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For four years, nothing rallied Democrats like the push to get Donald Trump out of office. Now, they’re not sure what to do without him. Democrats in Virginia are scrambling to stave off disaster in the state’s governor’s race — the most competitive major election since Trump left the White …

The United States and European Union are expected to announce a deal to resolve a long-running trade dispute over U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs this weekend, easing a major transatlantic trade irritant, five people familiar with the agreement said. Two of the sources said the agreement, details of which were …

US President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to restart by mid-November a program begun under his predecessor Donald Trump that forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US court hearings after a federal court deemed the termination of the program unjustified, US officials said Thursday. The administration, however, …

The US State Department has revealed the number of nuclear weapons in the country’s arsenal for the first time since 2018 when former US President Donald Trump decided to keep the figures secret. In a recent statement, the State Department announced the number of US nuclear weapons, both active and …

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended Turkey’s right to strengthen its defense capabilities, saying the decision to purchase the Russian S-400 missile defense systems was worth the tensions with Washington. Erdogan made the remarks in an interview with the New York Times published on Wednesday, reiterating that Turkey has not …

Former US President Donald Trump used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to slam the “inept administration” of Joe Biden for its “incompetence” over the Afghan withdrawal in a video message on Saturday. “This is a very sad day,” Trump said in the message, adding that September 11 “represents …

The number of hate crimes in the United States rose last year to the highest level in more than a decade, driven by a rise in assaults targeting Black victims and victims of Asian descent, the FBI reported on Monday. The 2020 data, submitted to the FBI by more than …

Seven U.S. Capitol Police officers on Thursday sued former President Donald Trump, alleging that he conspired with far-right extremist groups to provoke the deadly Jan. 6 attack on Congress. The officers in a lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C. federal court allege the attack was the culmination of months of rhetoric …

Democratic lawmakers and immigration advocates pressed President Joe Biden on Wednesday to take new steps to end an immigration policy begun by his predecessor Donald Trump after the top U.S. court ordered that the “remain in Mexico” program be reinstated. The policy put in place by Trump, a Republican, forced …

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley blamed President Biden for the chaos in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of the country, calling it an “embarrassing failure” of the U.S. government. “They’re not negotiating with the Taliban, they’ve completely surrendered to the Taliban. They surrendered Bagram Air Force …

Voting tech firm Smartmatic Corp has accused Fox News of executing a coordinated disinformation campaign, saying that the network perpetrated the narrative that the firm conspired against Donald Trump in last year’s United States presidential election. A Fox News lawyer was grilled by a judge about the network’s extensive coverage …

President Joe Biden will break his silence Monday on the US fiasco in Afghanistan with an address to the nation from the White House, as a lightning Taliban victory sent the Democrat’s domestic political fortunes reeling. Cutting short his planned vacation, Biden helicoptered back to Washington from the Camp David …

Former President Donald Trump “still leads” the GOP, says the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC) despite the committee vowing to remain neutral if Trump runs again in 2024. In an interview on WABC 770 AM in New York, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel touted the former Republican president’s fundraising …

Nine months after the 2020 US election, a new poll shows that two-thirds of Republicans still refuse to believe President Joe Biden got his job “fair and square,” despite media efforts to dismiss any claims of fraud as conspiracy. The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll, released on Wednesday, showed that 66% …

Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday challenged in court last week’s U.S. Justice Department order to turn his tax returns over to a House of Representatives committee, part of his long campaign to keep details of his wealth secret. In a filing in federal court in the District of …

A DC police officer who responded to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building has died by suicide, according to the Metropolitan Police Department, the third officer to do so. MPD spokesperson Kristen Metzger said Monday that Officer Gunther Hashida, an 18-year veteran on the force, was found …

Donald Trump now has a $100 million weapon to wield against US democracy. The defeated and disgraced ex-President’s huge war chest, nearly all amassed within six months of leaving office, was built on his ravenous calls for cash from supporters bought into his delusional lie that the 2020 election was …

The top Republican in the US House of Representatives faced calls to apologize or resign Sunday after joking about hitting Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the head with a gavel. It was the latest round in a nasty spat between the Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy and Pelosi, the chamber’s top …

Former US President Donald Trump says he tried to “uphold the integrity and honesty of elections” when he pointed to voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Trump released a statement on Saturday in response to the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s latest stance towards his role in the Capitol …

An Illinois tax agency has ruled that former President Donald Trump is due a $1 million refund on the 2011 tax bill for his downtown Chicago skyscraper, but local officials are trying to block the refund.