5 things to watch for in Biden’s State of the Union
President Biden is set to give his State of the Union address Thursday, at a critical time for his campaign as it fully turns to taking on former President Trump in the general election. Biden will...
View Article5 memorable moments from Biden’s State of the Union
(The Hill) - President Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address to a bitterly divided Congress — and nation — Thursday night, one that many viewed as unusually political as the president...
View ArticleJudge refuses to delay Trump’s $83M judgment in Carroll defamation case
(The Hill) - A federal judge on Thursday rejected former President Trump’s request to delay the $83.3 million judgment in advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit, refusing to give Trump...
View ArticleAP Decision Notes: What to expect in Hawaii's Republican caucuses
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hawaii Republicans will hold caucuses Tuesday to cast votes in a presidential nomination contest in which former incumbent Donald Trump is the only remaining major candidate...
View ArticleAP Decision Notes: What to expect in Georgia's presidential primaries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Emerging from their near-clean sweeps of Super Tuesday contests, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump head to Georgia, where they’ll campaign for votes in Tuesday’s...
View Article5 takeaways from Biden’s State of the Union address
President Biden delivered his final State of the Union before the 2024 election Thursday evening. It was a pivotal moment — a rare opportunity to speak unmediated to an American public that, right...
View ArticleSpeaker Johnson: GOP hecklers responding to 'overly partisan' State of the Union
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said GOP lawmakers who heckled President Biden during his State of the Union address Thursday evening were responding to an “overly partisan speech.” A handful of...
View ArticleBritt goes after 'dithering, diminished' Biden in State of the Union rebuttal
Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) argued Thursday that President Biden is a “dithering and diminished” leader who is taking the U.S. down a worrisome path. Delivering the GOP response to Biden’s State of the...
View ArticleHouse Education panel demands MIT turn over records for antisemitism...
The House Education Committee sent a letter to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Friday morning demanding the school turn over records relating to antisemitism on campus as the panel...
View ArticleBiden knocks Trump's immigration rhetoric, but calls accused killer 'an illegal'
President Biden slammed former President Trump on immigration during his Thursday State of the Union address, denouncing his predecessor’s rhetoric and actions on the border, but then echoed some of...
View ArticleBiden spars with Greene over immigration, Laken Riley during State of the Union
President Biden had an impromptu exchange with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during Thursday's State of the Union address after the conservative firebrand heckled him on immigration and urged...
View ArticleRNC votes to install Donald Trump's handpicked chair as former president...
HOUSTON (AP) — The Republican National Committee voted Friday to install Donald Trump’s handpicked leadership team, completing his takeover of the national party as the former president closes in on a...
View ArticleRosendale drops reelection bid, will retire at end of term
Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) announced Friday that he will retire at the end of his current term, a sudden about-face after he said just last week that he would run for reelection. The news comes...
View ArticleSenate advances $460B spending package to avert government shutdown
The Senate voted on Friday to advance a $460 billion package of six spending bills to fund an array of federal departments ahead of a partial government shutdown deadline at midnight. The 63-35 vote...
View ArticleThird-party movement No Labels says it will field a 2024 presidential ticket
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The third-party presidential movement No Labels decided Friday to field a presidential candidate in the 2024 election after months of weighing the launch of a so-called “unity...
View ArticleBiden says her name — Laken Riley — at the urging of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor...
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was what the Republicans demanded but never expected. President Joe Biden said her name: “Laken Riley.” But in garbling the pronunciation, he left Republicans dissatisfied and...
View ArticleSenate sends $460B bill to avert shutdown to Biden's desk just hours before...
Senators on Friday passed a bill to fund a slew of government agencies for the rest of fiscal year 2024, sending the measure to President Biden’s desk hours before a shutdown deadline after Congress...
View ArticleCongress passes first package of spending bills just hours before shutdown...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Friday approved a $460 billion package of spending bills in time to meet a midnight deadline for avoiding a shutdown of many key federal agencies, a vote that gets...
View ArticleFemale representation remains low in US statehouses, particularly Democrats...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Democrat Kayla Young and Republican Patricia Rucker frequently clash on abortion rights and just about everything else in West Virginia's Legislature, but they agree on one...
View ArticleThe Biden-Trump rematch comes into view with dueling visits to Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — The 2024 presidential election campaign will pick up Saturday where the 2020 contest left off. Or, more precisely, in a place where it never actually ended. Georgia was so close four...
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