President Biden’s dog, Commander, bit Secret Service personnel at least 24 times before he was removed from the White House, new documents reportedly show. According to hundreds of pages of newly released documents — obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by researcher John Greenewald — Commander was involved in at least two...
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller poked fun at Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in response to reports that Putin gifted a luxury car to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “I, actually, frankly, didn’t know there was such a thing as a Russian luxury car,” Miller said at a press briefing, when asked about...
The Department of Agriculture’s Equity Commission on Thursday presented a detailed report meant to address the department's history of discrimination against farmers of color. The report, written by the 15-person commission and members of two subcommittees focused on agriculture and rural community economic development, identified decades-long acts of discrimination and listed a total of 66...
Nearly half of Americans in a new poll said they would back a national 16-week abortion ban after The New York Times reported former President Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, privately expressed support for the measure. The Economist/YouGov new poll found 48 percent of respondents would support a national ban on abortions...
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is kicking off its first full day of speakers Thursday in what is expected to be a de facto rally for Donald Trump's presidential bid. The event in past years has been a showcase for different facets of the American conservative movement, though recently it has been dominated by...
House lawmakers focused on crafting U.S. strategy toward China arrived Thursday in Taiwan in a show of bipartisan support amid GOP stonewalling in Congress to address military aid to the island. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),...
To put it plainly, the Affordable Connectivity Program is the most effective program we’ve had in helping low-income Americans get online and stay online.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) panned Democrats who are upping their criticisms of President Biden ahead of the November election, saying they might as well don a "MAGA hat." Fetterman noted during an interview an uptick in Democrats who have become more critical of Biden lately, and said it's only helping former President Trump. "I don't...
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday made public the contact information for The New York Times bureau in Mexico, which is ranked 153rd out of 179 countries in the 2023 Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders. López Obrador, a fierce critic of both domestic and foreign media, showed the bureau's contact information on a...