New Jersey's governor on Thursday called on the state's lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he violated the state's ethics and discrimination rules.
TRUMP, THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS, CONGRESS, AND THE WAR. In 2002, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, President George W. Bush went through a long and elaborate process to secure the approval of Congress for going to war. On Oct. 10, 2002, the House passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force by a […]
Chukwunonso Eze entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in 2015 and received deferred action under both Biden and Trump before he allegedly killed a UMass Dartmouth football player.
Democratic operatives and political pundits suggested on Thursday that there are conversations happening about President Biden stepping aside before November's election after a debate performance some called "dismal," panicking some of his closest allies. That revelation came in the moments after Biden wrapped up a CNN debate with former President Trump, a performance that was...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sees the first presidential debate of the cycle — an event for which he didn't qualify — as momentum-building for his third-party campaign. Amid the fallout from the CNN showdown between President Biden and former President Trump, Kennedy sounded a hopeful note about what Biden's lambasted performance could mean for his...
Vice President Harris defended President Biden’s debate performance during an occasionally tense CNN interview, where even Biden’s running mate had to concede he had a “slow start” during his showdown with former President Trump. “What we saw tonight is the president making a very clear contrast with Donald Trump on all the issues that matter...
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel, formerly one of former President Trump’s largest financial backers, said Thursday that he won’t be giving Trump any money during this campaign cycle, but that may still vote for him. “If you hold a gun to my head, I'll vote for Trump,” Thiel said in an interview on stage at the...
CNN is coming under heavy criticism after two of its top anchors failed to offer real-time fact checks of false statements made by former President Trump and President Biden as they moderated Thursday night's presidential debate. During the highly anticipated and nationally televised clash, both Trump and Biden made a number of misleading or false...
President Biden and former President Trump took jabs at each other Thursday night in a debate that raised fresh fears for Democrats over the Biden's mental fitness. The two men tried to make their appeals to voters as concerns swirled over both of them. But it was Biden's faltering answers in the first 30 minutes...
Hollywood stars are sounding off on the first presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump. "Fear and grievance, ad infinitum," Bette Midler, a prominent Democratic supporter, said of Trump on social media, as the 45th president faced off against the current commander in chief at CNN's debate in Atlanta on Thursday. "Every word out of his mouth is...
If there was one thing Democrats wanted to see on display from President Biden at Thursday night’s debate, it was strength. They wanted to see Biden pummel former President Trump on the Jan. 6 insurrection, on overturning Roe v. Wade. They wanted him to knock Trump down with the “convicted felon” moniker. Instead, most Democrats...
Former President Donald Trump President Joe Biden will face off in person Thursday for the first time in this year's lead-up to their historic rematch election. Trump has generally held a slight lead over in Biden most, but not all, recent national polls. Neither candidate has a lock on several swing states, such as Wisconsin,...
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), 79, said he underwent a “successful” hip replacement surgery Wednesday and will remain in Illinois as he recovers. The No. 2 Senate Democrat will return to Washington once he is cleared to travel by his doctor, Durbin’s office said in a statement. “Today, I had a routine hip replacement...
About 55 percent of the water emanating from U.S. rivers is vulnerable to pollution, due to their lack of protections under the Clean Water Act, a new study has found. The Supreme Court last year ruled that "ephemeral streams" — those that fill up and flow only after weather events — do not fall under...
The number of foreign nationals in the U.S. currently eligible for naturalization outnumbers the 2020 presidential margin of victory in five battleground states. A report released by the American Immigration Council (AIC) on Thursday concluded that if some or all of the country’s 7.4 million not-yet-naturalized-but-eligible residents got their citizenship before November, they could swing...
Russians are increasingly unwilling to serve and are thereby depressing supply, while the manpower deficit on the battlefield is growing and is thereby increasing demand.
