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Amid Trump fears, black Americans get racist texts about ‘picking cotton’

The anonymous messages telling recipients to report to a plantation, a reference to slavery, were sent to people across the country.

9 Nov 2024 - 5:37AMvideocam

On Balance | How Republicans turned economics into a vote-winner

8 Nov 2024 - 8:30PM

US President Joe Biden promises ‘peaceful and orderly’ transfer of power to Donald Trump

8 Nov 2024 - 3:07PM

Trump’s triumph prompts Democratic soul-searching as shock gives way to anger

Democrats express frustration that Biden’s late decision not to seek re-election all but sealed his party’s surrender of the White House.

8 Nov 2024 - 6:04PM

Kamala Harris’ supporters wished the vice-president had more time to make her pitch to American voters. Photo: AP

Rioters who stormed US Capitol await Trump pardons

January 6 defendants are celebrating Trump’s victory and hope he makes good on his campaign trail promise to pardon them.

8 Nov 2024 - 1:04PMvideocam

Argentina’s President Milei to meet Trump and Musk next week in the US

Since his election late last year, Milei has sought close ties with the US and, since Tuesday’s US election, has stressed support for Trump.

8 Nov 2024 - 5:20AMvideocam

Biden says transfer of power to Trump will be ‘peaceful and orderly’

US president highlights his administration’s accomplishments and praises Kamala Harris for running an ‘inspiring’ campaign.

8 Nov 2024 - 4:24AMvideocam

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the results of the presidential election from the White House Rose Garden on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE

California governor moves to protect liberal policies from Trump presidency

Governor Gavin Newsom and lawmakers say they’re ready to ‘Trump-proof’ California’s state laws.

8 Nov 2024 - 11:09AMvideocam

Opinion | For a closely divided United States, a coin toss would have sufficed

Despite the political parties’ efforts to position themselves as offering a genuine contrast, the candidates only presented an illusion of choice.

7 Nov 2024 - 11:37PMvideocam

Xi’s note to Trump sets tone for geopolitical rematch between powerful leaders

The world will be watching Donald Trump’s relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping as former US leader returns to White House.

7 Nov 2024 - 10:54PMvideocam

US president-elect Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are no strangers, having met four times during the former’s first term in the White House. Photo: TNS

Trump win worries global partners ahead of COP29 climate summit

Trump has called climate change a hoax, plans to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement at the start of his second presidency.

7 Nov 2024 - 9:04PMvideocam

Supporters of Vice-President Kamala Harris linger at the event site after she conceded the US presidential race at Howard University the day after Election Day. Photo: EPA-EFE

How Trump beat expectations for a stunning 2024 victory

Trump outperformed what he did in 2020, while Harris failed to do as well as Biden did in winning the presidency four years ago.

7 Nov 2024 - 5:19PMvideocam

Kamala Harris accepts defeat

7 Nov 2024 - 1:31PM

‘Moment of pride’: Indians toast Usha Vance after Harris loses US election

Indian heritage of the vice-president-elect’s wife sparks hopes for stronger India-US relationship.

7 Nov 2024 - 1:26PMvideocam

J.D. Vance gets a kiss from his wife Usha at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 4. Photo: EPA-EFE

From chip war to TikTok ban: what tech can expect from Donald Trump

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, tech companies are bracing for a revamp of tech policies imposed by Joe Biden.

7 Nov 2024 - 10:20AM

Tech giants are bracing for the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Photo: EPA-EFE

Unease over China proves pivotal in US election races in Michigan

Swing state takes hawkish turn as candidates seize on mainland-backed EV battery plant to accuse one another of harbouring Beijing ties.

8 Nov 2024 - 1:30AMvideocam

US Vice-President Kamala Harris formally concedes election to Donald Trump

Earlier, Harris called Trump directly, with her campaign chair saying she told him ‘she hopes he will be a president for all Americans’.

7 Nov 2024 - 8:59AMvideocam

World waits to see how Trump reshapes US approach to trade, China and security

The Republican promised his supporters a ‘golden age for America’ after securing a mandate to overturn the post-1945 Washington consensus.

7 Nov 2024 - 9:44AMvideocam

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Donald Trump at a post-election rally in Florida. Photo: Reuters

Special counsel mulls dropping criminal cases against Trump

A long-standing US Justice Department policy forbids prosecuting a sitting president.

7 Nov 2024 - 5:22AM

Trump re-elected US president

6 Nov 2024 - 9:41PM

It’s Trump: taut race ends with former president returning to White House

Trump wins key state of Wisconsin, bringing him to 277 electoral votes and a second term in the White House.

6 Nov 2024 - 8:00PM

Donald Trump, who has just secured a second US presidential term, gestures to the crowd at the conclusion of his final rally of the campaign in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Monday. Photo: Reuters

In Africa, US soft power through films and aid brings huge election interest

For Africans, status of aid, duty-free access to the US market, HIV/Aids relief and entry visas depends on who is elected to White House.

6 Nov 2024 - 5:07PMvideocam

Citizens in African nations are watching the US election to see how issues such as reproductive rights, medical and food aid and immigration rules are affected. Photo: AP

Harris will not speak on US election night

6 Nov 2024 - 2:47PM

Philippines-US ties to stay firm regardless of election outcome: analysts

Whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris wins the US election, Washington-Manila security ties will remain sturdy, analysts say.

6 Nov 2024 - 2:06PMvideocam

Trump or Harris: whoever wins, India expects a more isolationist US

The United States’ prior ‘dominance and generosity’ may be a thing of the past, says India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar.

6 Nov 2024 - 12:36PM

Indian’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar gestures during a panel discussion with the foreign ministers of New Zealand and Australia in Canberra on Wednesday Photo: AFP

Bitcoin hits record price after Trump takes early lead in US election

The original cryptocurrency jumped past US$75,000 on Tuesday night in the US, topping a record set in March.

6 Nov 2024 - 12:01PM

Representations of bitcoin seen in this illustration picture taken in Paris on March 9. Photo: Reuters

More Filipinos favour Trump over Harris in US presidential election: survey

Filipino-Americans, meanwhile, are among the biggest supporters of the current US vice-president, according to pollsters.

6 Nov 2024 - 8:59AM

US presidential election goes down to the wire after tumultuous campaign season

The Trump-Harris race has been a contest like no other but will be decided as many before – by the swing states.

6 Nov 2024 - 6:13AMvideocam

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Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris is the vice-president to US President Joe Biden, who was elected to office in 2020. In 2024, Harris, who is of mixed black and Indian descent, became the nation’s first African-American woman – and first Asian-American at all – to be nominated to run for president by a major political party. She lost in her bid to a resurgent Donald Trump, representing the Republican Party. A Democrat, she had previously represented California in the US Senate from 2017 until 2021.

Born

20 Oct 1964

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Politics

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Politician

last updated:

9 November, 2024