69 h. ago Did Nigel Farage just lose $100m? Elon Musk says he'll do a 'lot less' political spending despite previously hinting at mega

The world's richest man told a business event in Qatar he had 'done enough' after bankrolling Donald Trump's successful US presidential campaign last year.

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3 d. ago Joe Biden wanted to testify at Hunter’s trial – despite packed election schedule, book claims

Former president wanted to testify on behalf of his son despite being a sitting president in the middle of a presidential campaign, a new book says

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3 d. ago Exact moment of Kamala Harris' blistering split with Joe Biden revealed in bombshell new book

Former Vice President Kamala Harris was furious after former President Joe Biden put on a hat endorsing President Donald Trump for president during her presidential campaign.

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4 d. ago Poland’s presidential candidates seek to broaden appeal on campaign trail after nail

Pro-European centrist Rafał Trzaskowski and historian Karol Nawrocki, backed by the populist right, each secured about 30% of the voteSo, here are the official results in Poland after all votes were counted, with the top two candidates in bold going through to the run-off on 1 June.Rafał Trzaskowski 31.36% Karol Nawrocki 29.54% Continue reading...

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9 d. ago What Trump’s ‘palace in the sky’ gift from Qatar reveals | Moira Donegan

This kind of behavior from the Trump administration has gone on for so long that it is hard to rouse the media to cover itIt certainly looks as if policy is for sale in the Trump administration. After all, the president’s primary domestic policy deputy, Elon Musk, gained his position in the administration more or less by purchasing it: he is the richest man in the world, and the primary funder of Trump’s last presidential campaign, and it is seemingly by this virtue – does he have any others? – that Musk has been granted the authority to dismantle large swaths of the federal bureaucracy.This is something of a pattern for Donald Trump. In his first term, it became de rigueur for foreign dignitaries to stay at Trump’s hotel on trips to Washington, a practice long perceived to be a way of currying favor with the president by spending money at his businesses. Trump funneled money to his hotel business from domestic sources, too: when Secret Service agents were required to stay at Trump’...

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1 week ago Biden destroyed Harris bid by staying in race too long, top adviser says in book

David Plouffe says Biden ‘totally fucked us’ and calls Harris’s 107-day sprint against Trump a ‘fucking nightmare’Joe Biden “totally fucked us” by leaving it too late to drop out of the 2024 US presidential election, a former top campaign aide to Kamala Harris has told the authors of a new book.David Plouffe, who was manager of Barack Obama’s winning 2008 campaign and a senior adviser in his White House, was drafted in to help Harris’s bid for president after the declining Biden withdrew from the race last summer. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump 'will run for a third term' as US President – 'he will win'

Steve Bannon was chief executive of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and later his White House Chief Strategist, and said the 45th president will find a way to run for a third term

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3 w. ago Trump campaign chief claims he visited Australia to advise Liberals at start of election campaign

Exclusive: Chris LaCivita, Trump’s presidential campaign co-manager, tells undercover reporters he advised on ‘structural issues’ related to Peter Dutton; the Coalition denies LaCivita was involved in campaign in any waySee all our Australia 2025 election coverageOne of the architects of Donald Trump’s 2024 victory claims he made an unpublicised visit to Australia to advise the Liberal party about “structural issues” related to Peter Dutton ahead of the federal election.The veteran Republican strategist Chris LaCivita told undercover reporters posing as prospective clients for political consulting work he was working as a private consultant on the visit to Australia, not in an official capacity or as an adviser to the US president. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago France says Russian hackers behind attack on Macron’s 2017 presidential campaign

Foreign ministry says Russian military intelligence has attacked a dozen French entities since 2021 including a TV stationFrance has accused Russian military intelligence of carrying out a massive cyber-attack on Emmanuel Macron’s first presidential campaign in 2017 as well as several other recent major hacks, including on a TV station and an organisation involved in the Paris Olympics.The French foreign ministry said for the first time on Tuesday that it was Russian hackers who had targeted Macron’s campaign team in 2017, adding that other Russian targets had included French media and an organisation involved in the 2024 Olympics. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Trump campaigned on ending Ukraine war on Day 1. Now he said it was in ‘jest’

President Donald Trump repeatedly boasted throughout his presidential campaign and after his White House victory that he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine in ‘24 hours’

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4 w. ago Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade said Putin is ‘embarrassing’ Trump with latest Ukraine bombing

Trump repeatedly boasted during presidential campaign and after his White House victory that he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine in one day

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4 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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