If President Biden resigns the presidency now, he will give the Democratic Party a fighting chance to beat Trump.
The Supreme Court has indicated it will take up a case next term involving the adult entertainment industry’s challenge to a Texas law requiring pornography sites to implement age-verification measures. The Free Speech Coalition, a trade association representing the industry, is asking the court to reinstate an order blocking the Lone Star State’s enforcement of...
The term of the Supreme Court of the United States that just ended will live in infamy.
Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Monday he expects the federal election subversion case against former President Trump will never head to trial, after the Supreme Court ruled core presidential powers are immune from criminal prosecution. “It’s a big, big victory for Donald Trump,” Toobin said on CNN’s “AC360,” referring to the 6-3 ruling that sends...
Former President Trump opened up a 3-point lead over President Biden nationally following last week’s debate after the candidates were tied before, according to a new poll. The USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Tuesday showed Trump leading Biden with 41 percent to the incumbent’s 38 percent in a race that also includes notable independents and...
Former Attorney General Bill Barr dismissed threats from ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon that he should face prosecution for his testimony to a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Fox News host Neil Cavuto asked Barr in a Monday interview about how Trump would act in a second term, noting that...
The more one analyzes the road ahead, the more obvious it is that a continued Biden candidacy is a kamikaze mission sure to wreck the Democratic Party.
Former President Trump said early Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision delivered a “high level SPANKING!” to special counsel Jack Smith, whose independent probe of the former president led to two criminal indictments against him. “A really bad day for Deranged Jack Smith, the wacko prosecutor used for Crooked Joe Biden’s attack on...
Democrats face a tough decision on who would replace President Biden if he steps down. Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama, and other options are considered.
July promises to be a celestial feast for skygazers, with events ranging from meteor showers to planetary alignments.
The Biden administration announced on Tuesday the sale of 1 million barrels of gasoline, making its latest effort to reduce gas prices ahead of the Fourth of July travel blitz. The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Petroleum Reserves will release the 1 million barrels -- about 42 million gallons of gasoline -- from a...
The Supreme Court has put environmental protections under threat — issuing decisions that limit the power of agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to combat climate change and pollution. Two of the court's recent rulings, both of which were decided 6-3 along ideological lines, could have a far-reaching impact on agencies' ability to make and...
Republicans are seizing on President Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week by tying their Democratic counterparts to the fallout. Over the weekend, the Senate Republicans’ rolled out a video of Senate Democratic incumbents and candidates running in competitive races saying before the debate they were confident in Biden’s mental agility. Their comments were juxtaposed with...
If President Biden is going to continue to be their nominee, he must adjust his strategy and his aides and advisers must change the way they manage him, Democrats say. Party operatives argue aides have mismanaged Biden in a variety of areas from communications to events to the president’s public and personal interactions. They say aides seeking to control...
Former President Trump’s chances of winning back the White House have soared in recent days — pitching Democrats into a stew of panic and despair. A week ago Democrats clung to several hopes, only to see each of them dashed in a period shorter than 90 hours. They believed President Biden could use an early...
President Biden’s disastrous debate performance has left Democrats scrambling for ways to strengthen their weakened president. Democratic lawmakers and strategists for months had predicted the presidential race would be extremely close, but they now see Biden as an underdog after he stumbled against former President Trump on the debate stage. The discussion over whether Biden...
As the nation sizzles, the Biden administration is proposing the nation’s first-ever standards aimed at protecting workers from extreme heat. If finalized, the proposal would mandate that employers provide rest breaks and access to shade and water for workers who face extreme heat risks. They would also be required to identify heat hazards and develop...
President Biden’s reelection campaign said it raised $127 million in June, making it its best fundraising month of the campaign, and raised $264 million overall in the second quarter of 2024. The campaign goes into July with $240 million in cash on hand, it said. The second quarter total was a $75 million increase on...
BlackRock has added Egan Jones as a third proxy advisor option, expanding its voting choice initiative and providing a frontal assault on the Glass-Lewis/ISS duopoly and their preferences for politicized voting on proxy proposals.
Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb criticized Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent on the high court's presidential immunity ruling, calling it a "little hysterical." "So, I thought her dissent was a little hysterical, and it really offered no analysis, a lot of…screaming, no analysis, and I think that was unfortunate," Cobb said Monday...
Former President Trump on Monday asked his hush money judge to set aside the recent guilty verdict after the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Supreme Court provided former presidents with a broad shield against criminal prosecution, ruling 6-3 along ideological lines that they enjoy absolute criminal immunity for core...
The Democratic National Committee is rolling out a new ad campaign against former president Donald Trump in major swing state newspapers on Tuesday, labeling him as a "fraud," "liar," denier," and "a threat to our democracy." The ad campaign, shared with The Hill, is set to run on the homepages of the Philadelphia Enquirer, the...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday shrugged off Democrats' concern over the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling, calling their fears of future presidential criminality "madness." "Look, there's all sorts of hyperbole tonight...and just this, fantastical, these hypotheticals they've made up [that] future presidents are going to turn into assassins and all the rest," Johnson...
The National Weather Service (NWS) is warning of “persistent, dangerous heat” for much of the week, especially in the southern and southwestern parts of the country. The “early July heat wave” is expected in the Southern Plains, Gulf Coast, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Coast, Central Valley of California and Mojave Desert of California and Nevada, the...
President Biden on Monday harshly criticized the Supreme Court’s decision to largely shield presidents from criminal prosecution while serving in office, calling it a “dangerous precedent.” “For all practical purposes, today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do. It's a fundamentally new principle,” Biden said in...
