Actor brings force of Hollywood to trumpet Biden’s legislative record in briefing that both delighted and bemused journalists “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” But enough about Washington. The Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who once saw off gangsters at a fictional spaceport, came to the US capital on […]
South Dakota governor says she met North Korean dictator in same book in which she describes killing her dog The South Dakota governor, Republican vice-presidential hopeful and self-confessed dog-killer Kristi Noem’s bizarre claim in a new book to have met the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has been dismissed by experts as “dubious” and not […]
Trump White House 2.0 would mean a vast, legally dubious roundup of up to 11 million people and pit state against state Donald Trump is planning to unleash the biggest mass deportation of undocumented migrants in US history should he win re-election in November, involving legally questionable deployments of military and police units and the […]
Some say the public bragging of the formerly obscure governor of South Dakota ends her chances. But with Trump, who can say? There is a familiar moment in Republican electoral politics when an obscure politician thrust into the limelight during election season comes under intense public scrutiny and is found to be not quite as […]
‘Dog lover’ South Dakota governor said 14-month-old hound was ‘extremely dangerous’ but failed to mention slowly killing a goat Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota whose chance of being Donald Trump’s presidential running mate was widely deemed over after she published a description of shooting dead a dog and a goat, claimed reports of […]
Former Indiana congressman John Hostettler wants his old seat back, but past remarks have prompted attacks from pro-Israel groups Pro-Israel groups are wading into a Republican congressional primary, marking a departure from their recent focus on attacking progressive candidates and offering the latest test of the pro-Israel lobby’s strength as the war in Gaza weighs […]
Chief justice declined to face Senate judiciary committee after reports of Clarence Thomas’s ties with Republican megadonor Democrats and progressives reacted angrily after John Roberts, the chief justice of the supreme court, declined an invitation to testify before the Senate judiciary committee about corruption allegations against members of his court. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut senator, […]
The worst-kept secret in Washington is out – but at 80, and with low approval ratings, the president faces challenges in his re-election bid Legend has it that when the artist Benjamin West told King George III that George Washington, the first US president, had decided to resign, the king replied: “If he does that, […]
