Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) introduced a bill on Monday to prohibit federal funds from being used on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s salary or expenses. The move comes as lawmakers heap scrutiny on the Secret Service in wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt of former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. In explaining the bill, Boebert...
Even if they fall short of that, they presage bad news — lower growth and higher inflation, family budgets stretched thin, and perhaps injury to the Constitution.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered an apology to former President Trump after a video of his call with the former president was leaked. Trump spoke with Kennedy earlier Monday, before he announced Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. In the leaked call, Trump...
President Biden’s reelection campaign on Tuesday defended the decision to continue with plans to virtually nominate the president ahead of the convention next month. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) was set to hold a virtual roll call to ensure Biden is on the ballot in all 50 states after Democrats were notified earlier this year...
Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) on Tuesday suggested he has backed away from publicly calling on President Biden to step out of the 2024 race, stating the assassination attempt against former President Trump "overtook" conversations about Biden's viability. Landsman said he was not ready to tell Biden he should step aside, when asked during an appearance...
Arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border fell by nearly 30 percent in June to the lowest level during President Biden’s administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Monday, as the president’s asylum restrictions took effect. About 83,000 people were arrested at the border in June, CBP said, down from about 118,000 in May and the...
Most of Gen Z is turning to TikTok to seek health advice, citing quick responses and free advice, a recent survey found. The poll, conducted by Zing Coach, found 56 percent of Gen Z use TikTok for wellness, diet and fitness advice and that a large share of them use the platform as their main...
Former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt, but the issues remain the same and the American people have an important choice to make in the 2024 election.
Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general, said Monday that Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case against former President Trump is “simple indefensible.” “As a legal decision by a district court judge, it’s simply indefensible,” Litman told CNN’s Laura Coates Monday evening. “It almost doesn’t make sense to...
Less than a third of U.S. adults say Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) is either the “best” or a “good” choice for former President Trump’s running mate, according to a collection of snap polls from YouGov. The surveys, conducted Monday evening after Vance was officially named to the GOP ticket, found that only 27 percent of...
Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee summoned USAGM CEO Amanda Bennett and two other officials to testify about a "culture of corruption" at the agency, including hate messages directed at Donald Trump uploaded by VOA employees.
