Iceland Elects Diversity Champion Halla Tómasdóttir as President
LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s state television reported that businesswoman and investor Hara Tomasdottir has won the country’s presidential election, beating a tightly contested race in which the top three candidates were women. Tomasdottir was elected to the largely ceremonial role with 34.3 percent of the vote, beating former prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir’s 25.2 percent and […]
Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for presidential election
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s hardline former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered as a candidate for the presidential election on Sunday, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after the country’s president was killed in a helicopter crash. The registration of the populist former leader has piled pressure on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. […]
Minnesota mayor thanks President Biden for canceling his student loans
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter proudly declared Wednesday that his own student loans have officially been forgiven. The Minnesota mayor posted a screenshot of his Mohela account, a site he uses to manage and make student loan payments, and it showed $0.00 in his account. “Thank you Mr President!” he wrote. Carter also used X […]
Mexico To Elect First Woman President
Election workers wait for voters at a polling station during the general elections in Tlacolula de Matamoros, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 2, 2024. Mexicans on Sunday voted for a two-woman majority presidential election, a historic first in a country where crime and gender-based violence are rife. (Photo by Patricia Castellanos/AFP via Getty Images) Avril Elfi from […]
Zelenskiy: Trump risks being ‘loser president’ if he imposes bad deal on Ukraine | Donald Trump
Volodymyr Zelensky said Donald Trump risks becoming a “loser president” if he wins the November election and imposes a bad peace deal on Ukraine, which would mark the end of the United States as a global “player”. Speaking to The Guardian in Kiev, Zelensky said there was “no playbook yet” for what to do if […]
Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban as president
Former President Trump has joined TikTok, the controversial Chinese-owned social media platform that he previously tried to ban while in the White House. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, made his first TikTok post in a launch video posted to the verified account @realDonaldTrump on Saturday night, showing him waving to fans at an Ultimate […]
Lara Trump Posts Heartbreaking Video Of Convicted Former President Hugging Grandkids
Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump posted a heartbreaking video Friday of convicted former President Donald Trump, her father-in-law, hugging his grandchildren. A 12-person jury in a Democrat-dominated borough of Manhattan convicted Trump on all 34 counts Thursday in the falsified business records case brought by Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Lara Trump posted […]
If Trump Wins, It’s Not Democracy, ‘He Has to Destroy Democracy’ to Be President
Speaking on CNN News Central on Friday, Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu said former 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “would have to destroy democracy to become president of the United States.” “Yesterday, a very sacred principle that is necessary to preserve our democracy was upheld, which is very simple in America: that everyone is […]
President Biden vetoes crypto custody bill – TechCrunch
President Joe Biden vetoed HJRes. 109, a proposed congressional resolution that could have overturned the Securities and Exchange Commission’s current approach to banking and cryptocurrencies. Specifically, the resolution targets the SEC’s Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, which provides guidelines for how banks should handle their customers’ crypto assets, effectively requiring them to treat those assets as […]
Trump’s Lawyer Acknowledges Possibility Former President Could Be Jailed
One of Donald Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche, believes that any sentence given to former President Donald Trump following Thursday’s verdict could result in prison, The Associated Press reported Saturday. Branche said he expected the sentence could be “controversial” because of the high-profile and widely publicized case, and that the president’s defense team would likely argue […]