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Illinois Republicans appeared upbeat and optimistic as the GOP’s national convention got underway Monday, calling for unity and showing little sign of the internal party struggles that have been brewing for years.

Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.

The aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on Trump on July 13 was a rare moment in which voices across the spectrum pleaded: Political violence has no place in the United States.

Despite Donald Trump's promise of "Uniting our Nation," top Republicans kicked off the 2024 Republican National Convention Monday with attacks on LGBTQ Americans, at times invoking religion, to raucous applause and approval from the GOP delegates.

Billionaire Elon Musk's relationship with Donald Trump — former president, convicted felon and presumptive Republican presidential nominee — is more akin to that of a Russian oligarch's with a dictator than an American businessman's with a political candidate, a former White House staffer said Tuesday.

The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 has faced an upsurge in scrutiny for its blueprint to transform the entire federal government into a right-wing army to do Donald Trump's bidding, including ending the independence of the Justice Department and allowing any nonpartisan worker who won't back the agenda to be fired at will. But less attention has been focused on the project's detailed plans on race relations.

Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History were there, too. They’re self-described “scavengers” of the physical objects that make up political campaign history, from candidate buttons to signs, banners and anything else that can enter the Smithsonian’s campaign collection ... Читать дальше...

Robert F. Kennedy III, the son of independent presidential candidate and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., posted a video on X which he claimed was hot mic footage of his dad taking a speakerphone call with former President Donald Trump, who privately agreed with much of his anti-vaccine paranoia.

Moments before "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarbrough took his bosses to task for pulling his show on the Monday following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life, the MSNBC host criticized his colleague Lester Holt over his interview with President Joe Biden.

On Monday night, as the Republican National Convention kicked into high gear, NBC released the sitdown interview between Holt and Biden and, on Tuesday morning, Scarborough shared a clip and expressed his displeasure at what transpired. Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court’s decision that grants presidents immunity from criminal prosecution for their “official acts” has been met by alarm by many legal scholars. Constitutional lawyer Michael Waldman referred to the decision as an “instruction manual for lawbreaking presidents,” while law professor Michael Dorf noted that the ruling would seemingly allow a president to openly sell pardons for bribes.

Apart from the Sun, its planets and their moons, our Solar System has vast amounts of space rocks – fragments left over from the formation of the inner planets.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was loudly boo'd during his appearance at the 2024 Republican National Convention Monday.

Tara Setmayer, a senior advisor for anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, and a former Republican congressional staffer, on Monday, called out CNN's Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace over comments the hosts made regarding Donald Trump's appearance during the Republican National Convention's opening night.

Having been taken off the air on Monday by the NBC brass, the entire panel on "Morning Joe" spent the first 35 minutes of Monday's broadcast discussing the assassination attempt on Donald Trump three days ago.

An incredulous Joe Scarborough repeatedly ranted at about the Secret Service not sufficiently protecting the former president who quit stopping to exhort the crowd, while showing a clip of the event and counting off the nine seconds he was exposed as agents hustled him to a waiting car.

Leading U.S. unions warned voters on Monday not to be fooled by the pro-worker facade constructed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio who has opposed congressional efforts to strengthen organizing rights, allowed corporate lobbyists to influence his legislating, and raked in donations from the elites he claims to despise.

A little over an hour into Tuesday's episode of "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough took time to address a decision by NBC higher-ups to boot his show on Monday — the first day they would have been on the air after the attempt on Donald Trump's life.

Republican delegates adopted Monday a platform that softens the party's position on abortion and gay marriage, on the first day of their national convention.

Climate campaigners reacted to former U.S. President Donald Trump's selection of Sen. JD Vance as his running mate Monday by highlighting the Ohio Republican's climate denial and strong support for the fossil fuel industry—one of his top campaign contributors.

For the second time in as many weeks, members of a neo-Nazi hate group massed in downtown Nashville, accosting passerby in Nashville’s tourist-heavy Lower Broadway entertainment district.

LINCOLN — Nebraskans might need a new source for online smut, as Pornhub and its affiliates went dark Monday, a decision the website’s parent company promised after passage of a new state law.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden have both stressed "unity" in the wake of the stunning assassination attempt on the Republican presidential contender, but any shift to a more civil political discourse is likely to be short-lived.

President Joe Biden called for a de-escalation in political rhetoric but kept up criticism of former President Donald Trump on Monday, in Biden’s first interview since a Saturday assassination attempt on Trump.

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The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump has put a new spotlight on the U.S. Secret Service and its director, Kimberly Cheatle, with prominent conservatives also raising questions about the fitness of women serving in the agency tasked with protecting current, former and would-be presidents.

Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, announced late Saturday that he... Читать дальше...

MILWAUKEE — About a mile north of where Republicans will nominate Donald Trump for president, in a neighborhood where most residents are Black, a storefront with big windows and brightly colored signs stood as a curiosity to people waiting at a bus stop just outside along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

A 2021 door-knocking campaign launched by right-wing election deniers in an attempt to prove widespread fraud in Colorado’s voting systems is at the center of a federal civil rights lawsuit that began in Denver on Monday.