Is Pavel Durov a brave crusader for liberty and free-speech, or a compromised individual whose social media platform empowers criminals, paedophiles and even Vladmir Putin? The French authorities certainly think he has questions to answer. Social media bosses are regularly questioned by governments – like the recent grilling of the heads of TikTok, Meta, and X before US Congress. But ...
As his polls have soured in recent weeks, Donald Trump has turned to an old chestnut, warning about the hellscape that awaits America if Vice President Kamala Harris is elected. He has said she would “obliterate” Social Security and Medicare, and “destroy” the country. He’s said she would “end” not just fracking but also fossil fuel use as a whole. ...
Accepting the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris made no explicit mention of the history that would follow her election. Her mentions of women were restricted to descriptions of her work as a prosecutor or to reproductive rights. She mentioned her South Asian heritage only in the context of her mother, who emigrated from India to ...
Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is back in the headlines — not for suspending his campaign last week and endorsing Republican Donald Trump, nor for his recent admission that he was the one who had left a dead bear cub in Central Park as a joke a decade ago. This time, the macabre spotlight is refocused on ...
Special counsel Jack Smith filed his appeal Monday of U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s decision to dismiss Donald Trump’s classified documents indictment, a ruling the judge made after finding that Smith’s appointment exceeded his power as a government officer. Cannon’s decision “conflicts with an otherwise unbroken course of decisions, including by the Supreme Court … and it is at ...
There are a few data points that Donald Trump relies upon to evaluate his political popularity. There’s polling (though he tends to cherry-pick polls to highlight those that show him doing better and to ignore or misrepresent those in which he’s trailing). There’s the size of his crowds (though here, again, he regularly offers up false assertions about how many ...
Lawmakers investigating the assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump visited the site of the shooting in Butler, Pa., Monday and said they were working methodically to produce a definitive, nonpartisan account of an event whose facts remain murky. The nine members of a House of Representatives task force toured the Butler Farm Show grounds and met with local law ...
“Don’t let Kamala Harris fool you. Not only does Harris support taxing service workers’ tips, news reports confirm Biden and Harris have weaponized the IRS to confiscate your tip money. Biden and Harris have literally unleashed the IRS to harass workers who receive tips.” — Voice-over of Trump campaign ad, released Sunday One of Vice President Kamala Harris’s first policy ...
The impact of independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspending his presidential campaign Friday and endorsing Donald Trump remains to be seen. It’s more likely to be a boon to Trump than to Vice President Kamala Harris, given Kennedy was drawing significantly more votes from the right and from would-be Trump supporters. But Kennedy’s share of the vote was at about ...
Former president Donald Trump sought to tie Vice President Kamala Harris to the United States’ deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan on Monday, accusing her and President Joe Biden of overseeing “the most embarrassing day in the history of our country.” Days earlier, Harris had taken a not-so-subtle dig at Trump as commander in chief during her acceptance speech at the Democratic ...