The Republican National Committee’s first-ever midterm convention enters its second and final day on Thursday in Dallas. Vice President JD Vance is set to deliver the keynote address and President Donald Trump will then close the event. Delegates wave American flag signs on the second day of the 2026 Republican National Convention at the American … Read more
President Donald Trump is heading into the 2026 midterms with two important White House jobs about to open. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving at the end of August, while James Braid, Trump’s director of legislative affairs, will leave in September. The timing is crucial because the White House is entering a busy period for … Read more
Iran’s embassy in South Africa has promoted a claim linking Karoline Leavitt’s resignation as White House press secretary to a reported deception involving President Donald Trump’s departure from Turkey. Karoline Leavitt’s resignation has drawn fresh attention after Iran linked her exit to claims surrounding Trump’s reported “decoy plane” operation. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) But the … Read more
Karoline Leavitt and her husband Nicholas Riccio have drawn attention because of their 32-year age gap and the unusual way their relationship began. The couple first met in 2022 while Leavitt was campaigning for Congress in New Hampshire, later becoming engaged in December 2023 and marrying in January 2025. Leavitt, 28, is now preparing to … Read more
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt The TOI correspondent from Washington: For a White House that has never been shy about deploying its best-looking and sharpest tongue, Karoline Leavitt was something of a two-for-one political bargain: the photogenic face of the Trump White House, vaporising critical reporters with verbal volleys before they finished the question. … Read more