News of republicans

Trump officially launches 2024 White House bid

15-11-2022 23:59 "America's comeback starts right now," declares 76-year-old former US president before hundreds of supporters gathered in an ornate, flag-draped ballroom at his palatial Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

US ELECTIONS 2022

Republicans make gains in US midterms but no 'red wave'

09-11-2022 17:11 Disappointing night for Donald Trump, who was counting on a powerful Republican showing to boost his expected 2024 run to return to White House.

US MIDTERMS 2022

Biden hits campaign trail in final uphill push to salvage Democrats’ hopes

04-11-2022 00:21 Facing signs of a growing "red wave" that could sweep the opposition Republicans to power in the House and Senate, US President Joe Biden makes his closing pitch ahead of next week’s midterm elections.

UNITED STATES POLITICS

LGBTQ candidates make history in US midterm election

04-11-2022 00:19 A new report from the LGBTQ Victory Fund found that of the 1,065 LGBTQ hopefuls who ran primary campaigns for November's midterms, a historic 678 made it onto the ballot – an 18 percent increase over 2020.

DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Anti-monarchists drowned out as UK mourns queen

15-09-2022 09:29 Amid blanket media coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II and wall-to-wall tributes, republican voices calling to ditch the royals have struggled to be heard in Britain.

INFLATION IN THE AMERICAS

Biden under pressure as US inflation hits four-decade high

12-02-2022 09:30 US president faces battle to enact spending proposals and retain control of Congress following January inflation report showing large surge in the cost of living.

LGBT+ RIGHTS

'Don't say gay': Sex education fuels US culture wars

09-02-2022 17:24 Swelling mobilisation by US conservatives over what is taught in schools has led several states to push for new curbs on what educators can discuss related to sexual and gender identity.

DIPLOMATIC SPAT

US congressman: ‘Argentina has lashed itself to Chinese Communist Party’

08-02-2022 22:48 US lawmaker Matt Gaetz says “Argentina has lashed itself to the Chinese Communist Party” in the wake of last week's Belt and Road initiative announcement.

2022: THE YEAR IN PREVIEW

World Cup to Rio carnival: Six key events to come in 2022

01-01-2022 00:01 From the World Cup in Qatar to the midterm elections in the United States, here are six events that are likely to mark the coming year.

US Politics

Biden says Republicans have lost their way in 'mini-revolution'

05-05-2021 19:10 US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that America's Republicans face an identity crisis after Donald Trump's turbulent presidency.

AS I SEE IT

Joe Biden sounds the retreat

17-04-2021 08:04 Biden, like Trump before him, decided that the time had come to pull all his country’s troops out of Afghanistan. The only difference is in the departure date.

by James Neilson

United States

US House passes police reforms, voting rights bill

04-03-2021 15:33 The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act that bans choke holds and combats racial profiling cleared the US House of Representatives Wednesday.