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Early In-Person Voting Begins In 3 Key US States For November Presidential Election

September 21, 2024 admin

Early in-person voting kicked off Friday in the US states of Virginia, South Dakota and Minnesota. Arlington: With more than a month to go before the November 5 presidential election, some Americans are already lining up to cast their ballots in this tightly contested race. Early in-person voting kicked off Friday in the US states…

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Taylor Swift’s Instagram Post Endorsing Kamala Harris Draws 9 Million ‘Likes’

September 12, 2024 admin

Taylor Swift called Kamala Harris a “steady-handed, gifted leader” Pop megastar Taylor Swift drew more than 9 million “likes” to her Instagram post backing Vice President Kamala Harris for president from celebrities that included Jennifer Aniston, US basketball star Caitlin Clark and Selena Gomez. Soon after Harris, a Democrat, finished debating her Republican rival Donald…

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US Presidential Polls, Donald Trump Trump Raised $139 Million In July, Has $ 327 Million Cash On Hand

August 2, 2024 admin

US Presidential Polls, Donald Trump Trump Raised 9 Million In July, Has $ 327 Million Cash On Hand

“Our country is failing, but we will turn it around, quickly.” Washington: Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump has said that his campaign raised USD 139 million in July and has USD 327 million cash on hand. “There has never been anything like the MAGA Movement. We raised $139 Million Dollars in July…

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Uncertainty over Democrats’ stand on foreign policy issues after Biden’s exit

July 23, 2024 admin

Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the U.S. presidential race injects greater uncertainty into the world at a time when Western leaders are grappling with wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a more assertive China in Asia and the rise of the far-right in Europe. During a five-decade career in politics, Mr. Biden developed extensive personal relationships with…

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Kamala Harris, US Vice-President, leads list of contenders for spots on Democratic ticket

July 22, 2024 admin

President Joe Biden’s decision to step down as the Democratic Party’s nominee for President opens the door for other contenders to become the Democratic nominee in November. The President has thrown his support behind Vice-President Kamala Harris, and other prominent Democrats moved quickly to rally around her candidacy, but it’s unclear just how smooth her…

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Watch: Trump rises, Biden shaky :Why India should pay attention

July 19, 2024 admin

The US election campaign takes a deadly turn- with Trump and his new Vice President choice surging in the polls after the assassination attempt, and pressure building on President Biden to step aside for another candidate- what are the major issues for voters, and what will decision 2024 in the US mean for India? This…

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Joe Biden’s defiant press conference falls flat as he introduces Ukraine President Zelensky as ‘President Putin’

July 12, 2024 admin

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. President Joe Biden react as they attend a Ukraine Compact meeting, on the sidelines of the NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington, U.S. July 11, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters A defiant Joe Biden insisted Thursday that he will run for another term as U.S. president and beat Donald…

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Joe Biden Invokes “Lord Almighty” Amid Calls To End Reelection Bid

July 7, 2024 admin

So far, some Democrats remain wary. President Joe Biden dismissed calls to end his reelection bid and denied that his debate performance wrought significant damage to his campaign, a defiant posture that risked further alarming Democrats who fear he has not honestly grappled with his biggest political crisis. Biden on Friday in an ABC News…

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From Reagan to Biden, the decades-long question of age in U.S. election

July 5, 2024 admin

While Ronald Reagan, left, had pledged to leave office if he became ‘impaired’, President Biden affirmed that he is ‘racing to the end’. | Photo Credit: AP The age question for presidential candidates in the U.S. is more than four decades old. President Ronald Reagan in 1980 answered it with a pledge to resign if…

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Eminent Indian-American physician elected official delegate to Republican Convention

July 1, 2024 admin

File picture of Dr. Sampat S. Shivangi | Photo Credit: V. Sreenivasa Murthy Eminent Indian-American physician Dr. Sampat Shivangi has been elected as an official delegate to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this month that would formally nominate former U.S. president Donald Trump as the party’s presidential candidate. Mr. Trump, 78, is the presumptive…

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