WASHINGTON - Former US Democrat Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and a newly elected Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex have join hands to elect the nation’s first Muslim governor, as the country heads to a mid-term election in November that will decide which party controls ...

*WASHINGTON:* A US congressman said he pulled out a loaded Smith & Wesson pistol during a meeting with gun control activists Friday in a bid to prove that firearms are not responsible for the violence. House Republican Ralph Norman of South Carolina told The Post and Courier newspaper that he ...

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump has hinted at contesting the 2020 presidential election bid. Trump on Tuesday announced his seriousness about contesting the election in 2020. He has talked about it often - staying in office for eight years - and set up a fund raising organisation even ...

BIRMINGHAM: Democrat Doug Jones won a bitter fight for a U.S. Senate seat in deeply conservative Alabama, dealing a political blow to President Donald Trump in a race marked by sexual misconduct accusations against Republican candidate Roy Moore.The stunning upset makes Jones the first Democrat ...

An "improvised explosive device" targeting a mosque in Minneapolis during morning prayers on Saturday damaged the imam's office, but did not cause any injuries, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said.According to a report on the Minneapolis Star Tribune, someone apparently threw the bomb ...

WASHINGTON: A newly formed political group in the US state of Maryland is seeking to train Muslim Americans to prepare them to contest for localand state offices in the states in 2018, according to a report by the Washington Post.The group said that apart from Maryland, the group will recruit ...

NEW YORK: Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton on Tuesday took a swipe at President Donald Trump's Twitter diplomacy, warning that it's ineffective in pressuring North Korea to stop its nuclear programme. Clinton stressed in an interview with CNN during a Women For Women ...

WASHINGTON: (APP) The budget allocation for the US State Department and the USAID will less than what was initially indicated by President Trump, enabling the State Department to continue its foreign aid for overseas operations, US allies and emerging crises. Initially, the cut by up to 37 percent ...

WASHINGTON (APP)- The following is a list of key cabinet and other nominations made so far by US President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on January 20:Donald Trump includes 3rd General in his cabinet  Attorney General: Jeff Sessions, 69One of Trump's earliest supporters during the campaign, ...

ISLAMABAAD: (APP) Dr. Marvin G. Weinbaum, a US security expert on the region said here Tuesday Pakistan and India should tackle less thorny  issues  first for the normalization of relations before taking on the hardest ones like Kashmir which posed a danger of conflict.Both Islamabad and New ...