French President Emmanuel Macron's gamble to call snap parliamentary elections is backfiring as a rival party, the far-right National Rally (RN), made significant gains in the first round of voting. Redmond Shannon explains how France's centrist and left-wing parties are scrambling to prevent the RN from forming government.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, said he believed a cross-party bid to deprive Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally of a majority in next Sunday's parliamentary run-off could succeed. Attal was speaking after more than 200 candidates across the political spectrum agreed to pull out of local contests to clear the path for whoever was best placed to defeat the RN runner in their voting district. "What these withdrawals show is that we can avoid an absolute majority for the far right," Attal told France Inter radio of the 289-seat tally the RN would require to control France's 577-seat National Assembly.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan said the Chinese coast guard boarded a Taiwanese fishing boat Tuesday before steering it to a port in mainland China, and demanded that Beijing release the vessel.
The U.S. government will pay vaccine maker Moderna $176 million dollars to accelerate development of a vaccine that could be used to prevent bird flu in people. The new funds are for continued development, including a late-stage trial next year if those early study results are positive. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for July 3, 2024.
(Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign raised $331 million in the second quarter, it said on Tuesday, topping the $264 million President Joe Biden's campaign and its Democratic allies raised in the same period. Biden's total, which covers April through June, included $127 million raised in June and a record fundraising haul among small-dollar donors on the day of Biden's widely panned debate against Trump, Biden's campaign said. The Trump campaign said it added another $111.8 million in June and has $284.9 million in cash on hand.
Just one problem: This person doesn't seem interested in running, should the opportunity arise.
Laurence Tribe explained what the Supreme Court decision means in "practical purposes" and it's "devastating."
"That's inappropriate," O'Donnell said during the press conference, pointing behind her to an off-camera colleague.
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Timothy Snyder succinctly predicted what will happen “unless Trump loses.”
Clearly President Biden had a bad debate night. But the Supreme Court gave him a possible way out.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading House Democrat is preparing a constitutional amendment in response to the Supreme Court's landmark immunity ruling, seeking to reverse the decision “and ensure that no president is above the law.”
Linda Blackford: A new, more powerful Donald Trump is threatening you, Mitch McConnell, and thanks to your Supreme Court, his threats suddenly have a lot more gravity.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday misrepresented in a social media post what the U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday ruling on presidential immunity means for his civil and criminal cases.
Navarro passionately defended Biden after sustained calls — including from her "View" cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin — for him to leave the presidential race.
War expert Mick Ryan says Russia failed to act decisively in the Ukraine war, missing a chance to strike a decisive blow.
Greece has become the first European country to introduce 48-hours of labour per week. The country's prime minister says the measure is “deeply growth-oriented,” but some labour and political analysts are strongly against the move. Amandalina Letterio reports.
Speaking about Kennedy's thought process, Fauci told David Axelrod, “I don’t know what’s going on in his head. But it’s not good."
The MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air system was first fielded in the 1960s and has long been considered obsolete, with militaries favoring other weapons.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama would beat former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical match up, according to a new poll.
