There were no fireworks and some fizzles as U.S. President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump met on stage for the first presidential debate. The Canadian Press Washington correspondent Kelly Geraldine Malone says some Democrat supporters were left concerned the president was not able to push back on Trump's oftentimes exaggerated or inaccurate claims. (June 28, 2024)
When Hungary takes over the helm of the European Union on July 1, many politicians in Brussels will have the same thing on their minds: whether populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will use the role to further his reputation as the bloc’s main spoiler. Orbán in recent years has seemed to relish opportunities to block, water down or delay key EU decisions, routinely going against the grain of most other leaders on issues like the war in Ukraine, relations with Russia and China, and efforts to defend democracy and the rule of law. Hungary's motto for its presidency — Make Europe Great Again — raised eyebrows for its resemblance to the famous tagline of former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) said he thinks former Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), two Republicans who are often critical of former President Trump, aren’t “changing hearts and minds.” “I don’t know that they’re changing anybody’s minds,” Cox said on a Friday episode of Politico’s “Playbook Deep Dive” podcast. “I don’t think…
One person suggested President Joe Biden take advantage of the ruling and "fire the Court and appoint one that doesn’t work for Trump."
After being AWOL at last week’s presidential debate in Atlanta and her husband’s criminal trial in Manhattan, Melania Trump surfaced on Monday in The Big Apple.According to photos published by the Daily Mail, the former model and first lady was seen Monday in a black coat and shades carrying luggage into Trump Tower, where she and Donald Trump stay when not in Florida at Mar-a-Lago.Her conspicuous absence from the debate last Thursday raised eyebrows as President Joe Biden’s wife was in clear vi
NEW YORK (AP) — A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week.
J. Michael Luttig made his case “in the strongest possible terms.”
People across social media shared photos of their ‘Black jobs’ while wondering what exactly the former president meant by that
The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. Republican primary voters have now booted all the “Sister Senators” from their party out of office. (Production: Noreen Nasir)
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Sunday told the West to look past the measures they have imposed on Afghan women and girls for the sake of improving foreign relations.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's political fate is hanging by a thread following a devastating byelection loss for the Liberals in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul's. Amidst growing discontent within the Liberal caucus, Trudeau has refused to address the upsetting defeat for five consecutive days, fuelling speculation and outrage. While the PM remains tight-lipped in public, rumours are swirling about a covert phone campaign orchestrated by the prime minister's office to quell the political uproar. Mercedes Stephenson reports on how the prime minister's office is working overtime to lower the political heat.
Ukraine's F-16s are set to arrive when it's allowed to use allied weapons to hit targets in Russia — making the jets far more effective, experts say.
The US was wrong in thinking it won the Cold War, and is now "just one step away from losing it completely," Dmitry Medvedev said.
The New Jersey AG's office reviewed Trump Golf liquor license eligibility for compliance after his hush money conviction. The ABC will hold a hearing.
Officials say they’re making contingency plans in case the former president is in jail when the GOP convention starts.
The Netherlands will supply Ukraine with the first of 24 promised F-16 fighter jets soon, the outgoing Dutch government said on Monday. The necessary permits to deliver the jets to Ukraine have been granted, Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren said in a letter to parliament ahead of a government transition on Tuesday after months of coalition building following an election last year. She declined to specify how many planes would be in the first delivery and when they would arrive in Ukraine for security reasons.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A county sheriff suspended his campaign Monday for a California U.S. House seat once held by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and endorsed a fellow Republican, Rep. Vince Fong, who captured a May special election to fill out the remainder of McCarthy’s term.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Jewish ultra-Orthodox men clashed with Israeli police in central Jerusalem on Sunday during a protest against a Supreme Court order for them to begin enlisting for military service.
Ex-speaker derides Trump as addled while rejecting calls for Biden to step aside
‘I have felt ... retribution for not endorsing him when he was originally running for president,’ McCain says of Biden
The former U.S. Acting Solicitor General says now that a former president has ‘massive’ immunity, we are now in ‘gravely dangerous’ legal territory.
