Senior figures said to have been skeptical over Keir Starmer\u2019s appointment of \u2018arrogant\u2019 veteran politician, later sacked over connections to Jeffrey Epstein<\/p>\n
A technical glitch at the understaffed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is masking millions of dollars in campaign contributions to state-level election groups, including key governor and attorney general races, a campaign finance watchdog has told the Guardian.<\/strong><\/p>\n A total of $51m for the second half of 2025 remains unaccounted for due to this technical error, according to the Center for Political Accountability<\/a> (CPA), a non-profit that tracks corporate spending.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s aides were particularly exercised that Mandelson could be made ambassador after he had made <\/strong>disparaging public remarks about the president in the past, according to both officials.<\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/strong> created an extremely awkward moment for Japan\u2019s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi<\/strong>, in the Oval Office on Thursday when he responded to a question from a Japanese reporter about why the US attacked Iran without warning allies like Japan, by joking about Imperial Japan\u2019s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.<\/p>\n Japan\u2019s prime minister said later she explained to Trump that Japan\u2019s ability to deploy military forces overseas, as he wants, is still limited by the constitution drafted for Japan by the United States after the second world war.<\/p>\n A federal arts commission approved the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s image to celebrate the US\u2019s 250th birthday on 4 July.<\/p>\n The John F Kennedy Presidential Library foundation announced<\/a> on Thursday that it is awarding Profile in Courage awards to staunch opponents of Donald Trump: the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell<\/strong> and the<\/strong> people of the Twin Cities of Minnesota.<\/strong><\/p>\n Senator Thom Tillis<\/strong>, the North Carolina Republican who has shown a willingness to cross Trump since he announced that he will not run for re-election, said he will not vote to eliminate the filibuster to force changes to US election law.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senior figures said to have been skeptical over Keir Starmer\u2019s appointment of \u2018arrogant\u2019 veteran politician, later sacked over connections to Jeffrey Epstein A technical glitch at the understaffed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is masking millions of dollars in campaign contributions to state-level election groups, including key governor and attorney general races, a campaign finance watchdog … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}