The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sanctioned Boeing Thursday for disclosing non-public details on an investigation into a 737 Max 9 door plug that blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. An unnamed Boeing executive discussed certain “investigative information” and offered an analysis of information that had previously been released during a media...
Former President Trump's campaign will air a pair of 30-second ads during Thursday night's debate with President Biden, including one that suggests Biden would be unable to serve a full second term. One ad, titled "Who's Laughing Now," features images of Biden stumbling on the stairs of Air Force One, falling over while clipped into...
When We All Vote, the voter registration and engagement organization launched by Michelle Obama, and the mental health platform Headspace are teaming up "to help voters manage their mental health throughout the 2024 election season." "People need mental health support during this time of uncertainty now more than ever," When We All Vote said in...
The story of Vance’s arrival as a cultural figure is itself the reason he makes such an intriguing vice presidential prospect.
Most Americans in a new survey said they believe Supreme Court justices are more likely to be led by ideology instead of impartiality. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey found 70 percent of respondents said they believe the high court justices are currently “more likely to try to shape the law to...
Iran's upcoming presidential election is unlikely to bring about any meaningful change, as all the candidates are committed to the principles of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the supreme leader's regime, and the election is likely to yield more of the same domestic repression and international aggression.
Republicans are more likely to say that they’ll watch the presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump Thursday, according to a new survey. The Syracuse University/Ipsos poll, released this week, found 45 percent of Republican respondents said they were “very likely” to watch the televised debate between the two perspective party nominees. Among...
Swing voters are scarce, margins are thin and automated text or voice voter suppression campaigns are easy to do and hard to detect.
Louisiana’s new law to mandate display of the Ten Commandments in public schools manages to mangle both history and religion.
The Democratic National Committee is set to launch a mobile billboard hitting former President Trump over his election interference case at the presidential debate venue in Atlanta on Thursday. The mobile billboard marks the first time the DNC directly attacked Trump over the Georgia case, according to the committee. One of the videos featured on...
Israel is using a strategy of defeat, deter, and dissuade to manage its three-front war against Iran and its proxies, with the goal of securing Israel from existential threats by isolating and eliminating the threats.
Stargazers will want to keep a close eye on the sky in the coming days. A comet with a 69-year orbit is set to pass by Earth.
There has been so much media buildup ahead of tonight’s debate, we hesitate to do more than mention that it begins at 9 p.m. EDT on CNN, will be carried by other networks — and ends around 10:30 p.m. President Biden spent days preparing at Camp David, eager to draw more voters his way in...
The landmark 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has already helped people with Medicare save on health care costs for vaccines and insulin, but, as with anything in Washington, that’s not the full story. Increases in utilization management tactics, a guiding framework of health insurers and hospital systems to mitigate costs, are emerging as an unintended...
Former President Trump’s attempt to walk a political tightrope on abortion could be tested by Thursday’s debate, which offers an opportunity for moderators — and President Biden — to try to pin him down on specifics of his policy. Trump has tread carefully on the explosive issue, as he and other Republicans try to placate...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) says Joe Biden is a “good guy,” breaking with former President Trump’s repeated efforts to villainize the president as the corrupt mastermind behind schemes to steal elections and persecute political opponents. But McConnell, who has endorsed Trump, says there are plenty of compelling policy reasons to oust Biden from...
Geoff Duncan, the former lieutenant governor of Georgia, was sitting in his car last month when he received a call from President Biden. Duncan — a lifelong Republican who has never voted for a Democrat— had just formally endorsed Biden. And the president was calling to thank him. Surefire GOP endorsements are important for Biden...
Judge Aileen Cannon’s plodding supervision of the Mar-a-Lago documents case is coming under building scrutiny after she dedicated three days this week to exploring long-shot motions from former President Trump. Cannon weighed arguments from Trump’s team that question the legitimacy of special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment and his office’s funding, while taking the highly unusual...
ATLANTA — The stage is set, literally, for the biggest moment in the presidential campaign to date. President Biden and former President Trump will meet here Thursday evening for a debate that could reshape a race in which the former president holds a small lead over the incumbent. Biden and Trump, standing at lecterns just...
House Democrats want President Biden to take no prisoners in Thursday's debate, saying only an assertive approach can effectively sell his policy message, repel the GOP attacks on his competence — and counter the bellicose style of former President Trump. The Democrats maintain Biden has the clear upper hand heading into the high-stakes event, as...
A bipartisan data privacy bill is splitting House Republicans and pitting the chair of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee against House GOP leadership. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) are spearheading the American Privacy Rights Act, a long-awaited bill that would...
Both the IRS and its internal watchdog agency, the National Taxpayer Advocate, are sounding an alarm about bogus employee retention credit (ERC) claims that are interfering with tax-collection operations. The ERC was one of many tax credits boosted by the IRS to help businesses and the economy stay afloat during the pandemic. But despite a...
President Biden and former President Trump will face off in Atlanta on Thursday in the first of two planned debates as both men battle for the edge in a tight and contentious race. The history-making showdown will mark the first debate for each of the White House hopefuls since 2020, as well the first...
President Biden is heading into the first presidential debate on Thursday, trailing former President Trump by 1.2 percent, according to an aggregation of polls from Decision Desk HQ/ The Hill. The aggregation of 755 polls shows Trump polling at 45 percent and Biden polling at 43.8 percent as of Wednesday night. The two will go...
Reps. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) introduced a resolution Wednesday condemning an anti-LGBTQ law in Uganda, according to Takano’s office. “It is difficult to overstate the gross inhumanity of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act,” Takano said in a Thursday press release. “Instead of focusing on rooting out corruption or ending extrajudicial killings, the Ugandan Parliament,...
