In less than three weeks, Republican voters in the Midwestern state of Iowa will attend caucus meetings to express their preference in the race for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. Iowa will be the first test in what could be a lengthy battle for the party nomination that at the moment appears to be between [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
Governor calls for suspension over drum major’s hazing death
Florida‘s governor wants the president of Florida AM University suspended amid multiple investigations spurred by a drum major’s death. Republican Rick Scott called the chairman of the FAMU board on Thursday and asked him to suspend James Ammons immediately. The board met last week and discussed suspending Ammons, but instead voted to publicly reprimand him. [...]
December 11, 2011
US Republicans Debate in Iowa
U.S. Republican presidential candidate hopefuls held a debate Saturday in the central U.S. city of Des Moines, Iowa – the state that will hold the party’s first nominating event in less than a month. Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, has recently emerged as the front-runner in the race. [...]
December 11, 2011
Republican rivals in Iowa debate
11 December 2011 Last updated at 06:11 GMT Mr Romney (left) challenged another contender to a $10,000 bet Republican presidential hopefuls have taken part in a televised debate in the US state of Iowa. Newt Gingrich, the new frontrunner, fought off heavy attacks from rivals who portrayed him as a Washington insider and questioned his [...]
December 11, 2011
Palestinians tell Gingrich to learn history after ‘invented people’ claim
New Gingrich’s interview. Palestinian officials have reacted with dismay after the Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich said Palestinians were an “invented” people. The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, said Gingrich was denying “historical truths”. Gingrich said in an interview with The Jewish Channel that Palestinians were not a race of people because they had never [...]
December 11, 2011
Palestinians Slam Remarks by US Presidential Candidate
Palestinians have expressed outrage at Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who described them as an “invented people.” During an interview with the Jewish Channel, a cable television channel in the United States, Gingrich departed from official American policy which supports the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. “There was no Palestine as a state,” [...]
December 10, 2011
Gingrich and Romney trade barbs
10 December 2011 Last updated at 03:08 GMT Polls showing Newt Gingrich leading by a wide margin have thrust his campaign into the spotlight Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich have hit back at his main rival Mitt Romney. A day after Mr Romney’s campaign set its backers on Mr Gingrich, an ally of [...]
December 10, 2011
December 9, 2011
Pro-Romney Iowa ads hit Gingrich
9 December 2011 Last updated at 03:08 GMT Newt Gingrich now leads opinion polls by a wide margin in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida A group supporting Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is beginning a $3.1m (£2m) ad campaign with an Iowa attack on chief rival and new front-runner Newt Gingrich. The campaign comes after [...]
December 9, 2011
Romney points attacks at Gingrich
8 December 2011 Last updated at 22:56 GMT Newt Gingrich now leads opinion polls by a wide margin in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida Key backers of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney have slammed the leadership and conservative record of chief rival New Gingrich. Missouri Senator Jim Talent and New Hampshire Governor John Sununu said [...]
December 8, 2011
Republican candidates appeal to pro-Israel vote at coalition forum
Republican presidential candidates made a prolonged pitch for the pro-Israel vote on Wednesday with calls for regime change in Iran and even hints at military action. Newt Gingrich, the leading Republican contender who holds a double digit lead in three of the first four states to hold nomination contests, backed his hawkish position by announcing [...]