In a first for an Indian, the University of Texas at Dallas has decided to name its School of Management after Indian industrialist Parliamentarian, Naveen Jindal.

At a White House news conference, the president said Holder has been very aggressive in pursuing gunrunning and cash transactions that support drug cartels in Mexico.

Protests against the US financial system and economic inequality spread across America on Thursday and found unlikely sympathy from a top official of one of the main targets of scorn -- the Federal Reserve.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has made a campaign against cyber threats one of its "highest priorities," with China, Russia and Iran in the cross hairs, the bureau's chief said.

President Barack Obama said Pakistan is "hedging its bets" by maintaining ties to militant groups that are trying to undermine the government in neighboring Afghanistan, and acknowledged Thursday that the United States has been unable to convince Pakistan that the US goals of a stable Afghanistan poses no threat to its neighbor.

Concerns over Wall Street practices and economic inequality that have led to rallies across the United States reverberated up to the White House on Thursday, with President Barack Obama saying the protesters are expressing the frustrations of the American public.

The American military reinvented itself to fight shadowy insurgencies during the decade of war that began with an assault on the Taliban in Afghanistan. That was 10 years ago tomorrow.

China has been very aggressive in gaming the trading system to its advantage and to the disadvantage of other countries, particularly America, President Barack Obama said today, as the US Senate advanced a legislation to penalise Beijing for undervaluing its currency.