The idea of summer as two months paid leave for America's teachers is full of holes. Nearly half planned to take a second job, according to a recent survey, while 76 percent will be doing some kind of professional development — and not all of them are even paid by their districts over the...
NATO will not offer Ukraine a formal invitation to join or a concrete path to membership, but the US has signed a bilateral security arrangement with Ukraine, and Ukraine can adapt to the Swedish model of defense-industrial sector and military forces with increased support from the West.
President Biden’s campaign has raked in more than $33 million since his debate with former President Trump last week despite some backlash about his performance. In an email on Sunday, a Biden campaign official said they had raised more than $33 million since Thursday's debate, including $26 million from grassroots donations. This fundraising haul comes...
A former top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaigns said Sunday that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) needs to clarify the backup plan should President Biden choose to drop out of the race. Jeff Weaver, who was an adviser to Sanders’s 2016 and 2020 White House runs and worked on Rep. Dean Phillips’s...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) doubled down on her support for President Biden following his debate performance last week. Pelosi defended Biden on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, emphasizing that the president is "attuned" to the issues when she works with him up close. She shot down suggestions that Biden could be replaced...
Not content with erasing racism from its theme parks, Disney has apparently sought to use its magic to make the film’s positive but controversial rendering of voodoo in “The Princess and the Frog” disappear.
More than 70 percent of voters believe President Biden does not have the mental health to serve a second term as president, a notable increase from previous polls after a poor debate performance last week. The CBS News poll published Sunday found that 72 percent of respondents don’t believe Biden’s health is adequate to serve...
Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said while President Biden's debate showing was "not the performance we were looking for," people should look at the president's record when comparing him with former President Trump. "I suspect that, you know, pretty much everybody watched that debate, and thought that the president did not perform the way we would...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said he expects to be in the Senate "in a few years" when asked about being a potential running mate for former President Trump, but he said he was "very interested" in the role. Vance is one of the few people remaining on Trump's shortlist for vice president if he is...
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R), rumored to be on former President Trump’s vice-presidential shortlist, defended the presumptive GOP nominee against criticism over the numerous falsehoods he told on the debate stage Thursday. In an interview Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” Burgum called the story “manufactured,” noting Trump has said publicly in the...