Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci blasted former President Trump Friday, accusing his former boss of lying "every 100 seconds" on the debate stage earlier this week. But, he added, it was overshadowed by President Biden's poor performance. Scaramucci joined CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Friday evening to react to the debate and talk about his...
Former CNN anchor Brian Stelter said voters who are criticizing the moderators from Thursday’s debate for not fact-checking are just “disappointed” and “frustrated” with President Joe Biden’s performance. "Why are these people complaining about it today," Stelter said during a Friday appearance on NewsNation, "They're ticked off by Biden, they're disappointed by Biden — they're...
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) vetoed a bill Friday that would fund a safety initiative for gun-detection equipment in schools. The $2.5 million grant proposal Parson rejected was one of 173 line-item vetoes he announced when he was signing a roughly $50 billion state budget, The Associated Press reported. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoed...
Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP is just the most recent in a string of decisions disenfranchising minority voters.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said the media “quickly” turned on President Biden after his debate performance. Huckabee joined NewsNation’s “On Balance with Leland Vittert" Friday, where he said it’s hard to say how long Biden’s performance will dominate the news cycle. “I think the media has to accept some responsibility for the big...
Watergate reporter and long-time Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward said President Biden’s debate performance was a “political hydrogen bomb” and the public deserves to know what really happened. Woodward joined MSNBC’s Air Melber on Friday following the debate, where he said the performance was “so bad, so awful” that reporters must be looking for...
An asteroid the size of a football stadium will thread the needle between Earth and the moon Saturday morning — the second of two astronomical near misses in three days. Near miss, in this case, is a relative term: Saturday’s asteroid, 2024 MK, will come within 180,000 miles of Earth. On Thursday, meanwhile, asteroid 2011...
Former President Trump is ramping up his efforts in Virginia in a sign that Republicans are viewing the state as winnable in November. While President Biden headed to battleground North Carolina for his post-debate rally, Trump traveled to Chesapeake, Va., to share the stage for the first time with Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R). The governor...
ATLANTA — Never before has a debate transformed a presidential race so utterly. The idea of replacing President Biden as his party’s 2024 nominee has become Topic A in national politics; former President Trump has advanced from a slight to heavy favorite in November’s election; and the collective blood pressure of the Democratic Party has...
The Supreme Court has broadly expanded the power of judges at the expense of federal agencies with a pair of decisions this week, and it could be poised to do so again next week. Altogether, its actions to transfer authority from agencies to the judiciary could curtail a wide range of financial, environmental, workplace and consumer...
The question on many Democrats’ minds: Now what? Democrats were reeling from the presidential debate where they saw President Biden not only do poorly but bomb what was supposed to be a narrative-defining moment. And with the threat of a second Donald Trump presidency looming, they spent Friday trying to figure out if the current...
President Biden’s campaign released a new advertisement Friday targeting former President Trump over comments he made during the first presidential debate. “Donald Trump doesn’t care about you,” Biden posted on social media platform X, along with the video. The 29-second advertisement featured clips of Trump from the debate paired with text that outlined why the...
Rev. Al Sharpton acknowledged Friday that the scrutiny over President Biden's debate performance is "not going anywhere," he largely brushed off calls for Biden to step aside. Sharpton joined MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace to discuss the political fallout from Thursday night's debate and the widespread fear among Democrats after Biden stumbled over his words and showed...
President Biden's campaign appears to be doing damage control following the president's poor showing at Thursday night's debate by framing the event as a chance for Americans to see former President Trump's "lies" on display. Democrats have fallen into a panic following the debate, the first face-to-face interaction between the two presumptive nominees since 2020,...
The data follows the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declaring firearm violence a public health crisis.
Former President Trump said at a rally Friday that he thought CNN’s presidential debate moderators, Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, treated him “very fairly” on Thursday night. “I shouldn’t knock CNN because I actually thought they treated me very fairly last night. Very professional, both of them. Jake and Dana, they treated me very fairly,”...
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he thinks President Biden won’t step aside and let the Democratic Party find a new nominee because “you can’t negotiate with him.” Biden’s shaky debate performance Thursday sparked widespread fear among liberals, leaving pundits to indicate during post-debate analysis that discussions would be had about whether Biden would step...
The New York Times editorial board called on President Biden to suspend his campaign after his shaky debate performance against former President Trump on Thursday. “Mr. Biden has said that he is the candidate with the best chance of taking on this threat of tyranny and defeating it. His argument rests largely on the fact...
NASA signaled Friday that a return date for Boeing's Starliner crew from the International Space Station had still not been set, as the two astronauts continue testing and working on issues within the capsule. “We’re not in any rush to come home,” NASA’s commercial crew program manager Steve Stich said, The Associated Press reported. NASA...
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) took a swipe at the "Democratic elite" in an interview Friday, blaming those in leadership for President Biden's poor performance in the recent debate. Sununu highlighted the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) decision early in the cycle to skip the New Hampshire primary and focus first on South Carolina. “Let's...
Presented by Express Scripts by Evernorth — A 4-3 ruling Friday has overturned a lower court’s temporary block, allowing the ban to take effect in Iowa {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Iowa Supreme Court clears 6-week abortion ban In Thursday night’s debate, former President Trump again called for abortion decisions to...
President Biden and former President Trump raked in millions around the debate on Thursday, which was the first presidential debate for the 2024 cycle. Biden’s campaign raised $14 million on debate day and the morning after, it said. Additionally, the hour after the debate, between 11 p.m. and midnight, was the single best hour of...
Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} == Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Supreme Court ruling transfers power from agencies to judges The high court on Friday overruled a 40-year-old precedent that gave agencies more latitude in rulemaking — with ramifications for climate and other environmental protections. ©...
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Social media cases on deck for Supreme Court ruling Two cases involving the rights of social media companies based on laws in Florida and Texas have yet to be ruled on by the Supreme Court this session, which will stretch into July. ©...
President Biden praised the LGBTQ community in remarks at Stonewall on Friday, a day after his presidential debate against former President Trump. Friday marked the 55 years since the start of the Stonewall riots, which were demonstrations against a police raid that took place at the Stonewall Inn and was largely considered the start of...
