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DeSantis Bets on Iowa Caucuses to Keep Him Afloat in GOP Nomination Race
1Jan By adminNo Comments
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DeSantis Bets on Iowa Caucuses to Keep Him Afloat in GOP Nomination Race

Dec. 31, 2023 11:01 am ETELKADER, Iowa—With the Iowa caucuses fast approaching, Ron DeSantis is betting heavily on a strong performance in the state to preserve his viability in the Republican nomination race as he faces a drumbeat of questions about his campaign strategy. DeSantis is polling neck and neck with former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley in Iowa in their quest for second place behind the front-runner, former President Donald Trump, but DeSantis lags behind Haley in New Hampshire and South Carolina, where voters will make their picks in late January and February, respectively. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Congo’s President Has Been Re-Elected. His Climate Policy Will Have Global Significance.
31Dec By adminNo Comments
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Congo’s President Has Been Re-Elected. His Climate Policy Will Have Global Significance.

Dec. 31, 2023 11:51 am ETCongolese President Felix Tshisekedi on Sunday was declared the winner of this month’s national election, handing him a pivotal role in global efforts to combat climate change thanks to his country’s vast forests and rich mineral reserves. The Democratic Republic of Congo’s electoral commission said the 60-year-old Tshisekedi won a second five-year term with 73% of the vote in the Dec. 20 presidential election, well outpacing his challengers. But the election was fraught with delays: Many polling stations didn’t get voting materials on time, which led the commission to extend the vote by an extra day. The vote also came amid a hunger crisis and the worst fighting in years in Congo’s war-torn east.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 8...
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Jack Smith Asks Appeals Court to Reject Trump’s Immunity Claim
31Dec By adminNo Comments
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Jack Smith Asks Appeals Court to Reject Trump’s Immunity Claim

WASHINGTON—Special counsel Jack Smith asked a federal appeals court on Saturday to reject Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges he plotted to overturn the 2020 election, arguing that his defense “threatens to license Presidents to commit crimes to remain in office.”In an 82-page court filing, the special counsel’s team used some of its most strident language to date in a bid to bolster the first-ever federal prosecution of a former president. Declaring flatly that Trump is wrong, prosecutors said separation-of-powers principles, legal precedent and history combined to “make clear that a former President may be prosecuted for criminal acts he committed while in office—including, most critically here, illegal acts to remain in power despite losing an election.”C...
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Maine Casts Its Ballot for Trump
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Maine Casts Its Ballot for Trump

This week’s huge in-kind contribution to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is from Maine secretary of state Shenna Bellows, who announced Thursday that she will unilaterally delete Mr. Trump’s name from the presidential primary ballot. Maine is now the second state, after Colorado, to declare him a Jan. 6 insurrectionist under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Paging the U.S. Supreme Court, alas.Ms. Bellows’s administrative ruling largely tracks the opinion last week from the Colorado Supreme Court, except she blows through all the knotty legal questions in a breezy 34 pages. Section 3 was passed after the Civil War to stop Confederates who “engaged in insurrection” from retaking government posts. Applying it to Mr. Trump and the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, involves a series of dubious legal p...
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Civil War Gaffe Undercuts Nikki Haley’s 2024 Pitch
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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Civil War Gaffe Undercuts Nikki Haley’s 2024 Pitch

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 10:24 am ETRepublican Nikki Haley, who until this week had run a disciplined and largely error-free presidential campaign, has been forced into an uncomfortable and unexpected new chore: doing cleanup on a blunder related to the Civil War and slavery.The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador was forced into defensive mode after she omitted slavery from an answer she gave at a New Hampshire campaign event where she was asked what prompted the Civil War. Her long-winded response avoided giving the answer to a basic question most learned in grade school, teeing up a barrage of criticism from political foes.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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China Confronts a New Political Reality in Taiwan: No Friends
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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China Confronts a New Political Reality in Taiwan: No Friends

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 12:08 am ETTAIPEI—A drawing of Taiwan at the presidential campaign headquarters of the island’s ruling party shows strikingly little concern for north and south. Instead, the island is shown turned on its side, with China and the Taiwan Strait conspicuously absent.The drawing reflects the worldview of the Democratic Progressive Party, which over the past eight years has sought to carve out an identity for the self-ruled island that is separate from mainland China. But it also represents a broader change in Taiwan that sits uneasily with Communist Party leaders 1,000 miles to the northwest in Beijing.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Nikki Haley Says ‘Of Course’ Civil War Was About Slavery, Following Criticism
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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Nikki Haley Says ‘Of Course’ Civil War Was About Slavery, Following Criticism

Updated Dec. 28, 2023 7:38 pm ETRepublican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Thursday the Civil War was caused by a fight over slavery as she tried to tamp down a political uproar hours after she failed to mention it when asked about the conflict’s origins.“Of course the Civil War was about slavery, we know that, that’s the easy part of it,” she said on a Pulse of NH radio show. “I’m from the South. Of course you know it’s about slavery.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot
29Dec By adminNo Comments
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Maine Becomes Second State to Bar Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot

Updated Dec. 28, 2023 8:06 pm ETMaine’s top election official on Thursday barred Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s primary ballot, marking the second state to knock the Republican former president off its ballot and escalating a national legal effort to disqualify him from office.In a 34-page written decision, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, said Trump isn’t qualified to hold office because of his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Biden Struggles to Push Trade Deals With Allies as Election Approaches
28Dec By adminNo Comments
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Biden Struggles to Push Trade Deals With Allies as Election Approaches

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration Thursday extended for two years a temporary measure to suspend Trump-era tariffs on European steel and aluminum, struggling to deliver on key trade policies involving close allies after nearly three years in office.Washington and Brussels have failed to find a permanent solution to eliminate the levies more than two years after the negotiations began. With the announcement, the administration will keep in place a temporary import quota system that replaced Trump-era tariffs while talks continue. The EU has criticized the temporary fix, which could be undone if Biden isn’t re-elected. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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