Canadian singer Celine Dion called out Donald Trump and JD Vance’s campaign for using her song “My Heart Will Go On” during a Republican rally without asking for authorization. “In no way is this use authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use,” she wrote in an X post on Saturday. … Read more
Trump explained that the debate was originally scheduled with Joe Biden on ABC before the incumbent president canceled his reelection campaign. Trump also cited a lawsuit he has against the broadcaster and one of its hosts, George Stephanopoulos, which created a “conflict of interest,” he wrote. Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum would … Read more
In a speech on Sunday to mark Russian navy day, Putin accused the U.S. of escalating tensions, saying “we will take mirror measures to deploy, taking into account the actions of the United States, its satellites in Europe and in other regions of the world,” Reuters reported. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty — signed in … Read more
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. It will figure prominently in the catalogue of extraordinary near-misses — a few inches difference and Donald Trump would likely not have survived Saturday’s assassination attempt by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. Trump is not the first incumbent or former U.S. president to have narrowly escaped would-be assassins … Read more
“Political violence has no place in a democracy,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on X, saying she was “deeply shocked by the shooting.” I am deeply shocked by the shooting that took place during former President Trump’s campaign rally. I wish Donald Trump a speedy recovery and offer my condolences to the … Read more
The HodgeTwins, a content creator, advertised on X photos of T-shirts with the message “Fight! Fight! Fight!” and promising that “100% of profits from this shirt go to Trump’s campaign.” Another promo image showed a man wearing a shirt with the message: “Shooting Makes Me Stronger.” Another says “I Will Never Stop.” Caffeine & Kaspa, a … Read more
Mitterrand held office from 1981 to 1995 and remains France’s longest-ever serving president. He died in 1996 at the age of 79. The one where … Netanyahu feels nostalgic for Yeltsin Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mistakenly referred to his British counterpart Boris Johnson as Boris Yeltsin, the former (and very much dead) Russian president, at a … Read more
