Donald Trump will swear-in as the 45th President of US in January. NEW YORK: New York City is asking the US government for up to $35 million to cover security costs related to President-elect Donald Trump, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday. Mr Trump has spent the majority of his time since Election Day in his apartment at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, forcing police to work with the US Secret Service to provide intensified security measures... 

US President Barack Obama presents comedian Ellen DeGeneres with the Presidential Medal of Freedom WASHINGTON: Basketball star Michael Jordan, actor Robert De Niro and music legend Bruce Springsteen were among the 21 people honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. During a ceremony at the White House President Barack Obama gave out the awards — the nation’s highest civilian honor — for his last time to a diverse... 

Over the past decade China has displaced the US as the main trading partner in Latin America. LIMA, PERU: An expected US economic retreat from Latin America under Donald Trump is causing the region’s leaders to look halfway around the world, to China, for help weathering the possible financial headwinds. They’ll have the perfect opportunity to make their appeal this week when Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a Pacific Rim summit as... 

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama today said that he would feel “deeply disturbed” if Donald Trump is sworn in as his successor and reiterated that the billionaire is not somebody who is fit to be president in any circumstances. Barack Obama said that Donald Trump is not somebody who’s fit to be president in any circumstances. “He (Trump) is not somebody who’s fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply... 

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence on Tuesday said the United States should attack Syrian government targets if Russia continues to support its campaign to retake Aleppo. Mike Pence said the US should attack Syrian government if Russia is to support campaign to retake Aleppo. “If Russia chooses to be involved and continue… in this barbaric attack on Aleppo, the United States of America should use military force to... 

Barack Obama spoke on the eve of the 15th anniversary of 9/11. WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to remain united in the face of terrorist attacks, in a barely-veiled jab at Republican White House nominee Donald Trump 15 years after 9/11. “In the face of terrorism, how we respond matters,” Obama said in his weekly radio and online address, delivered on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terror... 

Brexit leader Nigel Farage addresses a Donald Trump rally. JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI: Nigel Farage, a key figure in the successful campaign to get Britain out of the European Union, lent his support to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying Trump represented the same type of anti-establishment movement that he masterminded in his own country. Farage appeared with Trump before a cheering crowd of thousands at a rally in Jackson,Mississippi.... 

Barack Obama said the US has to do a better job disrupting terror networks. WASHINGTON: The ISIS will probably continue to be a threat to the US even after it is ousted from key strongholds in Iraq and Syria, President Barack Obama said Thursday, warning that lone-wolf believers will still be inspired to launch attacks that are harder to detect and prevent. Speaking to reporters after meeting with his top national security advisers in the Pentagon,... 

Barack Obama hints that Russia is trying to support Donald Trump for the White House. WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama is refusing to rule out the possibility that Russia is trying to sway the US Presidential Election in favor of Donald Trump. “Anything is possible,” Obama told NBC News in interview due to air today the furthest the US government has gone in pointing the finger at Russia for a vast leak of Democratic National Committee... 

President Barack Obama downplayed the notion that violence is increasing in the US, though he conceded that there has been an uptick in violence in some major cities. US President Barack Obama. Violent crime is on the rise so far this year in major cities across the US compared to the number of homicides, rapes, robberies, assaults and shootings that occurred in the same cities by this point in 2015, according to a new report. The midyear violent...