Turkey tends to march to its own drum in international affairs.

Take the United Nations vote on Dec. 14, 2022, when the body’s General Assembly approved a resolution in favor of a New International Economic Order. Some 123 member states – largely the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America – voted in favor; only 50 cast a ...Read more

Gerald Ford knew Richard Nixon could be prosecuted for crimes he committed as president. That was simply a fact, when President Ford gave his predecessor “a full, free, and absolute pardon” 50 years ago this week.

Former presidents did not enjoy broad immunity from criminal prosecution until July 1, 2024, when six members of the ...Read more

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed in August 2024 that a photograph of a large crowd of supporters welcoming Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris to Detroit on Aug. 7 was doctored. Trump falsely wrote on Truth Social that the crowd did not exist because “she ‘A.I.’d’ it.”

Multiple independent ...Read more

The Sept. 10, 2024, debate between Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was a referendum on gender and the U.S. presidency – Trump’s, that is.

During the past decade, U.S. voters have watched as Trump’s toxic masculinity – a particular version of masculinity that ...Read more

Nearly all of Florida’s congressional Democrats have sent a letter asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration over its decision to review thousands of already verified abortion amendment petitions.

In the letter, the Democrats said they are “fully supportive of robust, transparent investigations...Read more

Former President Trump said Thursday that he won’t do a second debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

After his rocky performance in Tuesday’s debate, Trump posted on his social media site that he wouldn’t agree any further clashes.

“There will be no (additional) debate!” Trump wrote.

There was no immediate response from the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump has announced plans for a campaign rally at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island on Wednesday.

Republicans says Trump will appear at the arena in Uniondale to rally his supporters in the metro New York area and to boost Republican congressional candidates.

But with the presidential race effectively ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers expressed relief over a special designation for this coming Jan. 6, saying it will boost security on what could be a tense day at the Capitol. But the move is just the beginning, some said.

The designation, made by the Department of Homeland Security and announced Wednesday by the Secret Service, comes amid fears of a ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Two former Michigan governors, a lieutenant governor and former congressman launched a group Wednesday to combat election misinformation ahead of the Nov. 5 presidential election.

The bipartisan group announced Wednesday is part of the Democracy Defense Project, an effort spanning several swing states to underscore the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris took the debate stage Tuesday, they briefly touched on reproductive rights, health insurance access and drug prices.

Left unmentioned, however, was another divisive, though less high-profile public health issue: The fate of menthol cigarettes.

The Biden ...Read more

DETROIT — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will hold a town hall at 7 p.m. Tuesday night in Flint, his campaign has announced.

The event will mark the former president's ninth visit to Michigan of the election year and will occur 49 days before the Nov. 5 election, in which Trump, the former president, is competing for votes with ...Read more

The reason both leading presidential candidates have favorability ratings under 50% was on full display during Tuesday’s presidential debate.

Start with former President Donald Trump. Coming into the debate, his job was simple. Inform voters of Vice President Kamala Harris’ radical record and remind them that things were better when he was ...Read more

It was Hillary Clinton who observed of her 2016 presidential campaign rival: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”

All indications from Tuesday evening’s presidential debate are that Donald Trump today is easier to bait than ever. Moreover, his lifelong habit of publicly describing (and ...Read more

If Tuesday’s debate were distilled to a single impression, it would be the image of a confident, controlled Kamala Harris and a visibly uncomfortable Donald Trump who kept his eyes downcast as he alternatively scowled and winced. The body language was as telling as the lies he spoke and the truths she scored.

A fitting summary came in Taylor ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments Monday in TikTok’s challenge to a law requiring a sale or ban of the app in the U.S., in a case that could determine Congress’ ability to regulate the company and other platforms for national security or other reasons.

TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, along...Read more

MIAMI — After signing into law a strict abortion ban, Gov. Ron DeSantis is escalating his campaign against a November ballot question that would broaden access to the procedure — throwing the weight of his political power and state government behind a campaign to defeat Amendment 4.

In the past few weeks, the DeSantis administration ...Read more

The public isn’t always right, but in this case, there’s a good reason 23 undecided voters in swing states told the Washington Post that Vice President Kamala Harris won Tuesday night’s debate, compared to just two favoring Donald Trump. She was far superior to Joe Biden’s June outing and she had a better night than Trump.

As to what’...Read more

In Tuesday night's presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris may or may not have increased her chances of becoming the 47th president. But she did what so many have tried, and failed, to do.

She de-normalized Donald Trump.

For years, various politicians and pundits have yelled themselves hoarse over the danger of normalizing Trump's ...Read more

ATLANTA — Early in their 90-minute debate Tuesday, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris spent about 10 minutes discussing access to abortion, a topic Democrats hope will boost their chances in November.

Harris has spent much of her campaign tying Trump to the abortion bans that have taken effect across the country ...Read more