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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...

Facebook to live stream US Democratic, Republican conventions Social networking giant   Facebook   has partnered with the US television network ABC for a non-stop live streaming of both the   Democratic   and   Republican   National Conventions. The Republican National Convention started in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday night and will run till Thursday while the Democratic National Convention is set for July 25-28 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Not just livestreaming, Facebook will provide an in-depth coverage of both the events, reported on Monday. Earlier, micro-blogging site Twitter had signed a deal with the US television network CBS to stream both the conventions. Twitter has permission to broadcast the CBSN feed—the company's 24-hour digital news streaming service—and anyone online can watch for free even if they do not have a Twitter account.   Read More

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...

Trump has no answers on substance of facts against him, says Hillary Clinton Presumptive presidential   Democratic   nominee   Hillary Clinton   has alleged that her   Republican   rival   Donald Trump   launched a personal attack against her because he has no answers on the substance of the facts against him. "Look, I know Donald Trump hates it when anyone points out how hollow his sales pitch really is," Clinton told her supporters at an election rally in this key city of North Carolina, hours after Trump called her a "world class liar". "I guess my speech yesterday must have gotten under his skin because right away he lashed out on Twitter with outlandish lies and conspiracy theories, and he did the same in his speech today," she said. "Now think about it. He's going after me personally because he has no answers on the substance. In fact, he doubled down on being the 'King of Debt'. So all he can do is try to distract us. Th...

President Obama hopeful Bernie Sanders will wind up campaign in couple of weeks Barack Obama expressed hope that   Bernie Sanders   in "the next couple of weeks" will finally concede having lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, despite having vowed to fight on through the party's convention next month. Speaking to late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon,   Barack Obama   said that on balance, Sanders's candidacy in the hardfought Democratic campaign was a positive. "It was a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to have a contested primary," Obama told Fallon during recording of an episode of The Tonight Show. "I thought that Bernie Sanders brought enormous energy and new ideas. And he pushed the party and challenged them. I thought it made Hillary a better candidate." He added, "My hope is, is that over the next couple of weeks, we're able to pull things together." The US president made h...

Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination: AP survey Striding into history,   Hillary Clinton   will become the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major US political party, capturing commitments from the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination. Clinton's rise to presumptive nominee arrived nearly eight years to the day after she conceded her first White House campaign to Barack Obama. Back then, she famously noted her inability to "shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling." Campaigning this time as the loyal successor to the nation's first black president, Clinton held off a surprisingly strong challenge from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. He mobilised millions with a fervently liberal message and his insurgent candidacy revealed a deep level of national frustration with politics-as-usual, even among Democrats who have controlled the White House since 2009. The former secretary of state, New York senator and ...