Getty Images Donald Trump swept to victory on Tuesday by chipping away at groups of voters which Democrats once believed would help them win the White House for a generation. After Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, many triumphantly claimed that the liberal voting coalition which had elected the first black president was growing more powerful,…
Getty Images Donald Trump’s Florida residence and private club Mar-a-Lago is once again the Winter White House – the place to be seen for West Wing hopefuls as the US president-elect assembles a new administration behind its opulent doors. While President Joe Biden will remain in office until January, this part of Florida has become…
President-elect Donald Trump has named Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to serve as the US ambassador to the United Nations. A longtime Trump ally, Stefanik is a staunch supporter of Israel and has also been critical of the UN for what she argues is a lack of sufficient backing for its war against Hamas. “Elise is…
Watch: New ‘border tsar’ Tom Homan discusses his approach Veteran immigration official Tom Homan will be in charge of the country’s borders following Trump’s inauguration in January. With a decades-long career in law enforcement and at the border, all eyes will be on how he plans to cut down on illegal immigration into the US…
Reuters A parliamentary majority will be a boost for Dissanayake, who was elected on a promise to combat corruption and restore stability The alliance of Sri Lanka’s new leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake is headed for a landslide win in the country’s snap parliamentary elections based on partial official results. Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) coalition…
Reuters Out of all of Donald Trump’s supporters, Derrick Evans has a particular reason to be happy with November’s election results – he hopes the president-elect will give him a pardon for participating in riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. “A pardon will be life changing,” said Evans, who was a member…
Getty Images Tupac Shakur was shot dead in 1996 at the age of 25 Before the east and west coast rap beef of the 1990s boiled over with the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG, legendary producer Quincy Jones called a secret meeting at which he appealed for an end to the violence. As…
Norwegian Orca Survey The tame beluga whale approached Norwegian fishermen in 2019, wearing a harness, leading to speculation that it was an escaped Russian “spy whale” The mystery as to why a beluga whale appeared off the coast of Norway wearing a harness may finally have been solved. The tame white whale, which locals named…
A hacker has been sentenced to five years in a US prison for laundering the proceeds of one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts. Ilya Lichtenstein pleaded guilty last year to hacking into the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016 and stealing almost 20,000 bitcoin. He laundered the stolen cryptocurrency with the help of his wife…
Getty Images US President-elect Donald Trump has named Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host, author and military veteran, as his pick for defence secretary. Hegseth, 44, who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, will be responsible for the world’s most powerful military in his first political role. Announcing his choice on Tuesday, Trump described him as…
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