Roy Moore, who was accused of sexual misconduct with teens decades ago, will run for the U.S. Senate again in Alabama. He will try to take on Democratic Sen. Doug Jones against the wishes of national Republicans and even President Donald Trump. Moore argues Alabama voters are “tired” of “dirty politics” after the 2017 special […] Read more
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is cutting ties with some of its own pollsters after leaked internal polling showed the president trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in critical 2020 battleground states. The move comes after NBC News obtained new details from a March internal poll that found Trump trailing Biden in 11 key states. […] Read more
President Trump tells Fox News that if Iran were to block the Strait of Hormuz, “it’s not going to be closed for long.” Trump was responding to a hypothetical question following the attacks Thursday on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, south of the strait, for which the United States has blamed Iran. […] Read more
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refuses to say at what point she would support impeaching President Donald Trump. “Everybody in the country should be totally appalled by what the president said,” Pelosi says. “But he has a habit of making appalling statements,” she added. Even if Trump was found to have accepted a foreign government’s […] Read more
Top Democratic presidential candidates are calling for a $15 per hour federal minimum wage. A lot has changed since the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, when slight differences emerged between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders on the minimum wage. Democrats see the policy as one way to win over working-class voters as they try to […] Read more
The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity is opening its doors to backing Democrats running for office in 2019 and 2020. Historically the political network has only backed Republicans. The move to open its doors to Democrats comes after recent disagreements with lawmakers and Trump on how they’ve handled the immigration status of Dreamers. The two sides […] Read more
President Trump calls for a boycott of AT&T to force “big changes” at subsidiary CNN. “I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to @ATT, they would be forced to make big changes at @CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway. It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News!” Trump tweets from […] Read more
Italy’s nationalist Lega party is set to win the majority of the country’s seats at the European Parliament, while its coalition partner in Rome has seen a slump in support. Initial results — with over half the ballots counted — suggested that Lega would take around 34% of the vote against just 17% for the […] Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared victory in India’s elections Thursday, as official results showed his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party on track to win a strong parliamentary majority. According to the Election Commission of India website, the BJP had won 109 seats and was leading the vote count in another 194 constituencies, which would give it […] Read more
Indian billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala says he is very bullish about the country’s medium-to-long-term growth prospects. Jhunjhunwala, who is commonly referred to as India’s Warren Buffett, says the economic situation has begun to improve following five years of a banking crisis, subpar capital expenditure and the introduction of important reforms. The investor says he sees […] Read more
