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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...

Trump and his running mate contradict themselves on NATO issue The   Republican   campaign sparked a controversy when party's presidential nominee   Donald Trump   and his running mate   Mike Pence   expressed contradicting views on America's North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies. In his vice-presidential acceptance speech, Pence said that Trump would rebuild the military and stand with the allies of the United States. But in an interview to   The New York Times , Trump said that the US under his presidency might not come to the defence of some   NATO   members if   Russia   were to attack them. The Republican presidential nominee said that his decision would be based on the whether those countries have fulfilled their obligations to NATO. The rival   Clinton   campaign slammed Trump and Pence for their differences on this crucial issue. "Tonight, Mike Pence said Donald Trump would stand with our...

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...

Protests turn violent outside Trump's rally in New Mexico; clashes erupt Donald Trump's rally in   New Mexico   turned violent as anti-Trump demonstrators clashed with police, hurling rocks and burning clothes at officers, the latest scuffle to hit the presumptive   Republican   presidential nominee's campaign. The "unlawful assembly" went on rampage, lighted fires and threw rocks at the police officers and their horses outside Trump's rally at a convention centre in New Mexico's Albuquerque. The police resorted to launching smoke bombs to disperse the violent crowd which overturned barricades and hurled rocks. The protesters disrupted the 69-year-old New York-based real estate tycoon's speech several times yesterday. Most of the protesters were escorted out one by one. "Go ahead, get them out of here,"   Donald Trump   told one of them. However, the police had a tough time in controlling the demonstrators who were protesting ag...

US presidential elections: I am fighting for survival, says Donald Trump Donald Trump, who defeated 16 top political leaders of his party to become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has said that he does not considers himself as powerful and is fighting for survival. "I mean, I view myself as a person that, like everybody else, is fighting for survival. That's all I view myself as," Trump told the   Fox News . "I really view myself now as somewhat of a messenger," the 69-year-old leader said in response to a question. Trump, who is among the two persons to succeed Obama as the most powerful individual of the world next January, said that he does not consider himself as powerful. "I do not view myself as that," he said when asked on he being so powerful now. "You know, this is a massive thing that's going on. These are millions and millions of people that have been disenfranchised from this country," he sai...

Reiterating that his proposal to   ban   entry of Muslims in the US is "temporary", Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump today said it is "just a suggestion" until the issue is worked out. "We have a serious problem, it's a temporary ban, it hasn't been called for yet, nobody's done it, this is just a suggestion until we find out what's going on," Trump told Fox Radio in an interview. "We have radical Islamic terrorism all over the world, you can go to Paris, you can go to San Bernardino, all over the world, if they want to deny it, they can deny it, I don't choose to deny it," he said responding to a question on newly- elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Trump said he would grant exemption to the Pakistani- origin mayor to come to the US under his presidency though he was critical of Khan. "Well I assume he denies there is Islamic terrorism. There is Islamic radical terrorism all over the...

Republican party chief Reince Priebus on Tuesday declared that   Donald Trump   will be the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, after Ted Cruz dropped out of the race.   "Donald Trump will be presumptive @GOP nominee, we all need to unite and focus on defeating @HillaryClinton," Priebus said on social networking site Twitter. Trump crushed his   Republican   rivals in Indiana, US networks projected, bringing him dramatically closer to outright victory in his party's presidential nomination race and dashing the hopes of a movement bent on stopping him. "Thank you Indiana!" Trump tweeted as the race was called in his favour yesterday. Based on 13% of precincts reporting, the billionaire frontrunner took 53.8% of the vote, streets ahead of his nearest rival Ted Cruz on 33.9% and John Kasich on 9.4%. The Democratic race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders was still too early to call in the Midwestern state, but early voting results sh...