#political-controversies

#political-controversies

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has removed content highly critical of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton amid his primary win against Sen. John Cornyn (R-SC). Paxton quickly toppled Cornyn on Tuesday night in a primary runoff election after Paxton received President Donald Trump's endorsement. Cornyn was first elected to the Senate in 2002, but the president had lashed out at him as disloyal to the administration and his MAGA movement.

Members are struggling to accept the party is no longer the dominant force it once was Fianna Fáil's official history airbrushes over a few items of "unpleasantness" over the last century - from Dev having his old IRA comrades executed, on to the Arms Trial, through Charlie Haughey's Charvet shirts, stopping by Bertie Ahern's racing tips and bypassing the blame for the economic crash.

He combined social media-era lingo, campus activism and a readiness to embrace controversies to drive young conservatism. Conservative American activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday at a university event in Utah. Kirk, 31, was a close ally of United States President Donald Trump and was widely credited for helping galvanise support for the Republican Party and Trump's MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement among American youth, including through regular engagements with university students.

In a 2003 letter to Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump allegedly included a drawing of a naked woman, with pubic hair shaped from his signature, raising eyebrows.