WASHINGTON (TIP): President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, July 3, that he was moving ahead with adding a contentious citizenship question to the 2020 US census in a dramatic reversal after his own administration including […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The US Justice Department on May 17 independently named former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russian officials, sending the four month old Presidency into a deeper crisis. The appointment, apparently made […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): A US judge on April 23 blocked President Donald Trump‘s executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, dealing another legal blow to the administration’s efforts to toughen […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a US “priority,” attorney general Jeff Sessions said April 20, as media reports indicated his office was preparing charges against the fugitive anti-hero. “We are […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set a new precedent in the Senate that will ease the confirmation for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Friday, after 30 more hours of debate […]
PORTLAND, ORE (TIP): A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in the Pacific Northwest resulted in 84 arrests, according to a Fox News report, March 30, 2017. The operation targeted “at-large criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): On March 20, President Donald J. Trump nominated Indian American Amul R. Thapar of Kentucky for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. If confirmed, Amul R. Thapar of Kentucky will […]
“One of the first acts of the new President Donald Trump was to announce the nomination of Judge Gorsuch, described by one columnist as ‘Scalia:2’! While the description may not quite hold true (as many […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke S. Chakravarty from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Massachusetts received US Justice Dept.’s highest honor as one of the members of a team that worked on […]
The 45th President-elect Donald Trump is ready to take the oval office on January 20th 2017, much to every one’s surprise! Among many firsts he holds, Donald Trump is the first President to hold anti-immigration […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Justice Department is preparing to launch a renewed strategy to address the unrelenting scourge of heroin and opioid addiction, in part by placing greater emphasis on identifying links between over-prescribing doctors and […]
US President Barack Obama has nominated a 47-year-old Indian-American woman attorney to the US District Court bench in New York, the White House has said. “I am pleased to nominate Diane Gujarati to serve on […]
NEW YORK (TIP) — An Indian American official spearheading the Obama administration’s campaign against police brutality and mistreatment of minorities has issued a scathing indictment of the city of Baltimore, accusing its police force of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): In a dramatic turnaround, the US State Department has said it will reopen its own probe into the allegations that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton violated rules by using a private email […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): San Francisco’s police chief, Greg Suhr, resigned under pressure from the city’s mayor on May 19, just hours after an officer’s fatal shooting a black woman sparked new outrage in a city […]
SPecial report NEW YORK (TIP): Environmental advocate and former Vice President Al Gore and Attorneys General from across the nation, on Tuesday, March 29, gathered in the office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for an […]
Indian-Origin Masood Khan among 47 immigrants who were rejected by the Chicago Police Department to be a police officer for being foreign-born have won the discrimination case brought forward by the US Justice Department. Chicago taxpayers will spend $3.1 […]
Goldman Sachs says it has reached a deal with US authorities over charges that it used fraudulent marketing material to sell mortgage bonds before the financial crisis. The bank agreed to pay $5.1bn in civil […]
CHICAGO (TIP): Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday, December 1, he has asked for the resignation of Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy. The announcement at a news conference came amid angry protests in Chicago over […]
Two Indian brothers charged with providing support to al-Qaeda had discussed ideas for an Islamist insurgency in India, documents filed by United States prosecutors show. Hyderabad-born Yahya Farooq Mohammad and Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad were indicted […]
Reflecting the increasing diversity in the US, the White House has launched its annual anti-bullying campaign in three South Asian languages – Hindu, Urdu and Punjabi. Bullying is considered as a major problem in US […]
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