Climate change skepticism and denial

U.S. Republican front-runner Donald Trump expressed confidence on Jan. 23 that he could push back attempts by his rivals to knock him off his top perch, saying he could stand on New York's Fifth Avenue "and shoot somebody," and still not lose voters. 

Britain's opposition leader invited U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who sparked an outcry by calling for a ban on Muslims from entering the United States, to join him on a visit to a London mosque. 

American billionaire Donald Trump, the dominant  Republican no one can stop talking about heading into the 2016 presidential election, is leaving his rivals far behind in the polls.
 

People who reject Syrian refugees are the "best allies" of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants and other extremists, the United Nations refugee chief said on Dec. 21 after U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed an entry ban on foreign Muslims.

The activist hacking group Anonymous launched an operation against Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Friday taking down the website for Trump Tower in New York City.

Shortly after the hack, a Twitter account associated with Anonymous group confirmed the attack, saying the takedown was a “statement against racism and hatred.”

Donald Trump, the American businessman turned presidential hopeful, threw out another provocation the other day. He argued there must be a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." He, in other words, advanced a religion-based exclusion to normally one of freest countries in the world. 

Ben Carson has placed first in a recent national Republican presidential primary poll, pushing Donald Trump into second place for the first time since June. 

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, received 26 percent of the support in the New York Times/ CBS News poll released on Oct. 27 morning.