US President Barack Obama on Thursday surprised Vice President Joe Biden by presenting him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honour, during a White House ceremony....
The family of a 23-year-old Mumbai student killed in Oklahoma State University's homecoming parade crash in 2015 has welcomed a ruling by a US court here giving life time jail to the woman behind the accident....
Jajoo, who lost out in his quest to become the mayor of Sugar Land city to Joe Zimmerman last year, pledged to the city's residents to remain an independent voice for the Indian Americans there, community newspaper India West reported....
South Asians in the US experienced a spike in hate violence and xenophobic political rhetoric during the 2016 presidential election similar to levels seen the year following the September 11, 2001, attacks, said a report by a leading South Asian American advocacy organisation here....
Tensions between Donald Trump and the US intelligence agencies is growing with the President-elect denouncing as a "Nazi" tactic the preparation and the leak of a dubious dossier purporting to show that Russians had material to blackmail him....
Senate Republicans have launched an effort to repeal and replace President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law, approving a budget blueprint that they have dubbed the Obamacare "repeal resolution"....
US authorities have imposed sanctions on seven senior North Korean officials, including leader Kim Jong-un's younger sister, in response to "serious human rights abuses and censorship". ...
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that creating jobs would be the cornerstone of his presidency and took aim at the pharmaceutical sector vowing to bring the industry back to the US. ...
President-elect Donald Trump has said that Russia and its President Vladimir Putin would be assets in fighting the Islamic State terror organisation, which he called the "number one" issue, and blamed President Barack Obama's policies for creating a void in the Middle East that gave it room to grow....
Saying Goodbye, Warns of Threats to National Unity ...