President Joe Biden clinched the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic Party’s nomination in primaries held on Tuesday. His predecessor Donald Trump will have won the Republican nomination by the end of the day. The Biden-Trump rematch has, thus, cleared its final qualifying threshold.
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Will February 24 be a Day of Reckoning for Indian American Nikki Haley?
February 24, the day on which the South Carolina Republican Primary will be held, could well be the Day of Reckoning for Indian American presidential candidate Nikki Haley. It is when even her Republican Party followers believe she will likely withdraw from the campaign, making Donald Trump’s rematch with President Joe Biden an inevitability as the sole Republican contender.
Nikki Haley’s hemming and hawing over racism in America
By Mayank Chhaya Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has yet again been found hemming and hawing—this time about racism in America. Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade asked Haley during in an interview whether the GOP is a racist party. She offered a surprisingly expansive reply saying the US has “never been a racist country.” Although Kilmeade’s […]
Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy share stage after Indian American drops out of 2024 White House race
A day after his thumping win in the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump held a rally in Atkinson, New Hampshire on Tuesday with fellow GOP leader Vivek Ramaswamy and thanked the Indian American biotech executive for endorsing him. While Trump solidified his position as Republican presidential candidate in his bid to return to the White House, Ramaswamy pulled out of the race on Monday night after finishing a distant fourth in Iowa.
Trump is in serious trouble over his indictment, says his former NSA John Bolton
Mayank Chhaya- John Bolton, former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump, has described the indictment of the former president as “very powerful, carefully tailored and devastating that should end his political career.” This is even as the Republican Party largely remains in the former president’s thrall calling his prosecution on charges under the Espionage Act […]
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy sues World Economic Forum for using his name
Presidential candidate of the Republican Party, Vivek Ramaswamy has filed a lawsuit against the World Economic Forum (WEF) in a Cincinnati, Ohio court on Wednesday, April 18. Ramaswamy has alleged that the WEF has created a “false perception” that he is affiliated with the organization.
Bragg bags Don. Beggars something bigger
In 1872, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States of America was racing a two-horse buggy against his friends on the streets of Washington, DC. DC Police Officer William West, a Black Union Army veteran, caught him speeding, the second time in two days. Officer West stuck out his hand asking President Grant to stop, which he did. Grant drove West to the police station in his own carriage, where an arrest was processed. Members of the racing party were made to put up bail of USD 20 a head, about USD 430 today, and released; Grant walked back to the White House.
Donald Trump faces ‘legal tsunami’ post NY court arraignment
Former US President Donald Trump faces a “legal tsunami’ post his arraignment by a New York court on 34 charges of felony, including tax fraud by his businesses and the hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, thus crashing hopes of a Republican nomination for his third presidential run.
Donald Trump set to speak from Florida’s Mar-a-Lago after Tuesday arraignment
Former President Donald Trump will deliver his remarks on Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida after he returns from the indictment, according to a news release from his campaign. Trump is expected to appear before the court on Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan.
US budget showdown: Biden tears down Republicans on crime and police
President Joe Biden is going all out to turn the tables on Republicans who are trying to paint Democrats as being soft on crime in the hope of winning the crucial spending fight this year on the US budget showdown, ahead of the election year in 2024.
US Congress legislates to declassify information on Covid-19 origins
In an unprecedented move, the US Congress, dominated by the Republican Party, has passed a bill unanimously asking the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information on the origins of Covid 19 and sent the measure to President Joe Biden’s desk for approval.
Bill introduced in US House to eliminate visa backlogs
A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to properly utilize the employment-based visas currently allocated each year under existing federal immigration law.
Caste bias exists in US, has to be countered: Seattle councillor Kshama Sawant
City Councillor Kshama Sawant made history last month when Seattle adopted a resolution moved by her to ban caste-based discrimination, become the first US city to do so. She took and stared down critics like the Hindu American Foundation, a powerful advocacy group, and many Hindu Indian Americans who argued the ban discredits and singles out Hindus.
Indian American presidential contender Nikki Haley starts campaign in two key states
Indian American Nikki Haley has kicked off her against-all-odds campaign for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination with visits to two key states portraying herself as a “badass” woman who can get things done, and with a Wall Street fundraiser scheduled for Tuesday.
Carnegie Survey: Increase in turnout of Asian American voters signals new voting demographic
More Asian Americans are turning out to vote than ever before, but to what extent do they participate in other civic and political activities? A survey of Asian Americans in California conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace provides some answers on the civic and political life of California’s Asian Americans.
In a racist tirade, Nikki Haley asked to go back to ‘her own country’
Calling Indian-American Nikki Haley a ‘bimbo’ and ‘preposterous creature’, conservative pundit and author Ann Coulter asked the Republican presidential candidate to return to India.
Nikki Haley announces run for White House, touts Indian heritage
Nikki Haley on Tuesday, Feb 14 announced she is running for President, becoming the third Indian American to seek the highest political office in the US.
Donald Trump kicks off 2024 presidential campaign with South Carolina rally
Former United States President Donald Trump held his first political campaign over the weekend since announcing his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election.
US House adjourns with no Speaker elected for first time in 164 years
The US House of Representatives has again adjourned for a third day without electing a new Speaker even after 11 votes, becoming the longest contest to select a person to take the gavel in 164 years.
US House temporarily adjourns as deadlock over Speaker post persists
The US House of Representatives temporarily adjourned after members failed to elect a new Speaker with no end in sight to the political stalemate. The House voted to adjourn until early Wednesday night for closed-door negotiations after US Congressman Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, failed to secure enough votes another three times due to intra-party division.
WH hiring lawyers to defend Biden, his son against Republican charges
TN Ashok(IANS)- With Republicans re-taking the House of Representatives in the November Midterms, the clock seems to have turned a full circle, with loyalists of former US President Donald Trump in GOP wanting to launch probes against incumbent President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden for the latter’s China connections in what seems to […]
US House recommends criminal charges against Donald Trump, aides
A select committee of the US House of Representatives voted on Monday to refer to the Justice Department four criminal charges against former President Donald Trump in relation to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
2024 Elections: Donald Trump fails to muster mass support within Republican Party
Former US President Donald Trump might have pre-empted his arch rival Ron DeSantis, the Florida Governor and his once VP Mike Pence, by announcing his presidential bid for the 2024 elections, but he has failed to muster the Republican Party’s support for his candidacy which seems to have cratered.
Donald Trump companies found guilty of tax fraud by New York jury
A New York jury found US former President Donald Trump’s two real estate companies guilty of tax fraud and falsifying business records connected to a 15-year scheme to defraud tax authorities, three weeks after he announced his bid for a presidential run.
US mass shootings: President Joe Biden renews call to ban assault weapons
US President Joe Biden has renewed his call to ban assault weapons in view of the US mass shootings. “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons,” Biden told reporters during a visit to firefighters in Nantucket, Massachusetts on Thursday.