Matt McDonald is the managing editor of The Spectator’s US edition.
Stephanie Clifford, the adult film star and director who performs under the name Stormy Daniels, took the stand in Donald Trump’s ‘hush-money’ trial in Manhattan today, vividly describing the sexual encounter between them in 2006. Unlike with previous witnesses, where Trump has seemed tired or disengaged, the former president paid close attention to Daniels’s testimony,
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The UK foreign secretary then heads to DC
Washington, DC Earlier this month, the video app TikTok started sending urgent push notifications to its 170 million American users. ‘Congress is planning a total ban of TikTok,’ it said. ‘Speak up now.’ The company called on TikTokers to defend their ‘constitutional right to free expression’ and provided a handy link so that ‘businesses, creators
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Is help on the way?
The United States is heading for a Donald Trump vs Joe Biden rematch in this year’s presidential election. US leader Joe Biden is the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party after his victory overnight in the Georgia primary pushed him passed the threshold of 1,968 delegates. Donald Trump also passed the threshold of 1,215 delegates to
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‘I believe that the American people will choose to keep us moving into the future,’ the president said
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A Trump-Biden rematch is all but guaranteed
‘Oh, that’s Liz Truss,’ a conservative reporter says as the former British prime minister passes us in the corridor at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). ‘She sucks. What’s she doing here?’ Trying to sell books, apparently. Truss is one of two Brits – alongside mainstay Nigel Farage – addressing CPAC. Her visit forms part
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‘It’s great to be here and get the fresh injection of conservative energy — we need it,’ she told a half-full room
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Gaza casts its shadow over the Granite State
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For this special Americano podcast, Freddy Gray is in New Hampshire with the Spectator US team, Matt McDonald and Zach Christenson covering the chilly primaries. Are both Ron De Santis and Nikki Haley’s defeat a foregone conclusion?
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The outspoken outsider has been outlasted by Haley and DeSantis
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Can the Republicans learn that in the next year?
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Justin Lee of Montgomery County faces felony offenses of civil disorder and assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers
Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as the House speaker after losing a vote 216-210, becoming the first speaker ever to lose his role through a vote and the shortest serving speaker to date. Florida congressman Matt Gaetz had forced the motion to vacate, due to his dissatisfaction with the deal McCarthy struck at the weekend to avoid a
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His surrogates disagree
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…at least, his fellow candidates in Milwaukee sure did
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Is ‘I’ve qualified for the debate’ the new ‘I’ve won the election?’
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This is the fourth Trump indictment this year
Americans awoke on Sunday morning to find themselves bathing in wave after wave of schadenfreude. In Melbourne, the unthinkable had happened: the US Women’s National Team had been defeated – and eliminated from the football World Cup. The online criticism was unrelenting. ‘They really are equal to the men’s team,’ said The Spectator World’s Stephen L.
