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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, the longest serving Republican Senate leader in history, will step down from that position in November. McConnell, who turned 82 last week, announced the decision in a [Read More…]

Appeals court rejects Mark Meadows bid to ‘rehear’ removal of Georgia case

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows has lost his latest bid to have the election interference case against him in Georgia removed to federal court. When a federal [Read More…]

Biden undergoes annual physical ahead of November election

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will undergo his yearly physical Wednesday morning at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in what could be the final health update before the November election. Biden, [Read More…]

What would be affected if there’s a partial government shutdown?

Rudy Sulgan via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congress is scrambling to lock in a plan to keep several key government agencies funded before a Friday deadline — or risk a partial government shutdown that, among [Read More…]

Harris says White House backs 3 ‘days of action’ on voting rights as she meets with advocates

Leigh Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday assembled voting rights leaders to reiterate the White House’s support for the issue as she has taken a public role in advocating [Read More…]

Senate Democrats, led by Duckworth, to force vote on protecting IVF access nationwide

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday aim to force Republicans to take a public stand in the controversy over in vitro fertilization by requiring them to either support or oppose legislation led [Read More…]

Biden holds off ‘uncommitted’ protest vote and other Michigan primary takeaways

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden handily won the Michigan primary Tuesday night, but still faced protest votes over his handling of the war in Gaza. Critics of the president have protested the [Read More…]

Trump says his trade war triggered job gains. Here’s why that didn’t happen.

Win McNamee/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A sewing machine manufacturer in Ohio froze employee wages, a New York City-based wheelchair producer forced layoffs at a U.S. supplier and a drone seller in Florida struggled to [Read More…]

Inflation is falling, but these Biden voters in Michigan say ‘it does not feel like it’s gotten better’

ABC News (GRAND RAPIDS, MI.) — On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden is touting a post-COVID-19 economy that has roared back to life and continued to shatter expectations in recent months. Worries of a [Read More…]

Biden calls in congressional leaders to talk Ukraine aid, government shutdown deadline

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will host top congressional leaders at the White House Tuesday as he and fellow Democrats remain at odds with House Republicans over aid to Ukraine and government [Read More…]

Three things to watch in Michigan’s presidential primary

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Michigan’s presidential primary on Tuesday offers both the most visible test yet of electoral anger with President Joe Biden for his response to the Israel-Hamas war — and another test [Read More…]

Donald Trump Jr. receives unidentified white powder in envelope at Florida home

Donald Trump Jr. speaks to supporters at a rally for his father, Republican Presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump on Feb. 23, 2024 in Charleston, S.C. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) (JUPITER, Fla.) — Donald Trump [Read More…]

To lead on AI, US needs to lead on computer chips, commerce secretary says

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Artificial Intelligence will be the “defining technology of our generation,” when it comes to the future of technology, but specifically the advancement of semiconductors in the United States, Commerce [Read More…]

Here we go again: Congress faces looming government shutdown deadline

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congress started to return to Washington on Monday facing a familiar predicament: its back against the wall as the clock ticks down to renew funding for several key government agencies [Read More…]

Nikki Haley argues Trump not getting 40% of primary voters is clue he’d lose to Biden

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley keeps losing to Donald Trump by double digits but the fact that the former president has only managed to reach 60% of the [Read More…]

Pentagon finds no one to blame for keeping Secretary Austin’s hospital stays secret

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — No one will be reprimanded for keeping Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospital stays a secret — including the secretary himself or his chief of staff — after an internal Pentagon [Read More…]

Supreme Court hears major cases on free speech, laws regulating social media

Matt Cardy/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Are Facebook, Instagram and YouTube more like newspaper publishers or telephone companies? The Supreme Court on Monday was wrestling with that question in a pair of cases being called the [Read More…]

Koch-backed group halts financial support for Haley

Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley delivers remarks at her primary-night rally at the Grappone Conference Center on January 23, 2024 in Concord, New Hampshire. — (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — [Read More…]

Ronna McDaniel to resign as Republican National Committee chair days after Super Tuesday