CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker revealed Monday that he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes two years ago and began taking a GLP-1 medication, resulting in an 80-pound...
Rep. Lauren Boebert scolded news outlets for running stories about an ethics complaint that alleged she had inappropriate sexual relationships with three staffers, including two women.
Three more House Democrats called on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race after Thursday night’s key press conference, a troubling sign for the incumbent as he plows ahead with his campaign despite concerns following last month’s disastrous debate performance. Democratic Reps. Jim Himes (Conn.), Scott Peters (Calif.) and Eric Sorensen (Ill.) said...
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) group withdrew its conditional endorsement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) after it said she is not supportive enough of the Palestinian efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war. In a memo Wednesday, the DSA credited Ocasio-Cortez for her "courageous positions on Palestine," but took issue with some of her recent...
President Biden held a critical news conference at NATO’s Washington summit on Thursday evening as the fate of his reelection campaign hangs in the balance. The event came exactly two weeks after the disastrous debate performance in Atlanta that sent Democrats into a frenzy of panic and prompted a number of lawmakers to urge the...
Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) became the 11th House Democrat to publicly call on President Biden to withdraw from the election and said the president's press conference Thursday evening didn’t change his mind. Schneider joined CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after Biden’s press conference where he said he though the president did “a fine job.” “He showed a...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday warned against underestimating President Biden, describing him as a "very focused" leader following this week's NATO Summit in Washington, D.C. Scholz, who has been a vocal supporter of Biden's leadership in recent months, was asked by PBS News if he still believes the president can defeat former President Trump...
Body camera footage from Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-Pa.) car accident last month has been released by the Maryland State Police. The video, obtained by The Washington Post, shows Maryland State Police officers responding to the crash that left Fetterman’s black Chevrolet Traverse and a red Chevrolet sedan with heavy damage. According to the video, police...
President Biden on Thursday reaffirmed a limit on how Ukraine can use American-provided weapons to strike inside Russia, just hours after Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky called the restrictions "crazy." While the U.S. has permitted Ukraine to strike beyond the Russian border near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Biden has resisted Ukrainian demands to reach Russian...
More than two-thirds of voters see President Biden and former President Trump as “embarrassing,” according to a new Pew Research Center poll released Thursday. Among those surveyed, 63 percent described both presidential candidates as embarrassing; a substantial share of respondents — 37 percent of Biden supporters and 33 percent of Trump supporters — also said...
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) introduced a bill Thursday that would bar U.S. companies “appreciably” owned by foreign entities from donating or spending money in American elections. While foreign nationals are not legally allowed to spend in federal, state or local elections, companies registered in the U.S. that are partially owned...
The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday the GOP-controlled state Legislature was wrong to essentially bypass an independent redistricting commission created through a voter-approved ballot initiative and establish its own House maps instead. Utahns passed a ballot initiative in 2018 that established an independent redistricting commission, which would offer a set of maps to the state...
President Biden will hold a highly-anticipated press conference in Washington on Thursday in which he is poised to face a barrage of questions from reporters about the calamity now surrounding his 2024 reelection campaign. The event is slated to begin at 6:30 p.m. ET and will close out this week’s NATO summit, in which the...
Two more House Democrats on Thursday joined the growing chorus of congressional lawmakers publicly calling on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, increasing pressure on the president hours ahead of his highly anticipated press conference. Reps. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) and Ed Case (D-Hawaii), in two separate statements Thursday, noted their public calls to...
A House California Democrat is proposing a bill to fund legal defense services for people in immigration court, where only about a third of processed immigrants have legal representation. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) is introducing the Shield Act to provide $100 million in grants aimed at expanding the legal workforce defending immigration cases. Garcia said...
