On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he fulfilled a campaign promise and cheered immigration advocates by introducing a sweeping bill that offered a path to legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants. Vice President Kamala Harris is touting a starkly different legislative priority in her upstart campaign: She is pledging to sign into law “the toughest bipartisan border security ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wouldn’t acknowledge Sunday that Joe Biden won the 2020 election when asked directly about the election denialism that former president Donald Trump continues to promote on the campaign trail. During a testy exchange on ABC News’s “This Week,” host George Stephanopoulos asked Johnson if he could say “unequivocally that Joe Biden won the 2020 election ...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former president Donald Trump’s running mate, said that Trump, if elected, would seek to end federal money for Planned Parenthood. “We don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions,” Vance told RealClearPolitics on Saturday night. “That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around, it will remain a consistent view.” Vance’s ...
Speaking on a popular podcast aimed at young women, Vice President Kamala Harris took issue with former president Donald Trump calling himself a “protector” of women and also responded to attacks on her stepfamily by Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Harris made the remarks on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, in an expansive interview with host Alex Cooper. The podcast has ...
Republicans backing Donald Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm that is one of the federal government’s largest business partners, with the loss of billions of dollars in contracts because an employee shared messages from 2020 in which GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance criticized the former president’s record. On Sept. 27, Donald Trump Jr. exposed the employee’s name and photograph ...
It’s time for a wellness check at CVS Health. Shares of the company are down more than 20% this year as it grapples with higher-than-expected medical costs in its insurance unit and pharmacy reimbursement pressure, among other issues. As it seeks to claw back faith with Wall Street, the company is considering breaking itself up. CVS has engaged advisors in a strategic review of its ...
Israel’s military says it has encircled Jabalya, northern Gaza and launched a new ground operation, after seeing signs of Hamas rebuilding, despite nearly a year of fighting and strikes in the territory. Despite attention shifting to Lebanon after Israeli forces escalated their attacks on the Hezbollah militant group, Israel continues to operate across Gaza and is again focusing on an ...
Scorch marks and bullet holes scar the battered walls of the Haran family home in kibbutz Be’eri. Its tiled roof has caved in, windows smashed, littering the floors with sharp shards of terracotta and glass – the debris, still untouched, of a day of horror for Israel. “This house tells the story of Be’eri,” says Yarden Tzemach, a farmer and ...
Glance up while strolling through parts of downtown Hong Kong and, chances are, you’ll notice the glassy black lens of a surveillance camera trained on the city’s crowded streets. And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities. Though it ...
“I went on Facebook to see if he would go the extent of meeting up with me. He did… but I never went.” Savanna Harrison, 27, is a professional “checker”, using social media to expose cheating partners after being cheated on herself. She wanted to help other women avoid the same heartbreak she felt, so she started working for a ...