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Trump wins: From CIA to immigration, roles Ramaswamy, Kash Patel may clinch

With Donald Trump winning the 2024 US presidential election after beating Kamala Harris, Americans of Indian descent like Vivek Ramaswamy, Kash Patel, and Bobby Jindal could clinch top US govt roles

Donald Trump has vowed to shake some of democracy's pillars in US

American presidential elections are a moment when the nation holds up a mirror to look at itself. They are a reflection of values and dreams, of grievances and scores to be settled. The results say much about a country's character, future and core beliefs. On Tuesday, America looked into that mirror and more voters saw former president Donald Trump, delivering him a far-reaching victory in the most contested states. He won for many reasons. One of them was that a formidable number of Americans, from different angles, said the state of democracy was a prime concern. The candidate they chose had campaigned through a lens of darkness, calling the country garbage and his opponent stupid, a communist and the b-word. The mirror reflected not only a restive nation's discontent but childless cat ladies, false stories of pets devoured by Haitian immigrant neighbours, a sustained emphasis on calling things weird, and a sudden bout of Democratic joy" now crushed. The campaign will be remembe

Trump govt will maintain positive momentum in India-US ties, says USISPF

Congratulating president-elect Donald Trump on his stunning electoral victory, a top India centric American business advocacy group on Wednesday exuded confidence that the new administration will maintain the positive momentum in the India-US relationship. During his first administration, President Trump made the Indo-Pacific the preeminent focus for Washington's foreign policy, with the goal of securing a free and open Indo-Pacific, the US India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF) said in a statement. From that auspicious start, the relationship has continued to flourish with deepening partnership across critical and emerging technologies, clean energy, rebuilding supply chains, fortifying our defences and cementing people-to-people ties, the USISPF said. We are confident that the new Trump administration will maintain the positive momentum in this critical relationship to secure the greatest economic, financial, and national security gains for both countries, it said. We loo

Donald trumps Harris, becomes 47th US President in historic comeback

US Presidential election 2024: Republican candidate Donald Trump crosses the 270-majority mark

PM Modi, Donald Trump can grow world economy together: Senator McCormick

McCormick said that because of such actions at the hands of the Democrats, the community is now coming over to the 'conservative side'

US Election 2024: The fate of Trump's legal cases if he wins or losses

The outcome of the US election could reshape Donald Trump's legal battles. Can he govern from prison or will his cases be dismissed? A look at the link between his politics and legal issues

Trump's campaign faces backlash for racist jokes, anti-immigration push

Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden criticised for harsh anti-immigrant push, racist jokes, misogyny, and fear-mongering a week ahead of US polls

Trump called H-1B visa very bad for Americans, his company applied for one

The social media company founded by former President Donald Trump applied for a business visa program that he sought to restrict during his administration and which many of his allies want him to curtail in a potential second term. Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social, filed an application in June 2022 for an H-1B visa for a worker at a USD 65,000 annual salary, the lowest wage category allowed under the program. Federal immigration data shows the company was approved for a visa a few months later. The company says it did not hire the worker. Filing for the visa sets the image of Trump the candidate, who has proposed a protectionist agenda for companies to hire American, in conflict with Trump the businessman, who has said his companies will use every tool at their disposal. Records show the investment firm started by Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser, Jared Kushner, also filed an application and was approved to hire a foreigner as an associate .

Trump hush money prosecutors seek to ask about fraud, writer Jean Carroll

The first-ever criminal trial of a former US president began on Monday, and jury selection is ongoing

US poll: Trump's campaign raises $50.5 mn at high-dollar Florida fundraiser

Donald Trump's campaign said it raised $50.5 million on Saturday, a staggering reported haul as his campaign works to catch up to the fundraising juggernaut of President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. The reported haul from the event with major donors at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire investor John Paulson sets a new single-event fundraising record and is almost double the $26 million that Biden's campaign said it raised recently at a gathering with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama at Radio City Music Hall in New York. It's clearer than ever that we have the message, the operation, and the money to propel President Trump to victory on November 5, his campaign senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a statement. The event, billed as the Inaugural Leadership Dinner," sends a signal of a resurgence of Trump and the Republican Party's fundraising, which has lagged behind Biden and the Democrats. Trump boasted about his evening with wealt

NY fraud penalty: Donald Trump posts $175 mn bond to avert asset seizure

Donald Trump has posted a USD175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than USD454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals, according to a court filing. A New York appellate court had given the former president 10 days to put up the money after a panel of judges agreed last month to slash the amount needed to stop the clock on enforcement. The bond Trump is posting with the court now is essentially a placeholder, meant to guarantee payment if the judgment is upheld. If that happens, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee will have to pay the state the whole sum, which grows with daily interest. If Trump wins, he won't have to pay the state anything and will get back the money he has put up now. Until the appeals court intervened to lower the required bond, New York Attorney General Letitia James had been poised to initiate efforts to collect the judgment, possibly by seizi

Donald Trump appeals $454 million judgment in New York civil fraud case

The former US president will have to put up cash or post-bond to cover the $ 355 million and an additional roughly $ 100 million in interest he was ordered to pay, CNN reported

$454 mn judgment against Donald Trump finalised in civil fraud case

The staggering civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump was finalised in New York on Friday, making official a verdict that leaves the former president on the hook for more than USD 454 million in fines and interest. The procedural step by the New York county clerk starts the clock on Trump's appeals process, while allowing the debt to begin racking up post-judgment interest of nearly USD 112,000 each day, according to a spokesperson for New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the case. In his February 16 ruling, Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump lied for years about his wealth in order to secure favourable loans and make deals that helped prop up his real estate empire. He was ordered to pay USD 354.9 million in penalties plus nearly USD 100 million in interest. The formalised verdict gives Trump a 30-day window to appeal, which he has vowed to do. Within that same time frame, he must deposit sufficient funds in a court-controlled account or secure a bond for the

Trump took $7.8 mn in foreign cash while in office. He'd do it again

Latching on to either of those arguments to let Trump off the hook would be a mistake

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Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to put off hearing case on immunity claim

As per Trump's brief, Smith's desire for expedited treatment was driven by political considerations

Biden denounces Trump as 'doubling down' on support for insurrection

President Joe Biden said it's self-evident that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss but stopped short of commenting on a Colorado legal case that would bar him from the state's ballot. The Democratic president made the comments about his likely Republican opponent in next year's election shortly after landing in Milwaukee for an event focused on the economy. Whether the 14th Amendment applies or not, we'll let the court make that decision," Biden told reporters on the tarmac after stepping off Air Force One. "But he certainly supported an insurrection. There's no question about it. None. Zero. And he seems to be doubling down on it. Biden also criticised Trump for his recent comments that migrants were poisoning the blood of the country. "I don't believe, as the former president said again yesterday, that immigrants are polluting our blood," Biden said in a speech at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce. The economy and our nation are

WEC rejects complaint against Trump's fake electors for second time

Wisconsin's bipartisan elections commission, for a second time, has unanimously rejected a complaint against fake presidential electors who attempted to cast the state's ballots for Donald Trump in 2020. The Wisconsin Elections Commission first rejected the complaint in March 2022. But a judge in May ordered the commission to rehear the complaint, this time without one of its members who served as one of the fake electors for the former president. The commission released its unanimous 5-0 decision to reject the complaint Wednesday without explaining why. The elections commission's discussion of the complaint, as well as its vote on Tuesday, was conducted in closed meetings. The complaint asked the elections commission to investigate the fake electors' actions and declare that they broke the law. Last year, when it rejected the complaint the first time, the commission attached a letter from the Wisconsin Department of Justice that said that Republicans who attempted to cast the stat

Judge criticises Trump's witness, refuses request to toss fraud lawsuit

Former President Donald Trump has lost his latest bid to end the business fraud lawsuit he faces in New York as he campaigns to reclaim the White House. Judge Arthur Engoron issued a written ruling on Monday denying the Republican's latest request for a verdict in his favour in a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. And in doing so, the judge dismissed the credibility of one of Trump's expert witnesses at the trial, a professor who testified that he saw no fraud in the former president's financial statements. The trial is centred on allegations Trump and other company officials exaggerated his wealth and inflated the value of his assets to secure loans and close business deals. In the three-page ruling, Engoron wrote that the most glaring flaw of Trump's argument was to assume that the testimony provided by Eli Bartov, an accounting professor at New York University, and other expert witnesses would be accepted by the court as true and accurate. Bartov is a .

New York judge to look at Donald Trump's comments, reconsider $10,000 fine

A New York judge said Thursday he would take a fuller look at Donald Trump's out-of-court comments and reconsider a USD 10,000 fine he imposed on the former president a day earlier at his civil fraud trial. The development came after Trump's lawyers urged Judge Arthur Engoron to rethink the penalty. The judge fined Trump on Wednesday after finding that his comments to TV cameras outside the courtroom violated a gag order that bars participants in the trial from commenting publicly on the judge's staff. Outside court Wednesday, the Republican presidential front-runner complained that Engoron, a Democrat, is a very partisan judge with a person who's very partisan sitting alongside of him, perhaps even much more partisan than he is. The comment came weeks after Engoron imposed the gag order in the wake of a Trump social media post that disparaged the judge's principal law clerk. She sits next to Engoron, and Trump's lawyers had groused a bit earlier about the clerk's facial expressions