Donald Trump has singlehandedly turned the reliably burning-red Republican state of Arizona into a contested presidential battleground.
Republican presidential nominee and former Democrat donor Donald Trump is known to flip-flop on issues from time to time. He’s already waffled on his Muslim ban, strategy to defeat ISIL, taxes, minimum wage, abortion and many, many other points. But on the signature issue of his candidacy—stopping illegal immigration—he’s mostly stuck to his guns. Until now.
Oyster happy hours are going to be getting sadder in the coming years—and we probably have climate change to blame. The connection comes from a new study (paywall) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that links the rapid rise in sea temperatures in the North Atlantic with a surge in Vibrio, a genus of bacteria that thrives in shellfish and teems in coastal waters—and can be fatal to humans.
What’s more befitting of the American president—being a chronic workaholic, or taking a couple weeks off to hit the links with Larry David and read The Girl on the Train?
Maybe the reason Donald Trump keeps spewing crazy talk and shuffling his campaign staff is that he never wanted to be president in the first place, proposes ultra-leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore. Or, maybe, he must scuttle his candidacy to launch a media empire.
Donald Trump is the voice of African Americans—even if they don’t think so. The marketing mogul put forth this thesis in a speech on Aug. 16 in Milwaukee, where the police shooting of a black man has sparked days of violent rioting. Addressing inner city African American voters, he argued that he alone can revive their communities by “restoring law and order.”
Donald Trump just announced his team of economic advisors—a crackerjack group of the nation’s “top economists” and ”most successful industry leaders in finance, real estate and technology.”
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons,” said Hillary Clinton, as she accepted the Democratic Party presidential nomination. She meant, of course, her rival Donald Trump, and his penchant for Twitter wars and overall struggle with impulse control.
“I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier,” said Donald Trump on Tuesday, after an Iraq war veteran gave him his Purple Heart medal at a rally in Virginia. “But I tell you it was such an honor.”
It’s a cliché of US elections that candidates appeal to more extreme flanks of their bases to win their parties’ primaries and then hastily sand down the edges of their positions to please the center’s undecided voters. Yet, like so much else in 2016, the received wisdom has been flung out the window.
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Of all the distinguished Democrats roaming the halls of Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center this week, Tick Segerblom is the only one who can boast a strain of commercial marijuana that bears his name. Developed by a Nevada grower, the Segerblom Haze gives a peppy but powerful high that’s heavy on the THC. It seemed fitting given how “potent” Segerblom, a state senator from Las Vegas, has been on pushing for marijuana legalization, says the dispensary that sells it.
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Xenophobic. Racist. Jingoistic. Nativist. Parochial. The 52% of British voters who hit the EU eject button might be all of those things. But they were also backing the right horse.
We’re eating more fish than ever these days. At around 20 kilograms (44 pounds), per capita, global fish consumption is now more than twice what it was in the 1960s, according to the latest world fisheries report (pdf) from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. What’s really remarkable, though, is where that fish is coming from.
What was maybe most intriguing about Donald Trump’s sweeping tirade against Hillary Clinton in his speech yesterday was his accusations of self-absorption and shady business dealings—two charges frequently directed at Trump himself.
Hillary Clinton has long had the problem—real or perceived—that much of what she says seems scripted, the words of a calculating politician, not an ordinary person.
Things aren’t looking up for Donald Trump. A band of his fellow party members have been drumming up support for their effort to scuttle his nomination. It appears to be working; Kendal Unruh, the Colorado delegate spearheading the plan, says she now has 400 delegates on board, reports the Washington Post.
