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Ritchie Torres: Biden’s news conference won’t offer ‘political salvation’

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) does not believe President Biden’s press conference after the NATO summit will be “political salvation” for his reelection campaign. "Neither the press conference tonight nor the NBC interview on Monday evening will offer the President the political salvation he seems to be seeking," Torres said in a post to the social...

Cruz: Democrats will replace Biden with Kamala Harris or Michelle Obama

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday predicted Democrats will force President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race and will nominate Vice President Harris or former first lady Michelle Obama to replace him at the top of the party's ticket. "I put the odds at about 80 percent [Democrats] dump [Biden], and if and when...

CNN’s Jake Tapper calls for RFK Jr. ad to be taken down 

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...

Jeffries insists Biden won’t stop Dems from flipping House

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 moving ahead with plans for once-daily weight loss pill

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...

With or without Biden, this election’s stakes couldn’t be higher

Do you want a democracy that creates more opportunity for all, or do you want a greedy, authoritarian theocracy focused on dangerous grievances?

House Democrats call for investigation into crisis pregnancy center funding

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...

Bipartisan AI bill aims to give journalists, artists control over content  

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...

Biden administration designates Venezuela gang as transnational criminal organization

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...

North Carolina election board defers certifying RFK Jr, Cornel West: report

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.

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