United States President Barack Obama endorsed all the praise showered on Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai a day earlier by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
The first high-level meeting between the two countries after the November visit of US President Barack Obama to India, Menon's Washington trip is considered as a preparatory one for the next round of India-US Strategic Dialogue to be held in New Delhi in April.
White House condemns attempted attacks; New York Police Department increase patrols at other major newsrooms.
Perhaps to quash the persistent criticism that his administration is not as gung-ho about the US-India relationship as was his predecessor W Bush, President Obama will attend and deliver remarks at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's reception June 3 at the State Department, in honor of the Indian delegation at the US-India Strategic Dialogue.
However, the 68-year-old leader continues to maintain lead in some of the key battle ground states, other polls said.
Democratic front-runner Barack Obama's White House bid received a fresh momentum on Friday as he secured the support of three more superdelegates, including a former backer of his rival Hillary Clinton. According to an AP tally, the superdelegate count is now Clinton, 271.5, and Obama, 266, a huge shift since the days when the former first lady boasted about a 60-plus lead in the crucial voting bloc. Hillary Clinton is refusing to concede defeat.
United States First Lady Michelle Obama's 50th birthday bash featured performances by pop stars Beyonce and Stevie Wonder as the "fun" party went on all night with her hubby President Barack Obama also shaking a leg.
Former United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to 37 charges related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents, CNN reported.
Is the Obama Administration concerned that the tiny Maldives could become a future base for the al Qaeda and/or other terrorist groups to conspire and launch their attacks against Washington and its South Asian allies?
Amid talks that former President Bill Clinton's successful visit to North Korea might open up a new door of engagement with the United States, President Barack Obama has said it was just a humanitarian mission to seek the freedom of the two jailed American reporters from the Communist nation. Led by Obama himself, the White House and the State Department including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, had a tough time in responding to various questions.
Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has won the West Virginia primary defeating Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton by more than 15 percentage points even as the former US secretary of state looks set to secure the party nomination.
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's campaign on Tuesday denied a report that she has decided to concede defeat to rival Barack Obama in the bitter nomination race for the White House.The AP, quoting campaign officials, earlier reported that Clinton will concede tonight that front-runner Obama has the delegates to secure the nomination, effectively ending her bid to be the United States' first female president.
The United States on Tuesday announced a US $ 100 million humanitarian to Pakistan to counter the appeal of the Taliban among the nearly 2 million civilians displaced by the military operations against the militants in the Swat Valley and adjoining areas.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was obviously so impressed by her meetings with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari that she ventured into the White House briefing room after sitting in on the meetings between President Barack Obama and the two leaders, to express her optimism that a solid alliance had been formed committed to crushing the Taliban and other extremist elements destabilising the region.
Trump paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years largely because he reported losing much more money than he made, the report said. The US president immediately dismissed the report as 'totally fake news'.
Obama's eighth successive victory over rival New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the race to the White House has narrowed the gap between the two Democrats in terms of delegates
After the latest projections in Wisconsin, Biden has 253 electoral college votes as against Trump's 213, making it much difficult for the President to win the polls. The winner of the 2020 presidential election should have at least 270 Electoral College votes out of the 538-member electoral college.
There was an explosion in search traffic on Google for terms such as 'emigrate' and 'how to emigrate to Canada' following the announcement of a series of victories in key swing states for the Republican nominee.
The emergence of real estate tycoon Donald Trump as Republican presidential nominee sounded the death-knell for the party establishment, Indian-American former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said.
Former US Ambassador to India Frank Wisner is a happy man because he believes that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to India helped 'cross the bar' and silence the critics who were convinced that President Barack Obama's predecessor George W Bush was infinitely better for India than the current chief executive of the White House.
Sant Chatwal, millionaire hotelier and close friend and fund-raiser for the Clintons for several years, has assured Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama that the Indian American community will raise over $10 million for his campaign to win back the White House.Chatwal was introduced to Obama by Senator Hillary Clinton at a private meeting between them and Clinton's top donors at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC on June 26.
Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has bounced ahead of his Republican rival John McCain in the race for the White House with a new poll showing that he has established a handsome double digit lead of 15 percentage point over the Arizona Senator. This is the first Newsweek poll after Hillary Clinton withdrew from the contest and endorsed Obama. It also shows particularly high support for Obama among the young voters.
United States presidential hopeful and Democratic front runner Barack Obama is expected to further shore up his position by capturing a majority of the pledged delegates after primaries in Oregon and Kentucky on Tuesday. However, rival Hillary Clinton has refused to quit the White house race. Opinion polls show Obama leading in Oregon and Clinton way ahead in Kentucky. As many as 103 pledged delegates are up for grabs in the two states.
"I will admit coming here...wasn't the easiest thing for me," the former secretary of state said.
Meanwhile, in a major setback to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Illinois Senator Barack Obama secured the victory in the Iowa Democratic caucuses.
Trump exuded confidence that there will be continuation of power.
Bruce Riedel and Karl F Inderfurth, who were the point persons for South Asia in the Clinton administration and are expected to play key roles if a Democratic administration recaptures the White House, particularly a Hillary Clinton Administration, have bemoaned the unraveling of the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement.
With just hours to go before the United States presidential election all eyes are turning stateside as Donald Trump seeks a second term in the White House and Democratic candidate Joe Biden campaigns to become America's 46th president. If you're struggling to wrap your head around the presidential election and how it compares to India, which competing parties will be vying for the White House, and how a winner is selected, scroll on for a comprehensive guide that details all there is to know about the upcoming elections.
Here's the latest from the inauguration day of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
While a clear-cut answer is not available, the 46-year-old Illonis Senator who overcame an intense electoral battle against his rival Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential nomination race had reluctantly backed the legislation on the deal worked out by the Republican administration of President George W Bush.
US Democrat Senator on Saturday night formally bowed out of the race for the US presidential elections.
From a dark horse in the Democrat race to the first black US presidential candidate from a major party, Barack Obama has had a meteoric rise from political obscurity to be at a sniffing distance of the White House.
With hopes of getting presidential nomination all but over, Hillary Clinton is poised to deliver a message "that she will do whatever it takes" to put a Democrat in the White House apparently signalling that she will accept an offer to be rival Barack Obama's running mate.
The victorious Clinton reminded her supporters and the party leadership that she is not giving up the challenge to the party nomination and that she does not subscribe to the notion that the voters of Michigan and Florida -- who have been disqualified -- can be left out.
She acknowledged it would have been better if she had used government email for her official work.
Cruz said he would fulfil his promise to vote for the Republican nominee and that electing Hillary Clinton would be "wholly unacceptable".
With six per cent of precincts reporting, Clinton was leading over her fellow Democrat presidential contender Barack Obama by 53 to 47 per cent in the primary which would send 158 delegates to the party convention in August for choosing a nominee against presumptive Republican candidate John McCain.
"My son is a high-quality person and I applaud his transparency," Trump said.
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday claimed the Democratic presidential nomination after decisive victories in the New Jersey and New Mexico primaries, creating history by becoming the first woman to lead a major American political party in the race to the White House.
"(Clinton) made a very powerful case, particularly at the beginning, for building on the economic progress that this country has made in digging out of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression," he told reporters.
