Sitting in front of a kitchen done in shades of beige, with a couple of family photos, a faucet and a fruit bowl visible in the background, Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Ala.) delivered the Republican Party’s rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night. The kitchen was among several elements of her speech that drew criticism ranging ...
NEW YORK — Donald Trump on Friday secured a bond for more than $91 million to cover the defamation judgment he owes writer E. Jean Carroll, clearing the way for him to appeal that verdict even as he tries to secure a much larger bond for a separate business fraud judgment due this month. A document was posted in federal ...
The poll aggregation and evaluation site 538, part of ABC News, dropped the right-wing polling firm Rasmussen Reports from inclusion in its polling averages and forecasts. The decision comes after months of consideration that broke into public view in June. At that point, G. Elliott Morris, ABC News’s editorial director of data analytics and 538 lead, presented Rasmussen with questions ...
Democrats would like to believe that President Biden changed the 2024 game with his State of the Union address Thursday night, demonstrating verve and combativeness amid concerns about his age and mental acuity. It’s not so clear the American public saw the home run that they did. Biden’s campaign and some media outlets have pointed to a post-speech instant CNN ...
President Biden on Friday confirmed his support for a bill advancing through Congress that could result in a nationwide ban on the social media app TikTok. “If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” he told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland’s Prince George’s County. Biden’s words may provide a push for a bill that has gathered momentum quickly in ...
WALLINGFORD, Pa. — President Biden took a post-State of the Union victory lap on Friday, bringing his fiery message to this battleground state where he sharpened his attacks against former president Donald Trump, this time by name. After declining to mention Trump directly in his Thursday address to Congress, referring to him only as “my predecessor,” Biden dispensed with presidential ...
Voters in San Francisco, a famously liberal stronghold, embraced unusually conservative policies this week as they passed a pair of controversial ballot measures that take increasingly aggressive steps to curb the city’s intertwined troika of troubles: Homelessness, drug addiction and crime. The initiatives require drug screening for welfare recipients and give police more surveillance power and less oversight, measures that ...
The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial later this month for alleged business records fraud has ruled that jurors’ names will be shielded from the public but known to the lawyers, the former president and his consultants. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan issued a ruling largely granting the request by the Manhattan district attorney’s office to ...
President Biden heads into his third State of the Union address on Thursday rather unpopular — and with key voters more than a bit concerned about his age and his ability to steadily guide the country for another four years. He is about even or narrowly trails former president Donald Trump in early polls of their now-solidified rematch. As The ...
Official Washington loves the State of the Union address. If the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is the Golden Globes, SOTU is the Oscars: the serious event that serious people attend and at which serious issues are discussed. The Constitution mandates that the president update Congress on the state of things every so often, an edict that over the decades has ...