Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris’s Fine Gael party is locked in a virtual dead heat with Sinn Fein in the general election, suggesting his decision to go to the country early didn’t yield the advantage he predicted.

Fine Gael won 21% of first-preference votes in Friday’s election, the official exit poll showed. Sinn Fein won 21.1%, while...Read more

Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris’s party is locked in a virtual dead heat with Sinn Fein in the general election, according to the official exit poll, suggesting his decision to go to the country early didn’t go as planned.

Harris’s Fine Gael won 21% of first-preference votes in Friday’s election, according to the poll commissioned by ...Read more

Kamala Harris for president again? How about Gavin Newsom?

Sure, it’s early, but at the moment two Californians, Vice President Harris and Gov. Newsom, lead the list of possible 2028 Democratic contenders in a new Emerson College poll.

Harris, who just lost this year’s presidential election to Donald Trump, was the choice of 37% of ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s team has asked a key conservative activist to present a plan to slash federal funding for universities that refuse to scrap diversity and equity programs.

Christopher Rufo, who played a role in ousting Harvard’s first Black president Claudine Gay earlier this year, said he was invited to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ...Read more

ATLANTA — Vivek Ramaswamy criticized the Biden administration’s nearly $6 billion federal loan expected for Rivian’s electric vehicle manufacturing plant, labeling it as a “political shot” at Tesla boss and billionaire Elon Musk.

The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office said the loan designed to jump-start Rivian’s electric...Read more

America held a free and fair election in which the majority’s preference for Donald Trump was clearly registered and will be respected. Unlike 2016, his election is no Electoral College fluke.

If democracy depends solely on majority rule, democracy was on the ballot and it won. At least for now.

The Associated Press notes: “The Republican ...Read more

Donald J. Trump won big on Nov. 5, and so did cryptocurrencies. The crypto kingpins who poured a fortune into his campaign coffers were rewarded with flattering remarks on the campaign trail and even a pledge to create a new U.S. strategic reserve of digital currencies. Prices soared after the election.

In case anyone wondered if crypto would ...Read more

Donald Trump had the right idea about education during his first administration: Judge potential employees by their skills and experience, not their degrees. Open up a world of bright futures to people who don’t have a bachelor’s degree but crave training and work hard.

In fact, aside from starting up Operation Warp Speed to accelerate the ...Read more

Romania’s top court ordered a recount after a little-known ultranationalist candidate scored a surprise victory in Sunday’s presidential election, as a security panel said the contest was affected by a cyber operation aimed at influencing the outcome.

Romania’s Constitutional Court acted Thursday on a complaint by one of the losing ...Read more

It wouldn’t be a modern U.S. holiday without social media shared messages and greetings, and it’s fair to say that former President Donald Trump’s unorthodox approach to holiday well-wishing has itself become something of a tradition.

This Thanksgiving Day was no exception, with President Joe Biden and other leading lawmakers offering ...Read more

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take the oath of office once again, a combination of cautious optimism and worrisome concern looms over what his policies might mean for housing affordability in the U.S.

For housing advocates for low-income families, the picture looks grim.

Wall Street and real estate industry insiders, on the other...Read more

An Arizona man has been arrested by the feds for sharing expletive-laden videos “on a near-daily basis” that show him brandishing an automatic rifle as he threatens to kill President-elect Donald Trump and members of Trump’s family.

Manuel Tamayo-Torres is accused of making “vague yet direct threats” against “the president-elect,”...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump wished his friends and enemies a “Happy Thanksgiving” on Thursday, specifically saving time for “radical left lunatics.”

“Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the radical left lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ...Read more