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Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — In what is set to be a historic clash of personality and policy, Joe Biden and Donald Trump will soon take the stage for the first presidential debate of [Read More…]

What do swing state voters want to hear from Biden and Trump at the presidential debate?

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — As President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump prepare to take the debate stage in Atlanta on Thursday night, voters across the key swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and [Read More…]

How much is Jamaal Bowman’s loss a warning for progressives?

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Progressive Democrats undeniably suffered their most significant defeat of the 2024 election cycle Tuesday when Rep. Jamaal Bowman lost his New York 16th Congressional District’s Democratic primary. What it means [Read More…]

Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement that shields Sackler family of liability

Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A narrowly divided Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision struck down a hard-fought bankruptcy plan for OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma that would have awarded $6 billion to state and local [Read More…]

‘This is not a time for applause’: Advocates on both sides of abortion issue slam SCOTUS ruling

Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — Despite the U.S. Supreme Court issuing a decision allowing emergency abortions in Idaho, many pro-abortion groups criticized Thursday’s ruling and said it was far from a win for abortion [Read More…]

How might the earliest presidential debate ever affect the election?

Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — The first presidential debate of the 2024 election will be the first ever to feature two former presidents, but that isn’t the only thing that makes it unprecedented: It’s [Read More…]

Potential Trump VP contenders at Atlanta debate to spin his performance, make their case

Samuel Corum/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As former President Donald Trump and his team continue to tease his vice presidential pick, his potential VP contenders were gathering in Atlanta Thursday to support the former president around [Read More…]

Supreme Court poised to issue major rulings on presidential immunity, Jan. 6

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court, nearing the end of its term, is poised to soon deliver rulings in high-profile cases on everything from presidential power to abortion access. The justices is releasing [Read More…]

Supreme Court allows emergency abortion access in Idaho for now

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling that will allow emergency abortion access in Idaho, for now, despite the state’s near-total ban on the procedure. The court dismissed the [Read More…]

Five things to watch in the first 2024 general election debate

A satellite truck is parked in front of a sign advertising the CNN presidential debate outside of their studios on June 25, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and [Read More…]

President Biden to pardon veterans convicted under regulation used to keep LGBT members from serving

President Joe Biden speaks at an event in the East Room at the White House, June 18, 2024, in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he will pardon U.S. [Read More…]

Biden administration’s asylum executive action decreased encounters by 40%: DHS

grandriver/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s executive action on asylum, which was rolled out three weeks ago, has decreased encounters along the border by 40%, the Biden administration said. The executive action established a [Read More…]

Hillary Clinton offers debate advice for Biden on how to handle Trump

In this Oct. 9, 2016 file photo Republican nominee Donald Trump (R) watches Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis. (Saul Loeb/POOL/AFP via Getty Images, FILE) (WASHINGTON) [Read More…]

Advocates renew calls for rule to require technology that prevents hot car deaths

Guido Mieth/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Across the street from the Department of Transportation’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., advocates working to prevent the deaths of children in hot cars recently hung 1,086 colorful infant onesies underneath [Read More…]

Three more states to vote in congressional primaries Tuesday

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Three more states are holding congressional primaries on Tuesday. Voters in Colorado, New York and Utah will cast ballots. The Beehive State will also vote in a gubernatorial primary. Colorado [Read More…]

Courts block aspects of Biden’s hallmark student loan repayment plan

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, April 8, 2024. (Daniel Steinle/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — In two court rulings Monday night, federal judges in Kansas and Missouri [Read More…]

Expensive New York primary race between Jamaal Bowman and George Latimer marks schism in Democratic Party

adamkaz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A historically expensive and fiercely contentious Democratic primary in New York’s 16th District has incumbent Rep. Jamaal Bowman fighting for his political future and has garnered national attention as a [Read More…]

Kate Cox, Texas woman who fled Texas to get an abortion, announces she’s pregnant at Dobbs event

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Kate Cox, a woman denied an emergency abortion last year in Texas, announced on Monday that she is pregnant again. Her news comes on the second anniversary of the Supreme [Read More…]

Three days before debate, Biden, Harris blast Trump on abortion rights on Dobbs anniversary