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Our hearts are with India: US President Biden on Morbi bridge collapse

'The United States and India are indispensable partners, with deep bonds between our citizens. In this difficult hour, we will continue to stand with and support the Indian people'

Ex-US Prez Barack Obama gets a midterm do-over to help boost Democrats

Barack Obama is trying to do something he couldn't during two terms as president: help Democrats succeed in national mid-term elections when they already hold the White House. Of course, he's more popular than he was back then, and now it's President Joe Biden, Obama's former vice president, who faces the prospects of a November rebuke. Obama begins a hopscotch across battleground states on Friday in Georgia, and he will travel on Saturday to Michigan and Wisconsin, followed by stops next week in Nevada and Pennsylvania. The itinerary, which includes rallies with Democratic candidates for federal and state offices, comes as Biden and Democrats try to stave off a strong Republican push to upend Democrats' narrow majorities in the House and Senate and claim key governorships ahead of the 2024 presidential election. With Biden's job approval ratings in the low 40s amid sustained inflation, he's an albatross for Democrats like Senators Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Catherine Cortez Ma

US House passes election law overhaul in response to Trump's Jan 6 move

The House has passed legislation to overhaul the rules for certifying the results of a presidential election as lawmakers accelerate their response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Donald Trump's failed attempt to remain in power. The bill, which is similar to bipartisan legislation moving through the Senate, would overhaul an arcane 1800s-era statute known as the Electoral Count Act that governs, along with the US Constitution, how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners. While that process has long been routine and ceremonial, Trump and a group of his aides and lawyers unsuccessfully tried to exploit loopholes in the law in an attempt to overturn his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Democrats are pushing to pass the bill before the end of the year and ahead of the 2024 election cycle as Trump is considering another run. While at least 10 GOP senators have signed on to the Senate version, the House vote fell mostly along party ..

India opts out of trade talks with a US-led group of Asian nations

Known as IPEF, the initiative is an effort by President Joe Biden's administration to deepen ties with Asian nations through a range of issues including trade, climate change, supply chains and tax

PM Narendra Modi 'doing a terrific job', says former US president Trump

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "doing a terrific job", former US president Donald Trump has said as he asserted that India "has never had a better friend than me". Trump made the comments in an interview with NDTV during which he spoke on a wide range of issues such as his relationship with India and Modi, the recent FBI raids at his Mar-a Lago property, the Presidential elections and the Capitol Riots. "I've had a great relationship with India and Prime Minister Modi. We've been friends. And I think he's a great guy and doing a terrific job. It's not an easy job he's got... We've known each other a long time. Good man," said Trump, who enjoyed a close relationship with Modi during his presidency from 2017 to 2021. India was "doing just fine with your great Prime Minister Modi, my friend," said the 76-year-old real estate mogul-turned politician who met Modi at least four-time post- 2019 general elections in India. In his first term, Trump, a Republican, had emerged as the best ..

Trump's stash at Mar-a-Lago had highly classified documents: FBI affidavit

Those boxes initially retrieved from Trump also included information barred from release to foreign nationals, and information that can be disseminated only with the approval of its originator

Biden pitches for students with a total debt forgiveness of $39bn

Prez Biden is sending out clear messages to the American people ahead of the midterms that his administration cares for people, the republicans only want to endorse Trump's claims of a stolen election

Joe Biden leaves White House for first time since getting Covid-19

President Joe Biden on Sunday left the White House for the first time since becoming infected with the coronavirus last month, settling in for a reunion with first lady Jill Biden

President Biden to sign executive order to protect travel for abortion

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday will sign an executive order aimed in part at making it easier for women seeking abortions to travel between states to obtain access to the procedure. More specifically, one of the directives Biden will issue will allow states that have not outlawed abortion to apply for specific Medicaid waivers that would, in effect, help them treat women who have travelled from out of state. The order will also call on health care providers to comply with federal nondiscrimination laws and streamline the collection of key data and information on maternal health at the National Institutes of Health and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The details were described by senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the executive order ahead of a formal announcement. Biden, who continues to isolate in the White House residence after a rebound case of COVID-19, will sign the executive order as he helps launch a federa

Joe Biden tests positive for Covid-19 again, returns to isolation

US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 again, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said

US President Biden tests negative for Covid-19, ends 'strict isolation'

President Joe Biden is ending his COVID-19 isolation after testing negative for the virus on Tuesday night and again on Wednesday. That's according to a letter the White House released Wednesday from Biden's physician. Dr. Kevin O'Connor writes that Biden has completed his course of treatment with the drug Paxlovid and remains free of fever. O'Connor says that given those factors and the pair of negative tests, Biden will discontinue his strict isolation measures. In fact, Biden is scheduled to appear in the White House Rose Garden around midday Wednesday.

US President Biden improves 'significantly,' throat still sore from Covid

President Joe Biden is feeling much, much better after testing positive for the coronavirus, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator said, confirming that the 79-year-old US leader was infected

Biden tests positive for Covid, has mild symptoms, working in isolation

Biden, 79, has begun taking a course of the antiviral treatment Paxlovid, according to his press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre

Biden to announce climate actions at ex-coal plant in Massachussetts

President Joe Biden will announce new actions on climate change that he can take on his own just days after an influential Democratic senator quashed hopes for a sweeping legislative package

Rupee closes just 2 paise shy of 80 against US dollar as oil prices rise

Crude oil prices jumped on Monday as US President Joe Biden's talks with West Asian countries failed to culminate in an agreement to increase output

A day after US warning, Russian President Putin set to visit Iran next week

During the trip to Tehran next Tuesday, Vladimir Putin will attend a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Iran and Turkey

Elon Musk says Donald Trump should skip 2024 race, was 'too much drama'

He added that DeSantis, who's running for re-election and has shown growing strength in early polls among Republican 2024 hopefuls, would "win easily" against President Joe Biden

From one July Fourth to the next, a steep slide for Biden ahead of midterms

Last Fourth of July, President Joe Biden gathered hundreds of people outside the White House for an event that would have been unthinkable for many Americans the previous year. With the coronavirus in retreat, they ate hamburgers and watched fireworks over the National Mall. Although the pandemic wasn't over yet, Biden said, we're closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus. Across the country, indoor masking requirements were falling as the number of infections and deaths plummeted. Within weeks, even some of the president's allies privately admitted that the speech had been premature. Soon the administration would learn that the delta variant could be transmitted by people who had already been vaccinated. Masks went back on, then came polarising vaccination mandates. The even-more-contagious omicron variant would arrive months later, infecting millions and causing chaos during the holiday season. We were hoping to be free of the virus, and the virus had

Biden says will see Saudi crown prince, won't push directly on oil

Weeks after taking office last year, Biden shifted US policy on Saudi Arabia, adopting a tougher stance over the kingdom's human rights record

US President to provide anti-air defence system to Ukraine amid war: Report

President Joe Biden is set to announce that the U is providing advanced an surface-to-air missile system to Ukraine, as well as additional artillery support, according to a person familiar with the ma