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☆ In Brazil, the US election is inspiring hard-right ‘Trump of the tropics’ supporters to ‘complete our mission’
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Julia Vargas Jones | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Since President-elect Donald Trump’s political comeback on Tuesday, Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters have celebrated his victory as their own. In many ways, nowhere has Trump’s political strategy been more rigorously mirrored than in Brazil. At the Trump watch party in Mar-a-Lago on election night, Donald Trump Jr. posed for a photo with his Brazilian counterpart, former first son and congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro. Eduardo Bolsonaro, member of the Brazil Chamber of Deputies, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Feb. 24, 2024. Eduardo spearheaded the creation of CPAC Brasil, a Brazilian adaptation of the US Conservative Political Action Conference.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Brazil’s, Jair Bolsonaro, Bolsonaro, Trump, Trump’s, “ Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Eduardo, Steve Bannon, Matt Schlapp, Bannon, ” Bannon, “, Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos, Nikolas Ferreira, Jose Luis Magana, María Elvira Salazar, Jason Miller, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Evaristo Sa, ”, Ferreira, it’s, Trump “ Organizations: CNN, Trump, CNN Brasil, American Conservative Union, United Nations, Organization of American, Conservative Political, Brazil’s, Elon, US Conservative Political, Conservative - Liberal Institute, Congress, Getty Locations: Brazil, Mar, Lago, United States, ”, Organization of American States, Oxon Hill , Maryland, Florida, Brasil, Brasilia, AFP, Washington

President Donald Trump and his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, in Quantico, Va., on Dec. 15, 2017. “Please beware that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials." Since leaving the Trump administration, Clark has argued that the attorney general should not be independent. Davis told NBC News that he does not expect he would fill the role of acting attorney general but that another Trump ally could. Donald Trump, left, and Attorney General William Barr at the White House on May 22, 2019.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, “ Trump, ”, Stephen Gillers, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Sessions, Evan Vucci, ” Trump, “, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Jack Smith, Barack Obama, Liz Cheney, Richard Nixon’s, Robert Mueller, general’s, Jeffrey Clark, Jose Luis Magana, Clark, Russ Vought, —, ” Clark, Mike Davis, Sen, Chuck Grassley, Neil Gorsuch, ” Davis, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Davis, General Merrick Garland’s, Trump’s, Stephen Richer, ” Richer, Ilya Somin, Gene Hamilton, William Barr, Chip Somodevilla, Hamilton, ” Gillers, Zuckerberg Organizations: of Justice, New York University Law School, ”, and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control, WIN, Political, Illegal Voters, Democratic National Convention, Republican, Justice Department, White, White House, Democratic, Trump, Conservative Political, DOJ, “, Supreme, Washington , D.C, NBC News, Trump DOJ, Capitol, D.C, FBI, George Mason University, Partisan, America, NYU Locations: Quantico, Va, Oxon Hill, Md, America, Iowa, Washington ,, Albany , Atlanta, New York City, Palm Beach, Phoenix, Fort Pierce , Florida, Lago, Maricopa County , Arizona

☆ JD Vance: Why Europe looks at Trump’s VP pick with anxiety
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Many of America’s closest allies were already dreading the prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now that the former president has picked JD Vance as his running mate, they potentially have a lot more to worry about. By choosing Vance, Trump has sent a clear signal that, if elected, his America-first foreign policy will be back in force. “JD Vance does not appear to be interested in being a good ally to Europe,” Berzina said. I think Russia has incentive to come to the table right now.

Persons: America’s, Donald Trump’s, JD Vance, Vance, Trump, ”, Kristine Berzina, “ JD Vance, ” Berzina, Putin, Vance’s, “, Sergey Lavrov, Lavrov, Volodymyr Zelensky, CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, Zelensky, Jose Luis Magana, China Vance, we’re, ” Vance, Trevor McCrisken, you’ve, Ukraine that’s, ” McCrisken, ” Sam Greene, Biden, Greene, Joe Biden, ” Greene, –, Nikki Haley Organizations: CNN, Trump, NATO, Labour, Marshall Fund of, United, Munich, Conference, United Nations, Conservative Political, East, Fox News, New York Times, Patriot, University of Warwick, Republicans, Democratic, Center for, King’s College London, Republican, Republican Party Locations: America, Ohio, Ukraine, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, Washington, Europe, Russian, Munich, Oxon Hill, China, East Asia, Beijing, Taiwan, Asia, Czech, UN

☆ Lidl closes 11 stores as it struggles in the US. See the full list.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

German grocer Lidl opened its first US stores in 2017. It closed 11 underperforming stores this week, according to various news reports. Lidl, whose US headquarters are in Virginia, closed 11 stores recently in North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, South Carolina, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, the Daily Mail first reported. Lidl has roughly 170 stores in the US and over 12,000 stores worldwide. According to Grocery Business, here are the locations of the 11 recently closed Lidl locations.

Persons: Lidl, Chandler Spivey, Spivey, Sebastian Rennack, Rennack, Cary, Randolph St, King of Prussia, Florence Virginia, Richmond Organizations: Service, Aldi, Daily Mail, D.C, Grocery, Grocery Business, Brooklyn Park, King of Prussia South Locations: Virginia, Wall, Silicon, North Carolina , Virginia , New Jersey, South Carolina , Maryland, Pennsylvania, East, North Carolina, Washington, Lorton , Virginia, Germany, Europe, American, Maryland, Oxon, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park New Jersey, Howell, Holly, Burlington Township North Carolina, Thomasville Pennsylvania, Dekalb Pike, King of Prussia South Carolina, North Augusta, Palmetto St, Charlottesville, Broad St

A meeting of the word panel was held on Sunday at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., to finalize the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee words. Here is a guide to the rules for the Scripps National Spelling Bee — and their small changes for this year’s competition, including a shorter allotted time to answer. A speller advances through them by correctly spelling a word and answering a multiple-choice question about its meaning. After the pronouncer says the spelling word, the clock starts. If one speller is correct, that person will be given a spelling word drawn from the Championship Word List.

Persons: spellers, Corrie Loeffler, “, ”, Jacques A . Bailly, Loeffler, Merriam, Johnny Diaz Organizations: Scripps, Spelling, Webster Locations: Oxon Hill, Md

☆ Nikki Haley's road to the White House will be difficult, but she has a key polling advantage her rivals lack.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Nikki Haley faces a number of challenges — namely Donald Trump — as she runs for the White House. But the former governor still has the potential to overcome her current standing as the Republican primary season heats up. And if it works, she could position herself as a forward-thinking leader who can move the GOP past the tumult of the 2020 presidential election. And in a mid-March Morning Consult poll, Haley's favorability among GOP voters sat at 47%, while only 16% had an unfavorable view of her; roughly 1 in 5 respondents said they were unfamiliar with the ex-governor. AP Photo/Alex BrandonA push to move beyond the 2020 electionSince November 2020, Trump has continued to question his election loss, alleging voter fraud despite no evidence of widespread malfeasance.

☆ At right-wing CPAC forum, Trump shows why he'll be tough to topple
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( James Oliphant | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/4] Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at Gaylord National Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., March 4, 2023. The three-day conference illustrated the iron grip he holds over the right-wing, grassroots base of his party and how hard it could be for a challenger to deny Trump the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. DeSantis also attended a gathering for Republican donors in Florida held by the anti-tax group Club for Growth to which Trump was not invited. In his remarks, Bannon maintained that Trump should be the Republican nominee, saying DeSantis and other potential challengers lacked experience. Trump and DeSantis both are scheduled in the coming days to visit Iowa, which holds the first Republican nominating contest next year.

☆ Trump Ties and ‘Trumpinator’ T-shirts at CPAC—But Few 2024 Challengers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Alex Leary | John Mccormick | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

OXON HILL, Md.—Lisa Olson-Marshke walked into Donald Trump’s office here and pulled up a seat behind his desk. On one side was a red “Make America Great Again” hat, along with a gold-wrapped chocolate bar that proclaimed, “Trump was right!”“It sort of felt like being there,” Ms. Olson-Marshke said of the mock Oval Office at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual four-day gathering that the former president will headline on Saturday as he accelerates his 2024 comeback campaign.

☆ CPAC Has Donald Trump Hats, ‘Trumpinator’ T-Shirts, but No Ron DeSantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Alex Leary | John Mccormick | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Trump tax returns to be released by U.S. House panel on Friday
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Yuri GripasDec 27 (Reuters) - Former Republican President Donald Trump's redacted tax returns will be made public on Friday, a spokesperson for the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee said on Tuesday. The committee released a report into its findings last week, which said the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) broke its own rules by not auditing Trump for three of the four years of his presidency. The documents to be released on Friday are expected to include Trump's tax returns filed between 2015 and 2021, the years he ran for and served as president. Trump's tax returns were not released alongside last week's report because they contained sensitive information that had to be redacted before publication, committee members said. Trump was the first presidential candidate in decades not to release his tax returns during either of his campaigns for president.

☆ Investors will reap billions if Kroger takes over Albertsons. Workers and shoppers may not be as happy.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Gretchen Morgenson | Gretchen Morgenson Is The Senior Financial Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. A Former Stockbroker | She Won The Pulitzer Prize In For Her | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

Wealthy investors in Safeway’s parent, Albertsons Companies, have done better. And next week, they were slated to reap a $4 billion cash dividend in connection with a proposed $25 billion takeover of Albertsons by rival Kroger. Based on that stake and the amount of the dividend, Cerberus stands to receive roughly $1 billion of the dividend payout. Six of Albertsons’ 14 directors who voted for the dividend are affiliated with the major investors. This is the last, best and final hope for a truly unionized chain.”Nervous about the pensionThe proposed $4 billion cash dividend is large by many measures.

☆ Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward asks Supreme Court to block release of phone records to Jan. 6 committee
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Lawrencehurley_Pic.Jpg | Lawrence Hurley | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON — Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to prevent her phone records from being disclosed to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot. Circuit Court of Appeals, rejected Ward's arguments that the subpoena issued by the committee should be blocked. The committee is currently only pursuing Kelli Ward's records. At the Supreme Court, Ward argued the subpoena violates her right to freedom of association under the Constitution's First Amendment. Those actions have come under scrutiny by the Justice Department as well as the Jan. 6 committee.

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