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By Manik Mehta NEW YORK, Nov 4 -- Regardless of who gets elected - Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton - on Nov 8, as the next US President, Asia will continue to remain a very important region for the United States. Daniel Russel, the US Assistant Secretary of State ; fresh from his trip to the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia, underscored at the Department of State's Foreign Press Center the importance of the Asia pivot of President Barack Obama's administration.
Hurricane Matthew might have been the death knell for many Eastern North Carolina farmers, according to federal officials touring devastated farms Thursday in Edgecombe County. U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-1st District, said many farmers were already operating at a margin when the storm blew into town in early October.
Asian shares extended their losses Friday as nervous investors fretted over the potential outcome of next week's U.S. presidential election, which has become too close to call. KEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 1.5 percent to 16,879.91 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged 0.04 percent lower to 22,671.51.
Hillary Clinton saturated the airwaves and deployed star surrogates to battleground states Thursday, looking to snuff-out an eleventh-hour insurgency that has put Donald Trump at the gates of the White House. [WASHINGTON] Hillary Clinton saturated the airwaves and deployed star surrogates to battleground states Thursday, looking to snuff-out an eleventh-hour insurgency that has put Donald Trump at the gates of the White House.
In this May 13, 2016, file photo, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks with reporters in Green Bay, Wis. Johnson faces Democratic challenger, former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, in the Nov. 8 election.
The city of Chicago will celebrate the Cubs with a parade on Friday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced on Thursday afternoon. Emanuel said the city is still sorting out details, but noted it will be "around this time" when speaking at an event just before noon CT on Thursday.
FBI Director James Comey has come under fire from virtually every quarter of the Democrat establishment over his decision to re-open the investigation - yes, re-open the investigation - into Hillary Clinton's penchant for slinging classified documents about the internet like so much spam. Yesterday, Barack Obama claimed that Comey had launched the investigation based on innuendo.
A study of different ways to poll voters shows little overall effect from "shy Trump" voters. Hillary Clinton is in a better place than Barack Obama was four years ago.
Local radio DJ Tyler Glen travelled to Fargo, N.D., in November 2008 to help with Barack Obama's presidential campaign. On Nov. 4, 2008, I was up at 5 a.m. ready to knock on doors and make phone calls on behalf of the Obama campaign.
A woman looks towards a painting by Bob Dylan called "Endless Highway" on display at the exhibition called Bob Dylan The Beaten Path, at the Halcyon Gallery in London, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. The exhibition opens on Nov. ... .
A soldier stands next to a bus stop with a pro-Trump poster near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. Republican nominee Donald J. Trump won the US presidential vote among American citizens voting from Israel, according to an iVoteIsrael exit poll taken this week, but in an election plagued with low favorability ratings for both candidates, he had a far less impressive showing than Republicans did in Israel in the past.
After posting last week's column, "A Presidency from Hell," about the investigations a President Hillary Clinton would face, by afternoon it was clear I had understated the gravity of the situation.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Republican nominee Donald Trump and Melania Trump, together at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Oct. 20 in New York. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Republican nominee Donald Trump and Melania Trump, together at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Oct. 20 in New York.
Somebody set the fire that heavily damaged an African-American church that was also spray-painted with the phrase "Vote Trump," and an $11,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of whoever did it, a Mississippi fire chief said Wednesday. The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation of the Tuesday night fire at the 200-member Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, and Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons called the fire and graffiti a hate crime.
Washington, Nov 3 - Economy is once again a key issue in the heated campaign between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump, who disagrees about the strength of US economy and have floated widely differing tax and energy plans. Trump cites the weakest recovery following a recession in the post-War period as evidence of President Barack Obama's failed economic policies, which Clinton wants to continue, Efe news reported on Wednesday.
New York, Nov 3 - The US dollar declined for the second consecutive session against most major currencies on Wednesday amid rising uncertainties about the next week's US presidential election. In late New York trading, the euro rose to $1.1096 from $1.1059, and the British pound climbed to $1.2294 from $1.2240, Xinhua news agency reported.
Energy and Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone , Transportation Committee ranking member Peter DeFazio and three subcommittee ranking members - said the Department of Transportation should probe the Colonial Pipeline Company after a pipeline it owns caught fire and exploded in Shelby County, Alabama. The Monday incident killed one person and sent five others to the hospital.
The Associated Press asked 21 risk experts to analyze the pr... Graphic shows deaths caused by terrorism and deaths caused by weather events since 2001; 2c x 5 inches; 96.3 mm x 127 mm; WASHINGTON - It's a scary world out there, risk experts agree, but they say Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton often focus on the wrong dangers - fixing on hazards that are unlikely, or unlikely to cause massive pain. The Associated Press asked 21 risk experts to analyze the presidential campaign and list what they consider the five biggest threats to the world.
At a Lincoln Center gala that raised $3.1 million Tuesday night, Dave Matthews and Yissy Garcia, a woman drummer with a mohawk, played for Evercore Chief Executive Officer Ralph Schlosstein and Citigroup's head of corporate and investment banking, Raymond McGuire. Thank President Obama for giving the bankers the opportunity.
The Pentagon's gift rules allowed an Army National Guard General to accept rent-free living space from a defense contractor because the contractor is a personal friend. That was the finding of the Defense Department Office of Inspector General in a case involving Brig.