President Biden reelection campaign aides held a call Wednesday night with Republicans who supported former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) and expressed their concerns about Biden after his debate performance, multiple sources familiar with the meeting told The Hill. The call with was with the Haley Voters Working Group, which is made up of...
Even in cases where the Center has identified overly inflated payments which did little to improve access to care, Congress has stepped in to block its attempts to cut them.
A surging supply of thick sea ice — fragmenting due to the warming effects of climate change — is shortening the shipping season through the Northwest Passage, a new study has found. While previous analyses have explored whether the Northwest Passage might become a more viable alternative to traditional shipping routes as the climate warms,...
House Republicans voted Thursday to overturn a Biden administration rule bolstering federal nondiscrimination protections for transgender students, the latest GOP victory over changes made to Title IX, the civil rights law preventing sex discrimination in schools and education programs that receive government funding. The Education Department in April unveiled a final set of sweeping changes...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has unveiled a plan to combat potential free speech abuses the country could face if former President Trump is elected to a second term. The ACLU warned in its new memo, published Thursday, that a second Trump term could pose several threats to democracy by targeting political opponents, trying...
While people who commit serious crimes deserve severe punishment, no one should tolerate a system that takes shortcuts and ends up punishing people who don’t deserve it. But that’s the death penalty system we have.
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) raked in nearly $13 million for his campaign over the past three months, putting up another impressive quarter in his hotly contested Senate race. The $12.8 million that the campaign will report to the Federal Election Commission for the second quarter tops the $12.1 million raised in the first quarter...
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) voted with Republicans on Thursday to block the nomination of Judge Sarah Netburn, who garnered significant controversy after ruling a transgender woman convicted of sex crimes should be transferred to a federal women's prison. It marked a rare instance of a Democrat breaking with the majority to bottle up one of...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is slated to deliver remarks Thursday as calls for President Biden to end his reelection campaign increase. Democratic lawmakers and donors are expressing uncertainty about whether Biden will be able to pass several key tests over the next few days to remain the party’s likely nominee for president. And while they...
Republican Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno showed up at Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D-Ohio) office in Washington Thursday to accuse the incumbent senator of being complicit “in the greatest coverup in American history” because he did not earlier sound the alarm about President Biden’s fitness for office. "Admit to your complicity in the greatest coverup in...
The New York Times editorial board on Thursday called on Republicans to reject former President Trump, calling the presumptive GOP nominee “unfit” to serve as president ahead of the party's national convention next week. “Mr. Trump has shown a character unworthy of the responsibilities of the presidency. He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect...
A report from Senate Democratic staff shows the cascading effects of abortion bans across all states, even those where the procedure is still legal. The report, led by staff of Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and joined by all the Democratic women senators, as well as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), was based off interviews with...
The Supreme Court's majority opinion in the presidential immunity case is a stark example of cherry-picking text and history, which could threaten democracy itself.
Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.) is adding her voice to the growing calls for President Biden to step down, becoming the 10th Democrat to urge the president to drop out of the White House race Thursday. “President Biden has spent his life serving our nation and building the next generation of American leadership," Scholten, who represents...
The House rejected a resolution Thursday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in “inherent contempt” of Congress and fine him $10,000 each day that he does not turn over audio tapes from President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) had spearheaded the effort, forcing a vote on the matter...
Ten House Republicans joined most Democrats on Thursday in sinking GOP-led legislation to fund the legislative branch for fiscal 2025, throwing an embarrassing wrench in GOP leadership's ambitious plan to pass all 12 annual funding bills by the August recess. The bill failed 205-213, with three Democrats voting in favor of it. It is the...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said in a Wednesday interview that Democrats’ approach to dealing with President Biden’s health concerns amounts to the “biggest political cover-up that we have ever seen.” In an interview on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Johnson responded to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saying she was advising Democrats to “just hold...
The federal government is sleepwalking into a massive fiscal buzzsaw that is completely avoidable.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Biden campaign are planning to flood the zone at the Republican National Convention (RNC) next week to highlight former President Trump’s agenda should he win reelection. The campaign will pay for billboards, hold press conferences and put surrogates on the ground in Milwaukee, Wis., putting an emphasis on Project...
Comedian Jon Stewart suggested that President Biden is “becoming Trumpian” as he tries to mitigate the aftermath of his poor debate performance last month. Stewart suggested in his latest “Weekly Show” podcast that Democrats are using a code of silence to respond to concerns of the president's ability to beat former President Trump in November...
Former President Trump called attempts to link him to Project 2025 “pure disinformation” Thursday. “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it,” Trump said in a post on Truth...
The U.S. on Thursday announced the creation of a new trilateral pact with Canada and Finland to boost shipbuilding and establish a stronger Arctic fleet as Washington aims to combat Russian and Chinese influence in the northern waters. The Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, which the U.S. is referring to as the ICE Pact, will involve a...
Story at a glance (NewsNation) — Colorado health officials have confirmed a human case of plague in Pueblo County. Plague can be treated with antibiotics. Anyone who suspects they may be infected should see a doctor immediately to avoid serious complications or death, Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment (PDPHE) official Alicia Solis said...
Vice President Harris got a bit of an odd hypothetical endorsement from one of President Biden's closest allies on Thursday, when former White House chief of staff Ron Klain pondered what would happen if the vice president should need to step in. "I think if a meteor came down and hit Joe Biden in the...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said in an interview Wednesday that she doesn’t think “it would hurt” for President Biden to take a cognitive test, amid concerns about his standing as the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee for the White House. “I don’t think that it’d hurt, to be honest,” Whitmer told CNN’s Abby Phillip, when...
