Democratic House candidate Chris Jones joins Meet the Press NOW one week to Election Day to discuss his plan to unseat incumbent Republican Rep. French Hill in Arkansas’s second congressional district. Jones discusses what he says is the ‘corruption’ coming out of the White House and whether President Trump should be impeached.
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Vice-president tries to link El-Sayed to Paris protests and claims he would lead rioters in ‘burning down’ Detroit JD Vance has escalated his inflammatory attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for US Senate in Michigan who has faced an onslaught of Islamophobia, claiming he would lead rioters in “burning down” Detroit. El-Sayed, who would … Read more
Sale makes ‘Jodi’, a smaller relative of T rex, the ‘second most valuable dinosaur ever sold at auction’, Sotheby’s says A rare skeleton of a Nanotyrannus, a smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, sold at auction in New York this week for $47.3m, making it one of the world’s most expensive fossils. The skeleton, named … Read more
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz told Cuba’s foreign minister to “back up” Tuesday after the Cuban diplomat approached the podium and interrupted his remarks on the floor of the U.N. General Assembly. “Well, we know. We know where it went. And today we are here to share it to the world,” Waltz … Read more
Nearly 200 House Democrats are moving to shield Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from further investigation after federal investigators raided her Washington, D.C., home earlier this month. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., led 175 members of the House Democratic Caucus in a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Attorney General Todd Blanche, … Read more
30-year-old is an eight-time Pro Bowl selection Indianapolis fired GM Ballard last week amid skid The Indianapolis Colts have traded All-Pro guard Quenton Nelson to the Seattle Seahawks, a person with knowledge of the deal told the Associated Press on Tuesday. The person requested anonymity because the deal had not been announced by either team … Read more
The United Kingdom introduced new “respect orders” across England and Wales on Monday, giving authorities expanded powers to crack down on persistent “antisocial” behavior and drawing criticism from free speech advocates concerned about potential government overreach. The U.K. government’s order enables police and councils to take stronger “enforcement action” against “adult offenders” of persistent “antisocial” … Read more
If ever enacted, proposals by Marine Le Pen and the AfD leader, Alice Weidel, to hollow out EU institutions would be a continental act of self-harm Following the Brexit referendum in 2016, Marine Le Pen was in a predictably celebratory mood. Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, she told one interviewer, was the first breach in the … Read more
Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., repeatedly stopped short of saying she was “fully behind” Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed when pressed on national television Sunday, months after he narrowly defeated her in a bitter primary and just days before the midterm elections. CNN’s Dana Bash first pressed Stevens on why she has yet to campaign alongside … Read more
