3 d. ago Why is Trump considering raising taxes on millionaires? | Alex Bronzini

Tax-cutting once unified the Republicans. Now, that sacred cow might get killed“I actually love the concept,” Donald Trump recently told Time magazine of a proposal circulating within his cabinet to raise taxes upon those earning over $1m. “I don’t want it to be used against me politically, because I’ve seen people lose elections for less, especially with the fake news.”Few presidential administrations have killed sacred cows at a faster rate than that of Donald Trump. But this really is shocking: a sitting Republican president praising a proposal to raise taxes upon the wealthy, adding only the slight caveat that it would be adversely spun by those in “the fake news”. A tax increase, Trump apparently believes, would be tenable as policy but not as politics.Alex Bronzini-Vender is a writer living in New York Continue reading...

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4 d. ago F1 driver's dad considering run for FIA presidency opposing Mohammed ben Sulayem

Mohammed ben Sulayem is currently unopposed in the FIA presidential election due to take place later this year, but it seems he could be challenged by a motorsport legend

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5 d. ago Drug dealing 'cancer' has reached every corner of France with no 'safe places' left and even 'the slightest rural village has cocaine and cannabis, justice minister admits

Darmanin voiced support for security measures to ensure a 'safe society' - a risky curtailing of personal liberties as he looks towards the 2027 presidential election .

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1 week ago Kamala Harris says ‘courage is contagious’ in major speech excoriating Trump

Democratic presidential candidate speaks in San Francisco in first significant appearance since election defeatKamala Harris delivered a searing indictment of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, warning in her first major address since leaving office that the nation was experiencing a “wholesale abandonment of America’s highest ideals”.Speaking to a crowd of Democrats in San Francisco, the former vice-president struck a defiant posture as she praised the leaders and institutions pushing back against the president and his agenda – from the members of Congress acting boldly to the judges “who uphold the rule of law in the face of those who would jail them”, the universities defying the administration’s “unconstitutional demands”, and the everyday Americans rallying to protect social security. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Ugandan opposition accuses president of using military courts to quash dissent

Politicians say Yoweri Museveni is prosecuting opponents on politically motivated charges before 2026 electionUgandan opposition politicians have accused the president, Yoweri Museveni, of attempting to quash dissent by prosecuting opponents on politically motivated charges in military courts in the run-up to presidential and legislative elections next year.The government is pushing to introduce a law to allow military tribunals to try civilians despite a supreme court ban on the practice. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'We're just getting started': Donald Trump goes on attack in speech at rally to mark 100 days in office

US president repeatedly mocks predecessor Joe Biden and repeats lie he won 2020 presidential election

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2 w. ago Trump targets Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue with memorandum

President directs attorney general to investigate supposed foreign contributions, an unsubstantiated rightwing claimThe Republican president is taking aim at a Democratic fundraising platform, issuing a presidential memorandum to crack down on supposed foreign contributions to elections, an unsubstantiated claim from the right..Donald Trump announced the memo on Thursday, directing the attorney general to investigate, and report to the president, “concerning allegations regarding the use of online fundraising platforms to make ‘straw’ or ‘dummy’ contributions and to make foreign contributions to US political candidates and committees, all of which break the law”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump kickstarts 2028 election campaign as official hat launches on store

Donald Trump appears to have launched his presidential election campaign for an unconstitutional third term by releasing a red hat embroidered with the words "Trump 2028"

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2 w. ago Tidjane Thiam suffers major blow to presidential ambitions in Ivory Coast

Court in Abidjan rules former Credit Suisse CEO should be struck off electoral register, his lawyer says

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3 w. ago Former Credit Suisse CEO nominated to run in Ivory Coast presidential election

Tidjane Thiam, a former banker, has won a near-unanimous vote to represent the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast in the forthcoming presidential election

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4 w. ago Trump hits Special Relationship: Brits see themselves as having more in common with the FRENCH than Americans

Some 34 per cent of Brits view the US as more of a threat than an ally - up from just 16 per cent at the time of the presidential election last November.

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last month Coup leader favourite in presidential race as Gabon goes to the polls

Self-styled anti-corruption crusader Brice Nguema helped overthrow Bongo family dynasty in August 2023An estimated 1 million Gabonese citizens head to the polls on Saturday to vote in the country’s first presidential election since an August 2023 coup ended the 55-year Bongo family dynasty. For Brice Nguema, the junta leader turned civilian head of state, it could be a chance to cement his democratic credentials.Last November, 860,000 registered voters approved a referendum for a new constitution with two seven-year presidential terms and an amnesty for participants in the removal of Ali Bongo, who had succeeded his father in 2009. Officials are yet to release data on the updated voters’ register but previously said they expected an additional 300,000 new registrations, including from those who have recently come of age. Continue reading...

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last month Bobi Wine to run for president in Uganda’s 2026 election ‘if I am still alive and not in jail’

Exclusive: Opposition leader says he has ‘no choice’ but to challenge Yoweri Museveni’s regime, despite threats and previous attacksThe musician turned opposition leader Bobi Wine has said he will stand again against Uganda’s authoritarian leader, Yoweri Museveni, in next year’s presidential elections. Despite being jailed, attacked, shot, and facing threats of violence, including from Museveni’s son, Wine said he felt he had little choice but to try to advance the hope for change that was energising Ugandans, especially the young.“We cannot just give the election to General Museveni,” he said, in an interview with the Guardian. Continue reading...

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