Republican officials in the U.S. heaped praise on Argentina's new self-described 'anarcho-capitalist' leader, Javier Milei, after he was elected president Sunday.
Top FBI officials ordered an agent to scrub his Facebook page to delete anti-Trump vitriol before they would promote him to head the bureau's Miami field office, a whistleblower has told Congress.
In 2008, Citizens United, an incorporated, conservative advocacy group, was prohibited from paying to advertise or air a documentary movie critical of Hillary Clinton, at the time the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. The reason was a 2002 law prohibiting corporations from paying for communications that even mentioned candidates for federal office. Citizens United sued, and eventually, in January 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations have a right to advocate the election or defeat of candidates.
WILL STARS ALIGN FOR HALEY IN BIZARRE GOP CONTEST? The political world spends a lot of time discussing former President Donald Trump's lead over the Republican field in national polls — currently at 44.5%, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls. But of course the race will unfold as a series of state contests, beginning in Iowa on Jan. 15, New Hampshire on Jan. 23, Nevada on Feb. 8, and South Carolina on Feb. 24. By then, Republicans should have a pretty good idea who their 2024 presidential nominee will be.