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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo: AP)

US Senate's procedural vote for Brett Kavanaugh on Friday, final vote...

If Kavanaugh clears Friday's procedural hurdle, that would set up a final confirmation vote as early as Saturday.

4 Oct 2018 12:29 PM IST

In this June 1, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, as he heads to Camp David for the weekend. Lawyers for President Donald Trump and Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant who sued the president for saying her sexual misconduct claims were lies, are scheduled to be in court Tuesday, June 5, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Hysteria over Kavanaugh: US Prez firm on SC rightward shift

It's hardly a state secret, of course, that the US SC features a bench broadly divided between conservatives and...

4 Oct 2018 12:06 AM IST

The senior Trump administration official said the United States will have a process to recognize same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats from countries where same-sex marriage is not legal, but which recognize American domestic partners. (Representational Image)

US won't grant diplomatic visas to same-sex partners: officials

The new policy was circulated in a United Nations memo last month and took effect on Monday.

3 Oct 2018 1:15 PM IST

Trump had multiple chances to craft a DACA fix with Congress. But one never materialized, despite overwhelming public support for letting Dreamers stay. (Photo: File)

Very scary time for young men in America: Donald Trump amid Kavanaugh...

The fight over Kavanaugh's nomination has been unusually emotional and has unfolded just weeks ahead of Nov. 6...

3 Oct 2018 11:04 AM IST

The Travellers Choice awards for Beaches is constituted from reviews (Photo: Instagram)

US court rejects Indian-origin billionaire's private beach plea

Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, bought the 53-acre (21.4 hectare) property in the 2008 for USD 32.5...

3 Oct 2018 10:32 AM IST

Im not a drinker and I can honestly say I never had a beer in my life -- its one of my only good traits, Trump joked at a long, rambling press conference. (Photo: AP)

Indian-American Neomi Rao to replace Kavanaugh on DC Circuit: Trump

Rao was recommended for the post by former White House counsel Don McGahn.

14 Nov 2018 2:47 PM IST

Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas would have granted the industrys request. (Photo: AP)

US Supreme Court upholds Obama-era net neutrality rules

The court rejected appeals from telecommunications industry seeking to throw out a lower court ruling in favour of 'net...

6 Nov 2018 9:34 AM IST

Battaglia had been divorced from his wife, Mary Jean Pearl, for about a year when he fatally shot their two daughters, Mary Faith, then 9 years old, and Liberty, 6, prosecutors said. (Photo: File/Representational)

Texas man gets death penalty for killing 2 daughters, making wife hear...

He was arrested shortly afterward at a tattoo parlor where he was getting rose tattoos to remember his dead daughters.

1 Feb 2018 7:23 PM IST

President Donald Trump will dispatch his top diplomatic and military advisors to Pakistan in the coming weeks. (Photo: AFP | File)

The ruling upholding US travel ban is controversial

Initially, Libya, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, North Korea, Iraq and Chad were named in the travel ban; Chad and Sudan...

22 July 2018 12:02 AM IST

The US Supreme Court. (Photo: AP)

Court is not a substitute for a democratic political process

Executive and legislative excesses can be cured by courts.

8 July 2018 12:46 AM IST

Muslim devotees offering namaz at a public place under police protection in Gurgaon in Haryana.

Wave of Muslim migrants spell doom for Europe

The WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) rural American constituency, which voted with their hands and feet for him...

4 July 2018 12:34 AM IST

Indian-American law expert Neomi Rao (Photo: Youtube)

Indian-American Neomi Rao sworn in as judge of powerful US court

Nominated by President Donald Trump last November, Rao was confirmed by the Senate last week by 53-46 votes.

21 March 2019 9:14 AM IST