Westchester County Executive George Latimer resoundingly defeated Rep. Jamaal Bowman in the Democratic primary for New York’s 16th Congressional District on Tuesday night, according to an Associated Press projection, ousting a member of the far-left faction of his own party after a blistering contest that divided the candidates on race, class and the Middle East conflict and cost more than ...
Voters in Utah cast ballots in a slate of primary elections Tuesday, including in races for the seat held by Sen. Mitt Romney (R), who announced last year that he would not seek a second term. The winners of the Republican primaries are heavily favored to win in the November general election in this solidly conservative state that Donald Trump ...
After Texas passed a law restricting abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy, the infant death rate increased along with the number of babies who died of birth defects, according to a new study. The study, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, is the latest research indicating higher rates of infant mortality ...
One of the underrecognized elements of the country’s political tensions is the unusual generational split that exists at the moment. America is getting more gray and less White, both trends that overlap with age, given that the increased racial diversity the country is seeing is largely a function of younger people. Power is transitioning from the former to the latter, ...
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Special counsel Jack Smith revealed new photos in a court filing Monday evening that depict how haphazardly Donald Trump stored classified materials at his Florida property post-presidency, with golf shirts stuffed into boxes alongside the sensitive materials, newspaper clippings and other mementos. The images — a grab-bag of national security secrets, souvenirs and various odds-and-ends — ...
President Biden and his presumptive opponent Donald Trump each amplified the case of a particular undocumented immigrant last week, using vastly divergent language in a preview of the sharp contrast they plan to draw on immigration during their debate Thursday. At a June 18 rally in Racine, Wis., Trump railed against a man from El Salvador accused of murdering a ...
Pro-Israel groups make up an increasingly large presence in Democratic primaries for Congress. Even so, the effort to unseat Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) in Tuesday’s primary is extraordinary. And the result could reverberate greatly in the evolving internal Democratic debate over the war in Gaza. That’s because, while the dollar amounts are becoming larger and the results have been mostly ...
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling its futuristic new Cybertruck pickup for the fourth time in the U.S. to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail. The new recalls, announced in documents posted Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, each affect more than 11,000 trucks. The company says in the documents that the ...
Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists signed a joint letter Tuesday warning of what they see as economic risks if former President Donald Trump were to serve a second term, including reheated inflation. “While each of us has different views on the particulars of various economic policies, we all agree that Joe Biden’s economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump’s,” the economists wrote. Axios ...
More than 21 million Miniverse “Make It Mini” sets by California toymaker MGA Entertainment are being recalled because of potentially hazardous resins, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported Tuesday. The resins, when in liquid form, can cause skin, eye and respiratory irritation or sensitization if inhaled, touched or ingested. The resins contain acrylates in amounts prohibited in children’s products by the ...