Former President Donald Trump has just gone through the first week of his criminal hush payment trial in Manhattan — and it's already hurting him politically, said commentator Molly Jong-Fast on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Friday evening. The conventional wisdom for months has been that the Trump trials, and particularly the Manhattan trial, will not significantly impact him, with large numbers of voters simply not caring about it. But this ignores that a great many non-Trump...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s independent presidential candidacy could hurt former President Trump more than President Biden at the ballot box, according to a new NBC News poll of the race. Trump holds a 2-point lead over Biden in the head-to-head poll released Sunday, though with third party candidates added Biden takes a lead over the
Summer Lee, Pennsylvania’s first Black congresswoman, has expanded her base. Her primary is a test case in a year progressive candidates face a challenge from pro-Israel fundsThe US representative Summer Lee greeted a cheering crowd of a couple of hundred supporters at the Pittsburgh teachers’ union headquarters on Sunday, with two days left until her Democratic primary.Lee, who made history in 2022 when she became the first Black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania, predicted that...
The first criminal trial of a former U.S. president hadn’t started this week, and already Donald Trump found himself behind bars. It wasn’t a good look for Candidate Trump. Whenever he enters or leaves the Manhattan courtroom in the case of People of New York State vs. Donald J. Trump, Defendant Trump makes a beeline for the cameras, to rant about the goings-on. But to reach them, he must enter a security pen — like a small cell — formed by metal barricades akin to bike racks. They recall the...
Hollywood legend Jon Voight is in no doubt former President Donald Trump must be returned to the White House in 2024 to "overrule the barbaric animals destroying our country."
Have you heard the one about the missing Ocado delivery at Downing Street? It’s side-splitting stuffBritish public life often tends toward sitcom, and you imagine that once the catastrophic economic fallout of her time in office has faded – in a generation or two’s time – Liz Truss’s 40-odd days in Downing Street might yet be viewed in those terms. Certainly, that seems the legacy she most craves.The first extracts from her farcical book, Ten Years to Save the West, reveal it to be written with...
Fifteen players, including a few big names, have hit the transfer portal this week, leaving the Colorado Buffaloes before fulfilling the potential they brought to Boulder.
WEIRTON, W.Va. (WTRF) - The Cleveland Cliffs Weirton tin-plate facility officially idled on April 20th, laying off several hundred people, and leading its customers to look elsewhere. ”We just could not compete with the ruling from the ITC when they ruled against us, took away all the tariffs. It was like, if you're going to []
Mikel Arteta admits Arsenal are "gutted" about their Champions League exit, but must show they can "turn their season around" against Wolves live on Sky Sports. Joshua Kimmich's header in the second half saw the Germans to a 1-0 victory in the quarter-final second leg, winning 3-2 on aggregate. It comes after a damaging 2-0 defeat to Aston Villa in the Premier League last weekend saw them lose ground in the title race. Bayern Munich 1-0 Arsenal (Agg: 3-2) - Match report Arsenal's Premier League...
Brian Cox is giving his take on Joaquin Phoenix's performance in Ridley Scott's Napoleon and pondering on leaving the U.S. if Donald Trump wins the presidential election.
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