After a series of tense exchanges between senators and tech executives that clocked in at just under four hours, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child safety came to an end Wednesday with no clear resolutions in sight. The audience included several family members of victims, who cheered as senators berated the executives and […]
Former President Donald Trump is as strong a fundraiser as ever. But he is bleeding money on legal expenses. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has no shortage of political liabilities going into November, but new campaign finance filings show he is building a formidable cash machine. Both men raised tens of millions of dollars in the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conspiracy theories have a long history. Humans have always speculated about secret motives and plots as a way to understand their world and avoid danger. These days, however, conspiracy theories and those who believe them seem to be playing an outsize role in politics and culture. Republican Donald Trump has amplified conspiracy […]
MANCHESTER, N.H. — The much-fabled power of New Hampshire’s fiercely independent voters wasn’t enough to break the spell Donald Trump has cast over the Republican Party. Brushing aside Nikki Haley a little more than a week after he steamrolled her and Ron DeSantis in Iowa, Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate who was not […]
Donald Trump, the former US president, won his second straight nominating contest over challenger Nikki Haley, the only other Republican left in the race, by besting her in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Ms Haley, who served as Mr Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, was attempting to keep the margin close in order to argue […]
CONCORD, N.H. — If Nikki Haley was going to stop Donald Trump in any state, it was going to be New Hampshire, whose independent-minded electorate seemed more likely to deliver for her than anywhere else. It didn’t. It wasn’t a knockout punch. But Trump beat his only remaining competition here decisively on Tuesday. And his […]
Donald Trump has appeared to be an unstoppable force plowing his way toward the Republican nomination for the presidency, gaining strength in the polls as his rivals scrambled for second place before they gave up and dropped out. But for a fleeting moment Tuesday, the contest took on the appearance of an at least vaguely […]
The New Hampshire primary, even with its history of unpredictability and freethinking independents, produced a familiar result on Tuesday: Donald Trump v Joe Biden. Related: New Hampshire primary 2024: live results tracker After months of heavy campaigning in the state, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley came in second place in the Republican primary. Securing […]
California’s sleepy race to succeed Sen. Dianne Feinstein finally came alive Monday night at USC, when three congressional Democrats and a former-Dodger-turned-Republican-candidate clashed over the war in Gaza and pitched their plans to address homelessness and protect reproductive freedoms. Reps. Adam B. Schiff of Burbank, Katie Porter of Irvine and Barbara Lee of Oakland delighted […]
As another week starts in Durham Public Schools, the Board of Education met in private in a downtown board room to discuss paycheck problems that derailed school activities last week. Many classified staff — including bus mechanics, physical therapists, cafeteria workers and groundskeepers — skipped work last week, plunged into a financial panic over whether […]
The Justice Department on Thursday released its 600-page report on the response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas — one of the deadliest in U.S. history. Nineteen children and two teachers died in the massacre at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022. During a press conference after its release, Attorney General Merrick Garland said […]
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee gave his third State of the State speech Tuesday. It clocked in at around 45 minutes. Here are the top six things we noticed: No fiscal storm clouds on the horizon, unlike Massachusetts While General Assembly leaders, spending watchdogs and leaders in other states warn of budget belt-tightening ahead, McKee […]