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President Donald Trump plans to use a key address Wednesday to try to convince Americans he can make housing more affordable, but he's picked a strange backdrop for the speech: a Swiss mountain town where ski chalets for vacations cost a cool $4.4 million.On the anniversary of his inauguration, Trump is flying to the World Economic Forum in Davos - an annual gathering of the global elite - where he may see many of the billionaires he has surrounded himself with during his first year back in the White House.

My constituents in Brentwood and Ongar, along with over a million people across the country, have made their views clear on this Labour Government - the most unpopular in history. They have broken promise after promise and carried out U-turn after U-turn. It is clear that people are crying out for a credible alternative. Only Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives have the team and the plan to deliver the change this country needs.

The prime minister sought to rally his cabinet on Tuesday, telling them to ignore the polls and to prepare to take on Nigel Farage's Reform UK. But sources said that in a presentation by chief of staff Morgan McSweeney, ministers were told the government needed to gain back voters' trust with three Es, emotion, empathy and evidence. One source said McSweeney warned that the government had a deficit in emotion, though a No 10 source denied he had used that phrase.

On Wednesday, the president gave a primetime address stating that the country's current economic woes are due to the policies of former Democratic President Joe Biden. Earlier this month, Trump visited the swing state of Pennsylvania with a similar message blaming the previous administration for the challenges his administration is currently experiencing and saying that he is igniting an economic turnaround.

(Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP) Former Fox News host and author Steve Hilton jumped into the lead in California's jungle primary for governor, in which the two top candidates from both parties will advance to the general election. The new poll from FM3, commissioned by the moderate Democratic Party group California Issues Forum, has Hilton with a one-point lead over Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who are both tied at 17%.

At a Conservative donors event last week, Kemi Badenoch was asked for a selfie by the former Spice Girl Geri Horner. The Tory leader was, her allies say, a little bemused by the approach. But they were clear about what it meant: cut-through. Badenoch's leadership got off to a poor start. Still reeling from the Tories' worst general election defeat, she took over a diminished and disheartened party, which was languishing in the polls

I inherited a MESS from the Biden Administration The Worst Inflation in History, and the Highest Prices our Country has ever seen. In other words, Affordability, just 13 months ago, was a DISASTER for the American People, but now, it's totally different! Prices are coming down FAST, Energy, Oil and Gasoline, are hitting five year lows, and the Stock Market today just hit an All Time High.

Pressley has not officially entered the race or clearly indicated that she intends to do so. But she is reportedly considering a run and quietly speaking to allies about the possibility. Pressley, 51, could make a similar age-related argument as Moulton. She is also one of the most notable progressives in the House of Representatives, and could eat away at Markey's more left-leaning base of support. The poll results released this week could further embolden her.

You know, this is a poll that came out yesterday, a Marquette University Law School poll, and I don't think it picked up enough coverage that it should have, because these numbers should be truly frightening to Republicans. Why do I point it out? Why do I say that? Okay, Dems versus Republicans on the generic congressional ballot. If you look at all voters, this matches the average. You see Democrats up by five points.

It's hard to argue you care about the working class while you're fighting to not fund SNAP payments. It's hard to argue Democrats are to blame for the shutdown when your party controls all of Congress. It's hard to argue prices are coming down everywhere when they're obviously going up for coffee, orange juice, ground beef, energy and housing.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa kept busy throughout Election Day on Tuesday, hopping between different polling sites and campaigning with GOP officials. REUTERS/Ryan Murphy Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa kept busy throughout Election Day on Tuesday, with the red beret-wearing Guardian Angels founder hopping between different polling sites and campaigning with GOP officials. Sliwa is polling last out of the race's three major candidates he is running against Democratic nominee and Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens) and independent candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lost to Mamdani in the primary. Mamdani is leading Cuomo in most polls by double digits, while both Cuomo and Mamdani remain well ahead of Sliwa, who is polling between 10 and 25%.

With polls closing in the 2025 NYC mayoral election in a little more than 48 hours, two new polls show the race continuing to tighten but with very different margins between the Democratic frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and independent candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. An AtlasIntel survey, appearing in the New York Post on Nov. 1, shows Mamdani's lead over Cuomo has narrowed to just 6.6 points, the slimmest edge he has had since July, the news outlet wrote. This is the first time Mamdani has had a single-digit lead; an Oct. 27 Suffolk University survey that had the Independent 10 points behind Mamdani in the race, 44% to 34%.

A Fox News poll released October 30 found Mamdani leading with 47 percent among likely voters, followed by Cuomo at 31 percent and Sliwa with 15 percent. Among registered voters, Mamdani drops slightly to 45 percent and Sliwa rises to 16 percent while Cuomo holds at 31 percent. The poll surveyed 971 New York City likely voters from October 24 to October 28.

My boss, the Gazette's national editor, was Brian Kappler, strawberry blond and in his forties, viewed with suspicion among my fellow Serious Young Reporters because he was unfashionably conservative (he liked Rush Limbaugh's radio show) and sometimes not serious (he earned good side-gig money moonlighting as the paper's celebrity gossip columnist, using the pen name Doug Camilli). But I liked Kappler fine.

NEW YORK CITY - Nearly 300,000 New Yorkers have cast their vote in the mayoral general election during the first four days of early voting, according to data from the city board of elections. In four days of early voting, Brooklyn has seen the highest turnout among the five boroughs, with over 92,000 ballots cast, followed by Manhattan with 89,000. Queens came in third with nearly 69,000 votes cast. The Bronx had around 25,000 votes cast and Staten Island saw 22,400 votes cast.

A new survey from Marist College released on Thursday showed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo gaining ground on Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani but it also indicates Mamdani is inching closer to securing majority support among voters. The Marist poll, released at midnight Thursday, gives Mamdani a 15-point edge on Cuomo among likely voters with less than a week until the Nov. 4 general election and amid early voting.

July 16: Independent TD Catherine Connolly announces her bid to become president. She is supported by Independents, the Social Democrats and People Before Profit. August 14: Fine Gael presidential candidate Mairead McGuinness withdraws from the race. The former European Commissioner takes the decision on medical advice. September 2: Former minister Heather Humphreys is confirmed as the new Fine Gael candidate, with MEP Sean Kelly dropping out of the party race.

Rival Heather Humphreys trailing behind in pre-election poll, but over-65s back her Young voters are on course to send Catherine Connolly to Áras an Uachtaráin if they turn out at the polls today. New polling data shows the Galway woman has a massive lead over her rival among voters under 34. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with all the latest news