• Democrats experience hope and fear as Biden nips at Trump’s heels

    President Joe Biden has narrowed the gap with former President Donald Trump, nearly tying but not overtaking the Republican in the polls. The latest RealClearPolitics polling average has Trump leading by 0.2 points, down from more than 4 at the beginning of the year. Trump led by 1 in the most recent New York Times-Siena President Joe Biden has narrowed the gap with former President Donald Trump, nearly tying but not overtaking the Republican in the polls.

  • Senate sends Ukraine aid to Biden’s desk with majority of GOP support

    The Senate approved tens of billions in foreign aid on Tuesday, bringing to a close a congressional standoff that sharply divided Republicans over the conflict in Ukraine. Seventy-nine senators, including a decided majority of Republicans, voted to send the $95 billion defense bill to President Joe Biden’s desk. The House passed the aid on Saturday. […]

  • Senate passes possible TikTok ban, sends to Biden who’s expected to sign it

    Lawmakers sped a possible TikTok ban through Congress by tying it to a sprawling funding package offering aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.

  • Nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain could roil Nevada U.S. Senate race

    More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County, near an idyllic beach name-checked in the Beach Boys’ iconic “Surfin’ U.S.A.” Spent fuel rods from the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant were supposed to be sent to a long-planned federal repository in Yucca Mountain in Nevada, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. But vociferous opposition from a broad, bipartisan coalition of political, business, environmental and...

  • Utah Republicans to select nominee for Mitt Romney’s open US Senate seat

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nearly a dozen Utah Republicans vying to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate are set to square off Saturday for the party nomination in a race expected to reveal the brand of political conservatism that most appeals to modern voters in the state. Romney has long been the face […]

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    Utah Republicans to select nominee for Mitt Romney’s open US Senate seat

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A dozen Utah Republicans vying to replace Mitt Romney in the U.S. Senate are set to square off Saturday for the party nomination in a race expected to reveal the brand of

  • USA senators call on Biden to sanction Sudan’s RSF over human rights violations

    Shafaqna English- United States congress members have written an open letter to Joe Biden, calling on him to recognise Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its leader, General Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo, as violators of human rights. The letter, dated Friday, follows the one-year anniversary of the war in Sudan

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    U.S. Senators call for investigation into U.S. Steel’s sale to Japanese company

    WEIRTON, W.Va. (WTRF) -- In December, the Pittsburgh-based steel company U.S. Steel agreed to sell the company to Japan’s largest steel manufacturer, Nippon Steel. Now, two U.S. Senators are calling on President Biden to look deeper into this sale and the effects it could have on the country. Just months after U.S. Steel agreed to []

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • My family’s past, and Germany’s, weighs heavily upon me. And it’s why I feel so strongly about Gaza

    I fear we are forgetting lessons from that terrible historyI don’t usually talk about my great-uncle Walter. Gen Walter Warlimont, as my grandfather’s brother was formally known, was head of the national defence department in the high command of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany. Only two people were between him and the Führer in the chain of command. Walter worked so closely with Hitler that the failed assassination attempt in July 1944 injured his arm. The orders he signed...

  • F1’s Miami race sends cease and desist letter to Trump hoping to host fundraiser at the event

    The Miami Grand Prix sent a cease and desist letter to a prominent fundraiser of former President Donald Trump after he planned to use a suite for a fundraiser event. The Formula One race sent the letter to Steven Witkoff, a close Trump ally, who had rented a suite at the race for fundraising purposes, […]