Somali-born Ilhan Omar wins Democratic ticket, expected to retain seat and boost US House liberals
Ilhan Omar’s robust campaign fundraising likely played a significant role in her victory. She collected $6.8 million since the 2022 election, more than double the typical House member’s re-election campaign and well over Samuels’ $1.4 million, according to federal campaign disclosures.
Ethical questions raised about why leading US news outlets spiked leaked insider information from Trump campaign
The three newspapers’ decisions stand in marked contrast to the 2016 presidential campaign, when a Russian hack exposed emails to and from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta. The website Wikileaks published a trove of these embarrassing missives and mainstream news organisations covered them avidly.
Harris seems to ‘walk on eggs’ as she rolls out policy aimed at outmanoeuvring Trump, addressing 2020 liabilities
While Donald Trump in recent weeks has resorted to personal and racially tinged attacks on his new rival, his campaign has been working to put Harris’ policy aims front and centre, aiming to paint Kamala Harris as a radical liberal, pointing to old videos of her discussing policy positions during the 2020 Democratic primary.
White House says US is ready for possible significant attacks in Middle East by Iran and proxies
The Pentagon said on Sunday that Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin had ordered the deployment of a guided missile submarine to the Middle East and for the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to accelerate its deployment to the region.
Risks of wider Middle East war grow as Israel keeps up strikes in Gaza and US orders submarine deployment
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin that Iran was making preparations for a large-scale military attack on Israel, Barack Ravid, a normally well-sourced reporter for Axios News, reported on Twitter.
Irony: US asks Israeli military to investigate itself after video evidence of rape of Palestinians in Sde Teiman prison
While rights groups inside Israel moved aggressively to protect the rights of Palestinians detained in both its military camps, as well as prisons within its official government prison system, the United States showed little urgency around the issue.
With White population now 58 cent down from 80 per cent explains why Trump’s racist card appeals to white voters gripped by demographic hysteria
While the Census Bureau says there are still 195 million white people in America and that they are still the majority, the white population actually declined slightly in 2023, and experts believe that they will become a minority sometime between 2040 and 2050.
Mass Deportation Now: Trump’s plan to expel Africans, Asians and Hispanics from US worries Republicans
But Trump and his advisers have other plans. He is putting immigration at the heart of his campaign to retake the White House and pushing the Republican Party towards a bellicose strategy that hearkens back to the 1950s when former President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched a deportation policy known by a racial slur – “Operation Wetback.”
Trump sharpens attacks on Kamala as only a ‘woman who represents certain groups of people’
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Donald Trump repeatedly insulted Vice President Kamala Harris, attacking her intelligence and insisting he has not “recalibrated” his campaign despite facing a new opponent.
Democrat Kamala Harris widens lead over Trump by 5 points as Republicans scramble to narrow gap
In a separate poll, Ipsos found Harris leading Trump 42 per cent to 40 per cent in the seven states where the election was closest in 2020: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. That result did not break down results for individual states.
