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Donald Trump's paid maternity leave plan gets Hillary Clinton rejoinder Republican presidential nominee   Donald Trump   has introduced an unorthodox childcare plan, becoming a rareRepublican calling for paid maternity leave. Introduced on Tuesday by his daughter Ivanka, who asserted that childcare issues were at the "root of wage inequality by disproportionately affecting women", Trump tried to soften his image at an event held in Pennsylvania, a former stronghold for moderate Republicans that has trended Democratic in recent years,   the Guardian reported. Trump also asserted that "my opponent has no childcare plan". Clinton has in fact made a number of detailed proposals on childcare. Clinton in June last year first outlined a programme for universal pre-kindergarten and in May this year proposed to cap childcare costs at ten per cent of household income and to introduce 12 weeks of paid family leave. Maya Harris, a senior policy adviser to Clin...

Donald Trump wants allies to share burden of security Republican presidential nominee   Donald Trump   has said that if elected he would ensure that America's European and Asian allies meet the NATO obligation of spending two per cent of their GDP on defence. "Only five of the 28 member   NATO   countries meet their obligations to spend two per cent of GDP on defence. I will convene a summit of our European and Asian allies to make sure everyone is sharing in the burden of security. We are paying tremendous amounts of money to secure other nations, to protect and defend other nations," Trump said at an election rally in Iowa. "We are going to be made whole. We have no choice. This isn't 30 years ago. This isn't 40 years ago. And I believe properly asked, we'll be in a very good position and they will be very nice about it," he said as he slammed the foreign policy of the Obama Administration in particular that of the former Secretary of Sta...

FBI to publicly release report on Hillary Clinton email investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) expects to publicly release the report sent to the Justice Department in July recommending no charges in the Hillary Clinton email server investigation in the coming days, officials said. The release is in response to numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests including from   CNN. Also to be released is   Hillary Clinton 's 302, the FBI agent notes from Clinton's voluntary interview at FBI headquarters,   CNN   reported on Tuesday. The report is about 30 pages, and the 302 is about a dozen pages according to the officials. Not yet being released are additional notes from interviews of Clinton aides or other investigative materials that were sent to Congress. Last month, FBI Director James Comey recommended against charges for Clinton for her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, but he did describe her b...

Email fallout: 3 Democratic National Committee executives resign The chief executive of the   Democratic National Committee   and two other top officials have resigned in the wake of an   email hack   that embarrassed the party on the eve of its presidential nominating convention. CEO Amy Dacey, chief finance officer Brad Marshall and communications director Luis Miranda left their jobs today, the party said in a statement. The   resignations   are the latest fallout from the hacked emails, which exposed an apparent lack of neutrality in the primary race between   Hillary Clinton   and Bernie Sanders, with some party officials disparaging Sanders. Marshall wrote the most explosive email, questioning Sanders' Jewish faith and suggesting he could be portrayed as an atheist. He has apologized for the missive. Earlier, party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned her position and, after being booed at a pre-convention appearance la...

Time for Trump to stop hiding: Hillary Clinton Democratic presidential nominee   Hillary Clinton   alleged that her Republican rival   Donald Trump   does not even respect Americans enough to do what every other presidential candidate has done for decades and released their tax returns. "It's time for Trump to stop hiding," Clinton said at an election rally in Omaha, Nebraska. "My husband and I have put out I think about 33 or 34 years' worth if you're interested. He doesn't even respect the American people enough to do what every other presidential candidate has done for decades and release them," she said. "It's time to stand up for working families. It's time to make clear that when the middle class thrives, America thrives. And that's what we're going to get back to doing," she said adding that she would not rest until they get wages and income rising. Clinton's remarks came after billionaire investor W...

Trump seeks $10 million from former aide in disclosure case Republican presidential candidate   Donald Trump   is seeking $10 million in damages from a former senior campaign consultant, Sam Nunberg, alleging that Nunberg leaked confidential information to reporters in violation of a nondisclosure agreement. In a court filing obtained by The Associated Press, Nunberg accuses Trump of trying to silence him "in a misguided attempt to cover up media coverage of an apparent affair" between senior campaign staffers. The document cited a New York Post story about a public quarrel between the staffers published last month. The legal dispute reflects Trump's efforts to aggressively protect the secrecy of his campaign's inner workings. The case is spelled out in court documents that sought to block private arbitration proceedings that Trump initiated in May.   Read More

Charges of anti-Semitism over tweet are 'ridiculous': Donald Trump Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton's campaign is "ridiculous" to portray an anti-Clinton tweet that appeared to depict the Star of David atop a pile of cash as   anti Semitism . In a statement issued by his Republican presidential campaign yesterday evening, Trump suggested Clinton and her allies were using the matter to distract from her own recent campaign troubles. Trump said the tweet portrayed "a basic star, often used by sheriffs who deal with criminals and criminal behaviour," as part of an effort to convey that "Crooked   Hillary Clinton   is the most corrupt candidate ever." It was the presumptive GOP nominee's most extensive comment since his official account tweeted then deleted the image Saturday, sparking uproar over its potentially anti-Semitic connotations. Trump's account later posted a new version with a circle in place of the six-point star. ...

ISIS may plan Istanbul like attack in US: CIA The Islamic State terror group may carry out a terror attack similar to the one at Istanbul's Ataturk airport,   CIA   Director   John Brennan   has said. The despicable attack at Istanbul's   international   airport that killed dozens and injured several certainly bears the "hallmarks" of the Islamic State's depravity, Brennan said here yesterday. "We've seen ISIL (Islamic State) carry out and incite an array of terrorist attacks in the region, directly, indirectly and I would be surprised that ISIL is not considering carrying out these attacks in the near abroad as well as the far abroad," he said. "And the United States, as we well know, is leading the coalition to try to destroy as much of this poison, inside of Syria and Iraq, as possible. So it would be surprising to me that ISIL is not trying to hit us, both in the region as well as in our homeland," Brennan said while to repl...

Favourability ratings of Clinton, Trump increased: Gallup survey The favourability ratings of   Donald Trump   and   Hillary Clinton   have increased since they clinched the   presidential nominations   of the respective Republican and Democratic parties, a Gallup survey said on Thursday. Since clinching nomination in early June, Clinton's favourable ratings among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have gone up slightly to 71%, compared with 68% in April and May, the survey said. 68-year-old Clinton's image is now partly restored to what it was at the start of the year when 74% of   Democratic   viewed her favourably. Trump has also maintained higher favourable ratings among Republicans and the party leaders since he emerged as the sole   Republican   candidate in May compared with earlier in the year. Trump's favourable ratings among Republicans averages 64% so far in June, the same as in May but higher than the...

US accuses Russia of harassing diplomats Washington has delivered high-level complaints to Moscow about accusations of increasing intimidation of American diplomats in Russia, the State Department said. "We see an increase and we take it seriously," State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth   Trudeau   told reporters at a press briefing on Monday. Secretary of State   John Kerry   last discussed the matter with Russian President Vladimir Putin   on March 24,   CNN reported citing Trudeau as saying. The spokeswoman said that harassment of diplomats by Russian security agents and traffic police had been an issue over the past two years but did not detail any incidents nor why Kerry brought up the matter with Putin. Other Western embassies had reported the same behaviour towards their diplomats stationed in Moscow, Trudeau added. Moscow, however, has charged that Washington has also engaged in problematic behaviour. Last week, the Russian Foreig...

Clinton never personally denied Benghazi security: Democrats Hillary Clinton   never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional security at the US outpost in Benghazi, Libya, according to   Democrats on a select House panel who absolved the former secretary of state and the US military of wrongdoing in the deadly September 11, 2012 attacks. In a report pre-empting the Republicans, the panel's five Democrats said after a two-year investigation that the military could not have done anything differently that night to save the lives of four Americans killed in Libya. US Ambassador Chris Stevens died in one of the two assaults at the diplomatic facility and CIA annex. Democrats' release of their own report heightened the partisanship of the inquiry, which has been marked by finger-pointing on both sides. Republicans accuse the Obama administration of stonewalling important documents and witnesses, while Democrats say the panel's primary goal is to u...

Trump targets to raise $10 million The campaign of Donald Trump, presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican party, has set a target of raising another $10 million by the month end, according to an email sent on Monday. Over the last few days, the Trump campaign raised $11 million, it said adding it is working to "shatter records" by raising another $10 million in the remaining four days of June. The mass email seeking funds was sent by his son Eric Trump, who described it as the most ambitious   fund raising   campaign yet. " Hillary Clinton 's campaign machine and her liberal media allies are desperate. First, they claimed we raised too little. Then, when donors like you helped us to raise $11 million in just a few days, they claimed we were lying," the junior Trump wrote in his first fund raising email. A real estate tycoon from New York,   Donald Trump   had self-funded his campaign during the primary elections. He started raising money ...

Clinton boasts double-digit lead as support for Trump plunges Presumptive Democratic nominee   Hillary Clinton   is holding a 12-point lead over her Republican rival   Donald Trump   as support for the latter tumbled in the past month, a poll released on Sunday showed. Clinton enjoys 51% of support among Americans, up by seven points from May, compared to Trump's support at 39%, which is down by seven points, according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll. This is Clinton's biggest lead over Trump since last fall and is a dramatic reversal from the May poll, in which Trump led Clinton slightly by 46% to 44%, Xinhua news agency reported citing the poll. The poll discovered that 56% of   American   voters believe Trump stands against their beliefs, while 64% said Trump does not have the necessary credentials to be president. Clinton's lead over Trump narrows to 10 points by 47% to 37%, when the two third-party presidential candidates were mentio...