In the final stretch before Election Day, Republicans are ramping up efforts to distance themselves from the restrictive abortion positions that have defined their party since the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade — scrambling to soften, or appear to soften, their hard line positions. The group includes everyone from former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. ...
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to block new Biden administration rules requiring fossil-fuel-fired power plants to slash emissions of mercury and other toxic substances and oil and gas firms to curb methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from their operations. The issues were two of three playing out on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket over a suite of Biden administration ...
FLINT, Mich. — Vice President Kamala Harris met with Arab American and Muslim leaders in Michigan on Friday, part of an ongoing effort to stem defections from a pivotal group of voters who have fiercely criticized President Joe Biden for his staunch support of Israel’s wars in Gaza and now Lebanon. The meeting came during a campaign swing through the ...
President Joe Biden said he was concerned that the upcoming presidential election might not be peaceful, using a surprise appearance at the White House Briefing Room on Friday to suggest that former president Donald Trump’s rhetoric may lead to a “dangerous” outcome. “I’m confident it’ll be free and fair. I don’t know whether it’ll be peaceful,” Biden said of the ...
The Supreme Court on Friday added more than a dozen cases for its term starting Monday, including a lawsuit by the Mexican government seeking to hold U.S. gunmakers liable for violence there, a death penalty appeal and a lawsuit by a woman who says she was discriminated against for being heterosexual. Mexico took legal action in 2021 against leading firearms ...
President Joe Biden on Friday rejected Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s claim that the robust jobs report was “fake” as he heralded the latest positive economic news for his administration. In a surprise appearance in the White House Briefing Room, Biden welcomed the jobs report and the deal to end the dockworkers strike before taking several questions from reporters. He was ...
Deadly flooding has cut off power and water in large swaths of the Southeast, and storm damage could hamper voting ahead of the election. A longshoremen strike briefly shut down ports along the East and Gulf Coasts, leading Democrats to panic. Bombs and assassinations have put the Middle East on the brink of a regional war. A judge unsealed a ...
With a month to go, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris remain nearly tied in battleground polls. The similarities end there. Harris is running a campaign about three times the size of Trump’s operation, according to recent spending reports. She has placed $263 million in ads between the end of the Democratic convention and Oct. 4, nearly 2½ times as much ...
Virtually all of the world’s supply of a mineral that is critical to semiconductor production comes from one tiny town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that has been devastated by Hurricane Helene. Spruce Pine, North Carolina has no running water or electricity, more than a week after Helene ripped through the town of 2,200. Roads and railways in and out ...
Thousands of dockworkers on the East Coast and Gulf Coast will return to work after reaching a tentative agreement on wages, ending one of the biggest work stoppages in decades. In a joint statement, the United States Maritime Alliance, or USMX, and the International Longshoreman’s Association said the two sides have an agreement to extend their current labor contract through ...