By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – The bodies of foreign aid workers killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza were brought to the crossing with Egypt on Wednesday as international outrage simmered over an attack that highlighted the dangers faced by humanitarian staff in the enclave. The strike late on Monday night hit a convoy … Read more
Florida Democrats, fearing politicization will sink a November ballot measure protecting abortion, are warning President Joe Biden’s campaign not to alienate Republicans. Already, the Biden campaign declared Florida “winnable,” launched digital ads in Florida showing Donald Trump bragging about overturning Roe v. Wade and held a call with reporters to put the former president on … Read more
WASHINGTON — In the hours before delivering his State of the Union speech last month, President Joe Biden called the CEOs of General Motors and Cisco Systems to ask their advice on the state of the U.S. economy and share how he planned to talk about it. Then he rode to Capitol Hill and, in … Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in six battleground states in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, according to a Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday that cited concerns about the economy and Biden’s performance. Trump garnered a lead of between 2 and 8 percentage points among voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors chided the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Florida, warning her off potential jury instructions that they said rest on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise.” In an unusual order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had asked prosecutors and defense lawyers to file proposed jury instructions … Read more
With national attention focused on the chaos at the southern border, President Joe Biden has been steadily rebuilding a legal pathway for immigration that was gutted during the Trump administration. The United States has allowed more than 40,000 refugees into the country in the first five months of the fiscal year after they passed a … Read more
Donald Trump said Election Day in November will now be called “Christian Visibility Day,” piling on to conservative outrage over an annual transgender event that happened to fall on Easter. (Watch the video below.) At a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, the presumed Republican nominee stirred up followers after President Joe Biden and … Read more
Harry Dunn (left) stands beside President Joe Biden before receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation’s second-highest civilian honor, on Jan. 6, 2023. Patrick Semansky/Associated Press A former U.S. Capitol police officer, now running for Congress in suburban Maryland, is slamming AIPAC’s intervention in his race, noting the group’s support for dozens of Republicans who … Read more
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will host a White House event with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to highlight their efforts to cut the cost of inhalers for asthma suffers. Sanders and other lawmakers in January criticized four manufacturers of inhalers sold in the U.S. — AstraZeneca, Boehringer, Teva Pharmaceuticals … Read more
By Sarah N. Lynch and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A conservative ally of Donald Trump filed a complaint on Tuesday against a U.S. federal judge who in a rare television interview criticized the former president’s verbal attacks on the New York judge overseeing Trump’s upcoming criminal trial. Mike Davis, founder of conservative legal advocacy group … Read more