White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief reporters Wednesday afternoon as Florida braces for its second major hurricane in two weeks. Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall with a powerful storm surge late Wednesday or early Thursday on Florida's Gulf Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center. Jean-Pierre's remarks come after Biden and...
Kristin Powell is the principal of the Black Futures Lab, an organization working to build political power through civic engagement. Powell sat down with The Hill's The Switch Up just days after President Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Vice President Harris. Powell highlighted what this change could mean for Black voters....
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell said the volume of misinformation surrounding Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton is starting to drop. “We're still seeing some misinformation out there,” Criswell told reporters during a press briefing Wednesday. “I do believe that the volume of the misinformation is starting to go down, but we need...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) publicly disagreed with Mark Cuban after he called for Federal Trade Commissioner (FTC) Chair Lina Khan to be replaced if Vice President Harris is elected president. In a post on the social platform X, Sanders said Cuban “is wrong” when he called for a new FTC chair. “Lina Khan is the...
A disproportionate number of Capitol Hill's most collaborative lawmakers are leaving their seats this year either for retirement or to pursue a different office, according to an analysis from Bridge Pledge, a project that aims to counter political polarization. The group awards "Bridge Grades" to lawmakers based on their collaboration, coalition building, consensus solutions, and...
Before the next storm hits, we need to guarantee that voters fleeing a natural disaster or other emergency have a mobile voting option.
Democratic candidate Angela Alsobrooks is leading Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan by 9 percentage points in a poll of the Maryland Senate race released Wednesday, less than a month before the election. Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s County executive, is backed by 48 percent of likely voters in the poll from the University of Maryland, Baltimore...
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and its Equality Votes political action committee are launching a multimillion-dollar digital ad blitz aimed at reaching "equality voters" for the Harris-Walz ticket in key battleground states, the group announced Wednesday. “This election is going to come down to the smallest of margins, but the difference between an equality champion like...
Music superstar John Legend is calling for Vice President Harris to make U.S. aid to Israel amid its ongoing offensives in Gaza and Lebanon conditional. In an interview with Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan, Legend said America must use its aid to Israel as “leverage.” “I don't think we should be writing blank checks to any country that...
French President Emmanuel Macron is on a diplomatic mission to return "Emily in Paris" back to the City of Light. The Netflix comedy, which follows the professional and personal escapades of an American woman, played by Lily Collins, after she lands in Paris for her first postcollege job, is poised to head to Rome for...
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found 3.3 percent of high schoolers identify as transgender, and another 2.2 percent identify as questioning. Among the transgender students in the 2023 research published Tuesday, the CDC found 1 in 4 experience violence at school, the same number missed school due to...
Most voters in a new survey rank the economy as the most important issue ahead of the election, now less than a month away, and former President Trump has an edge over Vice President Harris on the issue. The poll, conducted by Gallup, found that 52 percent of voters say the economy has an “extremely...
The 2024 election is shaping up to be a battle for the leftovers, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris competing for the support of the middle-of-the-roaders who don't like either of them.
Hurricane Milton is barreling toward central Florida Wednesday in what experts say is a “catastrophic” storm that will bring life-threatening rain and wind to the state’s western coast. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has deemed Milton a dangerous Category 5 storm, the highest category tracked. It is expected to make landfall late Wednesday evening or...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee, suggested Tuesday night that the Electoral College should be abolished during two West Coast campaign stops. Walz mentioned the concept during fundraisers in Seattle and in Sacramento while talking to donors in the deep blue areas. “And we know, because of our system of the...
The correlation between presidential and Senate votes has increased significantly over the past few decades, with Democrats outperforming their presidential nominee by 9 points in 1984 and only 1.6 points in 2018-22, due to partisanship and polarization.
Vice President Harris sought to distance herself from President Biden and former President Trump late Tuesday, when asked if a potential Harris administration would represent change during an appearance on Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show.” Colbert said that voters want the 2024 White House race to be a change election, asking the vice president what...
Hospitals across the U.S. are feeling the impact of Hurricane Helene as experts warn of an imminent intravenous (IV) solution shortage due to the temporary shutdown of a facility in a North Carolina. And Hurricane Milton’s approach could worsen the problem, with another key IV fluid manufacturing facility located along its potential path in Florida....
With Hurricane Milton barreling toward Florida's Gulf Coast, many Tampa Bay area residents are fearing widespread and potentially weeks-long power outages, which could affect cellphone service, as many saw during Hurricane Helene.
The Sunshine State's exodus has left roughly 16% of the state's fuel stations without gas.
Unlike the Israeli response in April, this response will probably not be aimed at sending a message to Iranian leadership; rather, at removing it.
The August 2023 blaze killed 102 people and devastated part of the island.
Everytown for Gun Safety and the Senate Majority PAC launched a $4 million media campaign Wednesday across Michigan and Pennsylvania targeting Senate Republican candidates Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and former Bush aide Dave McCormick (R), over their stances on gun safety laws and abortion bans. “From saying they supported national abortion bans to their opposition...
Ethel Kennedy, a social justice advocate and the widow of late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, is recovering in a hospital after suffering a stroke last week, her grandson said in a statement. Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) posted on the social platform X on Tuesday that his grandmother had suffered a stroke...
Aurora, Colo. Mayor Mike Coffman said former President Trump's claims about the town were "grossly exaggerated" as the GOP presidential nominee looks to hold a rally in the state after calling the suburb a "war zone" due to migrants. “Former President Trump’s visit to Aurora is an opportunity to show him and the nation that...
