WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump presented to Congress a budget proposal for fiscal year 2020 that contained stiff spending cuts across non-defence federal agencies, and a hike in defence money. According to the USD 4.7 trillion budget proposal, the Trump administration plans to cut domestic spending by 5 percent over the next year, or a nearly USD 30-billion-dollar, involving programs on education, health care and...
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HANOI - A summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended on Thursday with no agreement after Washington refused Pyongyang's demands for economic sanctions relief. Addressing reporters in the Vietnamese capital after the two-day summit with Kim was abruptly cut short earlier than planned, Trump said that he walked away from signing a denuclearization deal with the...
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of 58 former national security officials will issue a declaration on Monday saying that "there is no factual basis" for President Donald Trump's proclamation of a national emergency to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. The 11-page declaration, whose signatories include former secretary of states John Kerry and Madeleine Albright along with former defence secretary Chuck Hagel,
US President Donald Trump has said that there was a "dangerous situation" between India and Pakistan because of the terrorist attack in Kashmir and he "understood" why New Delhi is seeking a strong response. He also hinted on Friday that Washington may also be doing something to defuse the situation. New Delhi is "looking for something strong" and because India has lost almost 50 people in the Pulwama attack,
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump declared a State of Emergency on Friday to fund his campaign promise of building a wall on the Mexican border after the Congress resolutely refused to give him the money he wanted. Trump backed away from his threat to again shutdown the government if the legislature did not vote $5.7 billion for the border wall and approved the bipartisan funding bill without the allocation,
WASHINGTON - The judicial wars returned to Washington on Tuesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee met to consider Neomi Rao, President Donald Trump's nominee for newest Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's now-vacant seat on a powerful appellate court in Washington. Indian-American woman, Rao, who serves as Trump's "czar" overseeing regulatory rollbacks, faced fierce questioning from Democrats not just for her work...
WASHINGTON - US Senator and prospective Democratic candidate for President Elizabeth Warren listed her race as "American Indian" on a State Bar of Texas registration card in 1986, the media reported. The yellow registration card, which is dated April 1986, was filled out in blue ink and signed by Warren, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The card listed Warren's alma maters the University of Houston and Rutgers Law School but...
HONOLULU - Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu US Congresswoman, has officially launched her 2020 presidential campaign in Hawaii. "It is this principle of service above self that is at the heart of every soldier, at the heart of every service member, and it is in this spirit that today I announce my candidacy for President of the United States of America," CNN quoted Gabbard as saying said on Saturday at an event here.
WASHINGTON - Indian American Senator Kamala Harris has officially kicked off her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination at a rally where she warned that the US and the world were at "an inflection point" in history and called on all Americans to "speak the truth about what's happening". Harris announced her official bid to run for President in 2020 on January 21. Before a crowd of more than 20,000 people in her hometown Oakland, Harris on Sunday threaded together a biography from her years...
WASHINGTON - Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu Congresswoman, plans to hold a rally on February 2 in the US state of Hawaii to formally launch her 2020 White House bid, her campaign has announced. Gabbard, who is not of Indian descent but comes from a Hindu family in Hawaii, will use the rally in Oahu to "gather with friends, family, and supporters to share her vision for the future of our nation", her campaign said on Friday. The 37-year-old four-term Democratic congresswoman announced her presidential bid...
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