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With three days to go until New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary, a new poll indicates former President Trump remains the commanding frontrunner, with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley behind by double-digits, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a distant third. Trump, who is running a third straight time for the White House, grabs 53% support … Read more

Pro-Israel hawks in Congress are losing confidence in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his handling of the war against Hamas.

First Lady Jill Biden’s political advance team was ridiculed on social media after she appeared to speak at a local high school in Utah, named Hunter High. While visiting the Beehive State to attend a fundraiser for President Biden, the first lady stopped by the school in West Valley City, southwest of Salt Lake City, … Read more

Haley, who finished third in Iowa, ramps up criticism of Republican rival but some say she can – and should – go further In the final days before New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, Nikki Haley is sharpening her attacks on Donald Trump as the former South Carolina governor courts the state’s famously discerning independent voters. After … Read more

Lawyers tell court Lawrence Hecker, 92, has declined mentally and physically while incarcerated A 92-year-old retired Catholic priest jailed in New Orleans since September on charges of child rape and kidnapping has been hospitalized, his attorneys said on Friday. Lawrence Hecker – who admitted that he sexually molested or harassed underage boys in the 1960s … Read more

The ‘DEI is making airplane travel unsafe’ theory has gone from a fringe view to a staple of the US rightwing news You’d better be careful out there. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but planes are currently disintegrating in mid-air because of diversity. That’s right, thanks to wokeness gone mad, women and minorities are … Read more

The former president’s nihilist, autocratic anti-politics transcend borders. In Iowa, as in so much of the world, voters are opting for the strongman The comforting conceit that Donald Trump is an unpleasant yet passing American aberration, often heard during his 2017-21 presidency, is harder to believe than ever after his Iowa caucus landslide victory last … Read more

Smirking, pouting and defiant ex-president bragged about properties and claimed he prevented nuclear war with North Korea Months before Donald Trump’s defiant turn as a witness at his New York civil fraud trial, the former president came face to face with the state attorney general who is suing him when he sat for a deposition … Read more

Former President Donald Trump has most likely ruled out presidential primary rival Nikki Haley as a vice-president. Trump made the comments about Haley — who he appointed as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during his term in the Oval Office — at a Friday rally in Concord, New Hampshire. “She is OK, but … Read more

While Harvard University continues to fend off accusations of antisemitism, more than 65 faculty and staff members have formed a pro-Palestinian advocacy group that denounced “the unfolding genocide in Gaza.”  In a statement released on Jan. 6, a group of 67 Harvard faculty and staff members announced the establishment of a chapter of the national … Read more