DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Singapore hopes US can stabilise its ties with China: PM Lee

7:34 pm July 29, 2020

Singapore: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that he hope the US will stabilise its ties with China as Asia depends on a stable relationship between the world’s two biggest economies to have a secure and predictable environment to prosper. Lee, who was re-elected prime minister, was speaking at a virtual dialogue organised by the Atlantic Council, an American think-tank, […]

Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

Virus, racial unrest force Trump campaign to recalibrate

3:25 pm June 8, 2020

Washington: Less than five months before voters will decide his fate, President Donald Trump is confronting a vastly different political reality than he once envisioned. For starters, if the election were held today, he’d likely lose. The president, West Wing advisers and campaign aides have grown increasingly concerned about his reelection chances as they’ve watched […]

‘Time for an accounting’ in Weinstein affair: Clinton

10:10 pm February 25, 2020

Berlin: Harvey Weinstein’s conviction for rape and sexual assault showed that it was “time for an accounting”, Hillary Clinton said Tuesday, before defending her political ties to the disgraced Hollywood producer. “The jury’s verdict really speaks for itself,” Clinton told journalists at the Berlin film festival. “It is obviously something that people had looked at […]

US President Trump acquitted of all impeachment charges by Senate

6:39 pm February 6, 2020

Washington: The Republican-controlled Senate has acquitted Donald Trump in his high-profile impeachment trial, giving the US President a major political victory in an election year but not before bitterly dividing the country and costing millions of dollars to the tax payers. The Senate voted on Wednesday 52-48 to acquit Trump of abuse of power and […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Trump says he’s open to trial witnesses — but backtracks

11:39 pm January 22, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he is open to new witnesses at his impeachment trial, a major demand by Democratic prosecutors, but he immediately backtracked, suggesting it could never happen despite what he said was his willingness. Separately, Trump’s lawyers let a deadline pass without filing a motion to outright dismiss the […]