Hillary Clinton

Biden ‘nailed this decision’ in picking Harris to be his running mate: Obama

7:53 pm August 12, 2020

Washington: Former US president Barack Obama has joined top Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, to praise Indian-American Senator Kamala Harris’ selection as the party’s vice presidential candidate in the November election, saying Joe Biden has “nailed this decision”. Presumptive Democratic party presidential nominee Biden on Tuesday named 55-year-old Harris as his vice presidential running mate, making […]

Facing electoral headwinds, Trump brings back 2016 team

2:27 pm June 10, 2020

New York: As anyone who has ever heard him speak knows, President Donald Trump loves to relive 2016. He recycles old attack lines once aimed at Hillary Clinton. He recounts the drama of election night, complete with impersonations of stunned news anchors putting state after state (Pennsylvania! Wisconsin!) in the Republican’s column. And at other […]

Drowned out by pandemic, a muted victory for Joe Biden

3:40 pm April 11, 2020

Washington: Barack Obama celebrated the kickoff of his “historic” White House challenge before thousands of ecstatic supporters. Hillary Clinton also marked her “milestone,” as the first woman nominee of a major US party, to thunderous applause. And what of Joe Biden? The resurgent Democrat has been denied the climactic rollout that his predecessors enjoyed. Like […]

‘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 […]

Trump ally gets 40 months prison amid meddling firestorm

12:47 am February 21, 2020

Washington: Donald Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison for impeding a congressional investigation, in a case that ignited a firestorm over the US president’s political interference in the justice system. Stone, a veteran Republican operative and one of Trump’s oldest confidants, was convicted in November of lying to […]