After less than two years in office, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Monday morning that he would resign as Labour Party leader. “I have spoken to His Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision,” said a tearful Starmer outside Downing Street, who will exit office by September. The center-left leader’s position…
A growing number of congressional Democrats are urging Vice President JD Vance and members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet to consider invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office after the president threatened catastrophic destruction in Iran.
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US President Donald Trump ’s allies have taken a major interest in European politics over the last 18 months, attempting to boost far-right leaders in Albania, Germany, and Poland. Now, Vice President JD Vance is aiming to boost MAGA’s closest ally on the continent: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Vance reportedly plans to visit Hungary in the…
US President Donald Trump ’s first term in office sometimes looked like an episode of “The Apprentice.” He fired or forced out eight Cabinet members, with 14 in total leaving – more than the preceding three presidents combined. Total turnover among his top officials was 92% across all four years, higher than that of his immediate predecessors. Michael Flynn , for example, was…
For decades, the Munich Security Conference has functioned as the annual “ _family reunion_” of the transatlantic alliance – a place where American and European leaders and diplomats come together to discuss international security. Since 1963, it’s revolved around a core assumption: the relationship between the United States and Europe is durable within a US-led global order, even when…
1.5 million: The number of Armenians killed by Ottoman Turkss during World War I, per one estimate, in what historians consider to be a genocide. Why mention this now? US Vice President JD Vance visited a memorial to the mass killing in Yerevan on Tuesday. His office then posted about it on social media, before deleting it. The reversal may have something to do with the US’s…
Rapper Nicki Minaj continues her far-right spiral as she furthers her transformation into a conservative mouthpiece by citing anti-trans talking points on a recent podcast episode.
Minaj, who has dedicated recent months to supporting President Trump, JD Vance, and the Republican Party, appeared on _The Katie Miller Podcast_ this week, where she talked about Trump, Gavin Newsom, and trans…