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As Iran faces a rare runoff presidential election, disenchanted voters are staying away
As Iran faces a rare runoff presidential election, disenchanted voters are staying away
"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.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat talked about the "personalist rule" and its worrying effects.
"You know that's coming," the "Late Show" host joked.
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 has been ordered by a federal judge to sit for a deposition next week as part of his defamation litigation against ABC. U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisette M. Reid wrote that the deposition should take place some time the week of Dec. 14 and should be limited to four hours. It also should be …
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.
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and taking out, it claims, 90% of Syria’s known surface-to-air missiles.
Federal officials have said there is no threat to public safety from the flying objects, whose origin and nature remain unclear.
A US serviceman was sentenced to five years in prison for kidnapping and raping an underage girl last year, an official from Naha District Court on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa told CNN Friday.
Insurgents seized Myanmar's border with Bangladesh in one of the bloodiest battles of the civil war.
The Energy Minister has given a brutal assessment of Peter Dutton’s plan to take Australia’s power grid nuclear.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte expressed concern about the idea of conducting peace negotiations in the nearly three-year-long Russia-Ukraine war without Russian President Vladimir Putin “at the table,” calling the move “risky.” “It is crucial that whenever there is a deal that it is a good deal, with all the elements in there,” Rutte said during…
The president-elect also praised his wife's role in the 2024 campaign during an interview with Time magazine.
Australia welcomed another massive cohort of migrants in the 2023-24 financial year, prompting a question that the country must address.
Both sides seemed to overlook that Putin has been bombing Ukraine for almost three years.
Donald Trump and JD Vance to watch 125th Army-Navy college football game with reported guests Pete Hegseth, Ron DeSantis, and Daniel Penny in Maryland at 3 p.m. Eastern time
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.
The Kremlin has praised Donald Trump after he criticised Ukraine's use of US-supplied weapons for attacks deep in Russian territory.
“It's a very small number of people we're talking about,” the president-elect said in an interview with Time.