Article`Trumpap­a­looza' tests Repub­lican bet on unpop­u­lar leader

• U.S. Repub­lic­ans will gather in Dal­las, Texas, this week for a two-day con­ven­tion aimed at per­suad­ing voters that Don­ald Trump is effect­ively on the bal­lot in Novem­ber — even as the deeply unpop­u­lar pres­id­ent threatens to become a...

ArticleRepub­lic­ans put Trump in midterm gamble

WASHINGTON - US Repub­lic­ans opened an extraordin­ary mid-term con­ven­tion in Dal­las on yes­ter­day, bet­ting that put­ting Don­ald Trump at the centre of their cam­paign can res­cue a party facing grim elec­tion fore­casts, des­pite the...

Article16-vote rule takes legal test

At least three to five con­sti­tu­tional experts, likely retired Supreme Court (SC) justices, are poised to be tapped by the Sen­ate impeach­ment court as amici curiae (friends of the court) to help resolve the divis­ive debate over the num­ber of...

ArticleMeet the canary in the coal mine of Trump's tar­iffs

• The last time Maine voted for a Repub­lican pres­id­en­tial can­did­ate was in 1988 for George H. W. Bush, yet in every U.S. Sen­ate race since 1996, the Pine Tree State has elec­ted Repub­lican Sen­ator Susan Collins. Even in 2020, when Demo­crats...

ArticleTRUMP TO GIVE QATAR'S GIFTED PLANE A GO.

• U.S. Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump said he would take the new Air Force One on its first for­eign trip since a secur­ity scare in Tur­key, leav­ing a secur­ity upgrade to the Qatari-gif­ted jet for next month. The plane has been at the centre of...

ArticleIs Harry’s return linked to how he answered ques­tions for U.S. visa about drug usage?

ArticleA polit­ical out­sider takes on Rabb in 3rd Dis­trict

Den­nis Mahoney has spent a dec­ade in dis­aster relief, dis­patch­ing human­it­arian aid in the wake of dev­ast­at­ing hur­ricanes in the United States and Puerto Rico and poverty crises in 18 coun­tries in Asia, Africa, and Latin Amer­ica. Now the...

ArticleYou weren’t there to help me, Bri­tain

DONALD TRUMP yes­ter­day indic­ated he would not back Bri­tain if Argen­tina invaded the Falk­land Islands again. The US Pres­id­ent said the UK ‘isn’t doing well’ and had failed to ‘help’ with his mil­it­ary cam­paign against Iran. The com­ments...