Politics

(WASHINGTON) — The presidential nominations are locked up — but the primaries remain, along with any tea leaves they may provide. Ohio’s GOP Senate primary is the headliner Tuesday, with car salesman Bernie Moreno considered by several strategists to be the slight favorite, running with former President Donald Trump’s endorsement against state Sen. Matt Dolan […]

(WASHINGTON) — Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has shrugged off Donald Trump’s suggestion on social media that she and other members of the bipartisan House committee that investigated Jan. 6 should be jailed. The former president attacked Cheney and the others on social media this week. He also questioned whether Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide […]

(WASHINGTON) — Ahead of President Joe Biden making campaign stops on Tuesday in Arizona and Nevada, advisers are laying out why they still place him in a better position than former President Donald Trump to win those two key battlegrounds, despite Biden’s mediocre polling in the early lead-up to the long general election fight. On […]

(WASHINGTON) — Israel’s expected military invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza was the focus of President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call Monday — their first in more than a month — with the White House saying Biden is still not satisfied that Israel will do enough to prevent civilian casualties as […]

(WASHINGTON) — Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro must report to prison on Tuesday as scheduled, after the Supreme Court on Monday denied the stay of his sentence. Chief Justice John Roberts, in a short opinion, wrote that he saw “no reason to disagree” with lower courts, which also rejected Navarro’s request. Navarro’s appeal […]

(WASHINGTON) — Devon Archer, a key witness in House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, will not attend a high-profile open hearing this week, citing what his attorney characterized as a “patently unreasonable” amount of time to prepare. Matthew Schwartz, an attorney for Archer — a former Hunter Biden business associate, revealed Monday in […]

(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday that he said marks the launch of “the first-ever White House initiative of women’s health research to pioneer the next generation of scientific research and discovery of women’s health.” The order, he said, will direct the “most comprehensive set of executive actions ever taken” to […]

(WASHINGTON) — Congress is beginning the week without a deal to avert a partial government shutdown by Friday’s deadline — as funding for the Department of Homeland Security trips up negotiations. The Friday deadline is for the remaining six of 12 spending bills after Congress passed the first six earlier this month — averting a […]

(WASHINGTON) — Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan now says that he will not join No Labels’ potential third-party “unity” ticket in the 2024 presidential race. “After careful deliberation, I have withdrawn my name from consideration for the No Labels presidential ticket,” Duncan said in a statement to ABC News on Monday. “It was an […]

(WASHINGTON) — After former President Donald Trump warned, as he talked about the auto industry, that the country would face a broader “bloodbath” if he’s not elected in November — spurring countless headlines and criticism from rival Joe Biden — Trump on Monday pushed back on the pushback and turned his defense of his comments […]