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Ahead of midterm elections, Trump coins India-US friendship slogan in Hindi

Former US president Donald Trump has coined an India-US friendship slogan in Hindi as part of his efforts to woo the influential Indian-American community before the mid-term elections in November. Bharat and America sabse achhe dost Trump is seen rehearsing and saying in a video released by the Republican Hindu Coalition (RHC). The slogan in English means "India and the United States are best friends". In the short 30-second video, Trump is seen seated with his supporter Chicago-based businessman Shalabh Kumar from the Republican Hindu Coalition. The new slogan is inspired by the phenomenal success of the 2016 slogan of Trump in Hindi Abki Baar Trump Sarkar which had caught the imagination of the Indian Americans then and had played a key part in his victories in some of the key swing states. Kumar who has been instrumental in both Trump's slogans Abki Baar Trump Sarkar and Bharat and America sabse achhe dost told PTI in an interview this week that he and the RHC plan to run the .

Trump accuses justice dept of criminalising his possession of records

Donald Trump's lawyers made the broad argument that the Presidential Records Act allows a president to take whatever document he wants

Was joking about buying football club Manchester United, says Elon Musk

Musk has a track record of using Twitter to make jokes and troll the media, which follows his tweets closely

Donad Trump asks appeals court to scrap New York probe of his assets

Trump's lawyer asked a federal appeals court to block New York's investigation into potentially fraudulent asset valuations at his sprawling real-estate company

Musk tweets about buying Manchester United while joking on US politics

Elon Musk made the claim in a tweet thread where he stated he supported the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democrats

Donald Trump's 'planted evidence' claim unlikely to stand up in court

Donald Trump and his supporters are ratcheting up their baseless claim that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents may have "planted" evidence when they searched his Mar-a-Lago home

GOP's Tom Rice loses House seat after voting to impeach Donald Trump

US Rep Tom Rice of South Carolina has been ousted from Congress in his Republican primary after voting to impeach Donald Trump over the Jan 6 insurrection

Jan 6 riots panel to hear Trump campaign manager, probe election lie

The House committee investigating the Jan 6 riot is delving deeper into what it calls the big lie, Trump's false claims of voter fraud that led a mob of his supporters to lay siege to the US Capitol

Need two more senators to keep Republicans out of power: Biden to Democrats

President Joe Biden urged Democratic donors to send him reinforcements on Capitol Hill to keep Republicans out of power and help dislodge his agenda from the current gridlock

Donald Trump spurned pleas to end lies, call off mob, says Jan 6 panel

House lawmakers investigating the Jan 6 insurrection drew a portrait of then-President Donald Trump doggedly pursuing an effort to undo the 2020 election, inciting his supporters

Indian-origin Ajay Jain named Democratic Party Dy National Finance Chair

Eminent Indian-American and major fund raiser Ajay Jain Bhutoria has been named as Deputy National Finance Chair of the ruling Democratic party in the US

Attacks against me should be viewed through political lens, says Elon Musk

The tweet comes after the Tesla CEO wrote on the platform that he will now vote for Republicans, as conservatives return to the micro-blogging platform

Madeleine Albright, 1st female US Secretary of State, dies at 85

Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday. She was 85. President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America's top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration. At the time, she was the highest-ranking woman in the history of US government. She was not in the line of succession for the presidency, however, because she was a native of Czechoslovakia.

1 year in: US President Biden ready to talk through progress, setbacks

One year into a presidency defined by lofty ambitions and at-times frustrating shortfalls, Biden will try to talk anxious Americans through the challenges of delivering on his lengthy to-do list

Kamala Harris branded a 'bully' for 'soul destroying criticism' on staff

The Washington Post piece - a result of interviews with 18 people connected to the VP - also alleges that she'd fail to read briefings they'd prepared

US needs unity to fight climate change: Former US President Barack Obama

Former US President Barack Obama says he believes that President Biden's climate package will be historic and he welcomed the efforts of all US politicians

Court blocks Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate for large businesses

Companies with at least 100 employees or more were required to either get workers vaccinated or ask them to wear masks indoors

President Biden bound for global summits as domestic agenda in limbo

As he prepares to push that message at a pair of global summits, his case could hinge on what's happening in Washington.

US Senate Democrats, Republicans reach deal on $480-bn debt limit increase

Senate leaders have reached agreement on a deal that staves off any default on federal payments into December

Donald Trump's last days

There tend not to be a lot of people to root for in Trump books