The arrest of the billionaire Telegram founder on French soil was not a political decision, the country’s president has said. Pavel Durov, who created the encrypted messaging app, was detained after his private jet landed at Le Bourget airport on the outskirts of Paris on Saturday. He has been arrested and detained as part of a cyber criminality investigation – ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
More than 200 Republicans who worked for President George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) or the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, warning in a letter that a second Trump presidency “will hurt real, everyday people and weaken our sacred institutions.” The open letter with the endorsement was first published Monday in USA Today, ...