CNN anchor Jake Tapper is demanding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign remove an ad from social media that manipulates footage from news broadcasts falsely portraying them boosting his candidacy. The ad, published Wednesday evening, is deceptively edited to show leading cable news hosts such as Tapper, Dana Bash, MSNBC's Joy Reid and others saying Democrats...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) gave a terse "no" on Thursday when pressed on whether President Biden will hurt the Democrats’ efforts to seize control of the House. The Democratic leader's comments came ahead of Biden's high-stakes press conference to close the NATO summit in Washington, as tensions continue to build within the caucus...
Pfizer announced Thursday plans to move forward with an oral daily weight loss medication in the same drug category as treatments including Ozempic and Zepbound. The pharmaceutical giant said clinical evaluation of once-daily doses of its oral GLP-1 agonist candidate danuglipron demonstrated "encouraging" data. Dose optimization studies are planned. Pfizer had been looking into a...
A pair of Oversight Committee Democrats are asking a government watchdog to investigate the amount of federal funding directed toward crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), anti-abortion nonprofits designed to convince people not to terminate pregnancies. In a letter sent Thursday to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and shared first with The Hill, ranking member Rep. Jamie...
Journalists, songwriters and other artists would be given control over whether their content is used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems under a new bipartisan bill introduced Thursday in the Senate. The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act, or COPIED Act, would require platforms that develop or share AI...
The Biden administration designated a Venezuelan gang a transnational criminal organization on Thursday. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control accused Tren de Aragua of human trafficking, gender-based violence, money laundering and drug trafficking. It is offering up to a $12 million reward for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of Tren...
The North Carolina State Board of Elections once again failed to certify political third parties headed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Cornel West ahead of the November election.
The White House brushed off mounting calls from the media to hear directly from President Biden's White House physician as concerns grow around the president's health.
Republican convention organizers raised more than $85 million for the Milwaukee event that will nominate Donald Trump for president next week.
The convention host...