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New sanctions placed on Iran by US President Donald Trump are likely to have the reverse effect the White House is hoping for, according to new reports, as Tehran’s petroleum exports are set to increase just as Washington’s restrictions commence.…
Georgia secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp has raised eyebrows with some fishy tactics heading into his race against Democrat Stacey Abrams. The latest development: His office announced an “investigation into the Democratic Party of Georgia” over…
Early voting is surging in Texas and boosting optimism for Democrat Beto O’Rourke in his bid to unseat Republican Ted Cruz in the US Senate. More than 4.5 million people cast early in-person ballots and nearly 370,000 mailed in their…
Democrats have a seven-point advantage over Republicans in voter preferences for the House of Representatives heading into Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to new polls. It’s not clear whether that will be enough to allow them to take back control of…
There has always been a strong touch of theatre to Bernard-Henri Lévy. Known as B.H.L., the French philosopher, public intellectual, timber-fortune scion, style icon (he is the patron saint of the unbuttoned collar), and occasional punching bag (Garrison Keillor once…
In an “absolute nightmare,” as they ultimately branded the court case, Paul and Iris from Britain were found guilty of inadvertently assisting Iran in its nuclear research, although both thought the formal destination for their dispatches of “nuts and bolts”…
