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WASHINGTON — Top Republican senators are defending Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito as the conservative justice became embroiled in a second flag controversy, even as some Democrats call for Alito to recuse himself from key matters pending before the high court.The flag – which was flown outside Alito’s vacation home in New Jersey – is known as the “Appeal to Heaven.” Its history dates to the Revolutionary War, but it has become a symbol for supporters of former President Donald Trump and was on display during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Sen. John Cornyn, who sits on…
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was confronted by a CBS host over the Biden administration’s aggressive electric vehicle (EV) push.Buttigieg responded to repeated attacks by former President Trump, who claimed President Biden is spending billions of federal dollars on an unpopular car.”You notice he’s trying to save the electric vehicle but not the gas powered which is the vehicle everybody wants. They’re going crazy with the electric car, costing us a fortune. We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing a car nobody wants and nobody is ever going to buy,” Trump said.Pete Buttigieg defended the billions of dollars in federal…
Former President Donald J. Trump has baselessly and publicly cast doubt about the fairness of the 2024 election about once a day, on average, since he announced his candidacy for president, according to an analysis by The New York Times.Though the tactic is familiar — Mr. Trump raised the specter of a “rigged” election in the 2016 and 2020 cycles, too — his attempts to undermine the 2024 contest are a significant escalation. A line chart shows the number of times Donald J. Trump cast doubt on the fairness or integrity of the election during the 2016, 2020, and 2024…
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats failed to advance a bipartisan border security bill Thursday, with nearly every Republican voting to filibuster it as Donald Trump wields border chaos as a centerpiece of his campaign against President Joe Biden.Group of immigrants walk toward the border wall. (John Moore / Getty Images)The vote was 43-50, falling short of the 60 needed to proceed. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was the only GOP senator to vote to advance the bill Thursday, while six Democrats voted with the remaining Republican senators to block it.The vote caps a peculiar sequence of events after Senate Republican leaders insisted…
By Oliver Salt 22:23 26 May 2024, updated 00:58 27 May 2024 Share or comment on this article: Donald Trump is in town for the prestigious Coca-Cola 600 after sending fans wild by flying his private plane over the track in North Carolina.The annual 600-mile NASCAR Cup Series points race is taking place on Sunday evening, with Charlotte Motor Speedway hosting the showpiece as usual on Memorial Day weekend.And before it got underway at 6pm ET, Trump’s private plane was seen flying over the course as he made his grand arrival.Fans went crazy when the former US President’s aircraft -…
He said he would do it in his first term.Now, with immigration a top issue for voters in November, Donald Trump says, if elected again, he’s determined to carry out his threat: to round up and deport millions of migrants living in the U.S. without legal permission.To do so, the former president said he would use local law enforcement and the National Guard to find such migrants living across the U.S. He also hasn’t ruled out building detention camps on U.S. soil or activating the military as part of the effort.”On Day 1 of my new administration, I will seal…
Florida Senator Rick Scott announced he will run for Senate Republican Leader to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell, while Florida Democrats warned he would be a “disaster for Americans.”He is the third candidate in the race, as South Dakota Senator John Thune and Texas Senator John Cornyn are also running for the top Republican position in the U.S. Senate. “I am running to be the next Senate Republican leader,” Senator Rick Scott posted, adding he was excited to discuss it on FoxNews. The Florida Republican is a top supporter of former President Donald Trump, and Scott said he spoke to Trump…
Image source, Getty ImagesAs Trump trial hurtles towards verdict, are Americans paying attention?Article informationAuthor, John SudworthRole, Senior North America correspondent, in New York26 May 2024, 06:01 BSTIt had all the promise of an only-in-America blockbuster trial, brimming with salacious detail and a former president in the dock.In fact, it’s hard to imagine a bigger courtroom drama, tailor-made for the media, than one that stars Donald Trump, once the world’s most powerful figure and someone vying to be so again, forced to sit through allegations of an awkward sexual encounter with a porn actress.A political and legal thriller in which a…
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign will begin accepting donations in cryptocurrency, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s campaign saysBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated PressMay 21, 2024, 5:57 PM ET• 3 min readWASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump ‘s presidential campaign said Tuesday it would begin accepting donations in cryptocurrency as part of an effort to build what it calls a “crypto army” leading up to Election Day.The Trump campaign launched a fundraising page that allows “any federally permissible donor the ability to give” to its political committees using any crypto asset accepted through the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange.The announcement promotes Trump’s message that…
16 Republican senators sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Daniel Werfel demanding that the agency investigate nonprofits financially supporting the National Students for Justice in Palestine organization.The letter, dated May 9, asked the agency to investigate whether nonprofits are supporting terrorism by giving money to National Students for Justice in Palestine, according to The Times of Israel.“We should not need to remind you of the heinous support NSJP chapters across the country have voiced for Hamas, a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization,” the Republican senators wrote in the letter. “That support has exploded at NSJP chapter-led demonstrations in recent…