: Former United States President Donald Trump celebrated the Supreme Court’s ruling to restore him to the ballot in Colorado as a “Big Win For America”. Trump’s comment came after the US Supreme Court handed him a major victory on Monday as he campaigns to regain the presidency, barring states from disqualifying candidates for federal office under a constitutional provision...
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Trump moves closer to Republican nomination with string of victories
The former president won the Missouri, Michigan and Idaho caucuses comprehensively, continuing his clean sweep of states so far. Mr Trump, 77, told supporters at a rally in Virginia that he was “on a rocket to the Republican nomination”. He is on track to secure it next week. His last remaining rival in the race, former South Carolina Governor Nikki...
“Beyond Alarming”: Rishi Sunak’s Impassioned Plea To Save British Democracy
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has issued an impassioned plea for Britain to protect its democracy as he warned that extremist forces were out to tear the country apart and undermine its multi-faith identity. Referencing his own Hindu beliefs, the British Indian leader on Friday stressed that the enduring values of the UK are about embracing migrants of all faiths...
Irresponsible”: US Slams Putin’s Nuclear War Remarks
The United States on Thursday denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warnings of a risk of nuclear war as “irresponsible,” but said there was no sign of greater risk. “It is not the first time we have seen irresponsible rhetoric from Vladimir Putin. It is no way for the leader of a nuclear-armed state to speak,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller...
President Biden ‘continues to be fit for duty’, says his physician after annual health checkup
Joe Biden “continues to be fit for duty” and “fully executes” all of his responsibilities, his physician has said after an annual health checkup, asserting that the 81-year-old US President does not have any major health concerns. The White House on Wednesday shared a memo with President Biden’s “current health summary” following his annual routine physical at Walter Reed National...
Trump Defeats Haley in Michigan, His Sixth Straight Victory
Former President Donald J. Trump won Michigan’s Republican presidential primary election on Tuesday, moving closer to a general election rematch against President Biden. Mr. Biden easily won his own primary, though he faced a groundswell of opposition from voters who are protesting his staunch support for Israel and its military campaign in Gaza by casting ballots not for another candidate,...
Biden claps back at age critics, roasts Trump for calling his wife Melania ‘Mercedes’
He went on to say, “but he can’t remember his wife’s name”, making an apparent reference to claims that Trump erroneously dubbed former first lady Melania Trump “Mercedes” at Saturday’s CPAC event. However, some speculated Trump was referring to his former White House director of strategic communications and CPAC host Mercedes Schlapp. Stressing that it is “about how old your...
Trump Wins South Carolina Republican Primary, Defeats Nikki Haley
Donald Trump cruised to a decisive victory Saturday in the South Carolina Republican primary, blitzing rival Nikki Haley in her home state and continuing his march to the nomination and a White House rematch with Joe Biden. Trump completed a sweep of the first four major nominating contests, converting a year of blockbuster polls into a likely insurmountable lead going...
“Good Night. Malaysian 370”: World’s Top Missing Plane Mystery, 10 Years On
Those six words were the last radio transmission from the cockpit of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, less than an hour after the aircraft took off late at night from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Minutes later, the plane disappeared from air-traffic control radar screens. The huge Boeing Co. 777 jet, almost as long as a Manhattan city...
Russia threatens to shoot aircraft patrolling Black Sea, claims France
The minister, Sébastien Lecornu, didn’t give specific details about the French flights or aircraft involved in the threatened shootdown. Russian forces threatened to shoot down French flights patrolling last month in international airspace over the Black Sea, signals of a “particularly aggressive” posture from Moscow as its invasion of Ukraine struggles to make headway, France’s defense minister said Thursday. The minister, Sébastien...
Israel strikes across Gaza as U.S. says it will block another cease-fire resolution at UN
Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 18 persons overnight and into Sunday, according to medics and witnesses, as the United States said it would veto another draft U.N. ceasefire resolution. The US, Israel’s top ally, instead hopes to broker a cease-fire agreement and hostage release between Israel and Hamas, and envisions a wider resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli...
U.K. by-election results deliver double blow for PM Rishi Sunak
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered two heavy blows to his leadership ahead of a general election later this year as the Opposition Labour Party overturned strong Conservative majorities to win by-elections in England on Friday. Labour’s Dan Egan won the House of Commons seat of Kingswood, south-west England, and the party’s Gen Kitchen won Wellingborough, in the East Midlands...