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Trump-endorsed Marty O’Donnell won the GOP primary Tuesday to take on Democratic Rep. Susie Lee in Nevada’s battleground 3rd District. The seat, which touches parts of Las Vegas, is one of Republicans’ targeted pickups this November since President Donald Trump carried it by less than 1 percentage point in 2024 after losing it by nearly seven points in 2020. But O’Donnell — who also has the backing of the National Republican Congressional Committee — will face an uphill battle. He recently came under fire for hosting a neo-Nazi influencer on his podcast. Trump’s tariffs have hit the district hard, with…
A US attack helicopter was destroyed overnight while patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, the president has said Iran has downed a US AH-64 Apache attack helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald Trump has claimed, pledging to retaliate for the incident “of necessity.”Earlier on Tuesday, the US Central Command said the helicopter “went down” off the coast of Oman while “patrolling regional waters.” The military did not name the cause for the destruction of the aircraft, stating only that its two pilots were rescued around two hours later, and that the incident is under investigation.Iran has so far…
British lawmakers have condemned the apparent attempted beheading on the streets of Belfast as “sickening”, “barbaric”, and “medieval” as police announced the arrest of a man thought to be from Sudan. Meanwhile, left-wing politicians have warned of a potential retaliation from the so-called “far-right”. Footage shared on social media appeared to show a man, seemingly of African descent, repeatedly stabbing at the neck and head area of a man on the ground in an apparent beheading attempt. A police update on Tuesday morning said the suspect, earlier said to be Somalian, is actually of Sudanese origin. The attack has sent…
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is reportedly being prepared to run for president in 2028 by former President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, who also worked with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra on their respective campaigns. Sources familiar with the matter told Politico’s Playbook this week that Khanna has caught the attention of Ron Klain, an attorney who was an appointee of former President Barack Obama as the White House Ebola Response Coordinator. Klain, who was named Biden’s chief of staff after working as a senior adviser on his 2020 campaign, is now a…
MAGA firebrand Doug Mastriano is inducing panic among GOP officials as he inches closer toward a 2024 bid for the Senate after a disastrous showing in his Pennsylvania governor run in 2022. Among the concerned is none other than Donald Trump. The former president has privately told Republicans he fears that Mastriano, a far-right state lawmaker in a critical battleground, would hurt him in a general election if they were on the top of the ticket together next year, according to three people familiar with the conversations. Mastriano, who attempted to overturn the 2020 election and sought to outlaw abortion…
The unrest erupted after a Sudanese asylum seeker allegedly attempted to behead a man in the street Anti-immigration riots broke out in Belfast on Tuesday night after a knife-wielding Sudanese asylum seeker allegedly attacked a man in the capital of Northern Ireland.The incident occurred amid a heated debate over migration policies, fueled by a string of crimes involving foreign nationals across the UK.Buses and cars were set ablaze as police urged the public to remain calm.Videos from the scene showed vehicles engulfed in flames.Other footage shows a burning car rolling down the street.Angry mobs set several homes on fire and…
Singer-songwriter Talay Riley, who worked with Dua Lipa, Britney Spears and Zendaya amongst many others, has died after he was stabbed in London. He was 35. Sky News reports Riley, whose real name was Mark Orabiyi, died after he was found with stab wounds in Silvertown, East London on Friday. The Grammy award-winning songwriter was pronounced dead at the scene. His brother, artist Scribz Riley, whose real name is Michael Orabiyi, took to social media and said: “My heart is shattered! This doesn’t feel real. It feels like a bad dream. Just before he went to sleep we spoke about…
Tuesday on CNN’s “New Central,” political commentator Adam Kinzinger said President Donald Trump had not “leveled with people” about the threat of drone warfare in Iran. Host Boris Sanchez said, “President Trump says Iran has shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter as it was patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. He says that both pilots are safe and uninjured. The president also vowing to respond to this attack.” He asked, “How do you think the U.S. should respond to the shootdown?” Kinzinger said, “I mean, I think we have to respond to it. I mean, here’s the interesting thing: supposedly,…
NEWBURGH, N.Y. — When Democrat Pat Ryan won a special House election in upstate New York last summer, it looked like the red wave everyone was expecting in the midterms might not happen. As it turned out, House Republicans indeed had a lousy election just about everywhere except New York. The GOP romped in the Empire State, a performance that allowed the party to narrowly win the chamber. Now, both parties are trying to understand what happened last year and how to gain an advantage in a state that could well determine whether Republicans maintain control or Democrats reclaim the…
The deadly strike on Tyre comes amid concerns that the Israeli military wants to control sites sacred to Christians and Muslims Israel has struck the historic city of Tyre in Lebanon, targeting the Christian quarter for the first time after ordering a partial evacuation. The attack has heightened local concerns over the fate of the city’s revered Biblical heritage sites.According to Reuters, eight people were killed in a single strike on Tyre’s eastern edge on Tuesday.The Christian quarter, located in the city’s northwest, had been excluded from previous Israeli warnings and had sheltered people displaced from elsewhere.The Israeli military issued…