Tropical Storm Debby is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane before it makes landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region early Monday, the National Weather Service predicted. Debby currently has sustained winds of about 50 mph and is moving slowly toward the Florida coast from the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Meteorologists predicted that the storm will...
Vice President Harris’s campaign launched "Republicans for Harris" with more than 25 GOP endorsements, including former secretaries Chuck Hagel and Ray LaHood, as well as former GOP governors and lawmakers. The campaign announced Sunday that Trump-era White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham and Olivia Troye, ex-national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, also...
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 has reduced the tax incentive for charitable giving for more than 90% of Americans, leading to a decline in charitable giving and a potential risk of it becoming a luxury good.
Democratic strategist David Axelrod warned that much of the energy among Democrats about Vice President Harris’s campaign is just “irrational exuberance,” as the race remains neck-and-neck. Harris’s campaign has come out to a quick start, breaking fundraising records and significantly cutting into former President Trump’s previous lead in polls since she replaced President Biden at...
Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who served under the Trump administration, raised concerns Sunday over President Biden's ability to finish his term. “If he’s not well enough to run, how can he be well enough to stay in there as president?” Ross said Sunday in an interview on "The Cats Roundtable" with host John Catsimatidis....
Rep. Cori Bush’s primary on Tuesday is once again putting progressives on guard as they face what could be their second consecutive defeat this cycle. Bush is squaring off against Wesley Bell, the prosecuting attorney from St. Louis County, in a Missouri race that will test the "squad’s" strength and staying power. Many progressives see...
The Trump campaign’s intense pushback to Project 2025 amid sustained attacks from Democrats is frustrating conservatives inside and outside the effort who worry that the disavowal will result in the former president alienating his most loyal supporters. It was one thing for Trump to separate himself amid Democratic messaging centering on the Heritage Foundation-led project’s...
Educators in Oklahoma are refusing a state order to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans, setting up an inevitable showdown with the start of the school year just weeks away. State Superintendent Ryan Walters last week released guidelines to schools for how they should be integrating the Bible into classrooms, saying educators who are against the initiative...
Senators on both sides of the aisle left the Capitol frustrated as they began an August recess following seven months of work that saw political messaging wars crowd out legislative results. Aside from a major foreign aid package in April, most big-ticket legislative items stalled, leaving lawmakers with little to brag about ahead of November’s...
Barack Obama began his career in politics as a senator in Illinois. He went on to serve two terms as president of the United States, from 2009 until 2017.