Donald Trump has received huge praise after Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban claimed the only way to end the Ukraine war is for the US to re-elect the former president. Orban – known as Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in the European Union – made the starling claims during a sprawling interview with former Fox News…
A federal judge on Wednesday denied ex-White House adviser Peter Navarro’s bid to escape contempt charges by claiming former President Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege over his potential testimony to a congressional panel investigating the events leading up to and including the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The ruling paves the way…
Safety Politics Trump trial: How to safeguard justice, juries, and speech? | View caption Hide caption When the names of the grand jurors who indicted Donald Trump were made public, it sharpened an urgent question. At a time of heightened threats against the judiciary, how should the United States balance transparency and safety? “Everyone on…
The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: “The Federal Reserve keeps taking, but nonetheless, this economy keeps on giving,” said Mitchell Hartman in NPR’s Marketplace. “The standard metaphor” for when the central bank has to raise interest rates to slow an overheating economy is that it takes away…
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), a former White House physician to Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, threatened and cursed at a Texas state trooper after an altercation at an Amarillo-area rodeo on July 29, according to body-camera and dashcam footage released Monday. Jackson had been trying to assist a teenage girl experiencing seizures, and police…
America just saw its credit rating drop. The Associated Press reported that Fitch Ratings downgraded the U.S. debt rating from AAA to AA. That was “a move that spurred debate in Washington about spending and tax policies.” Fitch said the government’s rising debt burden and the country’s increasingly ugly political fights — including factors like…
Likely Republican Iowa caucusgoers are divided over whether former President Donald Trump should remain the party’s leader, according to the latest release from the new NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of the first GOP presidential primary contest. Forty-one percent of likely caucusgoers say Trump should continue as the Republican Party’s leader, in line with the…
Fitch Ratings, one of the three major independent credit rating agencies, downgraded the long-term U.S.credit rating from AAA, the highest tier, to AA+ on Tuesday evening. This is only the second credit downgrade in U.S. history, following a cut by S&P Global Ratings in 2011 amid a fight between House Republicans and President Barack Obama…
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu warned fellow Republicans on Monday that their party is doomed to lose “up and down the ballot” in 2024 if second-tier candidates don’t start clearing the field for someone else to take on former President Donald Trump. Sununu, who runs the state with the first primary and the second contest…
A former Justice Department official who served in the Trump administration and is one of 19 defendants in the Georgia 2020 election probe is seeking to pause an ethics case against him, citing the charges he faces in the Fulton County indictment. In a 13-page filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., lawyers for Jeffrey Clark…