White House counsel Stuart Delery is stepping down from his post, President Biden announced Thursday. Delery joined the administration as deputy counsel to the president and was promoted to the top job in July 2022, after former White House counsel Dana Remus left. Biden called him “a trusted adviser and a constant source of innovative...
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), who has criticized President Biden’s reelection efforts, expressed his concern that a rematch between Biden and former President Trump could result in a second Trump term. “We’re at grave risk of another Trump presidency,” Phillips said in an interview published Thursday in The Washington Post. “I’m doing this to prevent a...
Tropical Storm Hilary strengthened into a hurricane Thursday, with forecasters warning it could potentially bring devastating rainfall and high winds to Southern California this weekend. The last tropical storm to impact the state was 84 years ago, according to official records. The National Hurricane Center said Hilary was about 320 miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico,...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is asking the chair of the House Oversight Committee to refer former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder for federal prosecution, alleging the businessman lied under oath in congressional testimony last year. “Making false statements to Congress and obstructing congressional investigations are serious crimes,” Raskin wrote in the letter dated Wednesday. “This...
President Biden’s reelection campaign is planning an aggressive media blitz during the Republican National Committee (RNC) debate next week, a campaign official said Thursday. The Biden campaign will team up with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to run “a new, aggressive paid media campaign,” the official said, which will be its third major paid media...
Former President Trump’s “unprecedented” attacks on judges presiding over his legal troubles could “imperil” his cases, according to a former federal judge. “The former president's comments and attacks on the federal judiciary and on the specific individual judges who will preside over his trials are unprecedented in American history,” J. Michael Luttig, who was a...
Fox News host Laura Ingraham mocked media figures this week for what she described as glee at the prospect of former President Trump having a mug shot taken in Georgia. "These people are sick," Ingraham said on her nightly program Wednesday evening. "How is a mug shot of the former president in any way necessary...
The liberal veterans group VoteVets pressured Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) in a new political ad to help break Alabama GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville's roughly five-month hold on more than 300 military nominations. In the latest ad, VoteVets features a Florida veteran who accuses Scott of being AWOL on the blockade from Tuberville, despite the Florida...