Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer has been firmly repeating one simple phrase when asked about whether President Biden should step aside from his campaign: “I’m with Joe.” But behind the scenes, the New York Democrat has left himself plenty of room to maneuver as he faces immense pressure from some Democratic senators and donors to convey a message to ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Friday dismissed as “absolute fake news” a report it is negotiating with Egypt over withdrawing its troops from the eight-mile corridor dividing the two countries as part of ongoing talks over a Gaza cease-fire and hostage-release deal. “The Prime Minister insists that Israel remain on the Philadelphi Corridor,” as the area is known, ...
DETROIT — President Biden on Friday faced a continuing drip of statements from Democrats urging him to step aside as their presidential nominee, as at least two more lawmakers joined the calls for him to end his candidacy and underlined that this week’s high-stakes news conference had not squelched concerns in the party that he would struggle to defeat Donald ...
Meta announced Friday it’s rolling back heightened restrictions on former president Donald Trump’s social media accounts — an effort to give the Republican presidential contender more leeway to share content in a heated campaign season. The social media giant said it’s loosening the more rigorous consequences for Trump if he breaks their content rules, such as those that bar hate ...
BUTLER, Pa. — Former president Donald Trump on Saturday was rushed offstage with blood dripping down his face after a shooting that the authorities called an assassination attempt. One attendee was killed and two others were critically injured at the campaign rally, the Secret Service said, a shocking turn in a tense election season where concerns about violence had already ...
The FBI named 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pa., as the suspected shooter in what it described as an assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday. The Secret Service said its agents “neutralized” the shooter, who is now dead. Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he was ...
A federal judge in New York on Friday threw out Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case, paving the way for a litany of creditors, including two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation claim against him, to pursue and potentially seize his assets. The decision by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane in the Southern District of New York comes ...
BUTLER, Pa. — Former president Donald Trump on Saturday was rushed offstage with blood dripping down his face after a shooting that the authorities are investigating as an assassination attempt. One attendee was killed and two others were critically injured at the campaign rally, the Secret Service said, a shocking turn in a tense election season where concerns about violence ...
Law enforcement officials quickly launched an investigation into the Saturday night shooting of Donald Trump as an assassination attempt, offering few details. That did not stop a torrent of unsubstantiated theories from flooding social media and other channels shortly after the event. Some accounts from the left of the political spectrum immediately claimed that the shooting was a “false flag” ...
A court in Ecuador on Friday handed down prison sentences for five people found guilty of murdering presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. Journalist and former legislator Villavicencio was shot while leaving a rally in August 2023, becoming the most prominent victim of Ecuador’s spiraling violence. The ruling, read out by Milton Maroto, one of the court’s three judges, can be appealed by both the ...