Asia Is Of Pivotal Importance For US Administration

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.

Officials survey crop damages

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.

Clinton plots final push as race tightens

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.

Hillary Clinton May Be In Deep Doo-Doo Over the Weiner Files

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.

Absentee-voter exit poll: Trump wins Israel by 65 points less than Romney did

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.

Catholic parish’s bulletin says Democratic voters are doomed to hell, Clinton is satanic

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.

Miss. fire chief: Blaze at African-American church was arson

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.

Trump, Clinton campaign on different economic visions

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.

US dollar drops on presidential election concerns

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.

Dems call for probe of company after Alabama pipeline blast

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.

Risk experts: Candidates not focusing on biggest threats

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.

Dave Matthews Serenades Bankers as Tisch, Rohatyn Women Honored 2 hours ago

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.