Congress needs to pass a stopgap spending bill before October 1, when current funding expires just weeks before the November elections. However, Republicans and Democrats were divided over a voting bill which asked for proof of citizenship from voters.
Trump claimed that it was his "best debate", but many pollsters and Republicans said he botched the debate by falling for Harris' baits and letting her get under his skin. While Harris appeared to outperform Trump, the polls have not yielded a significant shift in her support base.
Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz and former President Bill Clinton are headlining the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, the third day of the party’s choreographed rollout of its new candidate, Kamala Harris, and her pitch to voters.
The convention will lean into the party's potential to make history. Harris vies to be the first woman, the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent to reach the Oval Office. Harris will aim to use the convention to take a share of the credit for what she and Biden accomplished
Trump slammed the hush money trial as "rigged" after the jury found him guilty of 34 felony charges of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 elections by paying hush money to an adult film actor. While he is likely to appeal the verdict, it is unlikely to impact his presidential bid.
The White House said Biden was waiting for the right moment to visit East Palestine, Ohio-- triggering criticism that he was ignoring the victims of an explosive fire caused by a train derailment.
With just two candidates left in the Republican race, the New Hampshire vote pits the most hawkish in Haley against the more isolationist Trump, who would rather avoid foreign entanglements in keeping with an "America First" approach.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll also found little evidence that Republican voters are swayed by the battery of federal and state criminal charges Trump faces. Few self-identified Republicans believed the charges of electoral fraud and mob incitement against the ex-President.
The 81-year-old President asserted that Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine and lambasted epublicans in Congress for being willing to give Putin "the greatest gift he could hope for". His remarks come as the White House said that the US is running out of money to support Ukraine.
Gopal, who was elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2021, managed to garner almost 60% of the vote. It is reportedly one of the most expensive legislative races in the history of New Jersey, with Democrats pooling millions to win the Republican-leaning Congressional District.
A shutdown happens when Congress fails to pass some type of funding legislation that is signed into law by the president. Lawmakers are supposed to pass 12 different spending bills to fund agencies across the government, but the process is time-consuming.
Trump, who is the Republican frontrunner for the 2024 elections, is facing four criminal indictments on charges including attempts to overturn 2020 election results.
Trump is the prohibitive early front-runner in the race, raising serious questions about whether the party will have much of a competitive primary.
The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that when Trump surrenders there will be a “hard lockdown” of the area surrounding the main county jail.
The decision marks another chapter in Trump’s ongoing feud with Fox, which was once a staunch defender but is now perceived to be more favourable to his leading rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
In all, eight Republican candidates have met the Republican National Committee’s fundraising and polling thresholds required to qualify for the debate next Wednesday, Aug. 23, hosted by Fox News in Milwaukee. Trump is among them, although he has said publicly and privately that he’s leaning against
According to the prosecutors, Trump had forced his federal colleagues including Vice President Mike Pence to alter the results.
McCarthy on Tuesday threatened that if the Biden administration “denies us the ability to get the information we’re asking for, that would rise to an impeachment inquiry.”
Notably, the White House efforts to forgive loans were an attempt to keep a Biden promise stretching back to his 2020 campaign to wipe out student loan debt — an idea that was especially popular with young voters and progressives.
The breakthrough came after a long deadlock as the two sides got down to business in the final race for an arrangement in front of a basic June 5 cutoff time for a deal.
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