Mike Pence will not endorse Trump, but will not rule out voting for him

Two days after saying he would not endorse a second Donald Trump presidency, former vice-president Mike Pence on Sunday declared his esteem for fellow Republicans who plan to vote for his former boss anyway – and he declined to rule out eventually following suit. Pence reiterated on CBS’s Face the Nation that he “cannot in…

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Why the rift between anti-abortion activists and Republican lawmakers is growing

There is a growing rift in the decades-old marriage between anti-abortion activists and Republican lawmakers. The problem came into view last month, after a bombshell decision from the Alabama supreme court temporarily halted in vitro fertilization (IVF). The ruling, which described frozen embryos as “extrauterine children”, unraveled when the Republican-controlled legislature passed short-term protections for…

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‘A campaign for vengeance’: critics warn of a radical second Trump term

The US election primary season is effectively over. Conventional wisdom holds that the two major candidates will now pivot towards the centre ground in search of moderate voters. But Donald Trump has never been one for conventional wisdom. Detention camps, mass deportations, capital punishment for drug smugglers, tariffs on imported goods, a purge of the…

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‘My soul is so tired’: Stormy Daniels stands up to Maga hate in new film

Stormy Daniels, the adult movie star who received hush-money payments at the center of one of Donald Trump’s pending criminal cases, says she is “so tired” as she confronts the prospect of testifying against the former president, whose supporters have flooded her social media accounts with threats. “I’m desensitized to some of it … but…

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Congress is right to want to curtail TikTok’s power and influence | Nita Farahany

Imagine a world where America’s foreign adversaries don’t need spies or hackers to infiltrate our society or meddle with our democracy. Instead, they can deploy a far more insidious tool: a digital platform, addictive by design, that captivates its users and then mobilizes them to influence our democratic institutions. The scenario may sound farfetched, but…

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