WILKESBORO, N.C. — His staff had just resigned en masse. His allies believed he would lose. His scandals now threatened to drag down his whole party in the critical state of North Carolina. But Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson plowed ahead with his Monday visit to a bakery, insisting to a small crowd of journalists and die-hard supporters that “we ...
A key Republican state lawmaker said Monday he does not support changing how the state awards its electoral votes before the November election, imperiling a last-ditch push by former president Donald Trump and his allies. “I respect the desire of some of my colleagues to have this discussion, and I have taken time to listen carefully to Nebraskans and national ...
Crime is perhaps the perfect issue on which unscrupulous politicians can focus. Americans perennially have a sense that crime is rising in the country, if not in their own neighborhoods. The lack of quality, real-time national data on crime makes it easy to cherry-pick specific, alarming incidents or to allege increases in crime that are hard to dismiss as invented. ...
Things have been looking up for Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign for a while now — to the point that even Donald Trump’s former surefire issues of immigration, the economy and inflation aren’t looking quite so decisive. But if Democrats are wondering why she hasn’t taken a more consistent lead in the polls, they might want to take ...
To a Republican tuning in to NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, what Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was proposing no doubt made perfect sense: Instead of allocating some electoral college votes by congressional district, he argued, Nebraska should give all of the state’s electors to the person who wins the state. Who, in practice, would be the Republican nominee, ...
INDIANA, Pa. — Donald Trump repeatedly cast himself as the “protector” of women, who polls show heavily favor his Democratic rival, declaring they will “no longer be abandoned, lonely, or scared.” He suggested some critics of the Supreme Court “should be put in jail,” and compared them to the late college basketball coach Bobby Knight working the referees. And he ...
Republican nominee Donald Trump further escalated his long-running bid to discredit federal law enforcement by accusing agencies on Monday of mishandling the investigation of last week’s apparent assassination attempt and demanding Florida officials take over the case. “OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS CORRUPT AND DISCREDITED, especially as it pertains to the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” Trump ...
Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday opposed prosecutors’ request to file an up-to-180-page legal brief this week explaining why the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election should not be immune from criminal prosecution, claiming that such a filing would be tantamount to releasing a special counsel report six weeks before the 2024 election. Prosecutors asked ...
The Federal Trade Commission said Friday that it is suing three drug middlemen, accusing them of inflating insulin prices. The FTC accused the ‘Big Three’ pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx, CVS Health’s Caremark and Cigna’s Express Scripts — of ‘engaging in anticompetitive and unfair rebating practices that have artificially inflated the list price of insulin drugs, ...
During a recent event celebrating Foot Locker’s 50th anniversary in New York City, it was hard to imagine that the legacy sneaker chain was appearing on bankruptcy watch lists as recently as March. Grammy-nominated rapper Coi Leray was there to celebrate the company with a special performance of her hit song “Players” as influencers, journalists and handpicked members of the company’s revamped ...