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Donald Trump incited a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, put his own vice president in danger and later expressed solidarity with rioters who attempted to overturn the 2020 election in his name, Democrats argued Thursday as they wrapped up opening argume...

Textiles Minister Smriti Irani said she did not expect Rahul Gandhi to support a budget which intended to promote the government's 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' drive and unite the country.

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as the labor market continued to tread water, but a drop in new COVID19 cases has raised cautious optimism that momentum could pick up by the spring.

A group of U.S. chip companies on Thursday sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to provide "substantial funding for incentives for semiconductor manufacturing" as part of his economic recovery and infrastructure plans.

World stock indexes were mostly higher on Thursday after President Joe Biden held his first conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since taking office, though there was no indication of any major change in U.S. trade policy.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has set a confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland, President Joe Bidens nominee for attorney general.

More than a decade after Annika Sorenstam won her last LPGA Tour event, she's ready to tee it up again.

A man who authorities say is a leader of the farright Oath Keepers militia group and helped to organize a ring of other extremists and led them in the attack last month at the U.S. Capitol has held a topsecret security clearance for decades and previously...

Apart from the major political parties, three independent candidates -- one from Rashtriya Loktantrik Party and NCP -- managed to get their candidate elected as chairperson to the urban local bodies.

Donald Trumps defenders in the Senate on Sunday rallied around the former president before his impeachment trial, dismissing it as a waste of time and arguing that the former presidents fiery speech before the U.S. Capitol insurrection does not make him r...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday the country was still in a deep hole with millions of lost jobs but that President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion relief plan could generate enough growth to restore full employment by next year.

In Assam, which has 126 Assembly seats among which 40-42 of them are in Upper, Central, and Northern Assam besides Barak Valley, the votes of the tea garden workers play a key role in determining the fate of political parties.

BJP national president JP Nadda visited Malda in the morning to take part in a road show and two other programmes in the district.

Gold rebounded above the $1,800 psychological level on Friday, helped by a retreat in the dollar and data showing slowerthanexpected growth in U.S. employment underpinning the need for additional financial support.

Narendra Singh Tomar said the government is committed to welfare of farmers and to the continuation of the mandi system of procurement of crops on minimum support price (MSP) based mechanism.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits declined to 779,000 last week, a stillhistorically high total that shows that a sizable number of people keep losing jobs to the viral pandemic.