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The “no” vote in Kansas on Tuesday suggests voters are more aligned with the Democrats on abortion rights. Kyle Rivas / Getty Images On Tuesday, we got our first test of how potent an issue abortion might be for Democrats this fall. In a state that overwhelmingly voted for then-President…

Greg Norman, CEO of the LIV professional golf tour, said in a Fox News interview that aired Monday night that he has no explanation for criticisms leveled against the tour—the same tour that is widely viewed as “sportswashing” Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses and links to 9/11. Speaking from former…

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers said Sunday that he will never again support Donald Trump for president, a turnabout from his previous stance that he would back the Republican in another matchup against President Biden. “I’ll never vote for him, but I won’t have to. Because I think America’s tired…

BRICS nations have revealed they’re “creating an international reserve currency” analysts believe is meant to challenge the U.S. dollar and the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR) currency. Further, Donald Trump warns of a depression in the U.S., Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki says we’re in for…

It’s become almost routine for political parties and campaigns to declare that the next scheduled election is “the most important election of our lifetime.” But 2022 might be the year that this well-worn phrase is the truest it has ever been.  America has had difficult and problematic presidencies — even…

Facing possible jail time after being charged with the obstruction of a congressional investigation, veteran Republican operative Roger Stone was assured by MAGA-loving Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that former President Donald Trump would offer him a pardon. The new revelation comes from a hot microphone moment recorded by Danish filmmakers…

In a forthcoming memoir, Jared Kushner says he personally intervened to stop Donald Trump attacking Rupert Murdoch in response to the media mogul’s criticism, at the outset of Trump’s move into politics in 2015. In the book, Breaking History, Kushner writes: “Trump called me. He’d clearly had enough. ‘This guy’s…

PHOENIX (AP) — An interviewer asked Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters to pick a “subversive thinker” whom people should know more about. Masters gave it some thought and came up with a risky response for someone running for elected office. He picked the Unabomber. “I’ll probably get in trouble…

Ahead of a planned visit to Texas to address the largest conservative conference in the U.S., Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orbán insisted that his country must maintain racial purity. “This is why we have always fought: We are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to…