National Public Radio - Politics (9 minutes ago)
Three decades ago, South Africa held its first democratic election, closing the door on the apartheid era. And Nelson Mandela was elected its first Black president.Today, the country is still led by Mandela's political party - the African National Congress. But polls show that voters are growing increasingly dissatisfied with the party's...
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Canada's biofuel industry is welcoming a proposed multi-billion dollar package of financial support from the federal government, although concerns remain about whether it will be enough to compete with lucrative subsidies south of the border and reverse the growing dependence on U.S. imports to meet clean fuel regulations.
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It would be an exaggeration to say Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith's video about carbon pricing is setting the internet on fire. But it's enough to say that Erskine-Smith has contributed to the hottest new trend in Canadian politics: talking at length and in some detail.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 minutes ago)
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) recently told a GOP colleague, according to CNN, that he just wanted to be 'done with' his 15-month-long impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.CNN reported last week that the Kentucky lawmaker has already begun to set his eyes on other goals — "ambitions to run for higher office one day,...
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Embattled Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell will be removed from her committee assignments and caucus meetings while burglary allegations against her play out in both a Senate and legal investigation, the Senate majority leader announced Sunday.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said that Kiev and Washington were working on a bilateral security agreement, part of his ongoing effort to ensure his war-torn country receives long-term support. "We are already working on a specific text," said Zelensky in his evening video address. "Our goal is to make this agreement the...
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The World Central Kitchen aid organization said on Sunday it would resume operations in the Gaza Strip four weeks after seven of its staff members died in an Israeli aerial attack. "We have been forced to make a decision: stop feeding altogether during one of the worst hunger crises ever, ending our operation that accounted for 62 percent of all...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
As I was telling you, I haven't been paying much attention to Donald Trump's trial. I should, but I haven't. In that, I'm probably like most people. If he's found guilty, he's found guilty. Everything else is noise.But there are related aspects of the trial that stand out to me. I mentioned one yesterday: his weird call out to supporters to...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (3 hours ago)
Donald Trump's latest stab for complete immunity is totally "absurd" from a purely constitutional perspective, Laurence H. Tribe, one of America's leading constitutional scholars, said on Sunday.Tribe flagged the purportedly contradicting argument on immunity on social media, asking, "Did anyone notice what Trump's lawyer identified as the textual...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (4 hours ago)
Some say Donald Trump is seeking the status of a "king" as he fights for complete and total criminal immunity, but it's actually much worse than that, according to a history professor at Yale Sunday.Renowned Yale Prof. Timothy Snyder, who previously said Putin wants Trump to win because the former president shows our "system is rotten," has...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (4 hours ago)
Stormy Daniels, an adult film star and an upcoming witness in Donald Trump's ongoing hush money cover-up case in New York, is defending the trial as witnesses build a story to show the former president committed criminal acts. Daniels, who is alleged to have received a payment to be quiet about her purported affair with Trump in the lead-up to the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (5 hours ago)
Donald Trump is aggressive in court, but he tends to back down once you hit him back, according to the former president's biographer, who beat a $5 billion lawsuit over financial allegations.Tim O'Brien, who spent massive amounts of time with Trump before writing TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to discuss...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (6 hours ago)
Donald Trump is looking much more tired now than he was in 2016 during his campaign and his presidency, according to a former official in the ex-president's White House.Former White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci appeared on MSNBC to discuss Trump, who has been reportedly napping through some of his criminal hush money cover-up...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has tried to build bridges between himself and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) since she first raised the threat to oust him as Speaker. However, Sunday, Greene renewed her vow to take him down.After initially threatening to bounce Johnson from his gig as the leader of House Republicans, Greene backed off...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (7 hours ago)
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders partook in "unethical behavior" while employed by Donald Trump's White House, according to a former colleague's analysis.Donald Trump's former deputy press secretary, Sarah Matthews, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to discuss a wide variety of Trump-related legal matters. Among those topics was the hush money...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, Republican Party campaign strategist Susan Del Percio dismissed Donald Trump's complaints that his Manhattan hush money trial is to blame for his inability to campaign across the country.Speaking with host Alex Witt, the two noted that Trump is only expected to be in court four days a week leaving...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (8 hours ago)
Donald Trump is likely going to be convicted in the hush money cover-up case he's currently facing, but the real punishment is being forced to be a criminal defendant, a former prosecutor said Sunday. Legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports, where he was asked about whether or not Trump will...
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Two of Westminster's best-connected journalists, Sky News's Sam Coates and Politico's Jack Blanchard, guide you through their top predictions for the next seven days in British politics. The local and mayoral elections are trundling towards us, with Westminster set for the fallout. But don't expect Rishi Sunak to name the date of the general...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (9 hours ago)
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) took another stab at defending her decision to shoot and kill a 14-month old puppy years ago that attacked some chickens, by citing a South Dakota law that allows animals that kill "livestock" to be put down.Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, the embattled Republican attempted to put out the firestorm she...
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Bruce Robbins, Columbia University professor, and Bret Stephens, New York Times columnist, speak to Fareed about the boundaries of free speech on college campuses — and whether Columbia University should have called in the police to arrest pro-Palestinian protesters.
ReadNew York Times - Politics (10 hours ago)
Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners has invested more than $1.2 billion, much of it in firms abroad, drawing new scrutiny as his father-in-law, Donald Trump, again seeks the presidency. The New York Times Investigative Reporter, Eric Lipton, explains where the money is coming from and where it's going.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile responded calmly to an animated Sarah Isgur, a former Trump administration official, after she accused liberals of not caring about free speech.The confrontation came during a Sunday panel on ABC's This Week program. Isgur criticized President Joe Biden, who has said he decided to run in reaction to a white...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
Fox News legal analyst Andy McCarthy told host Howard Kurtz that he found legal developments in Donald Trump's hush money trial "very disturbing" for the former president. On the Fox News Media Buzz program Sunday, Kurtz asked McCarthy about defense attorney Emil Bove's strategy of cross-examining former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker in...
ReadCBS News - Politics (11 hours ago)
President Biden and former President Donald Trump are running even in a new CBS News poll of battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. CBS News director of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto joins "Face the Nation" to discuss.
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
An indictment of Donald Trump's allies and associates in Arizona is one of the things that will make it easier for President Joe Biden to win that "battleground" state in the upcoming election, a former GOP strategist said on Saturday.Former Republican strategist Tara Setmayer appeared on MSNBC's Ayman, where she was asked about what the...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
A planned international accord on how to limit deaths and coordinate international action during a pandemic is in the balance ahead of talks at the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO's 194 member states are aiming to reach agreement in Geneva from Monday. "It will be difficult," said one negotiator. In the struggle to reach an agreement, the...
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The authorities in Bangladesh have issued another heatwave alert for three more days beginning Sunday as the South Asian country is facing its longest heatwave in 75 years. Bangladesh reported the season's highest temperature at 42.7 degrees Celsius on Friday in the south-western district of Chuadanga. Dhaka's maximum temperature was 38.2 degrees...
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Billionaire businessman Elon Musk, head of Tesla, held talks with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang in Beijing on Sunday after arriving unexpectedly aboard a private flight. During the talks, Li described Tesla's presence in China as "a successful example of Chinese-American economic and trade cooperation." Musk praised the "hard work" of his Chinese...
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Eric Trump suggested President Joe Biden was at fault for difficulty buying skin lotion in New York City. The son of former President Donald Trump made the remarks during a Sunday interview on Fox News with host Maria Bartiromo. The younger Trump insisted his father was "feeling great" despite the criminal prosecutions he is fighting. "His...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Former President Donald Trump and his allies often make their belief that the legal troubles he faces are all politically motivated. In February, CBS News reported, "Polls show his supporters agree, with 66% of Republicans believing the legal cases against him have been handled unfairly. In contrast, 70% of Democrats feel Trump is being treated...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
The largest search operation to date for a 6-year-old boy with autism who went missing in northern Germany nearly a week ago was carried out on Sunday. Police, soldiers, firefighters, members of the THW civil protection agency and hundreds of volunteers banded together to scour an area centered near Bremervörde, a town to the west of Hamburg. In...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," the former executive editor of the National Enquirer admitted that during his tenure his boss was running the organization like a 'criminal enterprise" while working hand-in-hand with Donald Trump.Speaking with the hosts on Sunday morning, Lachlan Cartwright claimed he was not privy to all the details...
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Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) for conducting "investigations that go nowhere." During the Sunday Morning Futures program on Fox News, Bartiromo said Americans were upset at the prosecutions of former President Donald Trump. "Well, look, I mean, at this point, American citizens are asking,...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Above and beyond Donald Trump's legal woes bedeviling his 2024 presidential campaign, the former president's highly charged rhetoric combined with his whining about how he feels he is being persecuted is turning off the very voters he desperately needs in order to win.Already dogged by his boasting about how he "killed" Roe v. Wade, which has...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
University of Pennsylvania law professor Kate Shaw said the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to create a presidential immunity doctrine just to protect former President Donald Trump. Shaw spoke out on ABC's This Week on Sunday following arguments before the high court in Trump's election interference case. ABC host George Stephanopoulos observed...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (14 hours ago)
CNN contributors blasted South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), who reportedly shot a 14-month-old puppy to death. "This is something that she wrote in her book that she killed a 14-month-old puppy and a goat on her family farm," CNN's Dana Bash said Sunday. "And three horses, she said it wasn't a pleasant job, but it had to be done, and after it was...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
Fox News pundit Kellyanne Conway worried Sunday that a conservative conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama was running President Joe Biden's White House would backfire and bolster the Democratic vote.In an interview on Fox News, Conway reviewed some of the jokes about Biden from Saturday night's White House Correspondents...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
On Sunday morning, Donald Trump launched another broadside at Robert Kennedy Jr. just days after reports showed the independent candidate could pull votes from the former president.Late Friday, Trump jumped on Truth Social for a three-post attack on the longshot presidential candidate and Sunday morning was more of the same.Acknowledging that...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
Having only just found out she was pregnant, what she had really wanted was time to think, but that was a luxury she felt she could not afford."The laws in Arizona are really dicey right now, so I wasn't sure what would be available to me," said Piper, who wanted to use a pseudonym to discuss her choice about one of the most divisive issues in...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
Musk -- one of the world's richest people -- arrived in China earlier the same day on his second trip in less than a year to the world's biggest market for electric vehicles.Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said that during their meeting, Li had promised the country would do more to help foreign firms."China's very large-scale market will always be...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
The Fed's decision to hike interest rates and then hold them at a 23-year high has helped to significantly lower elevated inflation, although it remains stuck firmly above the US central bank's long-term target of two percent.Since the start of this year, the Fed's favored inflation measure has actually accelerated, hitting an annual rate of 2.7...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
This week Donald Trump will likely face the consequences of his actions when Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan will rule on sanctions against the former president for violating his gag order regarding disparaging witnesses and jurors in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial.According to a report from the New York Times by Maggie Haberman and Jonah E....
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