Politics

The BJP top brass will continue their campaign on Friday ahead of the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Udhampur of Jammu and Kashmir, where he will address a rally around noon Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be in Madurai of Tamil Nadu.The scheduled rally, which the PM will hold for BJP’s…

The conversation moves on to the Cass review into gender identity and young people. Mr Norris is asked if he thinks it has drawn any kind of line under this issue.The Labour MP says today is a really "significant moment" and some colleagues have described it as a "watershed" moment. "I'd share that. This is…

When Donald J. Trump ran for president in 2016, the leaders of the anti-abortion movement extracted a series of promises from him in exchange for backing his nomination.They demanded Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade. They insisted that he defund Planned Parenthood. They pushed for a vice president who was a champion of their…

Films often attract their fair share of political controversy. However, rarely has a film accused of promoting the politics of resentment been celebrated and denounced almost equally during a pivotal and arguably polarising Lok Sabha election season in Kerala. The decision of the Syro-Malabar Church in the Idukki diocese to screen the allegedly…

ATLANTA -- Davante Jennings cast his first ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Republican Donald Trump's election that year, he says, turned him from an idealistic college student to a jaded cynic overnight.Jennings walked away from a system he thought ignored people like himself, a young Black man who grew up…

WASHINGTON – The CIA and broader U.S. intelligence community want to do more to fight the fentanyl crisis killing tens of thousands of Americans a year, and they are quietly pushing Congress to let them expand their use of a controversial and top-secret eavesdropping program to do it, USA TODAY has learned.Senior intelligence officials have…

WASHINGTON – In Tacoma, Washington, residents came together for an interfaith solidarity event after a series of attacks rocked faith institutions, including an Islamic center targeted by an arson attack and a Buddhist nun being assaulted.Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., whose district encompasses most of Tacoma, was in attendance at the 2021 event.…

One of the strongest voices inside the White House urging an end to civilian casualties in Gaza is the person closest to the president: Jill Biden.At a meeting with Muslim community members at the White House on Tuesday evening, one guest told the president that his wife had disapproved of him coming to the meeting because of Mr. Biden’s support…

Democratic senator slams Trump’s Bible grift: ‘The Bible does not need his endorsement’Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump repeated his controversial “bloodbath” rhetoric as he returned to the campaign trail in Wisconsin, where he…

Republican Donald Trump has been open about deliberately using inflammatory words to attract attention in the 2024 presidential race.If you don't use certain language "that maybe are not very nice words, nothing will happen," the former president said in a March interview with Fox News host Howard Kurtz.Trump employed that signature tactic…