WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Eight years ago, Donald Trump left Iowa wounded, finishing second to Sen. Ted Cruz and still far from emerging as the GOP presidential nominee. Not tonight. Given his romp here on Monday, Trump could all but end the primary next week in New Hampshire. The former president, despite facing multiple […]
Everything’s coming up Donald. Well, at least in the Republican presidential contests. Former President Donald Trump remains under four separate criminal indictments and is still broadly unpopular with the national electorate, but it’s difficult to imagine the Iowa caucuses going better for him. Not only did he win by a record margin for a Republican, […]
By James Oliphant (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump trounced his Republican rivals on Monday in the first nominating contest of the 2024 election, leaving his top rivals with more questions than answers about the path forward for their candidacies. Here are takeaways from the Iowa caucus: MIND MADE UP According to early surveys conducted of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s iron grip on the Republican Party has been clear since the day he announced he would make another run for the White House 14 months ago. It can be seen in the party’s ideological shift even further to the right on cultural issues and, especially, on immigration policy. Iowa Republicans […]
Sunday January 14 marks 100 days that Israel and Hamas have been at war. Israel declared war in response to Hamas’ unprecedented cross-border attack on October 7th in which the Islamic militant group killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 250 others hostage. It was the deadliest attack in Israel’s history and the deadliest […]
Sunday January 14 marks 100 days that Israel and Hamas have been at war. Israel declared war in response to Hamas’ unprecedented cross-border attack on October 7 in which the Islamic militant group killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 250 others hostage. It was the deadliest attack in Israel’s history and the deadliest […]
And then there were two. The battle to become the leading alternative to former president and prohibitive 2024 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump entered its latest — and possibly its final — phase Wednesday night when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley debated one-on-one in Des Moines, Iowa, ahead of Monday’s […]
And then there were two. The battle to become the leading alternative to former president and prohibitive 2024 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump entered its latest — and possibly its final — phase Wednesday night when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley debated one-on-one in Des Moines ahead of Monday’s Iowa […]
A three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Washington heard arguments Tuesday in a momentous case over former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from criminal charges for the efforts he took to overturn the 2020 election. A ruling by the court — and when it issues that decision — could be […]
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was once thought to be the person who could take the GOP nomination from Donald Trump, but as of late the Florida governor is struggling to keep hold of second place. DeSantis has been eclipsed in some surveys by former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has turned the heads […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian occupation authorities vastly and deliberately undercounted the dead in one of the most devastating chapters of the 22-month war in Ukraine — the flooding that followed the catastrophic explosion that destroyed the Kakhovka Dam in the southern Kherson region. The AP’s reporting focused on Oleshky, one town in the vast […]
The federal agency tasked with protecting the public from hazardous products often knows about dangerous and deadly items for years before it takes action. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which oversees about 15,000 types of products, is constrained by a system that is slow to identify deaths and limits the federal government’s power over manufacturers, […]