Mike Pence says he's heard from people across the country about a 2028 presidential bid and warns the GOP must return to conservative principles.
Stephen A. Smith says President Trump was "immovable" in refusing to accept blame for GOP midterm losses during their wide-ranging White House interview.
Members of the caravans said they hoped the defeat of the Republicans in the midterms would result in less strict US border restrictions.
Directive comes a week after Vance blamed the Iran war for Republicans’ midterm defeat
Mississippi has elected the Democrat Scott Colom in a historic race in the traditionally deep-red state, making him its first Black senator since shortly after the US civil war. The closely contested race was called more than a week after the US midterms, with Colom running against the Republican incumbent, Cindy Hyde-Smith. How did Colom’s grassroots campaign win despite limited early backing from national Democrats? Lucy Hough speaks to politics and democracy reporter George Chidi Continue...
Colom adds to blue wave of Democrat victories across the US and becomes Mississippi’s first black senator since 1875 after defeating Cindy Hyde-Smith Sign up for the Breaking News US email Continuing his Truth Social ranting, Donald Trump said he has asked the vice-president, JD Vance, to turn his “complete and total attention” to alleged corruption in Democratic-run cities and states, while also declaring that the US no longer needs a deal with Iran. In the latest post this morning, Trump si...
Prominent Democratic political figures and Mississippi's GOP Gov. Tate Reeves congratulated Scott Colom for winning the state's U.S. Senate race.
Voters remembered Trump’s many promises to avoid the same kind of regime-change wars started by his predecessors For much of his political career, Donald Trump ranted at past US presidents who got the US entangled in endless foreign conflicts. He used it as a cudgel to belittle his predecessors, calling George W Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003 “the worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country”. Trump also regularly derided the occupation of Afghanistan as “a total disas...
President claims US ‘did not start war with Iran’ in Veterans Day speech where he also backed defense secretary again day after failed impeachment vote Democrats lambast absent peers over failed Hegseth impeachment House Republicans block effort to impeach Hegseth Sign up for the US Breaking News email Some Democrats, out of the 11 who missed the key procedural vote on Tuesday to impeach Pete Hegseth, blamed a traffic jam in Washington DC for their inability to make it to the US Capitol in ti...
Eleven Democrats missed the key procedural vote on the impeachment effort, which failed by just seven votes US politics live – latest updates Democratic lawmakers expressed outrage at nearly a dozen of their colleagues for missing a vote Tuesday evening to impeach the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth , allowing Republicans to squash the effort. Eleven Democrats missed the key procedural vote on the impeachment effort , which failed by just seven votes. Some blamed traffic and conflicting event...
Trump has already made history as the only president to be impeached twice. After the Republicans’ thrashing in the midterms, could there be a third attempt? The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer and some Republicans are getting nervous. After a long stretch of impunity, it’s impeachment season in the US. While the attempt to impeach the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, failed yesterday , Donald Trump may be worried he’s next. In January, the president warned Republicans...
Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei said Wednesday that Tehran would attack US bases located in Europe if they were used to carry out bombing raids against the Islamic republic. The heavy defeat of US President Donald Trump's Republican Party in the midterm elections earlier this month seems to have pushed Washington to pull back its threats to carry out fresh strikes against Iran.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives banded together on Tuesday to derail aneffort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Fraser Jackson, our correspondant in Washington DC, has more.
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth seems set to survive the impeachment bid launched by maverick Republican lawmaker Thomas Massie, with President Donald Trump praising the outcome of the vote.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives blocked an effort to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Iran war, handing President Donald Trump a victory days after his party's crushing midterm election defeat.
The mid-term elections in the USA were a big story throughout the week. The Democrats made historic gains, although they still lack an obvious and credible leader or candidate to succeed Donald Trump in 2028. One of the things that struck me was how poor the quality of our politicians can be at times. But things seem much worse in the USA. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The amount of money spent on election campaigning is obscene. The Republicans losing control of Congress is a real body bl...
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