This week, North Carolina governor Pat McCrory signed a bill into law to force the state’s nearly 40,000 transgender people to use restrooms according to the gender on their birth certificates, sparking a widespread outcry.
A prominent pro-Islamic State media outlet has released a video celebrating the deadly attacks in Brussels, and it features comments by US presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The fraught relationship between Russia and Poland is playing out in an unexpected way: in a conflict over a board game. Russian authorities have decided that a popular Polish game that has been dubbed “Communist Monopoly” disseminates anti-Soviet content, and thus should not be sold in Russia’s stores.
Utah is throwing a wrench into Donald Trump’s plans to clinch the presidential nomination.
Apparently trying to one-up Donald Trump in aggressive rhetoric after attacks in Brussels today, March 22, that left at least 31 dead, Ted Cruz issued a statement calling for the US to “patrol and secure its Muslim neighborhoods.”
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Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren doesn’t mince words. She has yet to endorse a Democratic candidate for president, but it will come as no surprise that she is not voting for Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. She took to social media today (March 21) to eviscerate the real estate tycoon, detailing his failures and warning about the threat he poses.
Donald Trump isn’t known for delivering meticulously prepared, detailed speeches during his campaign rallies, but for off-the-cuff remarks peppered with slogans. This will make his Monday, March 21 scripted address at the annual policy conference for The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) unusual.
Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, a prominent voice on the Democratic party’s left wing, has yet to endorse either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton for the party’s presidential nomination. Pressed on the question on CBS on Thursday (March 17), she said both candidates are putting up a good fight and talking about the issues that affect the American people.
Just a few months ago, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were singing each others’ praises, with the Russian president calling the Republican frontrunner “talented” and Trump insisting he would “get along with him very well.”
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has some new advisors on foreign policy.
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With the Illinois primary just a few days away, the Democratic presidential candidates have descended upon Chicago and its suburbs, with local Democrats rallying their hometown crowds. But there is one conspicuous absence: Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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In a remarkably raw moment, Hillary Clinton said she is “not a natural politician, in case you haven’t noticed, like my husband or president Obama” during a heated Democratic debate held tonight (March 9) in Miami. “I have a view I have to do the best I can, get the results I can, make a difference in people’s lives.”
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In 1922, Adolf Hitler was a rising power in German politics, just having become the leader of the newly founded Nazi party. In its first mention of the future dictator, The New York Times downplayed Hitler’s anti-Semitism, writing that it was merely a tool of propaganda, employed to gain more followers.
Lech Walesa, the 72-year-old former Polish president and leader of the “Solidarity” movement that brought down Communist rule in Poland in 1989, has found himself at the center of mass political protests once again.
Chris Christie was back to his old bullying self today (Mar. 3), following a widely ridiculed appearance behind Donald Trump on Super Tuesday, where he gave his best impression of a captive with Stockholm Syndrome.
Donald Trump, the winner of at least five Republican primaries on Super Tuesday, gave a triumphant press conference at his lavish Mar A Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida on Tuesday night (Mar. 1).
Paul Singer, a billionaire hedge fund manager and Republican mega-donor from New York, is about to be named as the national finance chairman for Marco Rubio’s campaign, according to the New York Post.
