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While Republican Party leaders are stage-managing the first major-party convention of the summer in Milwaukee this week, their rivals are plotting to suck the life out of next month’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago-in what critics decry as a transparent effort to shut down debate about whether Joe Biden should be the party’s nominee.
On Monday the RNC’s Platform Committee adopted Donald Trump’s platform as the Republican Party platform for 2024 – and it’s been slimmed down from 66 pages to 20 bullet points. Trump’s major themes of securing the border and ending the migrant crime epidemic, requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship to vote, strengthening the military, […]
For the next seven days The Telegraph is running a series of exclusive essays from prominent international commentators imagining the consequences if Russia were successful in its war. The first, by former Ukrainian MP Aliona Hlivco, considers the devastating impact for the Nato alliance. Ukraine’s fight isn’t merely for its existence as a nation – […]
By Alden Bentley NEW YORK (Reuters) – Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries hit a record in May, the Treasury Department reported on Thursday, while a decline in Japan’s huge stockpile closely coincided with what appeared to be the start of intervention to support its currency. Holdings of U.S. Treasuries rose to $8.129 trillion in May […]