Kate Middleton, 38, has praised the 31,000 images submitted to her Hold Still photography contest as ‘extraordinary’. The Duchess of Cambridge joined a judging panel to select the top 100.

“I don’t think that he does have a real shot,” said Jennifer Horn, former chair of the state’s Republican Party and a onetime congresswoman, citing polling data.

A long-running project to reintroduce brown bears to Italy is under intense scrutiny after a male bear attacked an off-duty police officer who was walking in the Dolomites at the weekend. Experts said it was the first time a male bear has attacked a human in the area — previous attacks were by females defending […]

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's pick of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate got a positive reception from Democrats. But what about the Republicans hoping to defeat President Trump this fall? Well, the GOP operatives behind the Lincoln Project approve, they signaled in a new ad released just hours after Biden announced […]

The co-founder of Republican anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project has called congressman Louie Gohmert ”America’s craziest and dumbest congressman”, following confirmation he tested positive for coronavirus.Steve Schmidt co-founded the Republican political action committee that is aiming to prevent the reelection of Donald Trump, alongside George Conway, the husband of the president’s adviser Kellyanne Conway.

Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean answer questions as frankly as they are able about their weekend piece: what was in it, what left out, and what was “corrected.” Both don’t shy away from the “crash-retrievals” element in their report. About 24:30 into the interview the 800-pound gorilla “walk-back” of Senator Harry Reid’s portion is addressed. […]

* Republican gives interview to Arkansas Democrat-Gazette * Senator wants to ‘save’ US history from New York TimesThe Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton has called the enslavement of millions of African people “the necessary evil upon which the union was built”.Cotton, widely seen as a possible presidential candidate in 2024, made the comment in an […]

Swiss drugmaker Lonza sees no delays for its project to make Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate and has “strong support” from U.S. President Donald Trump to get the necessary manufacturing equipment, its chairman said. Chairman Albert Baehny had earlier raised concerns that hiring qualified staff and finding gear like bioreactors on short notice could snarl aggressive […]

On Tuesday, the Lincoln Project, a conservative political action committee formed in late 2019, released an ad titled “Whispers,” which suggests those in President Trump’s inner circle are secretly mocking him. This is the latest in a series of attack ads produced and distributed by the committee, whose members include George Conway, Steve Schmidt and […]

(Bloomberg) — To be an energy superpower, U.S. oil and gas requires a suitably gargantuan pipeline network that stretches for millions of miles. The country’s ability to expand that infrastructure is being tested like never before.In what’s possibly the biggest victory yet for an environmental movement targeting the conduits carrying fossil fuels, Dominion Energy Inc. […]