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Centrist Dems turn on far left after the election: 'Identity politics' is 'absolutely killing us'

Centrist Dems turn on far left after the election: 'Identity politics' is 'absolutely killing us'

Some Democrats are calling out their far-left colleagues for costing them the 2024 election with radical rhetoric.

DC councilmember facing federal bribery charges wins landslide re-election, but colleagues may oust him

DC councilmember facing federal bribery charges wins landslide re-election, but colleagues may oust him

D.C. Ward 8 Councilman Trayon White Sr. is set to make a court appearance this week in a federal bribery case just days after he w...

Deadlock Persists as Bulgarian Lawmakers Fail to Elect Speaker

Deadlock Persists as Bulgarian Lawmakers Fail to Elect Speaker

Bulgarian lawmakers failed to elect a parliamentary speaker on Monday, exposing political gridlock after the Black Sea nation held...

Serbian leader speaks to Trump, pointing out Serb support during US election

Serbian leader speaks to Trump, pointing out Serb support during US election

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic says he has spoken with Donald Trump, inviting him to visit the Balkan country while pointing ...

Trump names Stefanik UN ambassador: report

Trump names Stefanik UN ambassador: report

President-elect Trump appointed House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., as his U.S. Ambassador to the Unite...

O’Leary’s Election Comments Risk Backfiring on Irish Premier

O’Leary’s Election Comments Risk Backfiring on Irish Premier

Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Micheal O’Leary made controversial comments about teachers serving in government, for...

Spain Commits €3.8 Billion in New Flood Aid Relief Package

Spain Commits €3.8 Billion in New Flood Aid Relief Package

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced a new economic relief package for victims of the storms that killed more than 220 p...

Montana's road to red: How the state shifted to all GOP leadership for the first time in over 100 years

Montana's road to red: How the state shifted to all GOP leadership for the first time in over 100 years

Montana ousted the last standing statewide Democrat in the 2024 election, marking the first time the Big Sky State will see all Re...

Trump Looms Over COP29 Fight for Climate Cash

Trump Looms Over COP29 Fight for Climate Cash

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Germany Set to Deploy Israel’s Arrow Defense System in 2025

Germany Set to Deploy Israel’s Arrow Defense System in 2025

Israel said its Arrow advanced air defense system will be deployed in Germany next year, indicating that its largest-ever arms exp...

Japan’s Stimulus Package to Include Price Relief Steps, NHK Says

Japan’s Stimulus Package to Include Price Relief Steps, NHK Says

Japan’s new economic stimulus package will feature cash handouts to help low-income households deal with inflation and extra fundi...

Mauritian Prime Minister Jugnauth Concedes Election Defeat

Mauritian Prime Minister Jugnauth Concedes Election Defeat

Pravind Kumar Jugnauth conceded election defeat after partial results from Sunday’s election in Mauritius showed his five-party Al...

Mortgage Rates Fell, Then Rose. What Comes Next?

Mortgage Rates Fell, Then Rose. What Comes Next?

Many would-be home buyers are still hoping for mortgage rates to come down as the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates. How much th...

State education chief ‘on GOP radar’ launches gameplan for nixing cabinet department

State education chief ‘on GOP radar’ launches gameplan for nixing cabinet department

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters will release his plan to align with a system changed by a potentially a...

Trump Expected to Narrow Treasury Chief Options by Week’s End

Trump Expected to Narrow Treasury Chief Options by Week’s End

Donald Trump intends to narrow the shortlist of candidates for Treasury Secretary this week and is leaning toward someone with a W...

Botswana’s President Picks Deputy Gaolathe as Finance Minister

Botswana’s President Picks Deputy Gaolathe as Finance Minister

Botswana’s new leader, Duma Boko, named economist and Deputy President Ndaba Gaolathe as his finance minister as he unveiled the n...

Kremlin Denies Putin-Trump Phone Call, Says No Talks Planned Yet

Kremlin Denies Putin-Trump Phone Call, Says No Talks Planned Yet

The Kremlin denied a report that President Vladimir Putin held a phone talk with US President-elect Donald Trump.

Philly stakes: Trump appears to overperform in surprising Pennsylvania places

Philly stakes: Trump appears to overperform in surprising Pennsylvania places

Monroe, Philadelphia and Lehigh counties were surprising major counties where Trump made gains over 2020 that led him to victory i...

Trump to appoint former ICE Director Tom Homan as next ‘border czar’: ‘nobody better at policing our borders’

Trump to appoint former ICE Director Tom Homan as next ‘border czar’: ‘nobody better at policing our borders’

Noman is a former acting Head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It's the second major appointee for President-elect Do...

EU Sees Little Chance of Quick China Deal to Avoid EV Tariffs

EU Sees Little Chance of Quick China Deal to Avoid EV Tariffs

The European Union sees very limited progress in negotiations with China aimed at finding an alternative to tariffs on electric ve...

Trump’s Gains Among Latinos Push a Civil Rights Group to Reflect on Its Past

Trump’s Gains Among Latinos Push a Civil Rights Group to Reflect on Its Past

From its founding nearly a century ago, LULAC encouraged Hispanic people to embrace American identity even as it fought discrimina...

Indonesia Refutes Charges It Recognized Beijing’s Sea Claims

Indonesia Refutes Charges It Recognized Beijing’s Sea Claims

Indonesia denied that it had effectively recognized China’s disputed claims in the South China Sea after a joint statement with Be...

Trump Names Thomas Homan ‘Border Czar’ With a Wide Portfolio

Trump Names Thomas Homan ‘Border Czar’ With a Wide Portfolio

Mr. Homan, a senior immigration official in the last Trump administration, has said that workplace raids would restart under the n...

China Approaches Record $1 Trillion Trade Surplus to World’s Ire

China Approaches Record $1 Trillion Trade Surplus to World’s Ire

China’s trade surplus is on track to hit a fresh record this year, increasingly leaving it on a collision course with some of the ...

Billionaire Pratt Will Move to US in Wake of Trump Victory

Billionaire Pratt Will Move to US in Wake of Trump Victory

Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt will now live in the US, he said on LinkedIn.

Will Trump's hush money conviction stand? A judge will rule on the president-elect's immunity claim

Will Trump's hush money conviction stand? A judge will rule on the president-elect's immunity claim

A Manhattan judge is poised to decide whether to uphold Donald Trump's hush money verdict or dismiss it on presidential immunity g...

Biden's White House invitation to Trump continues a tradition Trump shunned in 2020

Biden's White House invitation to Trump continues a tradition Trump shunned in 2020

Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of Presid...

Trump Picks Former Immigration Chief Homan as His ‘Border Czar’

Trump Picks Former Immigration Chief Homan as His ‘Border Czar’

President-elect Donald Trump said he will install Tom Homan, the former acting head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcemen...

Trump announces Tom Homan, former director of immigration enforcement, will serve as 'border czar'

Trump announces Tom Homan, former director of immigration enforcement, will serve as 'border czar'

President-elect Donald Trump says that Tom Homan, his former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as “b...

Trump announces he's bringing back Tom Homan, former director of immigration enforcement, as 'border czar'

Trump announces he's bringing back Tom Homan, former director of immigration enforcement, as 'border czar'

Trump announces he's bringing back Tom Homan, former director of immigration enforcement, as 'border czar'

Japan’s DPP Will Support Tamaki for Premiership as Planned

Japan’s DPP Will Support Tamaki for Premiership as Planned

Japan’s Democratic Party for the People will nominate its head Yuichiro Tamaki for the premiership vote as planned following a rep...

Trump Offers New York’s Stefanik UN Ambassador Post, CNN Reports

Trump Offers New York’s Stefanik UN Ambassador Post, CNN Reports

President-elect Donald Trump asked New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik to join his administration as US Ambassador to the United...

GOP Rep Schweikert projected to fend off Dem challenger in key Arizona House race

GOP Rep Schweikert projected to fend off Dem challenger in key Arizona House race

Arizona's 1st Congressional District was one of the tightest House races in the country in 2022, and was expected to be another cl...

Republican David Schweikert wins reelection in affluent Arizona congressional district

Republican David Schweikert wins reelection in affluent Arizona congressional district

Republican Rep. David Schweikert has won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Arizona

Republican David Schweikert wins reelection to U.S. House in Arizona's 1st Congressional District

Republican David Schweikert wins reelection to U.S. House in Arizona's 1st Congressional District

Republican David Schweikert wins reelection to U.S. House in Arizona's 1st Congressional District

Arizona Supreme Court declines emergency request to extend ballot 'curing' deadline

Arizona Supreme Court declines emergency request to extend ballot 'curing' deadline

The Arizona Supreme Court has declined an emergency request to extend the deadline for voters to fix problems with mail-in ballots...

The 2024 election cycle is drawing to a close –⁠ here's what we know

The 2024 election cycle is drawing to a close –⁠ here's what we know

The Presidency and Senate have resoundingly fallen into Republican hands – and while House control has yet to be decided, a Trump ...

California voters reject proposed ban on forced prison labor

California voters reject proposed ban on forced prison labor

California voters reject proposed ban on forced prison labor

California voters reject proposed ban on forced prison labor in any form

California voters reject proposed ban on forced prison labor in any form

California voters have rejected a measure amending the state Constitution to ban forced labor in any form

Trump Win Upends the Fight for Climate Cash at COP29

Trump Win Upends the Fight for Climate Cash at COP29

Nearly 200 nations meeting at an annual United Nations summit this week must now consider how to avoid catastrophic climate change...

Biden appears to struggle while walking on beach with first lady

Biden appears to struggle while walking on beach with first lady

A video clip circulating online shows President Biden appearing to struggle while walking the sands of Rehoboth Beach with first l...

Military Judge Postpones Guilty Plea Proceedings in Sept. 11 Case

Military Judge Postpones Guilty Plea Proceedings in Sept. 11 Case

The judge asked defense and prosecution lawyers to settle on a date for the accused mastermind of the terrorist attacks to plead g...

Japan’s PM Ishiba Faces Vote to Keep Job Ahead of Trump Meeting

Japan’s PM Ishiba Faces Vote to Keep Job Ahead of Trump Meeting

Japan’s parliament is set to elect a prime minister Monday in a mid-afternoon vote that’s likely to keep Shigeru Ishiba in the job...

Biden to lobby Trump not to abandon Ukraine during upcoming meeting

Biden to lobby Trump not to abandon Ukraine during upcoming meeting

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday that President Biden will lobby for President-elect Trump to not abandon aid t...

Trump pressures candidates for Senate GOP leader to fill his Cabinet right away

Trump pressures candidates for Senate GOP leader to fill his Cabinet right away

Days before Senate Republicans pick their new leader, President-elect Donald Trump is pressuring the candidates to change Senate r...

Trump spends time golfing with grandkids at Mar-a-Lago after landslide election victory

Trump spends time golfing with grandkids at Mar-a-Lago after landslide election victory

President-elect Trump was seen spending time with his grandchildren and golfing at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, days after he won the 202...

GOP Edges Closer to House Win as Congress Returns for Lame Duck

GOP Edges Closer to House Win as Congress Returns for Lame Duck

Republicans appear close to securing sweeping power in the US government, inching toward retaining the House majority as Congress ...

Senators Vying to Be G.O.P. Leader Vow to Quickly Confirm Trump Nominees

Senators Vying to Be G.O.P. Leader Vow to Quickly Confirm Trump Nominees

Senators Rick Scott, John Thune and John Cornyn quickly responded to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s demand on social media, the...

Haiti Replaces Its Prime Minister Amid Continued Turmoil

Haiti Replaces Its Prime Minister Amid Continued Turmoil

Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council named Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as the new prime minister of the troubled Caribbean nation, ...

Dem Party blame game: Accusations fly as to who is responsible for Harris' massive loss to Trump

Dem Party blame game: Accusations fly as to who is responsible for Harris' massive loss to Trump

Democrats are pinning blame for Vice President Kamala Harris' election loss on a bevy of issues, stretching from the party shiftin...

Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on sta...

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Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on state's abortion law, death of Amber Thurman

Jimmy Carter becomes first president to turn 100

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Jimmy Carter becomes first president to turn 100

Pentagon sending a ‘few thousand’ personnel to Middle East d...

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Pentagon sending a ‘few thousand’ personnel to Middle East day after Biden said he wouldn’t add combat troops

After Shaq, Jay-Z, Beyonce And Others, Tesla Cybertruck Join...

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After Shaq, Jay-Z, Beyonce And Others, Tesla Cybertruck Joins Joins Irvine Police Department's Fleet, Will Be Used For Community Outreach Efforts

Scandals, failed assassinations and political rhetoric: Both...

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Scandals, failed assassinations and political rhetoric: Both sides go high and low

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