The event, a fundraiser for the Polk County Democratic Party and one of the biggest remaining opportunities for candidates to flex their organizing muscles in Iowa before the caucuses, comes as a number of candidates are facing an uncertain future in... read more

At a campaign event in New Hampshire, a man who was identified in media reports as hailing originally from Chennai, her mother’s hometown, had called Trump a “racist bigot” and asked the candidate what she would do in the next one year “to diminish the... read more

Though Tulsi Gabbard made it to the first two debates and did reasonably well in both, she struggled to find traction and never did break into the top league that has been dominated thus far by former vice-president Joe Biden, Senators Bernie Sanders,... read more

Harris and Biden are expected to square off again, as the former vice-president’s campaign signalled on Monday with a stinging attack on the senator’s health care plan. read more

The shooting at the largest food festival of California began at around afternoon. Casualties in the incident are feared. read more

The Gabbard campaign has said it was told by Google they wanted to verify billing information and policy compliance, neither of which was a problem. read more

Harris had attacked Biden pointedly on the issue of working with segregationists and also accused him of opposing busing, a desegregation tool in the 1970s and 80s, at the party’s presidential debate on June 27, rendering the most severe blow yet to... read more

Harris raised $12 million in the second quarter, however, which put her in a distant fourth position, behind Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who led the field with two-times more than her at $24.8 million, and Biden and Sanders, who collected $21.5 million and... read more

The first-time senator from California, whose father is black and mother Indian, had confronted Biden on his history of opposition to busing as a racial desegregation tool in the 1970s and 80s and his recent remarks portraying himself as a unifier who... read more

It is a significant change from a Quinnipiac poll released last month that showed Biden leading the pack with 30 per cent and Harris lingering in a distant fourth place with 7 per cent support. read more

Sikh activists alleged that during her tenure as California’s Attorney General, Harris defended a policy prohibiting state prison guards from keeping beards for religious reasons, even though exceptions were given for medical reasons. read more

Biden had recently said, in an effort to portray himself as a unifier who can work with political rivals to get things done, that as a US senator he had even worked with those two senators to get things done. He has been under fire from his rivals since,... read more

For Harris, the exchange was her boldest gambit yet in making her personal identity and experiences a calling card. read more

Announcing her departure, Trump had nothing but praise for her, while obliquely acknowledging the tough exchanges she had engaged in. read more

Holding a single white rose and wearing a sort of conference badge, Sawhney was from Direct Action Everywhere (DXE), an international grassroots network of animal rights activists founded in 2013 in the San Francisco Bay Area. read more