Abortion is set to be a key U.S. election issue. Which side has momentum? – National

As abortion and women’s health care shapes up to be a key issue in this year’s U.S. elections, the momentum appears to be persistently on the side of those fighting to restore access — while the opposing side struggles to settle on a consistent message to voters. Ballot measures on whether to guarantee abortion access … Read more

Russian state-backed TikTok posts surge as U.S. election nears: report – National

Russian state-backed accounts on TikTok are posting far more, and reaching many more people, in the lead-up to the U.S. election, a new report finds. And it says the exposure may impact voters’ willingness to “mobilize or take actions” that could help the target of false or hyperpartisan content, the report states. “(The accounts) were focusing … Read more

Man sets himself on fire outside Donald Trump hush money trial in New York court

A man set himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s historic hush-money trial was taking place, but he did not appear to have been targeting Trump, officials said. The man burned for several minutes in full view of television cameras that were set up outside the courthouse, where the first-ever criminal … Read more

‘He suffers from Trump derangement syndrome’: Trump blasts Biden over State of Union address

Coming out hard against US President Joe Biden over his State of Union address, his predecessor Donald Trump called his speech “terrible” and said that he suffers from “terminal case of Trump derangement syndrome,” Fox News reported. Reacting to Biden’s address, the former President told Fox News Digital, “He was angry, mentally disturbed, and misrepresenting … Read more

US election: Joe Biden warns Donald Trump’s term would mean return to “chaos, division and darkness”

US President Joe Biden has warned that a second Donald Trump term would mean a return to “chaos, division and darkness,” CNN reported. He highlighted the progress his administration has made in its first term in office. In a statement, Biden wrote, “Four years ago, I ran because of the existential threat Donald Trump posed … Read more

joe biden: The man who defeated Biden: Jason Palmer, an unknown Democrat, makes people sit up and take notice

US President Joe Biden’s near-perfect Super Tuesday had a notable blemish — his sweeping streak of wins was marred by an expected defeat to a little-known rival. Biden swept every Democratic contest on Super Tuesday everywhere — except in American Samoa. He was beaten there by a previously unknown Democrat candidate named Jason Palmer. A … Read more

Nikki Haley trailing behind Donald Trump in Republican presidential battle on Super Tuesday

Indian-American Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is trailing far behind her rival Donald Trump, who is most likely to emerge as the presumptive nominee after the Republican Party’s crucial Super Tuesday contest. Trump and Haley were campaigning vigorously in various Super Tuesday states, making a last-minute pitch to the Republican voters. Super Tuesday is an … Read more

U.S. Supreme Court could decide on barring Trump from 2024 ballot Monday – National

A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as Monday in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election. Trump is challenging a groundbreaking decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that said he is disqualified from being president again and ineligible for the state’s primary, … Read more

Wildcard candidates threaten to tip scales in US election

Washington: Americans haven’t elected an independent president since George Washington, but a public turned off by two historically unpopular frontrunners appears more open than ever to the rich crop of wildcards who could tilt the election in 2024. Voters have made clear in multiple polls that they don’t want a rematch between Joe Biden and … Read more

Putin says Russia prefers Biden to Trump because he is ‘more experienced and predictable’

President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia would prefer to see President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced than Donald Trump Speaking in an interview with a correspondent from Russian state television, Putin declared that he will work with any US leader who is elected, but noted that he would … Read more