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BREAKING: DOJ to investigate botched police response to Uvalde, Texas school massacre

Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina congressman ousted from office after President Donald Trump urged voters to reject him, is considering a run for president. Sanford, in an exclusive interview Tuesday with The Post and Courier, confirmed he will take the next month to formulate whether he will mount a potential run against Trump as a way of pushing a national debate about America’s mounting debt, deficit and government spending. He would run as a Republican.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld announced Monday he is officially entering the race for president, becoming the first Republican to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 race. "Ours is a nation built on courage, resilience, and independence. In these times of great political strife, when both major parties are entrenched in their 'win at all cost' battles, the voices of the American people are being ignored and our nation is suffering," Weld, who had previously formed an exploratory committee, said in a statement. "It is time for patriotic men and women across our great nation to stand and plant...

An alt-right event in Charlottesville, Virginia set for August 12th is drawing attention from political activists on both sides of the aisle. The Unite the Right Free Speech Rally is in response to the Antifa mobs cracking down on Americans’ First Amendment rights at the peaceful demonstration in support of a Robert E. Lee Monument on May 13. From the Facebook event’s page: “This is an event which seeks to unify the right-wing against a totalitarian Communist crackdown, to speak out against displacement level immigration policies in the United States and Europe and to affirm the right of Southerners and...

A new study by MIT has revealed that the quantities of nitrous oxide (N2O), otherwise known as laughing gas, being released by the world's oceans has been dramatically underestimated. Heightened levels of N2O have the potential to seriously influence the health of our planet's ozone layer, as the gas is around 300 times more potent than the more prevalent menace of carbon dioxide emissions.

The Islamic Republic of Iran considers "significant" the role of the Islamic Resistance Movement and the Lebanese political party Hezbollah, to safeguard stability in the Middle East, according to the chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy of the Iranian Parliament (Mayles) Alaedin Boruyerdi, in remarks published last Sunday by HispanTV. "Hezbollah is one of the most important factors in maintaining lasting peace and security in the region," said Boruyerdi. The President of the Commission also referred "in view of the strategic geographical position of Lebanon's enemies seeking to change the security in this country, and that is why...

The EU's hopes of becoming a defence superpower are looking less realistic, writes Ian Black. Americans were not at all amused a couple of years ago when a respected thinktank published a pamphlet analysing how the European Union should forge the common defence policies it hopes could help it play a bigger role on the world stage. The cover of the pamphlet was a clever pastiche of the iconic image of battle-weary US marines raising the stars and stripes on Iwo Jima, the Pacific island captured from the Japanese during bloody fighting in the second world war. But instead of...