A conservative senator in Colombia was giving a public speech Saturday as part of a run for president when a person in the crowd came up behind him and shot him in the head. Miguel Uribe Turbay is a conservative and a frequent critic of Colombia’s socialist president Gustavo Petro. He survived the attack and...
Poland’s president-elect Karol Nawrocki is taking up a largely ceremonial role, but his impact on the country’s politics in the next five years may be profound. Nawrocki’s supporters, the national conservative Law and Justice (PiS) opposition, feels re-energised after losing power 18 months ago to Donald Tusk’s pro-EU coalition, and view his success as the...
Adam Easton BBC Warsaw correspondent Reuters Rafal Trzaskowski (L) has a narrow lead in the polls over national conservative historian Karol Nawrocki (R) Poles will vote for a new president on Sunday in a tight election that will have major consequences for the future of the country’s pro-EU government. Opinion polls say Warsaw’s liberal mayor...
David has already highlighted some segments of Megyn Kelly’s interview with Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson about the subject of their new book “Original Sin.” Actually, from what I can tell, the topic of the interview really wasn’t the book it was the media’s failure to see the matter of Biden’s decline as anything but...
You have to hand it to Gavin Newsom. He understands that being a brazen hypocrite is an asset in politics. For 20 years, he has been a left-wing crusader, serving as Mayor of San Francisco, Lieutenant Governor of California, and now Governor. Every step along the way, he has been the slick and generally attractive,...
“I’m glad the will of the voters was finally heard,” incumbent state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs said. A conservative state judge in North Carolina who attempted to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in order to win a state Supreme Court race against a liberal incumbent has finally conceded the election, more than six...
Amelia Reynolds BBC Politics East Andrew Sinclair BBC political editor, East of England Sam Read/BBC Former North Northamptonshire Conservative council leader Jason Smithers says the party needs a leader “who can rally the troops” A council leader who has stepped down said he will be calling for Kemi Badenoch to quit as head of the...
The overnight results from Thursday’s elections have confirmed the message of the polls that Reform are posing a major challenge to the traditional dominance of British politics enjoyed by the Conservatives and Labour. The party won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, just managing to overturn a 35-point Labour majority. Meanwhile, Andrea Jenkyns, a former Tory...
Francesca Gillett BBC News PA Media Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has rejected criticism of her leadership, saying anonymous critics from within her party are “cowards”. “I’m not afraid of cowards,” she told BBC Newsnight. Two anonymous Tories used an article in the Critic magazine to call for her to stand down, as the party braces...
U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments today in a case regarding religious parents’ objections to their students having to participate in a school district’s LGBTQ-inclusive language arts curriculum. Conservative Christian, Jewish and Muslim parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, sued the public school district, alleging that, because they weren’t allowed to opt their children out...
Nadine Yousif and Jessica Murphy BBC News, Toronto Reuters Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, has taken a diplomatic approach to the trade war Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she is willing to walk into the “lion’s den” to sway American officials against Canadian tariffs – wooing the US president with meetings at Mar-a-Lago and cosying...