US Secret Service have arrested Steven Joseph Christopher for allegedly making threats to assassinate US President-elect Barack Obama. Christopher who was nabbed in Brookhaven, Mississippi has threatened to kill Obama during his January 20 inauguration. According to US Department of Justice, the ...

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama scored an early political victory on Thursday (15th January) when the Senate cleared the way to release the remaining $350 billion from the $700 billion financial bailout aimed at stabilizing the sinking economy.
 
After intense lobbying by Obama and his ...

After weeks of controversies, Ronald W. Burris, the former Illinois Attorney General, has been sworn in as a Senator from the Midwestern State, the seat vacated by the U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.
 
Burris, 71, was sworn in as the Senator on Thursday (15th January) by outgoing ...

The US government injected $20 billion in Bank of America to rescue the battered financial system. More over the US Senate also voted to release the remaining $350 billion of emergency fund. The Bank of America also got a guarantee of almost $100 billion on potential losses on toxic assets to ...

A highly decorated fighter pilot, close to President-elect Barack Obama but almost completely unknown to the space community, has emerged as the top candidate to run NASA, three sources close to the Obama transition team said yesterday (14th January).
 
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Jonathan ...

The US State Department imposed sanctions on Pakistani scientist Dr AQ Khan and 12 other individuals for their involvement in nuclear proliferation network providing atomic weapon designs and technology to North Korea, Iran and Libya. According to statement of US State Department, the sanctions ...

The former White House Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta has been appointed as head of the US Central Intelligence Agency by the Barack Obama administration.  Apart from it, the US President-elect has also inducted retired admiral Dennis Blair as the director of the National Intelligence. A former ...

The Illinois House of Representatives impeached Governor Rod Blagojevich on Friday (9th January) for abuse of power, including a charge that he tried to sell President-elect Barack Obama's former U.S. Senate seat.
 
Blagojevich dismissed the impeachment, the first ever of an Illinois ...

The incoming Barack Obama administration is likely to appoint veteran troubleshooter Richard C Holbrooke as a special envoy to Pakistan and India amid tensions in the sub-continent following the Mumbai terrorist strikes.
 
Obama's Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton may name ...

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will receive the highest civilian award in the US - the Presidential Medal of Freedom - next week. In his last week in office, President Bush will award the medal to Mr Blair, former Australian PM John Howard and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
 
All ...

Iraq got the World's largest US embassy on Monday (January 5). Built over an area of 104 acres of land, the new US embassy can accommodate about 1000 employees. The United Sates has installed the new facility with an investment of $700 million. Speaking on the inauguration of the huge US embassy, ...

US President-elect Barack Obama seems to have suffered a set back when New Mexico governor Bill Richardson announced his decision to withdraw his nomination to be the commerce secretary. Richardson abandoned his nomination under pressure of a grand jury investigation into a state contract awarded ...

US President George W Bush inked a nuclear inspection agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday (December 30) with a hope to motivate other countries to follow the suit. As per a statement released by the White House, the President signed the instrument of ratification ...

The recently named Person of the Year, Barack Obama has managed to top the list of 'History Makers of 2008'. The victory of Obama in the recently held US presidential elections will be to be remembered as the story of 2008. The first African-American president of the United States has showed the ...

U.S. officials said Monday (22nd December) that they want answers from Russia on whether it is selling advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran. The U.S. insists that it could threaten American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
A senior military intelligence official said that while Moscow ...

The United States no longer supports the September 15 power-sharing agreement between Zimbabwe’s government, led by Robert Mugabe, and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, the State Department’s top envoy to Africa said, adding that Mugabe is incapable of sharing ...

Dennis C Blair, a retired US Navy admiral is likely to be appointed by President-elect Barack Obama as the chief of country's national intelligence. According to media reports, Blair will hold the post of Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Meanwhile, Obama is yet to decide the name of new ...

The Time magazine has adjudged US President-elect Barack Obama as the Person of the Year. While citing the reason for nominating Obama, the magazine stated that Obama has the ability to motivate the voters which he has proved by becoming the first African-American president of US. The charismatic ...

 The US government is likely to put North Korea back on the list of states sponsoring terrorism. While taking to the media, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack stated that if North Korea back off from its commitment to denuclearization, there is every possibility that the US may put ...

Steven Chu, a prominent Chinese-American scientist is likely to be inducted as the US energy secretary under the Barack Obama administration.  The director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chu  won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 for his work in the 'development of methods to ...

The Barack Obama administration has named Eric Shinseki as the head of US Department of Veterans Affairs. Before being appointed in the new post, Eric Shinseki offered his service as the chief of staff of US Army from 1999-2003. The 66-year-old Shinseki came under much criticism when he ...

The US President George W Bush has said that he does not want Iran a nuclear weapon state and he would never let Iran have it. In his speech Bush said that while Iran has not accepted the offers to abandon its nuke program the US have made bottom line clear: For the safety of the US people and the ...

Pentagon has decided to send as many as 20,000 troops to Afghanistan by next year for combating the Taliban and Al Qaeda insurgents. The deputy commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Major General Michael Tucker informed that all the required infrastructures has been built up in Afghanistan to ...

According to US Military sources, US under its Missile-Defense System (MDS) has successfully tested anti-missile shield. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman on the event said that US had a successful intercept at 3:29 pm (0159 IST). The test was crucial for US towards installing the same in Eastern ...

President-elect Barack Obama on Monday said that terror modules functioning in South Asia represented the biggest threat to the United States. Obama told a group of reporters that the US cannot tolerate a world where innocents are killed by extremists based on twisted ideologies. He addressed the ...

Almost two years after the execution of Saddam Hussein by America, US President George W Bush said that his 'biggest regret' in office was US intelligence reports that incorrectly carried that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Bush, in an interview with ABC News said that many ...

US President-elect Barack Obama nominated Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State and kept Robert Gates as Defence Secretary. While explaining the reason of nominating Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama said that his administration finds her to be the best candidate for US diplomacy. According to him, ...

The Iraqi parliament has finally approved the security agreement with US which   will help Iraq to send the US troops back to their nation. The security agreement between US and Iraq holds that the US troops will be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by the end of June, 2009 and from the rest of ...

Former US first lady Barbara Bush is reported to be admitted in Houston hospital after suffering from minor pain. According to family source, the 83-year-old Barbara Bush was suffering from pain throughout the week. As result of which she was hospitalised for initial medical tests. However, source ...

The chairman and the CEO of New York Life International LLC, Richard Mucci has been inducted in the board of directors of the US-India Business Council (USIBC). New York Life works extensively to strengthen relations between India and the US. Commenting on the appointment of Richard Mucci in the ...