Every Republican state convention gets smaller. That seems to be exactly how party leaders want it. Republicans still dominate Texas elections. But the party organization is tightly held by a few die-hard activists, and about to get tighter. Ten years ago, when the party gathering was in Fort Worth, the turnout was 10,000. We used […]
Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden speaks at the press conference on Aug. 27, 2020. Illustration: HuffPost/The Kansas City Star/Getty Images In November, Calvin Hayden spoke to a fringe gathering of “America First” conservatives at a church in Kansas City. He told the crowd at Hope Family Fellowship Church that they were in the middle of […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The race for the White House isn’t the only one with big stakes for climate policy. In campaigns for Congress and for governor around the country, candidates are talking about how green the grid should be, too. Voters are increasingly feeling the impacts of climate change after last summer’s extreme weather. […]
MUNICH (AP) — Top diplomats from the U.S. and China on Friday held a “candid and constructive” discussion on issues vexing their strained relations over Taiwan, the situation in the South China Sea, Russia’s war against Ukraine and synthetic opioids, the State Department said. The meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of NATO warned member countries on Thursday against allowing a wedge to be driven between the United States and Europe, as concern grows about Washington’s commitment to its allies should Donald Trump return to office. Faced with a war in Ukraine that is draining military and financial resources, and with […]
The Kremlin has intensified rhetoric about a hypothetical division of Ukraine and is latching onto unrelated topics. Source: Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Details: ISW believes the Russians are doing this to normalise the narrative of a division in Western discussions about Ukraine. Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Head of Russia’s Security Council, claimed on […]