Guatemala presidential candidate rushes to expand base beyond urban youth
Presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo won just 11% of the vote in Guatemala’s presidential election’s first round June 25
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Trump, amid legal perils, calls on GOP to rally around him as he threatens primary challenges
At a moment of growing legal peril, Donald Trump on Saturday ramped up his calls for his GOP rivals to drop out of the 2024 presidential race
A new challenger has emerged to Trump – and his extreme anti-woke message is working
Vivek Ramaswamy is now a serious player as the Republicans consider who will get their presidential nomination – his rise would have been unthinkable in a pre-Trump world, writes Andrew Feinberg
Trump rehearses defence over possible election lies charges at Pennsylvania rally
Also calls Biden a “dumb son of a b***h”
Alcoholic whose toddler daughter starved to death while he was passed out drunk jailed for 56 years
Jeffrey Exon, 47, was convicted in April over the death of his two-year-old daughter Aurora on January 5 2021
Donald Trump’s $475m ‘Hitler’ defamation lawsuit against CNN thrown out by federal judge
‘CNN’s statements while repugnant, were not, as a matter of law, defamatory,’ judge writes
Putin is downplaying skipping South Africa summit amid ICC warrant controversy
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday appeared to downplay not attending an economic summit in Johannesburg next month amid a controversy over an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court
Victims of Larry Nassar sue university over alleged ‘secret decisions’ in sex abuser’s case
The victims have accused MSU of holding secret votes that led to the university’s refusal to hand over more than 6,000 documents in the Nassar case
‘Poetic’: Trump takes stage in Iowa to song about going to prison
Twice-indicted ex-president gets on stage to the line ‘One could end up going to prison, one just might be president’ amid mounting legal woes
Most of Florida work group behind controversial new guidelines on African American history did not agree, report says
‘Most of us did not want that language,’ working group member says