Signs are emerging in recent polling that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other third-party candidates could pose trouble for Donald Trump now that President Biden isn’t at the top of the ticket. For months, polling predicting a three-way race with Trump, Biden and Kennedy showed mixed signs in terms of which of...
Just hours after President Biden dropped out of the race, a spoof of the Charli XCX’s album cover, “brat,” graced the banner on the Harris campaign’s X account. The next day, Charli XCX declared that the vice president is “brat,” validating the hard tone shift in the Democratic ticket’s digital strategy. In the weeks since,...
Former President Trump criticized Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is facing a tight reelection bid this fall, and his record in Congress on issues like the U.S. southern border and called him a “radical left lunatic” while campaigning in Montana on Friday night. “For years, Tester has been telling Montana that he's a moderate while...
President Biden said in an interview set to air Sunday that “the most important thing” is to “defeat [former President] Trump” after he dropped out of the presidential race. “When I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition president," Biden said in a clip of the “CBS News Sunday Morning”...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted Friday that he will be on the ballot in all 50 states. “Right now we have enough signatures to be on all 50 states, so… we’ve handed most of them in, some of the states are not yet certified, but we’re gonna be on the ballot in...
Candidates for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan said they were both the targets of swatting this week. “Today, family members of [former Rep.] Mike Rogers [(R-Mich.)] were the target of a swatting attempt at their home in Livingston County,” Chris Gustafson, a communications director for Rogers’ campaign, said in a press release. “Michigan State...
Vice President Harris told protesters who interrupted her campaign rally in Phoenix that the time is now for a cease-fire deal to get done in the war between Israel and Gaza. A group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators shouted out “free, free Palestine” during Harris’s Arizona event, the second time this week she has been interrupted by...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Friday mocked former President Trump as he and Vice President Harris drew yet another significant crowd during a campaign stop in Arizona. Walz, addressing a crowd of roughly 15,000 people in Phoenix, admired the audience and noted the campaign drew a similar crowd in Detroit a day earlier. “But...
Former President and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is slated to deliver remarks on Friday during a campaign rally in Montana. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 p.m. EDT. Watch the video above.
Vice President Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will hold a rally in Arizona on Friday as part of their tour of electoral battlegrounds. The event is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. EDT. Watch the video above.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan approved a request Friday from special counsel Jack Smith to delay the next steps in the government’s election interference case against former President Trump. Smith cited deliberations over how to factor in the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling between the government and Trump’s representation. This comes after Chutkan asked both sides...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday denied approval of an MDMA-based treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the manufacturer said, a major setback for the use of psychedelic drugs as medicine. Drug company Lykos Therapeutics said the FDA told them the treatment "could not be approved based on data submitted to date." Lykos...
Montague Simmons was holding a community meeting on Aug. 9, 2014, on the west side of St. Louis with the Organization for Black Struggle when the event was suddenly interrupted by breaking news: An unarmed 18-year-old Black man named Michael Brown had been killed by a white police officer. Simmons, now the director of strategic partnerships for the Movement...
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said Thursday that former President Donald Trump has trouble differentiating between fact and fiction. “Look, Trump can't tell the difference between what's true and what's false,” Bolton said on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins.” “It's not that he lies a lot, because to lie, you have to do...
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin on Friday disparaged President Trump’s lengthy press conference Thursday, arguing the GOP presidential nominee was hurting himself. “This was an absolute dumpster fire of a press conference, just to be clear,” Farah Griffin said on “CNN News Central” to the outlet’s Kate Bolduan, in a clip highlighted...
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A federal appeals court on Friday blocked President Biden's new student debt relief plan, teeing up a potential expansion of the legal fight already brewing at the Supreme Court. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling extends the brief pause it ordered last month. The court’s updated decision prevents the administration from moving ahead with...
A federal judge ruled Friday that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has likely been breaking federal law by deleting former employees' emails soon after they leave the agency. The ruling was issued by District Judge Rudolph Contreras on a lawsuit filed by Trump-aligned conservative group America First Legal Foundation in April. ...
Democratic Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.) is keeping his distance from the newly formed Harris-Walz ticket as the vulnerable incumbent stares down a tight race for reelection that could determine control of the upper chamber. Tester praised Vice President Harris when she became President Biden's running mate back in 2020, but he has kept her 2024 presidential bid...
