20 h. ago Joe Biden finally opens up about the REAL reason he dropped out of the 2024 election

Joe Biden admitted he had a hard time bowing out of the 2024 presidential race after his agenda got going as he opened up about his difficult decision in his first broadcast interview since leaving office in January. 

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3 d. ago Biden’s team walked back idea of a public cognitive test in 2024 over optics concerns, new book says

The debate over whether to take the test occurred in February 2024, four months before the infamous first debate between Biden and Trump

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3 d. ago Biden aides discussed a cognitive test but decided against it, book reveals

Debate around Joe Biden’s mental acuity and his age was a critical issue during the run up to the 2024 electionJoe Biden’s top staff debated the possibility of the embattled Democratic president taking a cognitive test last year as he geared up for re-election but eventually decided against the idea, a new book is set to reveal.Debate around Biden’s mental acuity and his age was an acute issue during the run up to the 2024 election, which eventually saw Biden step down from his re-election campaign in favor of his vice-president, Kamala Harris. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Why unlimited green energy is closer than people think – video

Most countries have no fossil fuel reserves, but no country in the world is without renewable energy resources. For a country such as Iceland, the world leader in renewables, this statement is clear to see. The island nation has made good use of its volcanoes and glaciers, which help provide 100% of its electricity and almost all its heat energy. But what about other countries that don't have Iceland's unique geology to rely on. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how the world has managed to reach the impressive milestone of more than 40% of global electricity demand coming from clean power sources, and how other countries such as the UK are making this energy transition happen, despite a distinct lack of volcanoesClean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Veteran card is now accepted as photo ID at polling stations

Voter ID rules were first enforced in England in 2023 and across Britain at the 2024 general election.

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7 d. 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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7 d. ago After 100 days, Trump has destroyed Trumpism | Sidney Blumenthal

The president’s approach: tackle problems that don’t exist via policies that won’t workIn the 2024 election, Donald Trump eked out a narrow victory, by 1.5 percentage points nationally, the lowest popular vote margin in 56 years, since Richard Nixon’s wafer-thin win by 0.7 points in 1968. Trump claimed he had won an enormous historic mandate to impose a counterrevolution. “The American people have given us a mandate, a mandate like few people thought possible,” Trump boasted on 6 March in his address to the Congress.His election rested on two principal issues, immigration and inflation. He demonized immigrants (“poisoning the blood” of the country), raised the bogeyman of transgender people, and racialized the Democratic candidate, Vice-President Kamala Harris, whom he claimed had decided herself she was Black. In the minds of the marginal voters who swung to him, however, immigration and inflation were conflated, factors impinging on their standard of living and economic security. ...

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1 week ago Billionaire Republican megadonor claims Trump is ‘eroding’ America’s brand with trade war

Ken Griffin donated more than $100m to the GOP during the 2024 election cycle

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2 w. ago Welsh Tory to quit at next Senedd poll to fight general election betting charges

Russell George, who is among 15 people under investigation, says he wants to focus on clearing his nameA Welsh politician who is among 15 people charged after bets were placed on the timing of the 2024 general election is to quit at the next Senedd election. Russell George, the Conservative member for Montgomeryshire, said he was withdrawing his candidacy to stand in next year’s election to focus on clearing his name. The Senedd member was one of a number of people linked to the Conservative party reported to have made bets on the election date, which was called by then-prime minister Rishi Sunak. Senedd Conservative leader Darren Millar withdrew the whip from George last week after the Gambling Commission announced the charges, meaning he now sits as an independent within the Welsh parliament.George, 50, said in a statement on Tuesday: “I was shocked and surprised to have been informed by the Gambling Commission that I am facing charges for cheating. “To be clear, I have never chea...

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2 w. ago Even after tariff chaos, only 2% of Trump voters say they would change their 2024 vote

Most voters told survey they’re stil confident in their decision to vote for Trump

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2 w. ago George Clooney says it was his ‘civic duty’ to tell Joe Biden to quit the 2024 election

‘I saw people on my side of the street not telling the truth’

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3 w. ago Craig Williams: Former Tory MP among 15 charged over general election betting scandal

An investigation was launched last year after the alleged placing of bets on the timing of the 2024 election

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3 w. ago Former Tory MP among 15 charged over bets on timing of 2024 UK election

Charges follow investigation into alleged cheating related to bets placed on when general election would be heldThe former Conservative MP Craig Williams is among 15 people, including several other senior Tories, charged by the Gambling Commission for alleged cheating connected to bets based on the date of the 2024 UK general election.Williams was the MP for Montgomeryshire and Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary private secretary, but lost the support of the Conservative party after a Guardian story about alleged bets placed on a July election just days before the date was announced. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Former Tory MP Craig Williams and 14 others charged with gambling offences over 2024 General Election

The Gambling Commission on Monday said ex Montgomeryshire MP Craig Williams was among the 15 people who will face court over the scandal

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3 w. ago BREAKING: Former Tory MP and 14 others charged with gambling offences over bets on 2024 election date

Former Tory MP Craig Williams and 14 others have been charged with gambling offences following an investigation into bets placed on the timing of the 2024 General Election

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3 w. ago Gambling Commission charges 15 over bets on timing of 2024 UK general election

Charges follow investigation into alleged cheating related to bets over when last year’s election would be heldThe Gambling Commission has charged 15 people with offences under the Gambling Act 2005 after an investigation into alleged cheating related to bets placed on when last year’s general election would take place.Former Tory MP Craig Williams was among the 15 charged. He was Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary private secretary (PPS), one of the former prime minister’s closest aides. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago DOMINIC LAWSON: The REAL reason President Trump can't hope to match China's leader in the tariff wars and why he's far from being a master strategist

Who said of China's president Xi Jinping, 'He's a brilliant guy. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist'? That was Donald Trump during the 2024 US election.

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3 w. ago New books chart Biden’s downfall – and the picture is damning for Democrats

Books detail president increasingly unfit to take on Trump, and party infighting that doomed Kamala Harris’s chancesJoe Biden plans to write a book about his presidency which ended in his historic withdrawal from the 2024 election, pushed out by senior Democrats convinced he was too old and infirm and replaced by his vice-president, Kamala Harris.Sources close to Biden told news outlets the book could be published next year, by which time Biden will be 83 and doubtless – like other US presidents’ autobiographies – it will be a self-serving narrative lauding his time in office. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Real reason electric vehicles drop miles in certain weather conditions revealed

New tests show the shocking mileage difference in electric cars between winter and summer, with some models being 40% less efficient during winter.

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