BRUSSELS — Some European leaders might be quietly dreading a possible Donald Trump comeback, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban can’t wait. “We will open several bottles of champagne if Trump is back,” Orban declared to reporters this week during a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Since Hungary took up the rotating presidency of the European Council ...
The Supreme Court appeared closely divided Wednesday over whether to order a new trial for Oklahoma death-row inmate Richard Glossip, whose case has attracted support from across the political spectrum after independent investigations revealed prosecutorial misconduct. Glossip’s long-running appeal is highly unusual, in that Oklahoma’s top law enforcement official agrees with Glossip’s defense attorneys that he did not receive a ...
The White House has been controlled by a Republican for only four of the past 15 years. The current Democratic president has been part of the executive branch for the entire rest of the time, having served eight years as the vice president of the prior Democratic president. In each election over the period, including the one that brought the ...
Tropical Storm Helene formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 24, its projected path already showing it making landfall at the eastern end of the Florida panhandle. By the next day, it had gained enough energy to become a hurricane. That same day, Sept. 25, the House of Representatives voted on a budget bill that would fund the government ...
Congress may be headed for an Election Day double flip. With less than four weeks to go, Republicans appear poised to win the Senate, which is currently controlled by the Democrats. The Democrats, meanwhile, seem to have a slight edge in the race for the Republican-controlled House. If the polls and predictions prove right — and that is still a ...
Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) on Tuesday called $500 million the Biden administration provided as a grant to convert a Michigan plant to one that produces electric vehicles “table scraps.” The senator from Ohio went on to suggest that the half-billion in funding pales in comparison to job losses the auto industry would suffer if Vice President Kamala ...
Any number of October surprises could affect the 2024 election, but right now, none loom larger than the fall hurricanes. Hurricane Helene is already the deadliest mainland hurricane since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, ripping through the swing states Georgia and North Carolina after tearing up parts of Florida. And now Hurricane Milton — currently a Category 5 storm — is ...
In 2013, Donald Trump was just New York Businessman Donald Trump, his presidential ambitions apparently obliterated by President Barack Obama’s scornful dismantling at the 2011 White House Correspondent’s Association dinner. Trump had been flirting with running in 2012, settling instead for a demure endorsement of the eventual nominee, Mitt Romney. So instead of focusing heavily on politics, Trump was focused ...
Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that she could not think of a difference with President Joe Biden over the past four years, quickly attracting criticism from Republicans who have been working to make her answer for the unpopular president she replaced as the Democratic presidential nominee. Harris made the comment during an interview on “The View” when asked if ...
Among the placards dotting lawns in northern Westchester County, N.Y., in the weeks before the November election are ones that do far more than simply remind passersby about the names of local candidates. Over the past few weeks, scores of white signs have appeared that instead prominently feature a pithy slogan: “Save Girls Sports.” Only below that, in much smaller ...