Trump's move followed a rare show of bipartisanship on Thursday when legislators voted to fund large swaths of the government and avoid a repeat of the recent five-week government shutdown.
Right wing US conservatives led by the likes of nationally-syndicated columnist Cal Thomas have launched a vitriolic campaign against Indian American Rashad Hussain. They pilloried President Barack Obama for appointing him as Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference and called for Hussain's ouster, calling him a 'voice of radical Islam.'
The White House on Wednesday released its annual collection of some of the most interesting photographs of President Barack Obama and his family.
Not only does the new US Congress have the first Indian-American US Senator, for the first time in history it also has four Indian Americans in the House of Representatives! Glimpses of the change of guard.
'The trick in a democratic battle is to highlight those aspects of one's personality which are the opposite of the 'enemy's',' argues Amulya Ganguli.
Despite all the hoopla, the Indian-American voter, and his money, counts for nothing in the mind of the American politician.
Ending weeks of speculation, US Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that he will not run for the 2016 presidential election.
There have been issues related to visas for IT professionals from India.
Biden, 77-year-old the former US vice president, is ahead of Trump, a Republican, in the Northern battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as in the states of Florida and Arizona, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and Siena College.
The 77-year-old former US vice president on Friday night took his tally of pledged delegates over the halfway mark of 1,991 from a total of 3,979, thus becoming eligible to earn the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Senior Democrat leader Chuck Schumer asserted that the president is not ready for "primetime".
'Eight years of what Obama had achieved can be wiped out during the Trump administration,' fears Aseem Chhabra, who worries about his country under'an arrogant bully, who whipped up the worst out of his followers.'
This is a national leadership gone so wrong that India's most powerful prime minister in four decades has personally taken charge of medical oxygen shortages, observes Shekhar Gupta.
"Disappointed to see the Pakistan PM use the UN to praise a militant group that uses violence to promote its cause," Congressman Ted Poe said in a tweet.
As lawmakers moved closer to impeach disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a media report on Saturday claimed that two Indian-American businessmen were involved in a fund-raising campaign to encourage the Governor to pick Jesse Jackson Jr to fill President-elect Barack Obama's senate seat.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced her United States presidential bid, emerging as one of the top contenders for the Democratic Party nomination as she once again seeks to become America's first woman president.
Presenting some of the most scintillating pictures from around the globe in the last 24 hours.
According to Britain's The Daily Telegraph, former President Bill Clinton has been laying the foundations for the Secretary of State's try in 2016, by campaigning for Democratic politicians who helped his wife Hillary run for the president's office against President Obama two years ago.
Nearly 100 world leaders including President Pranab Mukherjee and US President Barack Obama came together in an unprecedented act of homage to Nelson Mandela describing him as a "giant of history".
'India's real concern is that cash-strapped Pakistan is keeping its military hardware well oiled on American money,' says Rajeev Sharma.
While Ryan is expected to easily sail through his House seat, McCain is facing a tough battle from the Arizona Senate seat.
At a press conference that followed his rolling out his national security team on Monday, Obama when reminded that during the campaign he had said if there was irrefutable evidence of Al Qaeda leaders and training camps in Pakistan, he would go after them with or without Pakistan's permission and asked if India has that same right, replied, "Sovereign nations obviously have a right to protect themselves."
Industry leaders say President-elect Obama will be good for enhanced US-India commercial ties.
Indian American Aditi Hardikar has been appointed to a key White House position to liaison with LGBT as well as the Asian American and Pacific Islanders communities.
Krishnamoorthi, 43, won the Chicago-area US House of Representatives seat, the 8th Congressional District, vacated by Tammy Duckworth who won Illinois's US Senate seat.
In "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership", James Comey will "explore what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions", according to Pan Macmillan, which has acquired the publishing rights in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth excluding Canada.
Backed by top IT companies of the Silicon Valley, Indian-American Rohit "Ro" Khanna hopes to get second-time lucky in his effort to enter the US House of Representatives against Democratic Party's sitting lawmaker.
Trump's views run contrary to the Obama administration, which had imposed economic sanctions against Russia.
Here are the few candidates who are in contention for the readers' choice for Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' in 2016.
Parents should enroll their children in coding classes only as a leisure time activity, that too with strict curbs on screen time.
In his first press interaction after the massive victory, he said Bihar results reflected the mood of the nation and described it as a "milestone election", while thanking people for the decisive mandate.
Harris alleged that Trump lied to American people on the coronavirus pandemic.
Professor Thomas Kailath was tickled that a phrase he had used -- that scientists are 'intrinsically hopeful' -- and which President Barack Obama had used thrice, had captured the people's imagination.
Hillary Clinton appeared to be losing turf to frontrunner Barack Obama in delegate-rich Ohio and Texas states where her star campaigner and husband Bill Clinton said a defeat would cost her the Democratic presidential nomination.
Amidst a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 100 million people have already cast their ballots in early voting, putting the country on course for its highest turnout in a century. Some 239 million people are eligible to vote this year.
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll stated that the two leaders, ahead of the first presidential debate, are locked in a neck-and-neck battle with just over a month to go for the elections.
As much $5.3 billion is expected to be spent, an amount that is over the Gross Domestic Product of several small countries, but something that neither Senator Barack Obama nor Senator John McCain and all of their colleagues in the House of Representatives and Senate even wince about for a nanosecond.
Sikhs For Justice's petition demands cancellation of Prime Minister Modi's visit.
PM app downloaded 2.5 million times, to see 20-fold growth in user base
US Democrat Senator on Saturday night formally bowed out of the race for the US presidential elections.
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