Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are dominating the fight for campaign cash in the Republican presidential contest, according to federal filings made public Saturday. While some struggled, like former Vice President Mike Pence, others reported significant hauls that help ensure the GOP's 2024 primary will be crowded for the foreseeable future.
The White House broke out the blue pencil after Vice President Kamala Harris issued a call to "reduce population," editing the official transcript to say "pollution," although some conservatives saw it as a Freudian slip.
An attorney for Hunter Biden sent a cease-and-desist letter to former President Donald Trump demanding that he stop making "defamatory" statements, saying they could spur violence against the Biden family.
RATING THE GOP CANDIDATES IN IOWA. Six Republican presidential candidates — Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis — appeared Friday at the Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa. The event was sponsored by the Family Leader, the most influential social conservative organization in the state. The candidates were questioned by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. While the event did not make big news like it did back in 2016, when then-candidate Donald Trump notoriously said of the late Sen. John McCain, "I like people who weren't captured," the forum still offered revealing portraits of some of the candidates vying to unseat the now-former President Trump as the leader of the Republican Party. Here is a brief look at how each one did:
The U.S. Virgin Islands is seeking $190 million in penalties from JPMorgan Chase over its alleged role in propping up Jeffrey’s Epstein’s business deals. With its ties to his business, the bank helped Epstein commit sex trafficking and financial crimes, Virgin Islands Acting Attorney General Ariel Smith argued. “JPMorgan’s knowledge of and failure to report...