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Japan's new PM dissolves the lower house of parliament to set up a snap election
Japan's new PM dissolves the lower house of parliament to set up a snap election
In a town that sits between two nations, Arnoldo Montiel knows exactly where he stands on immigration. Driving towards the border wall that straddles the Arizona town, he says he believes the issue is why Kamala Harris lost the election. Like her husband, she supports Trump's approach to immigration, which the president-elect says will involve mass deportations.
The "Daily Show" correspondent delivers a "diagnosis" for the nation.
Singer went full Madonna in her takedown of US president
North Korean troops deployed to Russia’s Kursk region have fought Kyiv’s forces on the battlefield, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday, adding that the clashes resulted in fatalities.
Melania was missing from a family photo on Wednesday that even Elon Musk was a part of
Barack Obama has been blamed for the Democrats’ election loss after “pushing” Joe Biden out of the white house.
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named his under-the-radar campaign manager, Susie Wiles, to be his White House chief of staff. The move is the first major staffing decision Trump has made since winning Tuesday’s election. “Susie is tough, smart, innovative and is universally admired and respected,” Trump wrote in a statement. “I have no doubt that she will make our country proud.”
Internet access in Russia is not unrestricted, but is far more open than in the closed off North Korea
Now that former President Trump has been reelected for a second, nonconsecutive term, many may have wondered if he can run again in 2028.
China only second country after US to have two stealth fighter jets in service
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the independent who has represented Vermont since 2007 and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, offered a frank diagnosis of the Democrats’ electoral failure on Tuesday. “A Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class abandoned them,” Sanders said in a statement. “First, it was the white working class, now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American pe
Protesters and political prisoners are being drugged, tortured and beaten in state-run institutions, say rights groups
"The message is, if you want a deal, you’re going to crawl on your knees for it."
The writer successfully sued the former president for sexually abusing and defaming her.
Kamala Harris previously warned that the president-elect ‘has an enemies list of people he intends to prosecute’
WASHINGTON/DOHA (Reuters) -The U.S. has told Qatar that the presence of Hamas in Doha is no longer acceptable in the weeks since the Palestinian militant group rejected the latest proposal to achieve a ceasefire and a hostage deal, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday. The tiny Gulf state Qatar, alongside the U.S. and Egypt, has played a major role in rounds of so-far fruitless talks to broker a ceasefire to the year-long war in Gaza. The latest round of talks in mid-October failed to produce a deal, with Hamas rejecting a short-term ceasefire proposal.
Bets were hedged, upsides conjured, and insurance policies crafted. But ultimately, most hoped it would not happen.
NEW YORK — Control of the House of Representatives was still up for grabs Wednesday, although Republicans expressed confidence they would overcome modest Democratic gains in New York to hold onto the congressional chamber. After Republicans swept the White House and flipped the Senate, House Speaker Mike Johnson predicted the GOP would expand its narrow eight-seat majority. “As more results ...
Ronny Chieng called the president-elect's possible cabinet picks "not as bad" as he expected before finding out how it "could be worse."
Trump won the election on a platform of steep import taxes, including tariffs as high as 60% on China.