Mitch McConnell warns Trump to avoid ‘isolationist’ foreign policy in second term

Repub­li­cans’ out­go­ing US Sen­ate leader takes issue with for­eign pol­i­cy think­ing in party’s Maga move­ment Mitch McConnell, the Repub­li­cans’ out­go­ing leader in the US Sen­ate, has called on Don­ald Trump to avoid an “iso­la­tion­ist” for­eign pol­i­cy dur­ing his loom­ing sec­ond pres­i­den­cy – and urged him to back up a surge in Amer­i­can “hard pow­er” by…

Poll: Most Americans want US leadership on global affairs, increased defense spending

PENTAGON  — A major­i­ty of Amer­i­cans want the Unit­ed States to lead on the glob­al stage with a strong mil­i­tary, and a super­ma­jor­i­ty want to increase nation­al defense spend­ing, accord­ing to the lat­est Rea­gan Nation­al Defense Sur­vey. Despite Amer­i­cans elect­ing a pres­i­dent who ran on an “Amer­i­ca First” agen­da that focused on domes­tic issues rang­ing from…

Though voter fraud rare, US election offices feature safeguards to catch it

NEW YORK — You’ve heard the hor­ror sto­ries: Some­one cast­ing mul­ti­ple bal­lots, peo­ple vot­ing in the name of dead rel­a­tives, mail-in bal­lots being inter­cept­ed.  Vot­er fraud does hap­pen occa­sion­al­ly. When it does, we tend to hear a lot about it. It also gets caught and pros­e­cut­ed.  The nation’s mul­ti­lay­ered elec­tion process­es pro­vide many safe­guards that keep…

Key Black Muslim group backs Kamala Harris for president over Gaza stance

Black Mus­lim Lead­er­ship Coun­cil Fund says Har­ris has ‘shown more sym­pa­thy towards the peo­ple of Gaza’ than Biden or Trump Kamala Har­ris has won the back­ing for her pres­i­den­tial bid of a key US Mus­lim orga­ni­za­tion that had declined to endorse Joe Biden before he with­drew from his re-elec­­tion cam­paign. The switch to Har­ris was a…

Chuck Schumer lauds Senate’s ‘greatest achievement in years’ as foreign aid bill passes – video

The US Sen­ate has vot­ed resound­ing­ly by 79 to 18 to approve $95bn in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Tai­wan, as a bipar­ti­san super-major­i­­ty unit­ed to send the long-stalled pack­age to Joe Biden’s desk for sig­na­ture. The bill was approved after pro­ceed­ings that were hailed by the Sen­ate major­i­ty leader, Chuck Schumer, as ‘one of…