United States President Donald Trump is set to approve the release of a controversial memo accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation of abusing its surveillance tools during its probe into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election, setting up a clash with the intelligence agency.
Louisiana's Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has trashed Barack Obama, saying the US President was the "most liberal and incompetent president since Jimmy Carter".
The president, however, implied about declaring a national emergency if the Congress did not approve a funding for the wall by February 15.
Negotiations on the looming "fiscal cliff" will dominate talk in Washington this month, with both the White House and congressional Republicans having made early offers.
A Democratic lawmaker has called for impeachment of United States President Donald Trump for his alleged involvement in obstruction of justice, after news reports revealed that he had asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to stop investigations against former national security advisor Michael Flynn.
Two days after he was re-elected President of the United States, Barack Obama's campaign said on Friday he has won 29 electoral college votes in Florida, the only state which had not declared a winner on Election Day.
Rediff.com's George Joseph lists some of the compelling reasons that prompted American voters to re-elect President Barack Obama.
With President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney locked in an intense battle for the White House, Americans on Tuesday voted in an election that followed one of the most expensive and negative campaigns, with pundits predicting a wafer-thin win for the incumbent.
As they zeroed in towards the D-day in a virtually tied presidential race, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, battling fatigue and nerves, darted across crucial swing states in their desperate final bids to woo the starkly polarised American electorate.
Mitt Romney is meant to be the President of the United States," declared Jeb Bush, the former Governor of Florida.
PM Modi would be the fifth foreign leader Trump would have spoken with over phone after being sworn-in as the US President on January 20.
First, the US today has bigger economic headaches than outsourcing.
Republicans immediately pounced on the new debt figure to push their candidate Mitt Romney to the White House.
US basketball player Brittney Griner teared up during her first news conference after being detained in Russia for nearly 10-months.
United States President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney temporarily suspended their presidential campaigns in view of the tragic killing of 12 people in a movie theater shootout, which also left 59 others injured.
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'.
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.
Even as the United States Senate has scheduled a quick hearing on the India-US nuclear deal, all eyes are on the House of Representatives whose Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman, a vocal critic of the pact, is yet to take a call on having a similar process."Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been lobbying furiously for the India deal, which appears to hinge on whether the White House can persuade Republican Howard Berman," said a local paper.
United States President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are locked in an intense battle for the White House. Pundits have predicted a wafer-thin win for the incumbent.
Russia stands accused by the US of hacking the emails of the Democratic Party and a key Hillary Clinton aide, which the Kremlin strongly denies.
Irrespective of the outcome of Tuesday's keenly-contested US presidential election, America's strategic relationship with India is expected to maintain the current momentum and strengthen further, policy documents and remarks from the two campaigns indicate.
Obama added that Trump has shown he is "woefully unprepared to do this job" after his comments on military families as well as his handle on foreign affairs.
The National Rifle Association aims to shoot down Vivek Murthy's Senate confirmation as United States Surgeon General, Aziz Haniffa reports
"We have great support from India. We have great support from Prime Minister Modi. I would think that the Indian (American) people would be voting for Trump," the President told reporters at a White House news conference.
The President said he made the decision in consultation with European allies but added they may not be in a position to join the US in banning Russian energy imports.
Trump's victories came in Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, while Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton won in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania
Obama has made combating global climate change a top priority of his presidency
The President's main priority is to ensure that taxes don't go up on 98 per cent of Americans and 97 per cent of small businesses in just a few short days, White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, said.
In response to a question about whether US citizens should be concerned about a nuclear war breaking out, Biden said "no."
Dating will be a sensitive issue that re-elected United States President Barack Obama will have to deal with as his young daughters stay on at the White House for four more years, with the possessive father saying he will give a patient hearing to any boy who has the 'guts' to get through the Secret Service.
The poll by the New York Times/CBS News reveals that Obama have support of 48 per cent of registered voters, compared with 43 per cent for McCain, a difference within the poll's margin of sampling error.
It happened in 1844, and now 168 years later, Republican nominee Mitt Romney may need to duplicate a rare feat achieved by James Polk, the 11th US president, if he wants to defeat President Barack Obama in Tuesday's race to the White House.
However, the 68-year-old leader continues to maintain lead in some of the key battle ground states, other polls said.
A survey, conducted by NBC/Wall Street Journal, showed Obama now leading 49 per cent to 46 per cent among likely voters, down slightly from the five-point lead he enjoyed in mid-September, the daily said.
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.
Washington might occasionally make some noises about alleged human rights violations and related issues but commonality of interests will only see the Indo-US ties grow stronger, observes Virendra Kapoor.
'She'll probably be leading some significant portfolio from the White House, the way that Vice President Biden did in the Obama White House.'
In a stunning result, the billionaire businessman beat seasoned politician Hillary Clinton.
Indian-American Bobby Jindal on Wednesday night announced his candidature for the 2016 US presidential elections, making him the 13th Republican aspirant to target the White House in this election cycle.
Donald Trump has told millions of his supporters that he is ready for yet another phase of active public life after the United States Senate acquitted him in his second impeachment trial.
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