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Hillary Clinton says she will put her husband and former president Bill Clinton in charge of economic revitalization efforts, if she wins the race for White House in November 8 election. “My husband, who I’m going...

Most Americans want to see the United States focus on its own problems rather than getting involved in global affairs, according to a new survey that also showed increasing support for hike in defense budget to...

David Petraeus, former CIA chief and army general has cautioned against political rhetoric against Muslims, saying that kind of bigotry feeds into militant narratives and poses dangers for American national security and body politic. The retired...

House Speaker Paul Ryan Thursday said he had an encouraging meeting with Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump toward unifying the fractured conservatives but stopped short of endorsing the businessman who has emerged victorious from deeply polarizing...

In the wake of Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump’s threat to ban Muslim immigration, a group of House Democrats introduced legislation on Wednesday to restrict the United States from stopping someone’s entry into the country on...

The occasion was Around the World Embassy Tour-Passport DC – an annual event that introduces diversity of world cultures to Washingtonians at the start of each summer. Almost customarily, Pakistani artefacts, cuisine, costumes, folk music, artefacts and...

House Speaker Paul Ryan, the highest elected Republican official, expressed doubts about leadership of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump Friday, when de declined to back the billionaire businessman and sought efforts to unify the fractured party. “I’m just not ready to do...

Fearful that Donald Trump’s nomination may cost them the White House, skeptic Republican leaders got their first scare after a new poll showed the  presumptive nominee lagging way behind Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Although Trump has received...

President Barack Obama had a lot to poke fun at in his last presidential appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner. So he unleashed a string of jokes and jabs at presidential candidates including Donald...

This month world finance leaders huddled in Washington under the banner of IMF-World Bank Spring meetings.  Two challenges that were at the top of the discussion agenda for the meetings were the sluggish global economic recovery and the...