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Former President Donald Trump slammed the 35 House Republican lawmakers that voted with Democrats to approve the January 6 commission, while also praising Democrats for sticking together. The bill to establish a commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was approved by a vote of 252-175 on Wednesday. Although GOP leaders have opposed the proposed commission, 35 Republicans voted in favor of the bill—which Democrats negotiated with Representative John Katko, a New York Republican. "See, 35 wayward Republicans—they just can't help themselves," Trump wrote on his new personal blog, From the Desk of Donald J. Trump. "We have much better policy and are much better for the Country, but the Democrats stick together, the Republicans don't," he added, praising the unity of the Democratic Party . "They don't have the Romney's, Little Ben Sasse's, and Cheney's of the world. Unfortunately, we do. Sometimes there are consequences to being ineffective and …

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The DNC lineup includes its party's biggest names like the Obamas as well as stars such as Billie Eilish, and — of course — Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Advertisement Joe Biden, Kamala Harris From left: former Vice President Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris | Credit: Andrew Harnik/AP/Shutterstock; Lorenzo Bevilaqua/Walt Disney Television/Getty The lineup for the 2020 Democratic National Convention has arrived. The Democratic Party has released the names of the speakers and musical performers who will appear at this week's virtual DNC , including primetime speeches from the Obamas and the Bidens. On Friday, the convention also announced remote musical performances from the likes of Billie Eilish and John Legend. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. The four-day …

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The results of two Ohio primaries came to a conclusion last night, potentially giving insight into where the parties stand before the midterm elections next year. In the Republican-leaning 15th district, former President Trump’s endorsement pick, Mike Carey, was successful. In the Left-leaning 11th district, the Democratic establishment candidate, Shontel Brown, beat the more progressive Nina Turner. Both races were seen by political pundits and experts as a look into how the parties are likely to position themselves going into 2022. After she lost to Brown, progressive Turner came out strong, blasting the moderate Brown and claiming that Americans have been on a “long justice journey through a desert of despair, indifference, inequality, and racism.” “Tonight my friends, we have looked across the promised land, but for this campaign, on this night, we will not cross the river,” she said. “Tonight our justice journey continues and I am proud to continue that journey …

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In the biggest speech of his political career, the former vice president decried "too much division" under incumbent Donald Trump, who soon responded on Twitter Advertisement joe biden Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden accepts the party's nomination on Thursday night | Credit: DNC2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told supporters Thursday night that, after three and a half years of "too much anger, too much fear, too much division," he plans to unite the country and move on from President Donald Trump . "Here and now, I give you my word," Biden, 77, said. "If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us, not the worst." Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow Following You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. Biden's acceptance speech for the nomination marked the close of the first …

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Alex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of appearing to do "nothing at all" to deliver independence after Michael Gove ruled out another referendum before the 2024 general election. The Alba Party leader said Ms Sturgeon's Government was wasting time "having discussions about discussions", while Westminster was already plotting to "rig the ballot". The former first minister said it was "time to force the Scottish issue now" and get on with delivering a referendum rather than "have Michael Gove or Westminster dictating how Scotland is governed ". His intervention, in his weekly video message to Alba Party members, was the latest in a series of attacks he has made on Ms Sturgeon for failing to push home her claim for another referendum since the SNP's victory in last month's Holyrood election. He lashed out at his former protégé and successor after Mr Gove told The Telegraph this week that Boris Johnson would not grant another separation vote before the next general …

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Nicola Sturgeon has dismissed Alex Salmond's demand to be included in TV leaders' debates for the Holyrood election by suggesting his new Alba Party is too small to qualify. The First Minister said she does not get to decide who takes part in TV debates but she could not see how his party could meet the criteria set by broadcasters. In another jibe directed at her former mentor, she said he would be disappointed by the number of SNP defections to his party, with only two MPs and no MSPs jumping ship. Ms Sturgeon said she did not want to spend "too much time talking about a party that doesn't look, on early polling, as if it's going to get any MSPs elected ". But she also attacked Mr Salmond's claim that Alba and the SNP could together win a "super-majority" in the Holyrood chamber by manipulating the voting system, with nationalists voting SNP in their constituencies and for his party on the regional list. He claimed this strategy could deliver a Holyrood chamber with 70 …

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Alex Salmond has been accused of being an "apologist for the Putin regime" after three times refusing to say whether he believed Russia was responsible for the Salisbury nerve agent attack. The former first minister, who hosts a TV show on the Kremlin-funded channel RT (Russia Today), said people could judge the evidence on whether Vladimir Putin’s regime was behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. But he repeatedly refused to say whether he accepted the verdict of Britain's intelligence services that a GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) assassination squad orchestrated the attempted murder of Mr Skripal in Salisbury in March 2018. Colonel Skripal, a former GRU colonel turned MI6 spy, and his daughter survived the nerve agent attack but Dawn Sturgess was killed after she inadvertently picked up discarded Novichok concealed in a perfume bottle. Mr Salmond also dismissed as "very slight" evidence that the Putin regime interfered in the 2016 …

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Why does Scottish nationalism get a free pass from the Left? After all, the usual woke party line is that nationalists are prejudiced rabble-rousers. Radical politicians and academics are fond of quoting Albert Einstein: “Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.” Yet the same radicals, on both sides of the border, often hail Nicola Sturgeon as an enlightened, modern, progressive leader. Where British withdrawal from the EU was seen as the work of populist bigots, Scottish withdrawal from the UK is seen as a reasonable democratic aspiration. BBC presenters can’t mention French or American or Japanese nationalism without pursing their lips. But Scottish nationalism , like Irish nationalism, is treated as a legitimate option. The reason, it seems to me, is that, for a certain kind of Leftist, victimhood is the supreme virtue, trumping internationalism. Hence the election video put out last week by Alex Salmond’s new party, Alba. Narrated by Angus Macfadyen, who …

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Nicola Sturgeon has warned that she may only initially lift international travel restrictions for Scots who want to go abroad to meet family, and not sunseekers wanting a foreign holiday. The First Minister told a BBC One Scotland Holyrood election leaders' debate that she would consider the UK Government's traffic light scheme , which may allow holidaymakers to fly from English airports to Europe's top holiday destinations from next month. But she warned she was prepared to maintain restrictions on flying from Scotland's airports "for a little bit longer" to allow her to "open up much greater normality domestically". Ms Sturgeon said: "It may be that restrictions on international travel are the price we have to pay for that, and when we do open up we focus on family reunification before holidays". Although she said she wanted a deal on common arrangements with the UK Government and her Welsh and Northern Irish counterparts, she said it had to be "on the right four nations …

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There isn’t going to be another referendum. That remained the firm view of Scottish Tories on Saturday night as Nicola Sturgeon failed by the narrowest of margins to win the 65 seats that would have given her the overall majority she desired in the Scottish Parliament. By holding onto highly marginal seats at opposite ends of the country, and with the help of one staunch Union-backing Labour MSP, they left the otherwise victorious nationalists marooned and one seat short of what she regarded as the overwhelming mandate she says should force Boris Johnson to agree to another referendum on independence. And there is no doubt … it was unofficial tactical voting what did it, as it did for stalwart Labour Unionist Jackie Baillie in Dumbarton as well as several Tories. Surely now Labour and Lib Dem leaders have finally got the message to draw up a pact that will prosper against the separatists’s bid to smash the United Kingdom. They both turned down a proper deal this time. Never …

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