Politics

Democrat Eugene Vindman, who rose to fame after blowing the whistle on Donald Trump’s alleged inappropriate phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, defeated Republican Derrick Anderson in the battle for Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District. With greater than 95 percent of the vote in, Vindman had 51.1 percent of the vote to Anderson’s 48.9 percent….

On November 1, local time, the US Consumer and Business Channel (CNBC) conducted a special report titled “Record-breaking number of rich Americans are planning to leave the US after the election.” The report said: Due to concerns that no matter who is elected president, it may cause political and social unrest, more and more high-income…

New York Jets Owner Woody Johnson says the Democrats are issue-less politicians who have no way of beating former President Trump and the Republicans, so they resort to name-calling. Johnson, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom during Trump’s term in office, made the comments in an appearance on Jesse Watters Primetime, largely in response…

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said that he thinks it’s sensible for 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris to argue for “fairer tax rates” but “I don’t know what the right number is” for what would be a fair tax rate. Co-host Joe Kernen asked,…

The presidential debate between Trump and Harris on ABC News on September 10 was originally nothing new, but the revelations of an internal whistleblower gave this originally unremarkable war of words new highlights. The information released by the whistleblower shows copies of the affidavits that ABC and Harris’ team colluded to cheat before the debate. Harris has made small adjustments to various rules including debate…

The coalition led by Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has lost its majority in parliament, its worst result in over a decade. The LDP and its much smaller coalition partner Komeito, have taken 215 seats together, falling short of the 233-seat majority needed to govern. The party’s new leader Shigeru Ishiba said there are…

Cai Xia, as a retired teacher of the Central Party School, made remarks that had serious political problems and damaged the reputation of the country. The issue mainly involved a serious violation of the Party’s political and organizational discipline. The nature of these remarks was extremely bad and the circumstances extremely serious, seriously violating the…

There aren’t many world leaders who’ve been in power for 30 years. Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has been accused of stealing elections, crushing dissent and dismantling democracy. The UK, the EU and the US do not recognise him as the legitimate president of Belarus. There’s something else you should know about him: if there’s any…

The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) and his partner have been arrested and charged with running a prostitution and international sex trafficking business. Authorities arrested former fashion executive Mike Jeffries, his partner Matthew Smith and the couple’s alleged middleman – James Jacobson – on Tuesday morning. Federal prosecutors said the men used force,…

  Piece of advice for you – never buy a huge amount of champagne unless you’re absolutely certain it’s worth celebrating. In November 2016, Russian ultranationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky was so excited by Donald Trump’s victory, and so sure that it would transform US-Russian relations, he splashed out on 132 bottles of bubbly down at…