US President Donald Trump’s approval rating is nearing a record low, with losses among the non-college-educated and white men, according to a new poll. The Quinnipiac University poll issued on Wednesday found 36 per cent approve of Trump’s job while 58 per cent disapprove of it, reports CBS News. His approval rating is down from […]
The White House has said that FBI Director James Comey committed “atrocities” during his tenure which prompted US President Donald Trump to fire him. Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders at the daily press briefing on Wednesday said Trump had been thinking about firing Comey from the moment he was elected, Efe news reported. Filling in […]
Venezuelan students launched new protests against security forces amid escalating tensions provoked by the government’s call to rewrite the Constitution. Student leaders from numerous universities summoned several demonstrations on Thursday to support the opposition and to show their solidarity to the relatives of the 35 people who have died in the anti-government protests so far, […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened in the red on Friday following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 100.46 points or 0.33 per cent lower during the early session. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading 24.90 points or 0.27 per cent lower at 9,335 points. […]
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will allow churches and other religious organisations to become more active politically, the media reported. The order, which Trump inked during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, directs the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) not to take “adverse action” against churches and other […]
US’ Delta Air Lines has issued an apology for kicking a family with two young children off a flight after the customers had already boarded, the media reported. The incident occurred on April 23 on Delta flight 2222 from Hawaii to Los Angeles, but footage of the ordeal was posted on YouTube on Wednesday by […]
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon launch a political organisation aimed at funding “resistance” groups that will stand up to President Donald Trump, the media reported. Clinton is currently working with former aides and donors to build the organisation — Onward Together, an homage to her campaign slogan — that will look […]
Former US President Barack Obama with his wife Michelle returned to Chicago to unveiled a 3-D model of his presidential center, media reports said. Obama and his wife Michelle Obama on Wednesday, made their first public appearance on plans for the presidential library at the South Shore Cultural Center of south Chicago. Hundreds of people […]
The US House of Representatives will vote on Thursday on a Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the media reported. The long-awaited announcement on Wednesday night has put to an end to a flurry of speculation about whether the Republican health care bill would come up on the […]
The US House of Representatives approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill for the rest of the 2017 fiscal year, and the measure will now receive the green light from the Senate, thus avoiding the partial shutdown of the federal government. A stopgap spending measure was due to expire on Friday, Efe news reported. Approved in […]