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Justin Trudeau has today blamed the US 'escalation' in the Middle East for the Iranian shoot-down of a passenger jet in an extraordinary swipe at Donald Trump. Echoing what Iranian officials have said, Trudeau said the dozens of Canadian crash victims would be 'home with their families' but for the tensions started by the US killing of Qassem Soleimani. The Canadian PM said the international community had to 'manage the tensions in the region that are brought about by US actions'. After initially denying involvement, Iran admitted on Saturday that it had shot down the jet in error just hours...

“The neocons in the Trump administration and Saudi Arabia and Netanyahu have created a situation where it is going to be very difficult for President Trump to avoid a war with Iran," she said. "They have built all the building blocks, placed the dynamite and lit the fuse. It is going to be up to Donald Trump and his leadership whether or not he is going to cut that fuse and say, 'Hey, we need to get back on track and put the interest of the American people in our country first.'" The Iraq War veteran also criticized Trump's recent...

With midterm elections right around the corner, people around the country are turning their eyes to high stakes races in states like Florida, West Virginia, and Nevada. Perhaps no race, though, has garnered more outside media attention than that of the Texas Senate election between incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Democrat Rep. Beto O’Rourke. “I honestly couldn’t point to anything. I’m not as educated as I would like to be.” While Cruz leads in most polls, O’Rourke has a decided lead amongst Millennials and college students.

<p>BURBANK, Calif. — Sarah Palin says she's going to play Tina Fey in an upcoming Las Vegas show.</p>

Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign said Barack Obama has resorted to “desperate logic” in argue his long campaign makes him more experienced than Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Obama said in an interview with CNN that he is more experienced than McCain’s running mate Palin because his campaign has a budget much larger that the small Alaska town where Palin was mayor. Tucker Bounds, a McCain spokesman, said in a statement that Obama's argument is "laughable." “For Barack Obama to argue that he’s experienced enough to be president because he’s running for president is desperate circular logic and it’s laughable,"...

What I want to know is, how did Hans Christian Andersen know about Barack Obama more than a century ago? Because Obama is straight out of Andersen's classic fairly tale, The Emperor's New Clothes. Old Hans Christian, who lived in Denmark from 1805 to 1875, had Obama's number down pat. All he needed was a good grasp of human nature. Nothing has changed. Pretentious frauds still parade down the boulevards of Copenhagen and Washington, D.C., and only little kids notice their nakedness. Nobody dares to snicker, for fear of being called a bad name. (You know the bad name everybody...

RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 26 first, Mike. I didn't know we'd get to this this early. I asked Cookie to put together a little montage here of all the stuttering around that Obama did in his press conference today and I want you to hear this because -- and we didn't repeat anything here. It goes 46 seconds, and we're doing this because we hear constantly, "What a great orator and a great communicator! Ohhhh, this man is smooth!" Just listen. This is a great illustration here of what happened when you take the teleprompter and your prepared...

Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady, yesterday launched her historic attempt to return to the White House as president with the bold declaration: "I'm in. And I'm in to win."The Democrat senator for New York, who aims to become the first woman to hold the nation's highest office, announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee, the final stage before a formal declaration, in a hard-hitting statement and video on her website. Mrs Clinton, 59, revealed her plans just five days after her main rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen Barack Obama, took the same step – as the most...

January 16, 2007 Obama To Announce On His Website Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has decided to run for president and will file exploratory committee papers later today, Democratic sources said. At 10:00 am ET, Obama will post a video announcement on his website. http://www.barackobama.com/main.php

Maybe Katie Couric never really had a chance this year to prove herself as the anchor of "The CBS Evening News." Fans, critics, bloggers, comrades and competitors had a field day throughout 2006, breathlessly complaining about everything under the sun. When rumors initially spread that CBS wanted her, the debate began heating up and seemed to take on a life of its own: Katie Would Be a Fresh Alternative and No, Katie Would Be a Disaster. She'd Lighten Up the News and She's Too Perky for 6:30 p.m. Then, on the air, Katie was Too Serious -- no, she was...

SCARE: EDWARDS PLANE ABORTS TAKEOFF John Edwards almost followed in the footsteps of Paul Wellstone and Mel Carnahan when his plane aborted take-off. An old favorite of the Democrats trying to eliminate weak candidates from their ticket ... Let's see how the conspiracy theorists try to link this one to President Bush...

RNC RESEARCHPOLL WATCH for May 30th, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEM VOTERS PREFER “NOT SURE” OR GORETwice As Many Dems Undecided As Support Frontrunners NATIONWIDE “Not Sure” Has Twice Support Of Top Dem Candidates. A CNN/Time Poll asked, “Thinking ahead to the 2004 presidential election, if you were asked to vote for a Democratic presidential nominee for president today, which of the following Democrats would you vote for?” Not sure. . . . . . 30% John Kerry . . . . . . 14 Joseph Lieberman . . . 13 Dick Gephardt. . . . . 13 Al Sharpton. . ....