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  • Lara Trump Ditches RNC as Bigger Political Future Beckons

    Lara Trump, the wife of Donald Trump’s third child, Eric, announced her resignation as co-chair of the Republican National Committee Sunday night—prompting a new round of speculation over her political future. The 42-year-old posted on X Sunday night that “serving as the @GOP co-chair throughout the course of the most consequential election in American history has truly been the honor of my life.” The news was initially reported by the Associated Press, which noted the former television producer

  • German far-right leader is Chinese-speaking economist with foreign partner

    BERLIN (Reuters) -Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a male-dominated, anti-immigration party that depicts itself as a defender of traditional family values and ordinary people. The 45-year-old is raising two sons with a Sri Lankan-born woman, a filmmaker, and speaks fluent Mandarin, having done a doctorate in economics in China. A west German leading a party that is strongest in the former communist East, she worked for Goldman Sachs and Allianz Global Investors and as a freelance business consultant before entering politics.

  • Team Trump discord over Kemi Badenoch’s meeting with J. D. Vance

    Newly elected Tory leader Kemi Badenoch hopes to have found a new political ally in vice president elect J. D. Vance after the two met - but not everyone in Team Trump is happy

  • Why China's TikTok is under fire as Romania cancels presidential run-off

    A geopolitical firestorm is erupting within the European Union and Nato ranks, and Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok is caught in the middle. On Friday, Romania's constitutional court dramatically annulled the results of its first round presidential election held last month, after intelligence services warned of "aggressive hybrid action" by Russia to influence the vote. A run-off had been scheduled for Sunday, in which Calin Georgescu, a far-right candidate with pro-Russian and anti-Na

  • Election Day has long passed. In some states, legislatures are working to undermine the results

    While the election was over a month ago, voters in some parts of the country are discovering that having their say at the ballot box is not necessarily the final word. Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are moving to undercut the authority of the incoming Democratic governor, Republicans in Missouri are taking initial steps to reverse voter-approved abortion protections, and Democrats in Massachusetts are watering down an attempt by voters to hold the Legislature more accountable. “I think certainly when you’re a voter and you’re voting on the issue, you’re not thinking about whether someone’s then going to overturn or just ignore the things that you voted on,” said Anne Whitesell, an assistant professor of political science at Miami University in Ohio.

  • A bright spot for Democrats as voters shifted right: Flipping 3 House seats in California

    Democrats flipped Republican-held congressional seats in Orange County, the Central Valley and northern L.A. County, helping lead the party in narrowing the GOP House majority.

  • Trump says Liz Cheney and other Jan 6 committee members should be jailed as he reveals day one plans

    President-elect says current and former House members who investigated the Capitol riot ‘should go to jail’

  • 5 takeaways from Trump’s ‘Meet the Press’ interview

    President-elect Trump’s first sit-down interview since winning a second White House term aired Sunday, giving the public a view into his mindset as he prepares to return to office. Trump spoke with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker, and the two discussed Trump’s plans for his first day in office, some of his controversial Cabinet…

  • Murphy draws attention with calls for Democratic shift in strategy

    Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is on the rise as a Democratic Party voice calling for a new direction as the party seeks to regroup following stinging election losses. Murphy has been among the most prominent figures arguing for a new strategy to expand the party’s tent and for leaders to embrace economic populism to reconnect…

  • Ghana's ex-president Mahama returns with election win

    Ghana's former president John Drahami Mahama won a historic comeback election victory on Sunday after the ruling party accepted defeat with voters appearing to punish them for the government's handling of an economic crisis. That frustration opened the way for a comeback from Mahama, who came to the presidency in 2012 when he was serving as vice president and then President John Atta Mills died in office.

  • Arab Americans become prominent voices in US politics – via Trump

    Arab Americans are now finding themselves incorporated into US politics like never before and – ironically given his nationalism – getting a boost from Trump

  • Kamala Harris' campaign has $1.8 million left in the bank after spending over $1 billion to defeat Donald Trump

    From October 17 through November 25, which included a key stretch of the race, Vice President Harris raised $160 million and spent over $270 million.

  • Trump taps his attorney Alina Habba to serve as counselor to the president

    President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing one of his defense attorneys in the New York hush money case as counselor to the president. Alina Habba, 40, defended Trump earlier this year, also serving as his legal spokesperson. Habba has been spending time with the president-elect since the election at his Florida club Mar-a-Lago.

  • Romanian police raid houses linked to vote irregularities probe, prosecutors say

    Police searched three houses in the city of Brasov on Saturday as part of an investigation into alleged irregularities in the first round of Romania's presidential elections. Romania's top court cancelled the result of the vote on Friday after intelligence indicated it had been distorted by a massive Russian influence campaign. Romanian police raided houses on Saturday linked to a probe into alleged irregularities in the first-round presidential election win of far-right outsider Calin Georgescu

  • Lara Trump: My Last Name Is Not the Reason Why I’d Get Senate Job

    Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump has insisted it’s her resume that qualifies her for the Florida Senate seat that will be vacated by Secretary of State pick Marco Rubio – not her last name. In an interview with Howard Kurtz on Fox News, the Republican National Committee co-chair said she would be honored to take a seat in the US Capitol’s Senate chamber. “Certainly, we’ve all had the opportunity over the past nine years to fully involve ourselves in politics, to understand the American

  • Lara Trump steps down as RNC co-chair and addresses speculation about Florida Senate seat

    Lara Trump will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee as she considers a number of potential options with her father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, set to return to the White House. Among those possibilities is replacing Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Trump tapped to be the next secretary of state. If Rubio is confirmed, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will choose who takes the seat through the remainder of Rubio’s term, which expires in 2026.

  • This Latino Republican flipped a deep-blue California Assembly district. How?

    This Latino Republican flipped a heavily Democratic state Assembly district. How?

  • Donald Trump promises to pardon January 6 rioters on ‘day one’

    President-elect says he will ‘act quickly’, claiming convicted Capitol rioters had been put through a ‘very nasty system’

  • Romania carries out searches in election financing probe after vote annulled

    BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romanian prosecutors searched several properties on Saturday in an investigation into potential illegal financing in the country's presidential election, a day after the top court annulled the ballot following accusations of Russian meddling. The court ruled on Friday that the election should be held again, plunging Romania, a member of the European Union and NATO, into institutional chaos and raising concern that public trust in the state could be eroded. Prosecutors have not named the candidate whose campaign is being investigated, but documents declassified by the national security council this week focused on the campaign of Calin Georgescu - a far-right, pro-Russian critic of NATO.

  • Romania’s top court annuls presidential election result

    Romania’s constitutional court has annulled the country’s 2024 presidential election process in a historic decision, meaning the first round which saw far-right ultranationalist candidate Calin Georgescu emerge as a narrow leader will now not count.