Canada: Prime Minister holds major cabinet shakeup
In seeking a fourth term, Justin Trudeau has overhauled his team ahead of Canada's next election.
2023-07-27 03:21
McCarthy again marches to Trump's tune by invoking Biden impeachment inquiry
The House Republican majority is hitting its stride as a fully weaponized arm of Donald Trump's bid for a second White House term as it seeks to drag President Joe Biden into a swamp of so far unsubstantiated corruption allegations.
2023-07-26 12:27
Bannon co-defendant Shea sentenced to 5-1/4 years over 'We Build the Wall' fraud
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK The sole person convicted at trial of defrauding donors to an online campaign
2023-07-26 05:49
Adobe's Figma deal faces full-scale EU antitrust probe, sources say
By Foo Yun Chee Adobe's $20 billion bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma will face a full-scale EU
2023-07-25 03:57
How Trump maneuvered his GOP rivals into a tortured position on his legal battles
Even if former President Donald Trump is indicted for a third time, his dominance of the Republican White House race is unlikely to be shaken because of his years of shattering its voters' trust in institutions that challenge his power.
2023-07-24 12:30
Pelosi says McCarthy is 'playing politics' with impeachment expungement
Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was "playing politics" with the idea of expunging former President Donald Trump's two impeachments.
2023-07-24 00:24
Democrats roast Republican presidential candidates with glass bottles on stairs trend
The recent trend of rolling bottles downstairs to see how long it will take one to break has been given a US political makeover, with even the Democrat party latching onto it on social media. The party’s Twitter account posted a version of the video comparing different bottles to Republican rivals. Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump got an orange one – a jar, in fact – which rolled loudly and defiantly down the stairs until it eventually smashed spectacularly. Democrats will hope for a similar result in real life. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Ron DeSantis got a small bottle of brown liquid, which quickly met a sticky end, while Mike Pence had a relatively sedate bottle, which fizzled out in a rather unspectacular fashion. Other candidates, somewhat realistically, smashed on the first step down. It comes after it emerged Trump, who is widely considered president Joe Biden’s greatest threat in the 2024 election, will face criminal trial next year for retaining national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago property and obstructing the justice department’s efforts to retrieve them. The May 2024 trial date set by the US district court judge Aileen Cannon took a middle ground between prosecutors’ request for a trial this year and Trump’s suggestion to delay proceedings until after next year’s election. Trump was charged last month with retaining national defence information, including US nuclear secrets and plans for US retaliation in the event of an attack. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-07-24 00:21
Pence says he's 'not yet convinced' Trump's actions on January 6 were criminal
Former Vice President Mike Pence said he's "not yet convinced" that Donald Trump's actions on January 6, 2021, were criminal, as the former president faces a potential indictment over his actions that day.
2023-07-23 23:50
Pence says Trump conduct around 2021 Capitol attack was reckless but not criminal
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON Former U.S. vice president and Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence said on Sunday he
2023-07-23 21:53
Why Tim Scott may be one to watch in the GOP presidential race
Can the nice guy finish first?
2023-07-23 20:25
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp contacted by Justice Department special counsel in 2020 election probe
Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's team has contacted Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, whom former President Donald Trump pressured to overturn the 2020 election, a Kemp official told CNN.
2023-07-23 00:24
What the money says about which Republicans can challenge Trump
For any Republican presidential candidate not named Donald Trump, making the first primary debate on August 23 in Milwaukee is an essential obstacle to overcome. It provides the first, and for many candidates maybe the only, opportunity to get their voices heard on the national stage.
2023-07-22 20:22