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After long delay, proceedings set to resume in Trump’s election interference case
Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena, on Aug. 23, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — After months of delays, a federal judge [Read More…]
Johnson to tie avoiding government shutdown to voter eligibility measure
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When Congress returns to Washington on Monday after summer recess, lawmakers will be staring down a looming government shutdown on Sept. 30 when funding is set to run out. But [Read More…]
ABC News releases rules for Sept. 10 debate between Harris and Trump
Henrik5000/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With less than a week until the Sept. 10 presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump hosted by ABC News, the network on Wednesday released the [Read More…]
Harris breaks with Biden on capital gains tax in plan to spur small business growth
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event in North Hampton, New Hampshire, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (Kacey Chapman/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala [Read More…]
Liz Cheney says she’s voting for Kamala Harris against Trump
Liz Cheney attends Liz Cheney in Conversation with David Rubenstein at The 92nd Street Y, New York, June 26, 2023. (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, a staunch critic of [Read More…]
Ketanji Brown Jackson says Harris’s nomination ‘gives a lot of people hope’
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination as the first Black and Asian woman nominee for U.S. president “gives a lot of people hope” [Read More…]
Harris campaign kicks off reproductive rights tour in Florida
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign kicked off a weekslong 50-stop “reproductive freedom bus tour” across battleground states in West Palm Beach, Florida — former President Donald Trump’s backyard — on [Read More…]
Linda Sun, former Kathy Hochul aide, accused of scheming to advance interests of China
Jose A. Alvarado Jr./Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Linda Sun, a former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, schemed to advance the interests of China while working in New York State government, [Read More…]
Ticket-splitters hold the key to majorities in both chambers of Congress
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Every election cycle, political observers speculate about the power and prevalence of ticket-splitters: voters who support one party for president and another on down-ballot races. This year, [Read More…]
Harris-Walz campaign stages Labor Day blitz, courting union votes alongside Biden
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, disembark from their campaign bus in Savannah, Georgia, Aug. 28, 2024, as they travel across Georgia for a 2-day campaign [Read More…]
Biden says Netanyahu not doing enough to secure deal after 6 hostages killed
Nathan Howard/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden, as he returned to the White House on Monday to meet with the U.S. hostage deal negotiating team, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing [Read More…]
Harris-Walz campaign readies Labor Day blitz, courting union votes alongside Biden
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, disembark from their campaign bus in Savannah, Georgia, Aug. 28, 2024, as they travel across Georgia for a 2-day campaign [Read More…]
Jared Polis defends Harris’ shifts on policy
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado defended Vice President Kamala Harris’ shifts on policy between her 2020 presidential campaign and her White House bid this year [Read More…]
Columbia antisemitism task force finds school failed to stop hate against Jewish students
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a new report released as students return to campus, a Columbia University antisemitism task force has found the school failed to stop hate on campus and has not [Read More…]
US holds firm against Ukraine using American weapons to strike deep inside Russia
by Marc Guitard/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House is expected to keep in place its restrictions on Ukraine’s use of American long-range weapons deep inside Russia, despite pressure from a delegation of Ukrainian officials [Read More…]
Trump adds new campaign pledge to get IVF paid for by government or covered by insurance
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a town hall meeting at La Crosse Center in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 29, 2024. — Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images (LA CROSSE, [Read More…]
Two-thirds of Americans say Trump unprepared to accept the election outcome: POLL
Henrik5000/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Most Americans say they and Kamala Harris alike are prepared to accept the outcome of the 2024 presidential election as legitimate. Donald Trump, not so much. Eighty-one percent of Americans [Read More…]
Harris, pressed on changing policy positions, says ‘my values have not changed’
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In her first in-depth interview since becoming the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN, when asked about her changing policy positions, that her “values have not changed.” ‘My [Read More…]
‘Unfairly attacked’: Army defends Arlington National Cemetery employee involved in Trump incident
Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Arlington National Cemetery staffer who tried to stop the Trump campaign from filming a video among the graves of recently fallen service members has declined to press [Read More…]
Harris and Walz embark on Georgia bus tour
Kamala Harris,Douglas Emhoff, Tim Walz and Gwen Walz pose on on Day 4 of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 22, 2024 in Chicago. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — [Read More…]