A group of six Muslim leaders will meet with President Biden and Vice President Harris on Tuesday evening to discuss U.S. policy in the Gaza Strip, after they were invited for a small Ramadan dinner but rejected such a gathering as inappropriate given the administration’s continued support of Israel amid devastation in the territory. Biden initially invited the leaders for ...
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin voters opted Tuesday to ban private funding for election administration, joining more than two dozen states that have ended or limited the practice after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife spent $350 million to help local governments run elections during the coronavirus pandemic. Voters approved an amendment to the state constitution to ban the donations, ...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly advanced an argument Monday that President Biden poses a greater threat to democracy than Donald Trump, a comment that drew swift rebukes from several historians and experts. Kennedy, speaking to CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday night, criticized the Biden administration’s push for social media companies to monitor their platforms for medical misinformation. ...
Chris Nelson, a Florida DJ and social media influencer, voted twice for Donald Trump, but the 41-year-old said he won’t again because of the coronavirus mandates during Trump’s presidency. Tony Vinciguerra, a 34-year-old former supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), said he thinks President Biden is too old and propped up by the Democratic Party establishment — so much so ...
Prosecutors and attorneys for Donald Trump submitted their hypothetical jury instructions in the classified-document case late Tuesday, revealing sharp disagreements over how the two sides interpret the basic legal issues at the heart of the case against the former president. The filings come in response to an unusual request by U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon in Florida. The judge ...
You don’t need to click the video that Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday to be misinformed. The text accompanying the video summarized its premise — “Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.” — and that, by itself, is false. But the video goes further, including exaggerations and debunked allegations to ...
After three straight elections with Republicans trying and failing to turn illegal immigration into a political winner for them, a genuine border crisis means the issue looms larger than ever over President Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign. Polls suggest it’s his worst policy issue, with as many as 7 in 10 Americans disapproving of his handling of it. But Republicans who ...
A federal appeals court has rejected another argument from former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, one of a series of recent legal losses that has the economist facing sanction for defying court orders even as he serves a four-month prison sentence for ignoring similar demands from Congress. Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress in September over his refusal to ...
One way Donald Trump insists he was disadvantaged during the 2020 election was that it was simply too easy for people to vote. There are a host of claims he makes about his loss that year, certainly, all of them disingenuous at best and dishonest at worst. But his opposition to third-party efforts to ensure that election officials had sufficient ...
Former president Donald Trump’s social media company said Monday it lost more than $58 million last year, sending its stock plunging more than 21 percent only days after a highflying public debut set the company’s value at more than $8 billion. Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that the ...