Month: January 2024

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley called out former President Trump for not participating in debates ahead of the Iowa caucuses, seeking to pressure the GOP front-runner to appear at an event hosted by CNN this month. Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor, argued in a social media post Tuesday that it…
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GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy repeated his pledge to withdraw from the ballot in states that remove former President Trump, and reemphasized his call for other Republican candidates to do the same.In an interview on “NewsNation Prime” on Monday, Ramaswamy told host Natasha Zouves his goal was to “nullify” Maine and Colorado — the two…
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Former President Trump, in a new interview, signaled he plans to focus at least some of his time and energy in 2024 trying to flip traditional Democratic strongholds like New York, New Jersey and Minnesota in the general election. “One of the other things I’m going to do — and I may be foolish in…
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley qualified for CNN’s GOP primary debate in Iowa next week, while former President Trump is set to counter-program the event with a Fox News-hosted town hall.  The network reported Tuesday that DeSantis, Haley and Trump had all qualified for CNN’s first GOP debate, which is…
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Qadir Ak is the founder of Coinpedia. He has over a decade of experience writing about technology and has been covering the blockchain and cryptocurrency space since 2010. He has also interviewed a few prominent experts within the cryptocurrency space.Michael Cohen accidentally used incorrect AI-generated court citations (from Google Bard) in a legal filing.This incident…
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Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the 12:30 Report newsletter Subscribe <!– {beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Tuesday — Happy New Year 🍾 Or as X user @christaylor_nyc aptly put it: “Happy Circling Back Day to all who celebrate.” Though…
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As the 2024 presidential election approaches, the Democratic Party faces a consequential decision: Should President Biden run for reelection? With polls causing constant consternation about the president’s candidacy, as a Democratic strategist and commentator, I’ve gotten asked the same question by pro-democracy friends and family at every holiday party this year: “Shouldn’t Biden step aside…
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Nice nice, baby!#VanillaIce was trending on Monday, Jan. 1, New Year’s Day, thanks to his New Year’s Eve performance at Mar-a-Lago, the private club of former president Donald Trump.Trump rang in the new year, watching passively as rapper Vanilla Ice performed on stage, according to videos on Twitter. Joining the ‘90s rapper? A Teenage Mutant…
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Trump Federal Election CaseAdvertisementSupported bySidebarThe former president says his acquittal by the Senate in his second impeachment trial, for inciting insurrection, bars any prosecution on similar grounds.By Adam LiptakReporting from WashingtonThere is almost nothing in the words of the Constitution that even begins to support former President Donald J. Trump’s boldest defense against charges that…
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Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s ex-attorney, lost his appeal Tuesday to revive the claim that Trump retaliated against Cohen, using his presidential powers to jail him from promoting his book. Cohen, who was often referred to as Trump’s “fixer,” pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations, tax evasion and lying to Congress. While incarcerated, he began…
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During a televised performance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, Green Day changed the lyrics in one of their most popular songs to criticize former President Donald Trump.Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong altered “American Idiot” lyrics from “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the…
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Trump’s ballot eligibility challenged in several states  CNNsource

SEARCHShe’s surging in the polls, and Trump’s operation is officially going negative against “High Tax Haley.”Politics ReporterSenior Political ReporterA nickname change is usually a sign of trouble in Donald Trump’s world.As Nikki Haley rises in the polls, some of the former president’s allies have shifted from calling his former ambassador to the United Nations “birdbrain”…
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2023 was a turbulent year for the world — politically, economically and culturally — and 2024 figures to be even more so. With roughly 49 percent of the world in 64 different countries set to hold national elections in 2024, the most in history, the new year features to be just as unpredictable.   In the U.S., it…
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A man was arrested early Tuesday after he broke into the Colorado Supreme Court overnight, opened fire and caused “significant and extensive” damage, local authorities said. The man was involved in a crash around 1:15 a.m. before he shot out a window and forced his way into the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center, which…
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Ever since the two least-admired figures in American politics decided to make yet another run for the White House — President Joe Biden’s fourth and former President Donald Trump’s third — the American electorate has expressed a hunger for a different choice in 2024. Though each has his loyal following, 70 percent of the voters do not want a Biden-Trump rematch. That means that if…
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Former White House ethics lawyer Jim Schultz, who served under the Trump administration, predicted Monday that former President Trump will “swiftly” lose his claim for immunity as he faces multiple federal indictments. The Supreme Court decided Dec. 22 not to take up whether Trump can be prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election;…
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Steve Bannon, ex-aide to former President Trump, said Monday that he anticipated a big fight over whether GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley should be the former president’s pick for vice president in the general election. But, Bannon advised strongly against Trump, who remains the GOP front-runner in the race, choosing the former South Carolina governor…
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The former Trump attorney pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations in 2018.Former President Donald Trump's onetime fixer Michael Cohen sent his attorney non-existent legal cases produced by the artificial intelligence program Google Bard as he sought to beef up his petition for early termination of his supervised release, according to a letter to the court…
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About one-third of U.S. adults say they believe President Biden was not legitimately elected president of the United States in 2020, according a poll released this week. The Washington Post/University of Maryland (Post-UMD) survey examines evolving views of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — as the third anniversary of the insurrection is…
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A majority of Americans say the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot was an “attack on democracy that should never be forgotten,” according to a new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll. In the poll, 55 percent of respondents said the Capitol riot was an “attack on democracy that should never be forgotten.” Forty-three percent said that…
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Fewer Republicans say former President Trump bears responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — nearly three years after the insurrection, according to a new survey. The Washington Post/University of Maryland (Post-UMD) poll, published Tuesday, follows up on a similar poll conducted two years prior, in December 2021. When asked about various…
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The New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago featured a performance by rapper Vanilla Ice, launching the early-1990s sensation as 2024’s first musical act to trend on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, entertained the crowd at former President Trump’s resort alongside another 1990s pop culture staple,…
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Filed under:From Trump to Tesla, how 2024 will shake out, according to the Future Perfect team. Finding the best ways to do good. It was either the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr or Hall of Fame New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra (or, quite possibly, neither of them) who coined the phrase: “Predictions are hard…
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This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.It was meant, as ever, as a softball question for his pal, but former President Donald Trump couldn’t just take the gimme from Sean Hannity. The Fox News host wanted to bat down…
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