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Maduro Bets He Can Crush Venezuela's Opposition in an Open Vote
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is convinced he can win July’s presidential elections without ... Read More
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Donald Trump talks inflation, Biden and bacon to Minnesota GOP donors, leaders and activists
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former President Donald Trump headlined the state Republican Party's annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner on Friday in St. Paul, repeatedly ripping President Joe Biden and promising to fight to turn Minnesota ...Read more
The Prosecution Has Made Its Case
Did Donald Trump falsify business records to cover up his payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels?
Did he do it to hold onto women voters in the days leading up to the 2016 election?
Reading the daily press accounts of...Read more
Don't Ask Alito to Recuse -- Tell Him to Resign
The conspiratorial antics of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, as exposed recently in the national media, have raised the gravest doubt about his bias in matters before the Supreme Court -- and provoked demands that he...Read more
Colorado voters will decide abortion rights question after constitutional amendment qualifies for ballot
DENVER — Colorado voters in November will decide whether to make abortion a state constitutional right after the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced Friday that backers of a ballot initiative had gathered ...Read more
Donald Trump's claim in New Jersey that Democrats want to 'execute babies' is one of many GOP abortion falsehoods
Former President Donald Trump recently told a crowd of thousands in Wildwood, New Jersey, the baseless claim that Democrats want to pass an abortion law that enables doctors to “execute” newborns.
“If the radical ...Read more
Biden twice makes false claim that inflation was 9% when he took office
President Joe Biden erroneously said twice in one week that inflation was at 9% when he took office in 2021.
In reality, inflation stood at 1.4% when Biden assumed the presidency in January of 2021.
Biden made the false ...Read more
Voters prefer Trump over Biden on economy. This data shows why
Americans give Donald Trump the edge over Joe Biden on the economy in poll after poll.
That’s even as the Biden years have been the best time to find work since the 1960s, and the U.S. has bounced back from the pandemic...Read more
President Biden plans to travel to Boston next week
BOSTON — President Biden plans to travel to Boston next week after making a stop in New Hampshire, according to a schedule released Friday morning.
Exact details of what Biden will do in the hub were not immediately ...Read more
Republicans sue Georgia's DeKalb County over outside election funding info
ATLANTA — The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit claiming DeKalb County violated state open records laws by failing to turn over documents related to its acceptance of an election grant.
Last year the ...Read more
Harvard University slammed by Republican House committee for not addressing 'explosion of virulent antisemitism'
BOSTON — A Republican-led House committee that has put Harvard University under the microscope is calling out university leadership for not addressing “the explosion of virulent antisemitism” on campus.
The House ...Read more
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito under fire over upside-down US flag after 2020 election
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has been mired in controversy since it was revealed that an upside-down flag flew outside his Virginia home in the aftermath of the 2020 election, a time when many claimed President ...Read more
Biden kicks off outreach to Black voters as protest threat looms at Morehouse
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has kicked off a series of actions and public appearances aimed at selling his record to Black voters, a key bloc that typically votes Democratic but could tip the election by staying ...Read more
Republican Janelle King appointed to Georgia election board
ATLANTA — House Speaker Jon Burns on Friday appointed Janelle King, a media personality and former deputy director of the Georgia Republican Party, to the State Election Board, which investigates allegations of fraud and...Read more
Will Donald Trump be a lifeline or liability for Minnesota Republicans?
MINNEAPOLIS — Former President Donald Trump's visit to Minnesota is energizing Republicans as they prepare to battle for control of the state House in November.
They're hoping Trump's presence on the ticket, and his ...Read more
Biden sets Saturday event in Atlanta ahead of Morehouse speech
ATLANTA — President Joe Biden plans to meet with Black voters in Atlanta on Saturday ahead of his closely watched commencement speech at Morehouse College, the latest in the Democrat’s escalating efforts to shore up ...Read more
Modi’s anti-Muslim rhetoric taps into Hindu replacement fears that trace back to colonial India
The world’s largest election is currently under way in India, with more than 960 million people registered to vote over a period of six weeks. Spearheading the campaign for his Bharatiya Janata Party, incumbent Prime ...Read more
Some states’ populations are very much like the US overall – including 5 key states in the 2024 presidential election
Five of the seven states widely expected to be political battlegrounds in the 2024 presidential election have populations very much like that of the U.S. overall, in a range of demographic and socioeconomic measures....Read more
Attempted assassination of Slovak prime minister follows country’s slide into political polarization
The assassination attempt against Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has been widely condemned by world leaders as an attack on democracy.
In Slovakia, the violent act similarly saw a unified response from the...Read more
Diners and AI
Artificial Intelligence is a huge concern among people in my business because first of all, we think we're gonna lose our jobs, plus we think AI will produce mediocre writing, and we don't want to lose our jobs.
Also, ...Read more
Commentary: Florida just picked the wrong kind of meat to ban
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey recently signed into law bans against cell-cultivated meat in their states. They apparently find meat grown in a lab rather than stripped from a factory-farmed animal so ...Read more
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- Modi’s anti-Muslim rhetoric taps into Hindu replacement fears that trace back to colonial India
- Biden sets Saturday event in Atlanta ahead of Morehouse speech
- Donald Trump's claim in New Jersey that Democrats want to 'execute babies' is one of many GOP abortion falsehoods
- Biden twice makes false claim that inflation was 9% when he took office
- Donald Trump talks inflation, Biden and bacon to Minnesota GOP donors, leaders and activists
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