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Evening StandardLabour loses by-election to Reform as support for Nigel Farage's party continues to surge
Labour continues to struggle in local by-elections, losing to Reform UK in St Helens, Liverpool
- BuzzFeed
Here's How People Are Reacting To Donald Trump Saying Lowering Grocery Prices Will Be "Very Hard"
"Look, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard." —Donald Trump
- HuffPost
Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices
The president-elect walked back what was always a wildly unrealistic campaign promise.
- People
Barron Trump Is a 'Ladies Man' at New York University, Source Says: 'Even Liberal People Like Him' (Exclusive)
"He’s really popular with the ladies," a source says of Donald Trump's youngest son, who is studying at NYU's Stern School of Business in Manhattan
- The Hill
Opinion - 4 ways Trump is already winning in 2025
While all the heat and light are on Trump’s immigration policy, Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth, Trump has made four smart below-the-radar moves that could yield significant political and policy dividends in the future.
- The Guardian
‘What a circus’: eligible US voters on why they didn’t vote in the 2024 presidential election
Nearly 90 million Americans didn’t vote – which is more than the number of people who voted for Trump or Harris
- The Hill
Ossoff says Greene in Senate would be ‘disaster for the country’
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) warned on Wednesday that a successful Senate run by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) would be “a disaster” for the nation. Ossoff is set to defend his seat in the 2026 midterms, six years after he pulled off an upset win against former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) in an intense race that helped…
- The Conversation
Is Reform really pulling ahead of Labour? Polling expert on what to really make of Farage’s supposed lead
Looking at how votes were distributed in 2024 offers a more reassuring picture.
- ABC News
Trump's lawyers, seeking to dismiss hush money case, slam DA for 'thuggish tactics'
The only path forward in Donald Trump's criminal hush money case in New York is vacating his conviction and dismissing the case prior to Trump taking office, lawyers for the president-elect argued in a court filing unsealed Friday. Trump's lawyers, responding to a filing by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unsealed Tuesday, rejected each of Bragg's proposals to preserve the president-elect's conviction while respecting the office of the presidency, accusing Bragg of "thuggish tactics" by proposing the judge in the case delay Trump's sentencing until 2029.
- The Independent
Nevada ‘fake electors’ hit with fresh charges months after case was dismissed
Donald Trump lost Nevada in 2020 to President Joe Biden by more than 30,000 votes
- The Hill
Future of Democratic Party rest in hands of one of these candidates
While the average American may not know who the chair of the Democratic National Committee is, the role has a direct impact on their lives.
- HuffPost
Trump's Team Cites Fetterman's Truth Social Post As Reason To Dump Hush Money Case
Fetterman is the first Democratic senator to join Trump's Truth Social platform.
- Associated Press
Trump is named Time's Person of the Year and rings the New York Stock Exchange's opening bell
President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange after being recognized for the second time by Time magazine as its person of the year. The honors for the businessman-turned-politician are a measure of Trump's remarkable comeback from an ostracized former president who refused to accept his election loss four years ago to a president-elect who won the White House decisively in November. Before Trump rang the opening bell at 9:30 a.m., a first for the native New Yorker, he spoke at the exchange and called it “a tremendous honor.”
- AFP
Vindicated by Yoon's martial law, S. Korea's conspiracy theorists vow backing
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's dark claims of communist infiltration when declaring martial law last week may have seemed to many like a throwback to the Cold War.They have long spread unsubstantiated claims that South Korea's voting system has been infiltrated and compromised by these communist forces -- claims alluded to by Yoon during his declaration of martial law.
- HuffPost
Top Pollsters Agree Democrats Should Cater Less To The Far Left, Work With Republicans
Two of the country's most prominent GOP and Democratic pollsters say Democrats must find a way to coexist at least until the midterm elections.
- Associated Press
Mitt Romney's Senate exit may create a vacuum of vocal, conservative Trump critics
With Mitt Romney set to exit the U.S. Senate, Washington will be without one of its strongest conservative critics of Donald Trump when the president retakes the White House in the new year. At a final news conference Friday in Salt Lake City, the retiring senator reflected on his two-decade political career, which included the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, a term as Massachusetts governor and several skirmishes with Trump loyalists in Congress. In what could be his final jab at Trump, Romney reiterated his concerns about the incoming president's character and “relaxed relationship with the truth.”
- AFP
Georgia crisis deepens as govt set to install far-right president
Georgia's political crisis deepened Friday, as new pro-Europe protests gripped Tbilisi ahead of the controversial nomination of a far-right government loyalist as president.On Friday, demonstrations rocked the capital, Tbilisi, for the 16th consecutive day, as thousands of pro-EU protesters filled the streets, marching in a dozen different locations before gathering in the evening outside parliament.
- Associated Press
Nevada attorney general revives 2020 fake electors case
A slate of six Nevada Republicans have again been charged with submitting a bogus certificate to Congress that declared Donald Trump the winner of the presidential battleground's 2020 election. Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Thursday that the state's fake electors case had been revived in Carson City, the capital, where he filed a new complaint this week charging the defendants with “uttering a forged instrument,” a felony. The original indictment was dismissed earlier this year after a state judge ruled that Clark County, the state’s most populous county and home to Las Vegas, was the wrong venue for the case.
- The Telegraph
Trump chooses former TV anchor Kari Lake as head of Voice of America
Donald Trump has chosen Kari Lake as director of Voice of America, installing a staunch loyalist who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor and a Senate seat to head the congressionally funded broadcaster that provides independent news reporting around the world.
- Associated Press
Current, future North Carolina governor's challenge of power-shifting law could be first of many
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Gov.-elect Josh Stein on Thursday challenged the constitutionality of a portion of a law enacted just a day earlier by the Republican-dominated General Assembly that erodes Stein's powers and those of other top Democrats elected to statewide office last month. Stein, the outgoing attorney general, and Cooper, another Democrat leaving office shortly after eight years on the job, focused their lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court on a provision that would prevent Stein from picking his own commander of the State Highway Patrol.