a string of expected primary losses this month that had threatened to weaken her even as she turned her focus to her likely matchup against Republican Donald Trump in the general election.
Rediff.com tries to recap the debate and presents the highlights from the event.