US Elections

Image: California Voter Foundation India-West Staff Reporter WASHINGTON, DC — On October 29, Free Press released research on Californians’ attitudes about media and technology this election year. These findings — drawn from the results of a nationwide Free Press poll — indicate

India-West News Desk NEW YORK, NY - Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan took to social media to respond to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who disparaged US Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris as “Malaysian.” Addressing Carlson’s racist remarks, Hasan posted

India-West News Desk SAN FRANCISCO, CA -  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has claimed that Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, personally called him to commend his recent visit to a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast,

WASHINGTON DC (ANI) - US President Joe Biden lauded his deputy and Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, emphasizing that he had many reasons for selecting her as his running mate. While addressing the White House Diwali celebrations on October 28, Biden

Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque By Anuradha Luther Maitra On July 24, 2024, President Joseph Biden withdrew from the US presidential race and endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris to succeed him as the Democratic nominee.  Just a week later, at the Black Journalists’ Convention

India-West News Desk DETROIT, MI - Gwen Walz, Minnesota’s First Lady, and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal visited a Gurdwara in Michigan, joined by Democratic congressional candidate Debbie Dingell and state representative Ranjeev Puri. Sharing the significance of the occasion on social media, Jayapal

India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC - Elon Musk may have worked in the U.S. without authorization during a brief period in the 1990s while building his startup, according to a Washington Post report from October 27. Musk disputed the claim, stating on his social

Photo: Reuters/Brian Snyder By Selen Ozturk Project 2025 poses an “existential threat” to immigrant, reproductive, LGBTQ+, climate and health protections nationwide, policy leaders warn. The over 900-page policy blueprint, released by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation in 2022 under the title “Mandate

Photo: Reuters/Megan Varner PHILADELPHIA, PA (ANI) - With less than two weeks remaining in the presidential elections, Vice President Kamala Harris expressed her intent to be the leader of "all Americans."Speaking to reporters at a press gaggle before departing for campaigning

DETROIT, MI (ANI) - Rap icon Eminem appeared at a rally for the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign ahead of the US presidential elections on October 21, introducing former president Barack Obama at an event in his hometown of Detroit. After speeches

Photo: Reuters/Brian Snyder India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC - The Justice Department has recently warned Elon Musk's America PAC that its $1 million sweepstakes for registered voters in swing states may violate federal law, according to CNN. Musk, who is backing Donald Trump

Photo: Abhijit Banerjee (Left), Kamla Harris (Right) India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC - Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee is among 23 economists endorsing Vice President Harris’s economic vision, calling it “vastly better” than former President Trump’s. In an open letter, Banerjee and his

India-West News Desk NEW YORK, NY - Bill Gates, one of the world’s wealthiest individuals, has privately disclosed that he recently donated approximately $50 million to a nonprofit organization supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, according to a report by The

Photo: Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz CONCORD, NH (REUTERS) - President Joe Biden said on October 22 that Republican Donald Trump is a threat to democracy and should be locked up "politically," as he exhorted Democrats at a New Hampshire campaign office to win

India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC – Former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is one of five candidates being considered for the position of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) under a potential second Trump administration, according to a report by Politico. Jindal,

Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Drake WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - Some U.S. states are sending strong signals to county and local officials who might be tempted to intervene illegally in the November 5 election or refuse to certify results: Fail to do your duty

Photo: Reuters/Octavio Jones TALLAHASSEE, FL - A federal judge has blocked Florida officials from threatening television stations with prosecution for running advertisements supporting a pro-abortion rights measure in next month's election. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker ruled on October 17 that

Photo: Reuters via Jacquelyn Martin/Pool WILMINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - Kamala Harris entered the final full month of the U.S. presidential election campaign vastly outspending Donald Trump, as both candidates put tens of millions of dollars into television ads ahead of the

Photo: Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein LA CROSSE, WI (REUTERS) - Billionaire Mark Cuban chided fellow billionaire and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on October 17 for his proposal to issue fresh tariffs on most Chinese goods, arguing it will be Americans who will

Photo: Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz WILMINGTON, DE (RETUERS) - Democrat Kamala Harris will campaign for the first time with Barack and Michelle Obama in separate events next week, hoping to inject some political star power in the final dash to election day in

Photo: Reuters/Dustin Chambers WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that if he does not win the Nov. 5 election, he will cry fraud and not accept the results - just as he did four years ago when

Photo: Harris was interrupted constantly in a testy interview. WASHINGTON CROSSING, PA (REUTERS) - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris defended the Biden administration's handling of illegal immigration blaming Republicans for failing to pass a border security bill in a combative television

WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - The U.S. Supreme Court during its last term handed Donald Trump victories in three major cases. But those may not be the last of the former president's legal entanglements that the court is asked to decide. Seven

Photo: Reuters/Rebecca Cook WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is rolling out a new tax-cut proposal about once a week in an unusual rush in the final stretch of the campaign to sway voters in an election that

India-West Staff Reporter LOS ANGELES, CA – Oscar and Grammy-winning composer A.R. Rahman lent his voice and music to support Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign ahead of the 2024 U.S. elections. Rahman, the first international artist from South Asia to

Photo: Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, released a letter from her doctor on October 12 that pronounced her in good health and fit for high office, to draw a contrast with her

India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC - Vowing to introduce a reciprocal tax if elected to power, Republican candidate for President Donald Trump on October 7 told the Detroit Economic Club: “Perhaps the most important element of my plan to make America extraordinarily

Photo: Reuters/Brian Snyder NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS) - Republican Donald Trump said on October 10  he will not debate Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, hours after Fox News invited the two presidential contenders to participate in a possible second debate on

Photo: Reuters via Caroline Brehman Pool WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots electoral votes to

India-West News Desk WASHINGTON, DC - A rift has emerged within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) between Vijay Chauthaiwale, head of the party's foreign affairs department, and Vijay Jolly, former convenor of its foreign cell, over an upcoming event supporting Donald Trump in

NEW YORK, NY (ANI) - Donald Trump has showered Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with admiration, hailing him as a good "friend" and the "nicest human being." Calling PM Modi a "total killer," Trump even claimed that India was "very

Photo: Reuters/Rachel Wisniewski WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - U.S. adversaries are preparing to stoke uncertainty about the validity of the November 5 presidential election results after polls close, anticipating a contested vote, a senior U.S. intelligence official said on October 7. In a

India-West Staff Reporter ATLANTA, GA - The AAPI Victory Fund, alongside Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Honorable Dilawar Syed, former Center for American Progress CEO Neera Tanden, AAPI Victory Fund Chairman Shekar Narasimhan, and comedian Jenny Yang, successfully rallied hundreds of community leaders,

WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on October 6 rejected Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders' suggestion that the Democratic presidential candidate is not humble because she does not have biological children. Harris said the Arkansas governor's views on family

India-West Staff Reporter ARTESIA, CA - Ali Sajjad Taj, Mayor Pro Tem, of the city of Artesia in Los Angeles County has officially announced his candidacy for the California State Assembly District 67 in the 2026 election. He has served as mayor

Photo: Reuters RIPON, WI (REUTERS) - Former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said former President Donald Trump is not fit to lead the U.S., urging voters to put country over party as they campaigned together on

Photo: Reuters/Mike Blake WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - The U.S. sees a growing threat of Russia, Iran and China attempting to influence the November 5 elections, including by using artificial intelligence to disseminate fake or divisive information, according to an annual U.S.

Photo: Reuters/David Swanson WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - Elon Musk secretly funded a conservative political group in recent years, according to four people familiar with his donations, illustrating quiet financial support for right-wing causes even before the billionaire entrepreneur in July endorsed

Photo: Reuters/Rebecca Cook WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - A senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris met American Muslim and Arab leaders on October 2 as Harris' presidential campaign seeks to win back voters angry at U.S. support for Israel's wars in

Neha Dewan, co-national director of South Asians for Harris, poses with her daughter. By REENA RATHORE In an act of curiosity that led to a moment both tender and transformative, Neha Dewan, co-national director of South Asians for Harris, held up a

Photo: Reuters/Dustin Chambers By Ajay Bhutoria, Deputy National Finance Chair, Democratic Party As we approach the 2024 Presidential Election, South Asian Americans stand at a pivotal moment in U.S. history. Our choice is clear: Vice President Kamala Harris for President of the

Photo: Reuters/Mike Segar NEW YORK, NY(REUTERS) - Americans who watched the vice presidential debate between Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance were in for a big surprise: a cordial tone and an emphasis on ideas the two have in common. Walz,

Photo: Reuters/Mike Blake CORCORAN, CA (REUTERS) - California is so heavily Democratic that neither the party's presidential candidate Kamala Harris nor her Republican rival Donald Trump even bother to campaign here. It is an entirely different matter, however, in the fight for

Photo: SiriusXM WASHINGTON, DC - Several former members of Nikki Haley’s 2024 presidential campaign have publicly endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, marking a significant break with Haley, who has since backed Donald Trump. These endorsements come from key figures who once

Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria LAS VEGAS, NV (REUTERS) - Kamala Harris’s presidential election campaign raised $55 million during two events this weekend, a campaign official said on September 29. The Democratic candidate raised $27 million at a fundraising event at the Palace of Fine Arts

Photo: Reuters/Brian Snyder WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - In Arizona, one of seven competitive states that are expected to decide the 2024 presidential election, an advocacy group founded by Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller is advancing a bold legal theory: that judges

Photo: Reuters/Octavio Jones LAS VEGAS, NV (REUTERS) - Vice President Kamala Harris is taking part in briefings on the federal response to Hurricane Helene, cutting short a campaign trip as she plans a visit to the storm-ravaged southeastern United States. Harris is

Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque DOUGLAS, AZ (REUTERS) - Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris visited the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time in her 2024 presidential campaign on September 27, calling for tighter asylum restrictions and vowing to make stopping fentanyl from entering

WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) – The U.S. Muslim advocacy group Emgage Action on September 25 endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris despite its ongoing concern over the war in Gaza, saying former President Donald Trump posed a greater danger with his

Photo: Reuters/Tom Brenner WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS) - One vice presidential candidate is a best-selling author who coined the term “childless cat ladies” to disparage Democrats and latched onto a made-up story about immigrants eating pets. The other is a folksy former high