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British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, who was acquitted of an $11 billion fraud in a US court in June, was among six people missing after their chartered superyacht was hit by a freak storm Monday and sank off the coast of Sicily, near Palermo. Lynch’s wife was among the 15 people rescued after the yacht sank.

Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, Donald Trump's onetime chief of staff, has condemned the former president's comments claiming the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom as "much better" than the Medal of Honor reserved for service members, according to a new report.

Former President Donald Trump's attempt to explain a controversial campaign trail comment was disparaged by politicos who argued his backtrack was just a double-down.

Donald Trump is reportedly obsessed with the ratings that Kamala Harris' acceptance speech will receive later this week at the Democratic National Convention.

The Georgia Election Board faced huge resistance during its Monday morning meeting from legal experts, county election officials, and from some local citizens.

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform in all caps on the morning of the first day for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, to rage about crime, and vow to make the country safe if elected back into office.

Top House Republicans kicked off the week of the Democratic National Convention by releasing a 291-page report that includes disputed claims alleging President Joe Biden committed impeachable offenses. President Biden will deliver a speech at the DNC in Chicago Monday evening. Republicans, who have spent well over a year and a half on their investigations have never been able to garner enough votes to impeach the President despite holding the majority. The report does not specifically recommend... Читать дальше...

A high-ranking Georgia Republican delivered a blow to the Trump-backed state election board in his state, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Greg Bluestein reported Monday.

Former President Donald Trump repeated his oft-heard rant against Vice President Kamala Harris' "socialist" policies Monday morning — but he added a further exaggerated claim.

House Republicans released a long-awaited report hours before the Democratic National Convention is set to begin accusing president Joe Biden of impeachable conduct, but conservatives were disappointed.

The GOP has found itself in disarray and allowed Democrats to outorganize them due to their "Trump addiction," insiders told Politico's Jonathan Martin.

A former aide of former president Donald Trump is calling on Taylor Swift to speak out against her former boss after he shared the pop icon's faked endorsement with the words "I accept."

Back in 1988, Gallup polling had Democrat Michael Dukakis up by 17 points over Republican George H. W. Bush in July of that year.

A supermoon may sound exciting, but it’s a modest coincidence.

As the Moon orbits Earth, its distance from us varies from 357,000 to 407,000 kilometers. When the Moon and the Sun are in almost opposite directions from Earth, we get a full moon. A “supermoon” is a full moon where its position along its orbit is within 10% of its closest approach to Earth. That’s it.

This means a supermoon has an apparent diameter that’s 14% larger than the smallest possible full moon. That’s not a lot. Читать дальше...

Artificial intelligence (AI) prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic “model collapse”.

Vice President Kamala Harris' outreach to influencers from the social media platform TikTok spurred a surprising response from a Fox & Friends panelist Monday morning.

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Donald Trump keeps shrinking and no longer presents himself as the "scary guy" he projected in his first campaign, according to MSNBC's Chris Matthews.

When Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi was asked by New York Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein "why House Democrats have held together more easily than House Republicans," the former California lawmaker replied: "It’s very hard to find leverage with people who don’t have really any beliefs or any agenda. It’s hard to negotiate with somebody who wants nothing."

The opening day of the Democratic National Convention on Monday will feature its first-ever panel on Palestinian rights, a result of persistent grassroots organizing against U.S. support for Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip—a war that a majority of Democratic voters believe is genocidal.

CHICAGO — Dakota Adams is not your typical Democratic delegate.

First, there’s the superficial: His long, blond hair hangs loose about his shoulder. The 27-year-old wears eye liner, and a metal dumbbell through the bridge of his nose between his eyebrows, and black nail polish. He wears a denim vest over a black T-shirt and nearly matching black parachute pants. His tennis shoes are spattered with white house paint.

More notably is what lies deeper: Adams’ father, Stewart Rhodes, founded the Oath Keepers... Читать дальше...

When a reporter asked 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris if she still considered herself the "underdog" despite polls showing her with small single-digit leads over Republican Donald Trump, the vice president responded, without hesitation, that yes, she does. Harris cautioned that it's still a close race.

The presidential race gets the hype, but the nearly 6,000 state legislative races across the country in November’s elections could reshape power dynamics in some states.

The Democratic Party is set to gavel in its national convention Monday in Chicago, and the Peach State will have a big presence.

Andrew Pearson teaches history at a high school in Cincinnati. He’s lived in the area since he was five, but he was born in England. “I mean, my family’s been in Britain for as long as British people have been able to write things down,” he jokes.