Iowa’s severe cold weather – in pictures
A passing weather system brought snowfall and temperatures dropped to about -20C as voters prepared for the Republican party of Iowa’s presidential caucuses on 15 January. Candidates who would normally…
Iowa caucuses 2024 live: Donald Trump keeps huge lead as voters prepare to select Republican candidate amid extreme cold
Opinion polls show Donald Trump leads Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley in first state to vote on nominee Donald Trump looks set to win Iowa’s first-in-nation vote in the Republican…
Biden warns voters a second Trump presidency will threaten democracy
Faced with stagnant approval ratings, president ups ante in what may become a central theme of his re-election campaign Joe Biden dramatically raised the ante in the forthcoming US presidential…
Trump gets done for fraud as GOP candidates vie for attention – podcast
Wednesday was debate night for almost all the Republican candidates for the White House, but once again, the man who chose not to turn up was stealing the headlines for…
Trump legal team claims trial dates ‘by design’ clash with election campaign
Alina Habba said trials’ schedules would cause them to overlap and clash with voting, preventing the ex-president from campaigning Donald Trump’s legal spokesperson has predicted that forthcoming early trial dates…
Vivek Ramaswamy condemned for 9/11 and Jan 6 conspiracy theory remarks
Republican presidential contender hints at government involvement in deadly September 11 attacks The biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, a contender for the Republican presidential nomination, was condemned for conspiracy-tinged remarks about…
Chris Christie courts Republican voters in Trump and DeSantis territory
The presidential candidate took his pitch to Florida, which overwhelmingly backed Trump in 2020 and DeSantis last year It’s a little after 6.30am on a steamy Friday in South Miami.…
Can’t decide which books to ban? Leave it to ChatGPT! | Arwa Mahdawi
Ordered to remove unsuitable books from their libraries, school administrators in Iowa outsourced the job to AI. So long, The Color Purple, Beloved, The Handmaid’s Tale … What do you…
Scott Hall becomes first defendant in Trump Georgia election case to turn himself in – live
Bail bondsman in Atlanta was charged with crimes related to alleged involvement in Coffee County voting systems breach Scott Hall, a Georgia bail bondsman who was charged in connection with…
Trump’s coup continues. It will soon enter its fourth phase | Robert Reich
Trump has been engaged in a several-years-long attempt to undermine the institutions of the US government and it shows no sign of abating Trump’s attempted coup against the US continues.…