GOP speakers used to believe they couldn’t be effective if they relied on Democratic votes to remain in power. Mike Johnson might be changing the game.
May 17, 2024 06:00 AM
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May 16, 2024 11:27 AM
There might be a summer VP debate coming to CBS: The Biden campaign has accepted, but there’s no word from the Trump campaign yet. Any debate would come after the Republican National Convention, where a GOP VP nominee would be made official.
May 16, 2024 11:27 AM
May 16, 2024 09:20 AM
The White House is refusing demands from congressional Republicans to hand over audio and video recordings made by the special counsel who had been investigating the president’s handling of classified materials, arguing Republicans just want to use them for “partisan political purposes.”
May 16, 2024 09:20 AM
May 15, 2024 11:59 AM
This escalated quickly: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both say they’ve accepted a debate hosted by ABC on Sept. 10.
May 15, 2024 11:59 AM
May 15, 2024 11:02 AM
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to debate on June 27 at 9 p.m. ET, per CNN, which will host the event. The debate will be held in Atlanta without an audience.
May 15, 2024 11:02 AM
May 15, 2024 08:22 AM
The Prince George’s County executive beat Rep. David Trone, who spent at least $61 million of his own money on the bitter race. Alsobrooks will face Larry Hogan in the fall.
May 15, 2024 08:22 AM
May 15, 2024 08:15 AM
In a new video, the president challenged Trump to two debates. “Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again, well, make my day, pal,” Biden said. A letter from his campaign was more particular: The campaign rejected proposed debates from the Commission on Presidential Debates as being too far out and proposed a one-on-one format staged inside a TV studio with no audience and microphones that cut off if a speaker goes over time.
May 15, 2024 08:15 AM
May 14, 2024 09:04 PM
Hogan, the former two-term Republican governor of Maryland was quickly declared the winner of the GOP Senate primary Tuesday night. He’s running to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin.
May 14, 2024 09:04 PM
May 14, 2024 01:13 PM
A New York appeals court has denied the former president’s latest attempt to overturn his gag order in his criminal hush money trial: “We find that Justice Merchan properly weighed petitioner’s First Amendment Rights against the court’s historical commitment to ensuring the fair administration of justice in criminal cases, and the right of persons related or tangentially related to the criminal proceedings from being free from threats, intimidation, harassment, and harm,” the order said.
May 14, 2024 01:13 PM
May 14, 2024 10:03 AM
The Biden administration has announced new tariffs on China’s electric vehicles, solar cells, steel, aluminum, syringes and needles. The tariff rate on electric vehicles will increase from 25% to 100% in 2024, per the White House. “China is simply too big to play by its own rules,” Lael Brainard, White House National Economic Council director, told reporters.
May 14, 2024 10:03 AM
May 14, 2024 09:53 AM
Trump loyalists are flocking to support the former president during his criminal trial. It’s the second day of Michael Cohen’s testimony, and House Speaker Mike Johnson has joined Trump’s entourage. Also in attendance: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Reps. Byron Donalds and Cory Mills, and Eric Trump and Lara Trump.
May 14, 2024 09:53 AM
May 13, 2024 04:51 PM
Republican Sens. J.D. Vance and Tommy Tuberville joined Donald Trump in court Monday, as prosecutors questioned star witness Michael Cohen. Trump’s entourage also included Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York and state Attorneys General Steve Marshall of Alabama and Brenna Bird of Iowa.
May 13, 2024 04:51 PM
May 13, 2024 10:22 AM
Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen took the stand Monday pursuant to a subpoena. Cohen spent his early testimony explaining a strong working relationship with Trump, saying he spoke with him multiple times every day. Cohen called Trump a “micromanager” and said he would sometimes lie for him, per CNN.
May 13, 2024 10:22 AM
May 10, 2024 01:13 PM
A federal appeals court has upheld ex—Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s contempt-of-Congress conviction. Bannon was found guilty of failing to comply with the House January 6 committee’s subpoena. The appeals court also upheld Bannon’s four-month federal prison sentence. Bannon was given time to appeal the ruling to the full DC-based appeals court.
May 10, 2024 01:13 PM
May 09, 2024 01:55 PM
Two political strategists are cooperating with the Justice Department in its case against Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar and have agreed to plead guilty to charges that they conspired with the lawmaker to launder more than $200,000 in bribes. Per the San Antonio Express-News, the two middlemen, Cuellar’s former campaign manager Colin Strother and political consultant Florencio “Lencho” Rendon, agreed to plea deals in March.
May 09, 2024 01:55 PM
May 09, 2024 10:54 AM
Trump lawyer Susan Necheles took the lead questioning Daniels the day after her graphically detailed witness testimony. Necheles’s questions were focused on Daniels income, including the money she brought in from a book contract, her role in a documentary, a tour of strip clubs and merchandise like the “Stormy, Saint of Indictments candle.”
May 09, 2024 10:54 AM
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Biden 2024
May 02, 2024
Biden Gave Surprise Remarks on Campus Protests
President Joe Biden vowed on Thursday to protect both free speech and the rule of law. “There’s the right to protest, but not to cause chaos,” he said during remarks announced shortly ahead of time. Biden replied “no” when asked whether the National Guard should intervene in campus protests.
