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Latest news and updates about Democratic politician Kamala Harris who became the 49th vice-president of the United States on January 20, 2021. Harris, whose mother was born in India, is the first person of Indian descent and the first Black woman to reach the office of US vice president. Harris represented California in the US Senate from 2017 until 2021, and became US vice president-elect after Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden secured more than 270 Electoral College votes to win the November 3 US election.
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US vice-president gives the sharpest rebuke yet by a senior leader in the US government over the conditions in Gaza.
Amid tense conversations about Ukraine, Gaza and European security, issues relating to China dropped down the agenda but US senator says America will train attention on East Asia in next 40 years.
Indian-Americans are more politically prominent than ever before – and increasingly wearing their identity proudly.
War between Beijing and Washington ‘may become imminent and may become inevitable’ without American lawmakers’ approval of deals, says David Panuelo.
China agreed to work with the US, EU and others to collectively manage the risk from artificial intelligence at a British summit aimed at charting a safe way forward for the rapidly evolving technology.
The office, overseen by Vice-President Kamala Harris, will help implement existing firearm safety laws while working with states on the issue.
US President Joe Biden called for Americans to unite despite bitter political differences as the United States marked the 22nd anniversary of al-Qaeda’s September 11 attacks.
President Joe Biden railed against white supremacy, asking Americans to unite against hatred in the wake of what authorities describe as a racially-motivated killing of three black people in Florida over the weekend.
The 1963 march brought 250,000 people to the US capital to push for an end to discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex or national origin.
New York Judge Juan Manuel Merchan acknowledged he made small donations to Democratic causes during the 2020 presidential campaign, but said he is certain of his ‘ability to be fair and impartial.’
The landlocked nation is dependent on goodwill from neighbours China and Russia to get critical minerals to the world market.
‘State bans are just the beginning,’ the US president said on the anniversary of the ruling. ‘Their agenda is extreme, dangerous, and out-of-step with the vast majority of Americans.’
‘It’s about time the super wealthy start paying their fair share,’ the US president told hundreds of union workers in the industrial state of Pennsylvania.
The US president has left for a G7 summit in Japan, but plans to return by the weekend in hopes of an end to the political stand-off.
The Congolese president is expected to visit Beijing this month, not long after the US vice-president, first lady and several Biden cabinet members travelled to Africa.
America’s first black vice-president was warmly welcomed during her weeklong trip to the continent in a reflection of the enduring connections between the African diaspora in the US and Africans themselves.
Harris is the latest senior American official to visit Africa as part of Washington’s diplomatic charm offensive to reset relations.
Harris is beginning a weeklong trip to Africa that will also take her to Tanzania and Zambia, part of a concerted effort to broaden US outreach.
The Biden administration is trying to calibrate its approach to Africa so African leaders do not feel as though they are caught in the middle of a geopolitical contest.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, US Vice-President Kamala Harris said Moscow had conducted ‘widespread and systemic’ attacks on the country’s citizens.
Chunli Zhao, a Chinese citizen who has lived in the US for 10 years, made his first court appearance after a deadly gun rampage in the California seaside town of Half Moon Bay left seven people dead.
US Border Patrol and coastguard along South Florida and the Keys have been experiencing the largest increase of migrations by boat in nearly a decade.
More than 100 people were bused in from Texas to Washington on Christmas Eve in temperatures hovering around -9 degrees Celsius.
Democrats’ new outright majority means the party will no longer have to negotiate a power-sharing deal with Republicans and will not have to rely on Vice-President Kamala Harris to break as many tied votes.
The US vice-president, who visited the Philippine island of Palawan in the disputed waterway, said Washington has a ‘profound stake in the future of this region’.
