Earlier this month, Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sent letters to the heads of various oil companies seeking information about an alleged effort by former president Donald Trump to solicit a campaign contribution in exchange for pro-oil policies should he win reelection. That alleged quid pro quo was first reported by The Washington ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed South Carolina to use a congressional map that a lower court had said weakened Black voting rights, bolstering the political fortunes of Republicans as they seek to maintain control of the House of Representatives and making it harder to challenge districts on grounds of racial gerrymandering nationwide. This post appeared first on The Washington ...
When President Biden addressed dozens of African leaders from Washington at the end of 2022, he declared that the old days of the world’s fastest-growing continent being overlooked by American leaders were gone. “The United States is all in on Africa and all in with Africa,” Biden said, promising to visit the continent in 2023 and build robust relationships with ...
Nearly two weeks into an Israeli offensive in Rafah, an invasion that President Biden warned months ago could be a “red line” for continued U.S. support of its war in Gaza, the administration says that line has not yet been crossed. “If they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons … to deal with that problem,” Biden said in ...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced Thursday that he was calling a special legislative session to ensure President Biden will be on the November election ballot in his state. “This is simply unacceptable,” DeWine said at a news conference. “Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting president of the United States, on the ballot this ...
NEW YORK — Former president Donald Trump sought to explicitly appeal to voters of color in a South Bronx rally Thursday, arguing that shielding police officers from lawsuits would protect their communities from violent crime and suggesting that his policies would better benefit them economically. “I’m going to indemnify all police officers and law enforcement officials throughout the United States ...
NEW YORK — You could hear Donald Trump sporadically through the trees. Crotona Park has number of rocky hills, and the former president was speaking on top of one as I was talking to retired teacher Pam Sporn, 67, on top of one maybe a hundred yards away. This post appeared first on The Washington Post ...
Former president Donald Trump suggested that Nikki Haley would have a place on his team “in some form” — in what appeared to be his first public response to his former Republican presidential rival’s announcement that she will vote for him. Trump, in an interview with News 12 New York after a Bronx campaign rally Thursday, was asked about the ...
Digital pharmacy startup Hims & Hers Health is introducing access to compounded GLP-1 weight loss injections, the company announced Monday. Shares of the company surged. The company, which offers a range of direct-to-consumer treatments for conditions like erectile dysfunction and hair loss, launched a weight loss program in December. But GLP-1 medications — such as Ozempic and Wegovy, which have skyrocketed in ...
A dispute between a fintech startup and its banking partners has ensnared potentially millions of Americans, leaving them without access to their money for nearly two weeks, according to recent court documents. Since last year, Synapse — an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup that serves as a middle-man between customer-facing fintech brands and FDIC-backed banks — has had disagreements with several of its partners about how ...