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Former vice president Dick Cheney will appear at a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to an invitation for the event, in a sign that the Republican establishment will publicly back his re-election bid. Mr Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 as an outsider and has often clashed …

Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother has condemned Donald Trump over his comments about the congresswoman’s proposed trip to Israel and the Palestinian occupied territories. “Trump tells me I should be happy Rashida is not coming,” Muftia Tlaib said. “May God ruin him.” We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. From 15p …

Trump was busy touting Corey Lewandowski in New Hampshire yesterday, who greeted him upon his arrival in Manchester and was present for his rally speech, as his former campaign manager mulls a run for the Senate in his home state.     Trump praised Lewandowski as “a very outstanding guy” in an interview …

Trump is holding his latest campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, this evening, a state he lost by 2,700 votes in 2016.   While some MAGA fans were mad enough to turn up 36 hours early (!), according to the AP’s Hunter Woodall, the prevailing feeling on the ground is …

Stacey Abrams made it official this week that she would not seek the presidency after months of speculation among Democrats, becoming one of the most prominent party leaders to pass on the 2020 race. But in an interview Tuesday night, she said she was open to being considered for the …

A coalition of 21 Democratic-led states are suing the Trump administration over its decision to ease restrictions on coal-fired power plants, with California’s governor saying the president is trying to rescue an outdated industry.  In June, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) eliminated the agency’s Clean Power Plan and replaced it …

Stacey Abrams, the Georgia politician who captured national attention during her unsuccessful run for governor in 2018, has decided not to run for president after publicly contemplating a bid for months. Ms. Abrams, a Democrat, will instead focus her efforts on preventing voter suppression with a new initiative called Fair …

Donald Trump suggested the reason Iran was not seizing US vessels in the Strait of Hormuz is because the US has “very boats going there actually because we have our own oil and gas” – here’s the quote:   “We will never allow ourselves to be at the mercy of …

Thousands of Guatemalans, bereft of hope, leave their country each month, choosing the uncertainty of migration over the poverty, violence and corruption they know at home. That is not expected to change even after Guatemalans vote on Sunday for a new president. The election is a runoff between a former …

“We can’t afford to buy groceries,” said Jonathan Tiripano, a 46-year-old window-frame manufacturer who said he had gone without breakfast. His family had stopped buying meat, bread and milk and was surviving mostly on vegetables and ground maize, he added. “We can’t cope.” People are suffering, Mr. Mnangagwa acknowledged, but …