The confrontation comes days after the FBI executed a search warrant at former president Donald Trump's Florida estate.
A 19-year-old Indian-origin teen accused of deliberately crashing a rented U-Haul truck into a White House barrier told authorities that he wanted to get inside the mansion to "seize power" and "kill" US President Joe Biden, according to media reports.
Snap polls conducted following the conclusion of the third US presidential debate revealed that Democrat Hillary Clinton was the winner.
A Democrat senator has reportedly suggested that countries should wave rainbow flags during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia to show support for gay rights, instead of boycotting them.
'The US and India continue to use their deepening relationship to build new partnerships within and beyond the Indo-Pacific.'
United States President Barack Obama put off three times operations to kill world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a new book has claimed.
According to the Washington Times, Haley made the revelation while speaking at an event to help promote a study called Silent Tears, which provides the state with recommendations for improving child abuse prevention and response.
The US Central Command has purchased the $2.7-million programme -- developed by San Diego firm Ntrepid -- which allows one military user to create multiple personas on internet and engage in extended online communications with terror suspects, The Washington Times reported.
Several top American media outlets, including The New York Times, CNN and The Los Angeles Times, which were among those press outlets critical of the Trump Administration, were not invited to Spicer's press gaggle.
Trump had accused Pakistan of providing safe havens to terrorists.
At least 16 Fairfax County burglaries in the United States may be the work of the same suspects, who apparently have targeted homes of people with Asian backgrounds, sometimes by spotting depictions of a prominent Hindu deity, says a report in the Washington Times.
Dennis Keith Rodman, who faced widespread criticism after his controversial trip to North Korea recently, has reportedly said that he would not return to the oppressive state if the American people did not want him to go.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi believes that the United States and Israel are creating sharp differences between India and Pakistan, so that the latter could not target its 'Muslim bomb' against the West. "The Pakistanis are told that their enemy is the Hindu, not the Jew or Christian, and therefore their bomb should be directed towards them, the Pakistanis' immediate enemy, and not anyone else," he wrote in The Washington Times.
The statement by United States president-elect Barack Obama regarding American intervention in Kashmir is his first foreign policy mistake, a leading expert on South Asia said on Tuesday. A Kashmir initiative by America, however veiled, can undermine improving India-US ties, Selig S Harrison, director of Asia Programme at the Center for International Policy and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International, said an opinion piece published in The Washington Times.
The Central Investigation Agency-operated Predator drones may strike Laden's hide-out without taking permission beforehand from Islamabad if the US locates him in Pakistan's rugged tribal areas, a source close to the arrangement told the The Washington Times.
'As America's second post-9/11 President takes office, a single country has become ground zero for the terrorist threat we face,' Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote in an opinion piece published in The Washington Times.
"We feel it was a baby, kidnapped, and its clothes were rigged with explosives. He kept trying to hand it to people to hand to me. I'm a mother, I love babies, but the (streetlights) had already gone out, and I was worried about the baby getting dropped or hurt," Bhutto said, adding that she would have been killed had she not stepped back to loosen the shoes on her swollen feet.
"History is full of examples where we didn't focus too much on exit strategy. A good exit strategy is one which leaves that country, that area, peaceful, economically and politically empowered," Shaukat Aziz said.
This is the first time President Bush has gone on record saying that US forces were `stressed' in Iraq.
A greater supply of nuclear power would leave India less reliant on and 'less inclined to enter into billion dollar energy deals with Iran,' the daily said.
If she wins, Christopher would be the first Indian-American in the Virginia legislature.
Administration Officials point out that since Pakistan is not a signatory to the NPT, or subject to inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it is difficult to ascertain if what Islamabad is buying remains in the country.
According to census data, Indian-Americans were the fastest-growing ethnic group in the 1990s, and remained one of the largest sources of legal immigration to the United States, the report noted.
Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden is in eastern Iran and not the rugged tribal areas of Pakistan's northwestern frontier where many believe him to be on the run, United States intelligence officials were on Monday quoted as saying.\n\n
Reports of laser beams piercing the cockpits of six commercial airplanes in the past four days in the United States has prompted federal investigators to determine if terrorists were involved in these incidents.
Senior British commander in Alamarah in Iraq, Lt Col Andrew Williams, told Washington Times in an interview on Tuesday. London is yet to confirm this report.
Inspectors at six of the nation's busiest airports, including Washington Dulles International, are on alert for travellers of Pakistani descent.
The Saturday Tribune quoted 'a source assigned to a high strategic position' as saying that the December 14 attack was carried out at Musharraf's instigation.
After making an impression on information technology programming jobs, Indians may now foray into specialised jobs like research and design, which used to be American specialities.
The Pentagon is moving elements of a supersecret commando unit from Iraq to Afghanistan to step up the hunt for Osama bin Laden, reports Rowan Scarborough in The Washington Times.
US officials warn of attacks on 'multiple targets in multiple venues.'
The US textile industry is deeply worried by competitors from India and China as the end of the quota system on December 30 approaches, a media report has said.
India has become the fourth largest economy in the world after the US, China and Japan, according to a media report in Washington.\n
The US should also reduce military aid to Pakistan, the former senator said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation placed a source in direct contact with Osama bin Laden in 1993 and ascertained that the Al Qaeda leader was looking to finance terror attacks in the United States, according to a media report.
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