By a Staff reporter
CERRITOS, CA - Naresh Solanki, was unanimously chosen with 5-0 vote, to become the first Indian-American Mayor of Cerritos, on April 17 at the City Hall here. Adorned in a grey suit and his iconic smile, the Mayor Pro Tem, Solanki was democratically chosen as the Mayor by his fellow council members amidst the...

WASHINGTON - Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu US Congresswoman and Democratic 2020 presidential candidate, has vastly outraised Senator Kamala Harris of Indian and Jamaican descent among Indian-American donors in the 2020 presidential fundraising derby so far. Gabbard, who is a Hindu American but not Indian-American, has raised more than $237,000, from the community. In comparison, Harris, daughter of an Indian American...

SAN FRANCISCO - Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, has released 15 years of her tax returns, showing that she and her husband earned almost $1.9 million in 2018, the media reported. The returns released on Sunday showed most of the adjusted gross income of $1,884,319 in 2018 reported by Harris came from her husband Doug Emhoff's earnings as a lawyer, 

WASHINGTON - White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has said that President Donald Trump's prospective plan to send undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities is undergoing a "complete and thorough review." Sanders told "Fox News Sunday" that they "have to look at all options," including releasing undocumented immigrants to sanctuary cities, to deal with the situation at the nation's southern border with Mexico, 

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose an "economic penalty" on Mexico if it does not halt the flow of illegal drugs into US territory and to place 25 per cent tariffs on all Mexican-made cars that are shipped into the US if it stops deporting undocumented migrants who cross into Mexico from Guatemala. "I am looking at an economic penalty for the $500 billion in illegal DRUGS that are shipped and...

LOS ANGELES - When Senator Kamala Harris speaks on Saturday at the Human Rights Campaigns dinner here, she will be sandwiching it into a prolific schedule of fundraising this weekend as Sunday night at midnight is the first deadline of the 2020 US presidential race. The Democratic presidential candidate of Indian and Jamaican descent, would be at four of these fundraising events. Sunday midnight is the end of the first quarter, 

By NIMMI RAGHUNATHAN
FULLERTON, CA – ​Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi at a fundraiser here on March 23, showed off his political stripes. Walking in, he astonished people recognizing them from a similar gathering three years ago, rattling off names, anecdotes and even citing their e-ids.  

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...

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,