WILMINGTON, Del. — When Lisa Blunt Rochester was running to become Delaware’s first Black woman in Congress, a newspaper editorial board asked her an unusual question: Wasn’t she a bit nice for Capitol Hill? Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) recalls trying to turn that doubt into a positive. “Well, maybe we need to do something different,” she remembered answering. Now, after eight ...
BUTLER, Pa. — Republican nominee Donald Trump is set to return on Saturday to the fairgrounds here where he narrowly escaped an assassin’s bullet on July 13, in what has become another defining moment for his presidential campaign and his MAGA movement. The campaign is bringing back many attendees who sat in the bleachers behind Trump at the July rally, ...
Vice President Kamala Harris will appear this week on an episode of “Call Her Daddy,” one of the world’s most popular podcasts. The feature on the podcast, which garners millions of listeners who are known as the “Daddy Gang,” is another marker of the Harris campaign’s efforts to reach women and younger voters. Harris and “Call Her Daddy” host Alex ...
CHARLOTTE — Vice President Kamala Harris took her second trip in four days to a hurricane-ravaged state, meeting with victims and first responders in North Carolina on Saturday as the administration combats criticism and false claims that its storm response is too anemic. Fresh off a Midwest campaign swing, Harris visited a North Carolina Air National Guard base at Charlotte’s ...
Washington and Massachusetts are stockpiling abortion pills. California is cutting climate deals directly with automakers. Colorado is rushing to protect the right to same-sex marriage. And attorneys general across the country are marshaling legal resources and privately plotting courtroom strategies. From the West Coast to the East, blue states are preparing for the possibility that former president Donald Trump wins ...
As a California voter, Vice President Kamala Harris has decisions to make about state policy measures that will appear on her November ballot — some of which reflect national challenges she could face if elected president. California voters’ ballots will include questions about crime, climate change, health-care funding and other issues, thanks to a state system that gives them a ...
The Supreme Court wades back into hot-button issues including gun control, the death penalty and gender-affirming care for minors in the term that begins Monday, even as the fast-approaching presidential election could end up dominating the docket. Last term was marked by blockbuster rulings on the scope of former president Donald Trump’s immunity from prosecution and place on the 2024 ...
Nobody planned it this way, but the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, former president Donald Trump’s role in attempting to subvert the 2020 election and the issue of protecting democracy emerged as the theme of the presidential campaign last week. That no one planned it is apparent from the coincidence of events that put the focus back ...
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 ...
A 21-year-old Yazidi woman has been rescued from Gaza where she had been held captive by Hamas for years after being trafficked by ISIS. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that Fawzia Amin Sido was freed this week in an operation coordinated between Israel, the United States and other international actors. She said that she was initially kidnapped by ISIS as ...