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Populist conservative and ex-NBA player Royce White shakes up US Senate primary race in Minnesota

Aug. 08, 2024 00:36 AM EDT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon surrendered at a federal prison in Connecticut, he asked an unconventional U.S. Senate candidate from Minnesota to stand at his side. Royce White, seeking the Republican nomination in next week's primary to challenge...

Russell Vought, a Project 2025 architect, is ready to shock Washington if Trump wins second term

Aug. 05, 2024 00:07 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russell Vought sounds like a general marshaling troops for combat when he talks about taming a “woke and weaponized” federal government. He recently described political opposition as “enemy fire that’s coming over the target,” while urging allies to be...

Steve Bannon's trial in border wall fundraising case set for December, after his ongoing prison term

Jul. 23, 2024 16:51 PM EDT

While Steve Bannon serves a four-month federal prison term, the conservative strategist now has a December date for a different trial in New York, where he's charged with scheming to con donors who gave money to build a border wall with Mexico. With Bannon excused from court because...

JD Vance charted a Trump-centric, populist path in Senate as he fought GOP establishment

Jul. 16, 2024 17:34 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Ohio Sen. JD Vance traveled to the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, he wasn’t there to reassure Europe and other global allies that America would aid Ukraine in its war against Russia, as all of the other senators were. Instead, Vance was...

Self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui convicted of defrauding followers after fleeing to US

Jul. 16, 2024 17:31 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Guo Wengui, a self-exiled Chinese business tycoon whose criticism of the Communist Party won him legions of online followers and powerful friends in the American conservative movement, was convicted by a U.S. jury Tuesday of engaging in a massive multiyear fraud that ripped off...

Kash Patel is pushing conspiracies and his brand. He's poised to help lead a Trump administration

Jul. 08, 2024 20:44 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kash Patel was recruiting foot soldiers. It was a Friday morning in February at one of America’s biggest conservative conventions, and Donald Trump’s trusted lieutenant was on center stage, pleading with the former president’s supporters to help the now...

Biden assails Project 2025, a plan to transform government, and Trump's claim to be unaware of it

Jul. 06, 2024 21:05 PM EDT

MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump has distanced himself from Project 2025, a massive proposed overhaul of the federal government drafted by longtime allies and former officials in his administration, days after the head of the think tank responsible for the program suggested there would be a second...

A conservative leading the pro-Trump Project 2025 suggests there will be a new American Revolution

Jul. 03, 2024 16:09 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The leader of a conservative think tank orchestrating plans for a massive overhaul of the federal government in the event of a Republican presidential win said that the country is in the midst of a “second American Revolution” that will be bloodless “if the left allows it to...

Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders to federal prison to serve 4-month sentence on contempt charges

Jul. 01, 2024 14:00 PM EDT

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon was taken into custody Monday after surrendering at a federal prison to begin a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack. Bannon arrived at...

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

Jun. 29, 2024 07:11 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del.; Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump; Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. ___ NBC's “Meet the Press” — Gov. Doug...