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Here's how Obama boosted Harris and continues to shape Democratic Party

Obama waited to endorse Harris for several days, planning to stay above the fray in case there was a competitive nominating process

VP Kamala Harris joins TikTok following meme surge on her candidature

Harris unveiled her TikTok account, @kamalaharris, on Thursday

Citing age, former Obama senior adviser says Joe Biden should step aside

Former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod emphasised that he believes Biden's duty to the country should prompt him to withdraw, suggesting that failing to do so could overshadow his legacy

Watch| Barack Obama's sister attacked with tear gas during protest in Kenya

The protest against the proposed Finance Bill turned violent when police opened fire on demonstrators attempting to storm Kenya's parliament

How Biden & Trump are preparing for next week's debate in different ways

President Joe Biden begins an intense period of private preparations Friday at Camp David for what may be the most consequential presidential debate in decades. The 81-year-old Democrat's team is aware that he cannot afford an underwhelming performance when he faces Republican rival Donald Trump for 90 minutes on live television Thursday night. Biden's team is expecting aggressive attacks on his physical and mental strength, his record on the economy and immigration and even his family. Trump, 78 and ever confident, will stay on the campaign trail before going to his Florida estate next week for two days of private meetings as part of an informal prep process. The former president's allies are pushing him to stay focused on his governing plans, but they're expecting him to be tested by pointed questions about his unrelenting focus on election fraud, his role in the erosion of abortion rights and his unprecedented legal baggage. Thursday's debate on CNN will be full of firsts, with

Biden's campaign raises $40 mn in 5 days including $8 mn with Clinton

President Joe Biden is again joining forces with former President Bill Clinton to rake in campaign cash, with a joint fundraiser with the two men Tuesday set to raise USD 8 million part of a roughly USD 40 million total that Biden's reelection campaign has pulled in the last five days. The vast majority of the USD 40 million sum, confirmed by a Biden campaign official, comes from Saturday's glitzy, star-studded fundraiser with Biden and former President Barack Obama in Los Angeles that raised more than USD 30 million. Meanwhile, first lady Jill Biden has been on her own personal fundraising swing that has brought in USD 1.5 million. Biden and Clinton, who appeared together with Obama at a March fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York, are headlining Tuesday's event, which is being held at the home of former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton adviser. Jill Biden and former first lady Hillary Clinton will also be at the fundraiser in McLean, Va., a tony suburb o

Hollywood A-listers line up behind Biden. Will their support matter in Nov?

When Robert De Niro showed up outside a Manhattan courthouse to decry Donald Trump as his New York hush money trial was winding down, it sparked a life-imitates-art screaming match with a nearby group of the former president's supporters. You are gangsters! De Niro, who starred in Goodfellas and won an Oscar for The Godfather Part II," shouted at the Trump backers, who responded with obscenities. There are plenty more Hollywood storylines still to come in the 2024 campaign: Celebrities are increasingly lending their star power to President Joe Biden, hoping to energize their fans to vote for him in November and to entice donors to pony up for his reelection effort. On Saturday, A-listers George Clooney and Julia Roberts will team up with former President Barack Obama at a Biden fundraiser in Los Angeles, where the three will be interviewed by late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. Roberts and Kimmel have already begun soliciting donations via text for Biden, who is skipping a weeke

'Affirmative action' ends: US SC bans use of race in university admissions

Affirmative action, also known as positive discrimination, aims to reverse long-standing prejudices against underrepresented groups

Muslim-dominated Arab countries have good relations with PM Modi: MoS

On Sunday, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also hit out at Obama and said that under his reign, the United States had bombed six Muslim-dominated countries

Russia bans entry of 500 Americans including ex-Prez Obama, Colbert

In response to a new round of U.S. sanctions, Russia announced Friday that it was banning 500 Americans from entering the country, including former President Barack Obama and comedian Stephen Colbert. The list released by the Foreign Ministry did not specify complaints against each individual. But the ministry said the offenses included spreading Russophobia, supplying Ukraine with arms, and officials who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called storm of the Capitol.'" The ban includes 45 members of the U.S. House, Sens. J.D. Vance, Katie Britt and Eric Schmitt, and former ambassadors to Russia John Tefft and Jon Huntsman. The ministry said it had also denied a U.S. request for consular access to Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested in late March and charged with espionage. The ministry said that was in response to the United States denying visas to Russian journalists who wanted to cover Foreign Minister Serg

Elon Musk starts following PM Narendra Modi on Twitter, netizens react

Musk is followed by 134.3 million users on the social networking platform and follows 195 individuals. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on the other hand, is followed by 87.7 million people

Not Obama or Bieber, Elon Musk is now the most followed person on Twitter

Twitter has approximately 450 million monthly active users. Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, is followed by 30% of total Twitter users

Ex-prez Obama urges Georgia Democrats to push turnout for Warnock

Former President Barack Obama and Sen. Raphael Warnock on Thursday urged Democratic voters to keep pushing an apparent head start in early voting in the Georgia Senate runoff against Republican Herschel Walker, ahead of Friday's last day of early in-person voting and Tuesday's election day. If they didn't get tired, you can't get tired, Obama told a crowd gathered in a cavernous former railroad repair shop east of downtown Atlanta. Voters have already cast more than 1.4 million ballots amid an all-hands-on-deck push by Democrats to bank as many votes as possible while Republicans, especially Walker, have taken a less aggressive approach that could leave the GOP nominee heavily dependent on runoff Election Day turnout. We've got to keep on showing up, Warnock told the crowd at his largest event of the four-week runoff blitz. We've got to keep on voting. We cannot let up for even a moment. We've got to keep our foot on the gas all the way to victory. Both Obama and Warnock criticised

Six months that make a leader

As time goes on, most elected leaders run out of ideas. It seems to hold as true for the world as for India

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 president Biden unveils White House portraits of Barack, Michelle Obama

It was Michelle Obama's first visit to the White House since her husband left office in 2017

Former US prez Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series

Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT. The former US president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys. Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks. The five-part show, which features national parks from around the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground. He was the biggest name in a category full of famous nominees for the award handed out at Saturday night's Creative Arts Emmys, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong'o. Barack Obama is the second president to have an Emmy. Dwight D Eisenhower was given a special Emmy Award in 1956. Barack Obama previously won Grammy Awards for his audiobook reading of two of his memoirs, The Audacity of Hope and A Promised Land. Michelle Obama won her own Grammy for reading her audiobook in 2020. EGOT refers to a special category of entertainers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.

Former US prez Obama says abortion ruling attack on 'freedom' of Americans

Former US President Barack Obama on Friday condemned the US Supreme Court ending constitutional protection for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years

Proposed Indo-Pacific trade bloc: Here's a look at what is in it for India

Apart from the four Quad members, IPEF includes Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam

Social media platforms 'designed' to weaken democracies: Barack Obama

"People like Putin, and Steve Bannon for that matter, understand it's not necessary for people to believe (misinformation) in order to weaken democratic institutions," Obama emphasised