Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Wednesday that there are currently enough votes in the Senate to suspend the filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade and abortion rights if Democrats win control of the House and keep the Senate and White House. “We will suspend the filibuster. We have the votes for that on Roe...
Nearly two in three Democrats say President Biden should step aside from the 2024 race, a poll released Wednesday found. The survey, carried out by The Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, was largely conducted prior to the assassination attempt against former President Trump over the weekend. It finds that 70 percent of all...
To protect against dire fiscal outcomes, policymakers need to be diligent — and the administration must be required to play by the rules.
Four prominent Democrats would perform significantly better than President Biden in key swing states if they replaced him as the party’s presumptive nominee, according to a memo from a Democratic-funded polling group. The BlueLabs draft memo, first acquired by Politico, found that “nearly every tested Democrat performs better than the President” in the swing states...
Ecosystems around the world are at risk from declining levels of underground water, a new study has found — and protected areas aren’t growing fast enough to stem the losses. A new map released on Tuesday in the journal Nature offers the first comprehensive map of the world’s underground water sources and the ecosystems that depend on...
The RESTORE Act, which would allow individuals with felony drug offenses to receive SNAP benefits, is crucial for successful reentry and systemic change, as the current system punishes rather than rehabilitates.
Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump will both be "coming in full force" to the Republican National Convention, according to former President Trump's son Eric. "They're coming in," Eric Trump said of the former first lady and his sister, when asked Wednesday by Tony Dokoupil on "CBS Mornings" about their presence at the GOP gathering in Milwaukee. Neither...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Wednesday that there will be no virtual voting to officially nominate President Biden before August. In a letter to members of the DNC Rules Committee, obtained by The Hill, co-chairs of the committee wrote, “we have confirmed with the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic National Convention that no...
A majority of Black women continue to support President Biden, according to a new survey taken before his disastrous debate last month, but the Biden-Harris ticket is far less popular than it was four years ago. In a survey from The Cut, 64 percent of Black women said they would vote for Biden if...
Federal prosecutors have moved to drop charges for some Jan. 6 rioters accused of attempting to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election results following a Supreme Court ruling narrowing how the government can use the count. Since the justices ruled 6-3 that the government overreached in its sweeping prosecution of the Capitol attack, the...
For the good of our country, our political leaders must stop this lethal rhetoric.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General said Wednesday that it has opened an investigation into the Secret Service’s handling of security at former President Trump’s Saturday rally when a gunman attempted to assassinate him. The probe was listed under the “Counter Terrorism and Homeland Threats” mission area on the Inspector General’s website. It had...
Immediately following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, social media predictably erupted with conspiracy theories.
Americans’ confidence in the police has been hot and cold for the past several years.
Vice President Harris went after Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) in a video published Wednesday, warning that the GOP vice presidential nominee would be a “rubber stamp” for an “extreme agenda.” Harris spoke directly to the camera is a 45-second video in which she criticized Vance’s support for abortion restrictions, his willingness to reject election results...
As major technology companies race to take advantage of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, the energy-guzzling technology is derailing their efforts to rein in emissions and become carbon neutral or negative. Google revealed that its greenhouse gas emissions rose 13 percent in 2023 and 48 percent since 2019, clashing with its goal of becoming net-zero...
Peter Navarro is set to be released from prison Wednesday after serving a four-month sentence for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Soon after, the ex-Trump White House trade advisor is expected to take the stage at the Republican National Convention, according to an...
Seth Lynn wants to see more former service members in Congress. A founder of the nonpartisan Veterans Campaign, which trains veterans interested in running for office or similar public service, Lynn, 44, has spent the past 15 years making sure that goal comes to fruition. “I think most people across the political spectrum agree that...
President Biden is beset by challenges. Former President Trump is ahead in many polls following Biden’s widely panned June 27 debate performance in Atlanta. Biden’s hold on the Democratic nomination has at times looked shockingly fragile amid criticism from within his own party. Saturday’s assassination attempt against Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa., appears...
MILWAUKEE — Senate Republicans were riding high after President Biden’s implosion on the debate stage in Atlanta — but they were soon confronted with polling showing Democratic incumbents leading in every single battleground state except Montana. The polling showing Senate Democratic candidates doing better than the beleaguered Biden in their respective states raised alarms among...
House GOP probes of the Secret Service’s handling of the attempted assassination of former President Trump have quickly grown tense. One House committee has accused the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Secret Service, of “unprofessionalism” following uncertainty about an agreed-upon member briefing — and is pledging a subpoena. And Republicans have taken...
Amid swirling questions over how the Secret Service allowed a gunman with an AR-style rifle to get close enough to shoot and injure former President Trump at a Saturday rally, some answers are starting to emerge. The security gap appears to stem from how and what the agency communicated with local law enforcement before and...
The attempted assassination of former President Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania put Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) in the spotlight as he took on a consoling and unifying role following the incident. The governor, in particular, garnered praise from Republicans and Democrats alike for his tribute to the Trump supporter who was killed at the rally, Corey Comperatore, describing him as...
The debate around whether President Biden should withdraw from the presidential race was put on pause in the immediate aftermath of the attempted assassination on former President Trump. Democrats have quieted the public pressure on Biden, resigned to the fact that the president will be the nominee, with close to 100 days remaining before Election Day....
A federal appeals court last week kicked a years-long case back to the government's campaign finance agency regarding its failure to investigate an unusual arrangement between Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and a liberal group, Correct the Record, during the 2016 election. The decision is a big deal, campaign finance experts told The Hill, although it...
