A Jewish American Biden political appointee resigned from her post at the Interior Department on Wednesday, saying she could no longer work for the administration because of President Biden’s continued support of Israel’s war in Gaza. Lily Greenberg Call, special assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department, cited her Jewish upbringing and ties to Israel in her ...
When Donald Trump first ran for president in 2015, he promised that he would implement a process for deporting the 11 million residents of the United States who are here without authorization. There would be a “deportation force,” he said, one that leveraged local law enforcement to identify and expel undocumented immigrants. He offered words of praise for the deportation ...
Beyoncé gave tickets to Vice President Harris for the superstar’s concert last year as a gift, according to a new financial disclosure by Harris. The tickets were valued at $1,655.92, according to the disclosure, which the White House released Wednesday. Harris also disclosed that ESPN gifted her tickets to a college-football game last year. Harris, a Howard University graduate, attended ...
NEW YORK — Prosecutors who are trying to convict Donald Trump of falsifying documents bet big on Michael Cohen this week. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has relied on Trump’s fixer and attorney to make their case at trial that the former president was directly involved in a scheme to conceal a hush money payment on the eve of the ...
For much of the last year, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and a bipartisan group of his colleagues have been huddling with tech CEOs, civil rights leaders and top researchers to develop an “all hands on deck” plan to address the urgent threats posed by artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, the Senate AI Gang, as the group is known, unveiled ...
The Supreme Court restored a congressional voting map in Louisiana on Wednesday that includes an additional majority-Black district, handing a victory to African American voters and Democrats less than six months before the November election. The order was in response to emergency appeals filed after a federal three-judge panel in the state threw out the recently redrawn map last month, ...
President Biden and former president Donald Trump agreed Wednesday to a June 27 debate on CNN and a Sept. 10 debate broadcast by ABC News, bypassing the decades-old tradition of three fall meetings organized by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates. The decisions by the major-party candidates to take control of the once independent debate planning process upended the timeline ...
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) prepped his run for a fiercely contested Senate seat by bashing the incumbent for “abandoning the Democratic Party” and Arizonans, and standing in the way of expanding voting rights and abortion access with her support for the filibuster. Now, after Sinema decided not to seek reelection, Gallego says he would “love to have” ...
The U.S. military on Thursday anchored a floating pier to the shore of the Gaza Strip, officials said, preparing to begin aid deliveries to the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave in an operation directed by President Biden to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis there — but whose critics fear it will leave American troops vulnerable to attack. This post appeared first on ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped on Monday, snapping an eight-day winning streak, as traders grappled with rising inflation expectations ahead of key reports due later in the week. The 30-stock Dow fell 81.33 points, or 0.21%, to close at 39,431.51. The S&P 500 inched lower by 0.02%, ending at 5,221.42. The Nasdaq Composite added 0.29%, closing at 16,388.24. A New York Federal Reserve survey showed consumers last ...