Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston (R) has rejected petitions to put an abortion access measure on the ballot this fall, blaming a procedural error by the organizing group. Arkansans for Limited Government gathered more than 100,000 signatures in support of a ballot proposal to legalize abortion up to 18 weeks after fertilization, and exceptions afterward in cases of rape, ...
For years, Democrats mocked Republicans for their politically craven fealty to former president Donald Trump. They rolled their eyes when their Republican colleagues claimed they just hadn’t seen the latest tweet. They talked knowingly about how, behind closed doors, many Republicans conceded that, yes, they wished Trump would just disappear — Rumpelstiltskin-style, in a poof of smoke — never to ...
The 31 NATO leaders who descended on Washington this week came expecting to talk about defending Ukraine, preventing cyberattacks and ensuring the future of the 75-year alliance. And while those discussions did take place Wednesday, an entirely different question was also a big topic of conversation among the heads of state: What is going to happen to President Biden? The ...
The Sioux City Explorers were in a bind. Three hours before the Iowa-based professional baseball team was set to take the field Saturday, manager Steve Montgomery received the news that his starting pitcher for the day was injured. The other arms on his roster were spent. Frantic, he sent a flurry of calls to local baseball players who might be ...
Sen. Peter Welch (Vt.) has become the first Democratic senator to call for President Biden to step aside following his June debate. “We cannot unsee President Biden’s disastrous debate performance,” the freshman senator wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published Wednesday evening. “We cannot ignore or dismiss the valid questions raised since that night. “For the good of the country, ...
Democratic leaders called on President Biden and his campaign Wednesday to provide convincing evidence of a viable path to victory amid a steady tide of bad battleground state polling and growing concerns that he cannot defeat former president Donald Trump in November. The calls came as top union leaders expressed grave concerns about his candidacy, more members of Congress and ...
President Biden is set to hold a campaign rally in Michigan on Friday following a news conference that received mixed reviews from other Democrats, in which Biden showed command of complex foreign policy issues but stumbled through some answers and mixed up names. The Thursday night news conference did not immediately halt the stream of Democrats who have been calling ...
Price growth is cooling across the economy. While that is good news for consumers, the timing of this progress on inflation could end up short-changing seniors and other Social Security recipients when they learn their annual cost-of-living increase later this year. According to the latest estimate from The Senior Citizens League, which regularly forecasts Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, ...
The National Football League is considering allowing minority private equity ownership for its 32 teams of up to 10%, Commissioner Roger Goodell said in an exclusive CNBC interview Thursday. “As sports evolve, we want to make sure our policies reflect that,” Goodell said in an interview with CNBC’s Julia Boorstin at Allen & Co.’s annual Sun Valley Conference. “We’ve had ...
Post-pandemic consumer splurging is rapidly coming to a halt, according to two widely followed U.S. companies — more evidence that the U.S. economy is likely in for a period of slower economic growth. Pepsi and Delta Air Lines both offered subdued financial outlooks as they reported quarterly earnings Thursday, and both cited the same reason: Customers are now becoming more ...