Kenneth Tiven

New York City is the most difficult place in America to find a fair jury for the former US President’s criminal trial—the first ever for an American president. The case involved allegations that Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen paid $1,30,000 to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to not go public with a story about her sexual encounter with Trump

Like in India, the political situation is heating up faster than the weather. Legal issues are frustrating politicians. Election officials say they and their families are threatened with kidnapping, rape, hanging and death if Donald Trump loses again

The former president and his lead lawyer were in Criminal Court in New York City seeking to delay his trial for hush money payments to a porn star. It went badly for Trump and worse for his lawyer. Now set for April 15, Trump must spend four days a week in Court for as many as six weeks. He will be lucky to manage three campaign days a week. No US president has ever faced a criminal trial

Political discord in the United States is obvious as the nation moves into the eight months of campaigning before its presidential election in early November 2024. Barely hidden by the sound and fury on both sides is the battle to keep democracy as a governing principle, or erase its meaning with an all-powerful single executive

Recent attacks and killings are on the rise, some seemingly hate crimes, others motivated by divisive political rhetoric. Anti-immigration has become a hot-button issue in the upcoming presidential election as Donald Trump’s campaign attacks Asians with dangerous consequences

It was a bad week in court for the former US president. He and his sons and company were fined a massive amount of money and onerous restraining conditions for business fraud. His legal troubles are adding to what could prove to be the most divisive elections in American history 

Donald Trump is the first Republican presidential candidate who was not a White House incumbent to carry the nation’s first two contests. His winning margin of 11% in moderate New Hampshire demonstrated his iron-clad control of the party’s hard-right base

The devotion Republican voters of Iowa felt for Trump was evident when he got 51% of the vote count. But will this idolization help him get presidential immunity against his many legal issues?

It reads like a Bollywood script and includes twists and turns that seem mysterious. Despite multiple unknowns today, the foiled plot to assassinate the Sikh based in New York has severe implications for the relationship between two large democracies in the year ahead

The five-day struggle for leadership of Open AI, the most promising artificial intelligence software company in the world, ended with a whimper with its CEO and founder Sam Altman being deposed and then reinstated and a new board appointed. What led to the extraordinary turn of events?