Politics

Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.Alex Wong/Getty Images; Marta Lavandier/AP Trump, his family, and his allies trolled DeSantis amid a glitchy campaign rollout. Donald Trump Jr. deemed the night a “#DeSaster.” The former president shared a video comparing the glitches to Trump’s own 2024 announcement. Former President Donald Trump and his allies … Read more

Fitch Ratings has put the U.S. on notice for a potential credit downgrade as President Joe Biden and Republican lawmakers struggle to reach a deal to raise the debt limit. “We believe risks have risen that the debt limit will not be raised or suspended before the X-date and consequently that the government could begin … Read more

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to pass a Republican measure to block President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program and end the administration’s pause on federal student loan payments. The House voted 218-203, largely along party lines, with two Democrats — Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington — joining … Read more

Two men walk in front of the Wyoming Republican Party headquarters in Cheyenne, Wyo., on Tuesday, July 19, 2022.Thomas Peipert/Associated Press Christian nationalism has gained traction in the Republican party in recent years. A Wyoming Republican wrote an op-ed arguing the movement has hijacked her state. She said the growing embrace of the concept has … Read more

Photograph: Nick Rohlman/AP The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, has officially declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president. Related: Fewer pronouns, more guns: Ron DeSantis’s plan to turn the US into Florida DeSantis filed paperwork on Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission, ahead of a glitch-riddled launch event on Twitter with the owner … Read more

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden has picked U.S. Air Force chief General Charles Q. Brown to become America’s next top U.S. military officer, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday, in a long-anticipated move that elevates a former fighter pilot with experience in the Pacific at a time of … Read more

Before Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to San Francisco in 1983, a city police officer who regularly patronized an Irish pub warned federal agents about a potential threat against the queen by an Irish Republican Army sympathizer who was bent on revenge for the death of his daughter, newly released FBI records show. The unidentified police … Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that American schools have turned into “killing fields” in the year since a mass shooter gunned down nineteen students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Biden, standing before 21 candles at the base of the White House Grand Staircase, spoke of the grief experienced … Read more

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican leaders in Oklahoma, who control every lever of political power in the state, unveiled their largest-ever budget proposal this week, the result of bruising negotiations that left the GOP governor fuming and even some Democrats happy with what it included. The $13 billion state budget, a nearly 20% increase over … Read more

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Arkansas man who propped his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in a widely circulated photo from the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in prison. Richard “Bigo” Barnett became one of the faces of the Jan. 6 riot by supporters of … Read more