BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar, once a thriving emerging economy, is struggling to regain momentum as the country’s civil war increasingly disrupts trade and livelihoods. World Bank economists estimate the country’s economy grew at a 1% annual pace in the year that ended in March, more slowly than earlier expected, according to a report i ssued […]
It was probably not intentional, but four of the Texas House’s most conservative Republican members marked the 20th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s death by very publicly breaking the spirit of the former president’s “Eleventh Commandment”: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” It happened Wednesday when Reps. Brian Harrison, Steve Toth, Tony Tinderholt […]
Texas Democrats are heading into the fall campaign arguably more bruised and battered than ever, coming off numbing losses in 2022 and back-to-back legislative sessions dominated by conservative policy. And they are battling real headwinds this year, including internal divisions over immigration and the Israel-Hamas war, and a party standard-bearer, President Joe Biden, with a […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The long and occasionally quixotic relationship between Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham has again turned negative after the South Carolina senator criticized the former president for refusing to support a federal abortion ban. Trump repeatedly disparaged Graham on his social media site and said he regretted endorsing the senator during his […]
Donald Trump’s allies installed to run the Republican National Committee have faced a tumultuous first month in charge, buffeted by staffing problems and operational headaches as they attempt to bring the party apparatus under the control of the Trump campaign before the 2024 election. The internal strife at the RNC has prompted the Trump campaign […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by authorities as citizens of Tajikistan, some of the thousands who migrate to Russia each year from the poorest of the former Soviet republics to scrape out marginal existences. Along with grinding poverty, Tajikistan is rife with […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan GOP convention in Grand Rapids on Saturday will allocate 39 of the state’s 55 GOP presidential delegates, but a significant portion of the party’s grassroots force won’t be attending due to the lingering aftereffects of a months-long dispute over who is leading the party. Still amid the division, chaos […]
(Bloomberg) — A senior Conservative member of Parliament has publicly called for Rishi Sunak to quit, in the latest sign of the prime minister’s failure to pacify rebellions in the ruling party ahead of an election this year. Most Read from Bloomberg Simon Clarke, a former Leveling Up minister, said in a commentary published by […]