WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department moves to dismiss 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump after his presidential victory.
"Look, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard." —Donald Trump
Imagine the scene, at noon, on January 20, on the west front of the US Capitol.
"You know that's coming," the "Late Show" host joked.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat talked about the "personalist rule" and its worrying effects.
Social media users slammed the role as "shameful."
Commenters also damningly recalled a brutal previous recipient of the title.
Even those who wish to focus solely on a possible conflict with China should recognize that Beijing has allies who almost certainly would come to its aid.
President-elect Trump’s attorneys condemned Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) suggested alternatives to dismissing Trump’s hush money criminal conviction, going as far to call one of them “unhinged” and “absurd” Friday. It remains unclear if New York Judge Juan Merchan will consider the new filing, as he previously wrote he would only accept one written…
“Donald Trump lied about an election being stolen and ... you’re the one who went down and resurrected him,” Sarah Longwell told the former House speaker.
Time magazine contested Donald Trump’s claims about undocumented immigrants, a link between vaccines and autism, and gender-transition regret in a sprawling fact-check published alongside its Person of the Year interview. The president-elect was awarded the magazine’s Person of the Year title—which has gone to influential figures as disparate as Taylor Swift and Joseph Stalin—for the second time, having also won it in 2016. Trump proudly attended the award ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange
Cleaning staff were removed broken furniture, glass windows, and trash from ransacking by looters following the demise of the al Assad regime. Officials said the operations to clean up the airport aimed to encourage international airlines to resume their flights to Damascus.
Fears are growing that terrorist groups may get hold of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile
If Republicans want to drive the government into a shutdown or default — or refuse to fund disaster aid — let them.
Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al Assad.
The president-elect also praised his wife's role in the 2024 campaign during an interview with Time magazine.
The Energy Minister has given a brutal assessment of Peter Dutton’s plan to take Australia’s power grid nuclear.
The 35 or so bodies were found in a military hospital in the Syrian capital of Damascus, days after the regime fell. They are believed to be among the last victims of Assad.
Australia welcomed another massive cohort of migrants in the 2023-24 financial year, prompting a question that the country must address.
Military veteran who choked NYC subway rider was acquitted of homicide and has been invited to join Trump for Army-Navy football game
MOSCOW/BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin backs Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's efforts to achieve a Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine and a major exchange of prisoners of war, the Kremlin said on Thursday, even though Kyiv has scoffed at the idea. Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has left tens of thousands of dead, displaced millions and triggered the biggest crisis in relations between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Orban made the proposals in a call to Putin on Wednesday, the Kremlin and Hungary said, without giving more details.
