WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump has ordered that only products with more than 55 per cent made in the country might be considered "Made in America", eyeing to raise the bar to 75 per cent in the future. Speaking at the 'Made in America' product showcase at the White House on Monday, Trump told a group of US manufacturers that in the future...
SAN FRANCISCO - Former US President and First Lady Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have teamed their production company Higher Ground with music streaming giant Spotify to produce and distribute exclusive podcasts in their own voices for Spotify users across the globe. The multi-year agreement would be with Higher Ground Audio, an expansion of the Higher Ground production company,
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has argued that the "White House is just crying out for impeachment" but that Democrats will continue to hold back on opening an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump until it's "unavoidable". "How we deal with it is a decision that our caucus makes, and our caucus is very much saying 'whatever we do, we need to be ready when we do it'," Pelosi said at her weekly news...
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris has sent a letter to the Justice Department's inspector general, requesting a probe into whether Attorney General William Barr has acted upon requests or suggestions from President Donald Trump to investigate his "perceived enemies". In a letter addressed to Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, Harris, who is of Indian and...
LOS ANGELES - While the "Game of Thrones" frenzy continues to be a message-driving vehicle in the ongoing election season in India, television network HBO urged US President Donald Trump to stay away from using memes inspired by the hit fantasy series for political purposes. Trump on Thursday celebrated the release of Robert Mueller's Russia report with a GoT themed tweet. It came after Attorney General William Barr...
WASHINGTON - The US government has said that it may take federal officials two years to identify what could be thousands of immigrant children who were separated from their families at the country's border with Mexico. According to court documents filed on Friday, a federal judge had asked for a plan to identify these children and their families after a report from government inspectors in January revealed that...
WASHINGTON - The US Senate has voted 59-41 in favour of blocking President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border. The move, coupled with a vote by the House of Representatives, dealt a blow to Trump's bid to build a border wall and is expected to force Trump to exercise veto powers for the first time since becoming US President, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump announced the time and date for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on February 27 and 28 in Vietnam. Addressing the Congress and the nation in his much awaited State of the Union on Tuesday, Trump said: "Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped, and there has not been a missile launch in 15 months. If I had not been elected...
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has announced that it will deploy 3,750 additional US forces at the country's border with Mexico for 90 days to provide support to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials. The Department of Defence said in a statement on Sunday that the additional forces will raise the total number of active duty troops supporting the CBP at the border to about 4,350, reports NBC News.
NEW YORK - An undocumented worker fired from US President Donald Trump's New Jersey golf resort will attend the State of the Union address on February 5 after being invited by a Democratic Congresswoman. Victorina Morales, a Guatemalan native, worked for years at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, before describing herself as an undocumented worker in a New York Times article in December, CNN reported.
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