The government should use TikTok to help combat misinformation directed at young people, a group of MPs has said. Members of the cross-party Culture, Media and Sport Committee said ministers need to adapt to new apps and platforms that appeal to those who are increasingly turning away from traditional news sources. The call comes despite the app being being banned ...
Democratic officials are looking at their options after Republican secretaries of state in Ohio and Alabama warned them that President Biden might not appear on their ballots in November because of the timing of his expected nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Publicly, the Biden campaign is expressing confidence that he will appear on the ballot in both states. But ...
Polling suggests that the issue has broad support both nationally and in individual states. But action is unlikely; opposition from the right will see to that. In fact, the imbalance in power between the two parties is fundamentally why the situation looks the way it does. True of passing a federal law protecting access to abortion. True of efforts to ...
Senior Pentagon officials were frustrated that Israel did not notify the United States before conducting a strike on an Iranian site in Syria this month, an escalation that they assess increases risks to American forces in the Middle East, U.S. officials said. Iran has vowed retaliation for the April 1 strike on a building adjacent to its embassy in the ...
correction This story previously suggested the entire Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act needs to be reauthorized and funded. Only parts of it related to Section 702, allowing the surveillance of non-U.S. citizens abroad, needs to be renewed, and it does not need to be funded. The story has been updated. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is hoping that a compromise between warring ...
Donald Trump managed to vacuum up hundreds of millions of dollars of donations as a lame-duck president. This was not money offered by supporters to advance his final policy wishes or in service to some future political bid. It was, instead, mostly money thrown at Trump in response to his incessant and dishonest claims that he’d been the victim of ...
Donald Trump’s perfect vice president looks the part: attractive and telegenic. They are ideally Black or a woman, though that’s not required. And they are most certainly not taller than Trump himself. Trump wants someone he sees in person but doesn’t see too much, his advisers say. He does not necessarily want a successor as the leader of the MAGA ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee sent a subpoena Thursday to conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo as part of a months-long inquiry into undisclosed gifts to Supreme Court justices and he promptly rejected it, calling the move “politically motivated.” “I am not capitulating to his lawless support of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and the left’s dark money effort to silence and cancel political ...
Donald Trump is no longer president, but Washington’s problems with nondisclosure agreements remain. The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is forcefully instructing federal agencies and employees that NDAs do not supersede whistleblower rights. But first, when writing about the OSC, an agency with a confusing name that’s led by special counsel Hampton Dellinger, it’s important to note that this is ...
Seven months before Election Day, President Biden still faces widespread concerns about his age. Hundreds of thousands of voters have lodged protest votes against him in Democratic primaries. And with inflation remaining unexpectedly high, the topsy-turvy post-pandemic economy threatens to hurt his reelection, too. But inside the Biden campaign and across the Democratic Party, officials see a potential silver bullet ...