Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, national political reporter Bridget Bowman spotlights the moderate House Republicans who are facing primary challenges from the right in the coming weeks. Plus, national political correspondent Steve Kornacki explains how high voter turnout could boost Donald Trump...
On Monday morning government parties agreed on the need to make more savings, but not on how to find the money.
Moderate Republicans look to stave off challenges from the right at Utah party convention
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Moderate Utah Republicans will look to stave off farther-right challengers at a state GOP convention that tends to favor the most conservative contenders. All eyes are on the crowded race to succeed U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney. The pool of nearly a dozen Republicans at Saturday’s
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Moderate Republicans, who often have been successful with Utah voters, will look to stave off farther-right challengers at Saturday’s state GOP convention, which typically favors the most conservative contenders. All eyes are on the crowded race to succeed U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, the state’s best-known
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Sen. Marco Rubio warned voters that Donald Trump was so “dangerous” that the television personality couldn’t be trusted with the nation’s nuclear secrets. Eight years later, the Florida senator was vindicated when investigators found that the former president had been careless with nuclear secrets at his glorified country club. Rubio did not, however, want to gloat about having been right. On the contrary, the GOP lawmaker went in the opposite direction....
Dozens gathered in Wilson Park Tuesday evening to honor victims of violent crime in the Shoals. A candlelight vigil was held to show victim's families and survivors they do have advocates and a community behind them.
Alex Popken was a trust and safety executive at Twitter, leaving in 2023 after a decade at the social media company focusing on content moderation
The Conservatives will keep the two-child benefit cap if they win the next election, the Prime Minister has said.
Sadiq Khan’s campaign has called for an investigation of a Conservative leaflet made to look like a penalty charge notice.
The Commons Leader branded members of the opposition party ‘plastic patriots’ during a heated business questions session on Thursday.
Today, we remember the 1974 Carnation Revolution. But as memories of dictatorship fade, anti-democratic forces are on the riseFifty years ago, on 25 April 1974, a military-led movement in Portugal took down the rightwing authoritarian regime that had governed the country for 41 years. The Carnation Revolution, named after the flowers people offered soldiers on the streets, led the country to democracy and an era of immense social progress – reducing infant mortality and illiteracy rates, for...