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David Talukdar/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland visited Chicago Wednesday to highlight decreases in violent crime around the country, and announced a surge of investments and resources that he said will be aimed at “doubling down” on recent progress by law enforcement and their local partners. “These declines are not just abstract statistics,” […]
Eros Hoagland/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President Joe Biden ramps up an aggressive reelection campaign schedule — while still facing mediocre early polling and poor approval ratings — he is targeting swing states, fundraising and attacking former President Donald Trump in mocking jabs that mimic some of his rival’s own language. In the initial phase […]
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally at the Forum River Center March 9, 2024 in Rome, Ga. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith, responding on Tuesday to the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case, urged her to reverse course on entertaining the idea […]
Wang Fan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Four more states are voting on Tuesday in the 2024 presidential primary race. The contests are taking place in Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. (Delaware’s primaries were canceled due to being uncontested.) The results, however, won’t affect the overall election as President Joe Biden and former President Donald […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith has filed his response to an order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that could have far-reaching implications in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case. Judge Cannon last month asked attorneys for both Trump and the special counsel to submit proposed jury instructions on topics […]
Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — Tuesday was primary day in Wisconsin. ABC News reports that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are projected to win the Democratic and Republican races, respectively. Biden and Trump were the only major remaining candidates running and both of them have already clinched their parties’ 2024 nominations. […]
Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, declined an offer to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate in his independent presidential bid, she tells ABC News. “I met with Kennedy several times, and we have become good friends,” she said in […]
Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden spoke on the phone Tuesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, their first conversation since meeting last November in California. The two leaders were set to speak about climate change, the economic relationship between the U.S. and China as well as progress on artificial intelligence and […]
Tents housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, Mar. 30, 2024. — Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. and Israeli officials will hold a virtual meeting Monday to continue to discuss the standoff over the Biden administration’s opposition to Israel invading the southern Gazan city […]
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is going on the offense in an effort to save his speakership after fellow Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust him just months after he ascended to the position. The motion to vacate, which was raised just before the chamber broke for […]
