John McCain

Voters venture into sub-zero temperatures Monday to kick off the U.S. Republican presidential nomination race with the Iowa caucuses, the first major test of whether front-runner Donald Trump can beat out rivals Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis.

From the moment he rode down the Trump Tower escalator to announce his first presidential campaign, a searing question has hung over the Republican Party: Is this the moment to break from Donald Trump?

Celebrity chef Rachael Ray's talk show will come to an end after 17 years, according to CBS.

"In my more than 20 plus years in television, I have had 17 wonderful seasons working in daytime television with Rachael.

However I've made the decision that's it's time for me to move on to the next exciting chapter in my broadcast career," said Ray in a news release from CBS.

Former US president Donald Trump campaigned on July 9 in Alaska for Sarah Palin, the northern state's former governor whose ascendency many view as the populist precursor to Trump's anti-elite movement.

The two firebrand politicians have both been key figures in the Republican party's shift over the past decade to target the aggrieved working class.

The Senate confirmed two prominent anti-Trump Republicans to serve in the Biden administration on Oct. 26 with former Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona approved to serve as the ambassador to Turkey and Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Sen. John McCain, approved to serve as the ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture.

Two Greek Scouts have received the inaugural John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada on behalf of all the residents of the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos for their "heroic support" of refugees.

Lesvos Mayor Spyros Galinos on Friday welcomed the decision to grant islanders the inaugural John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service for their response to the refugee crisis, describing it as an "international recognition of [their] sacrifice, courage and genuine solidarity."

The people of the Greek island of Lesvos are poised to receive the inaugural John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service for their response to the refugee crisis, Politico has reported.

According to its daily briefing, the American news site said that the announcement was made by Cindy McCain, the widow of the respected US statesman who died on August 25.

Senator John McCain's funeral was a landmark event. Someone wrote that it resembled a massive tweet against Donald Trump as eulogies by politicians and pundits were laden with innuendoes aimed at the American president.

As humanity tries to come to terms with the idea of Donald Trump being at the helm of the United States - the only superpower - the memorial service for Republican Senator John McCain in Washington on Saturday served as a reminder to the troubled planet that the eccentric president does not express modern America.