Rep. Andy Barr said in an interview Friday that he has officially decided to run to replace House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry — and started pitching himself as a leader who could reconcile warring approaches to Republican policy. The Kentucky Republican has been weighing whether to enter the race since Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.), […]
“Sexual noises” pouring out of a San Diego massage parlor that disturbed nearby church services helped launch a police sting operation that uncovered a sex-for-pay operation in the SoCal city, police revealed last week. “The San Diego Police Department takes neighborhood complaints of this nature very seriously,” Police Chief Nisleit said in a press release […]
An asteroid the size of a football pitch will zoom past Earth on Friday, coming close enough for Nasa to issue a warning. Asteroid 2008 OS7 is classified as “potentially hazardous” and is expected to come within 1.7 million miles of Earth – about seven times further out than the Moon – at a speed […]
Erik ten Hag says his players have to be disciplined on and off the pitch as the Manchester United boss looks to move on from Marcus Rashford’s reported Belfast escapades. The 26-year-old has been far from his best this season, scoring just four goals, and his decision-making off the field has brought further scrutiny and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time President Joe Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, he warned of the danger posed by the deteriorating John A. Blatnik Memorial Bridge — pointing out the decades-old corrosion that had weakened the overpass connecting the two port cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota and vowing to fix it. Biden is returning to […]
Nikki Haley has a message for voters who were supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the Republican presidential nomination race. “What we say to DeSantis voters is it’s time for a new generation. It’s time to stop the chaos. It’s time to stop the noise and get America back on track,” Haley told Fox News […]
Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur who has gone all in on Iowa to jumpstart his presidential bid, urged supporters not to believe the polls during a final appearance at a Cedar Rapids brewery hours ahead of Monday night’s caucuses. Ramaswamy has visited all 99 counties in Iowa twice and even rented an apartment in Des […]
The News ANKENY, Iowa – Donald Trump flew into Iowa this weekend after foregoing the traditional months-long, on-the-ground blitz that has historically defined the state. Canceling multiple in-person events in favor of telerallies due to weather conditions, he was left on Sunday with a single, old-school rally in Indianola — and seemed determined to make […]
Amid a campaign that has, from its very first minutes, not gone quite as planned, Ron DeSantis took the stage on Saturday before a crowd of supporters in an Iowa office complex to inform them that the latest obstacle – a historically frigid winter storm – would not stop him from winning the first state […]
By late morning on Friday, just three days before the Iowa caucuses, Des Moines seemed like a ghost town. Abandoned cars and trailers dotted icy freeways, victims of a once-in-a-decade blizzard. Most presidential candidates, Nikki Haley included, moved their campaign events online. But across the state, cohorts of pro-Haley canvassers saw the storm as an […]
US president Joe Biden takes his pitch for re-election to South Carolina, where Black voters helped propel him to the presidency, on Monday in a visit aimed at shoring up a critical constituency whose support has waned since he took office. Mr Biden’s trip, to the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, where an avowed […]
After huddling privately with former President Donald Trump, Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said late Wednesday that the Republican primary frontrunner will meet with union members at its headquarters later this month. The union backed President Joe Biden in 2020 but is undertaking a more wide-ranging endorsement process this year. “There are serious issues that need […]