Second gentleman Doug Emhoff tested positive for COVD-19, the vice president’s office announced Sunday. His office said Emhoff had experienced mild symptoms before being tested Saturday, and is now asymptomatic. He is fully vaccinated, the office said. Vice President Harris was also tested for COVD-19 and tested negative, her office said. Emhoff will continue to...
A Republican pollster said Democrats are better off holding an open convention than putting President Biden or Vice President Harris on the ticket. Whit Ayres, the founder of North Star Opinion Research, said on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday” that neither Biden nor Harris will be able to defeat former President Trump in the presidential election...
Political momentum is building to regulate the spread of nonconsensual explicit deepfakes as the issue of the digitally altered images has moved from a potential threat to a reality. Several bipartisan bills introduced in Congress aim to mitigate the spread of nonconsensual explicit images made using artificial intelligence (AI), an issue that has not...
President Biden urged his supporters to ‘stick together’ as he kicked off a day of campaigning in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, amid growing calls for him to step aside as the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee. Churchgoers at Mount Airy Church of God in Christ, a predominantly Black church in northwest Philadelphia, greeted Biden ahead...
Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) downplayed concerns among Democrats that President Biden should end his presidential campaign, saying Sunday that he doesn’t believe members calling on him to leave will have an impact. Five Democratic House members have so far called on Biden to leave the race publicly amid concerns about his age and ability to...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod said Sunday he doesn't think President Biden understands he is "not winning this race" against former President Trump. “There are certain immutable facts of life, and those were painfully obvious on that debate stage, and the president just doesn't seem to come to — he hasn't come to grips with it....
Despite having deep pockets and access to engineering talent, Bezos has failed to make Blue Origin into the cutting edge, entrepreneurial company that can change the face of space launches in the way that SpaceX has become.
Former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile said Sunday that all eyes will be on Democratic delegates before the party’s convention as President Biden faces rising concerns over his age. Brazile said the returned electoral ballots from the party’s delegates will show Biden if there are serious concerns about his candidacy. “Those delegates who have...
Former President Trump has argued prosecutors at his recent hush money trial introduced evidence that is protected under the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling, an assertion that could upend his conviction. Trump does not assert immunity from the 34 guilty counts themselves, but he argues the verdict must be set aside because certain pieces of...
Senator Chuck Schumer has been reluctant to bring the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023 to the Senate floor, despite the overwhelming bipartisan support it received in the House, due to the opposition of some Democratic senators who are critical of Israel.
Just one month after a New York jury made him the first former president convicted of a crime, the guilty verdict in former President Trump’s hush money case is already in peril following a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. Trump’s highly anticipated criminal sentencing was set for next week, until his lawyers latched onto...
Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) predicted that voters’ concerns about President Biden’s age could spell disaster for swing-district Democrats across the country in November. Ryan, who was one of the first prominent Democrats to urge Biden to leave the presidential race last week, said in a “Fox News Sunday” interview with Shannon Bream that he...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said Sunday he thinks it would be “totally reasonable” for former President Trump to investigate President Biden if the presumptive GOP candidate is elected to a second term in the White House this November. In an interview on NBC News's "Meet the Press," Vance responded to a clip of Trump from...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he is “concerned about national security” after President Biden’s debate performance last month, saying he believes Biden is mentally “compromised.” Graham said in a CBS “Face the Nation” interview with Robert Costa that Senate Republicans have aired concerns about the president. “Most of us are concerned with the national security...
