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ABC News (PORT HURON, Mich.) — Kevin Lindke has taken a wrecking ball to old buildings as part of a family business and in his free time uses his small-town influencer status on social media to challenge people in power. “You need anger sometimes,” Lindke said in an interview. The 43-year-old father-turned-provocateur, who is also […]
Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration has released the first draft of a debt relief policy targeted at the hardest-hit student loan borrowers, providing more clarity on what the next steps are in a monthslong rulemaking process to make good on President Joe Biden’s efforts to provide debt relief. The […]
Official White House Photo by Oliver Contreras (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden received a commitment from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to increase the flow of aid into Gaza, the White House said Monday. Biden spoke with Netanyahu on Sunday as Israeli forces expanded their ground operations in Gaza, in what it called […]
Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI said it’s investigating a potential antisemitic hate crime at Cornell University, as President Joe Biden told ABC News he is “very concerned” about the rise in antisemitism. Over the weekend, numerous threats to the Jewish community at Cornell were posted on a website “unaffiliated” with the […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (DENVER) — Hearings began this week on whether the 14th Amendment disqualifies Donald Trump from running for president in 2024 because of his actions around the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. On Monday morning in Denver, a historic five-day evidentiary hearing got underway for a lawsuit filed against Trump by […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — No offense to former Texas Rep. Will Hurd and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, but on Saturday, former Vice President Mike Pence became the first big name to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. It’s big news because of Pence’s stature within the party, but it wasn’t necessarily a […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will not be on the ballot in New Hampshire, the first primary election of the 2024 cycle, but Democrats from the state say there is a path forward — though a challenging one — for the president to clinch their contest. Individual Democrats from the Granite State, without […]
Ethan Miller/Getty Images (LAS VEGAS) — Former Vice President Mike Pence has suspended his campaign for president, he announced Saturday. “I came here to say it’s become clear to me, this is not my time. So after much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign right now,” Pence said on stage at the […]
US House Of Representatives (MANCHESTER, N.H.) — Rep. Dean Phillips is running to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2024, he announced on CBS News on Friday morning. The three-term Minnesota congressman will challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2024 — a move that moves the moderate to the fringes of […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Rep. George Santos pleaded not guilty Friday to the charges contained in a superseding indictment that accused him of stealing people’s identities, making charges on his donors’ credit cards without their authorization and lying to federal election officials. Trial was set for Sept. 9, 2024, and is expected to last […]