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Brazil election runoff takeaways: Bolsonaro surges, Lula falters and Trump eyes prizeBrazil is heading for another Lula-Bolsonaro showdown. But this time it is Jair Bolsonaro’s eldest son Flávio who stands between leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and another term in power. A Bolsonaro victory would push the region further towards the right, hand US President Donald Trump a powerful ideological ally in its largest country and…
A Galactic Nobel? Experts Float the International Space Station Among Contenders for the Peace PrizeSTAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Not-so-outlandish, prognosticators say: The Nobel Peace Prize this year could go galactic, with an award to the International Space Station. But terrestrial contenders loom too, including U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, emergency teams in Sudan, children’s advocates in Ukraine and two top…
Jack Smith's honesty and the truth on Trump's crimesFormer federal prosecutor Jack Smith, who led the Justice Department investigation into Donald Trump's 2020 election interference and the purloining of classified documents, laughed off a GOP Senate Judiciary Committee trap, part of their years-long effort to deny the basic truth that what Smith was investigating was real: Trump did in fact plan and act…
Trump will not win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, but he may influence who does, say expertsOSLO, Oct 1 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump will not win this year's Nobel Peace Prize as he wages war with Iran, but his influence will still be felt by the awarding body that picks the laureate, according to experts.Last year's award, to Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado, was unique in the prize's 125-year history, coming amid repeated lobbying by…
Trump denies offering Iran sanctions relief for nuclear concessionsBy Kanishka SinghWASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Monday denied offeringIran sanctions relief and the release of frozen funds in return for nuclear concessions from Tehran. DETAILS:• "This is untrue. I offered them NOTHING," Trump wrote on Truth Social, responding to anAxios report that cited US officials as saying that he was…
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Republican Redistricting in Texas and Florida May Not Turn Out as Trump Had HopedHARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — Eric Flores, a former federal prosecutor and Army National Guard infantry captain, was one of the Republican Party's prized recruits in this year's midterm elections. With help from a redrawn congressional map in Texas, he seemed primed to dislodge longtime Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez in a region that swung toward Donald…