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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (DES MOINES, Iowa) — Grilling pork chops, chowing down on corn dogs, visiting the famous “Butter Cow” dairy sculpture: these festivities and more await the 2024 presidential candidates starting Thursday at the Iowa State Fair. The fair, an annual celebration of Iowa’s agriculture industry, is a rite of passage for presidential […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (SANDUSKY, Ohio) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose put Ohio’s Issue 1, a measure that could have ultimately hindered statewide attempts at protecting abortion access, at the center of his recently announced campaign for Senate. But now, after voters defeated the Republican-backed ballot measure, LaRose is left searching for a new […]
Prasit photo/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration has unveiled a $40 billion supplemental funding request to Congress, which includes aid for the war in Ukraine, border and migration, disaster response and firefighter pay — an ask that will be a hard sell to Republican lawmakers in the House. For Ukraine and other international needs, […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein is at home after briefly going to the hospital following a fall, according to her office. “Senator Feinstein briefly went to the hospital yesterday afternoon as a precaution after a minor fall in her home. All of her scans were clear and she returned home.” ABC […]
Sarah Silbiger/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has signed an executive order Wednesday that will restrict American investments in certain high-tech sectors in China, including artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and quantum computing, citing national security concerns, according to senior Biden administration officials. The officials said the “narrow and targeted” restrictions were necessary to protect […]
ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has responded to a recent attack ad from former President Donald Trump, writing in an internal memo sent to staff urging them not to respond and reminding them that “we have a job to do,” according to a copy of the memo […]
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley became the first GOP presidential hopeful to criticize Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s, R-Ala., blockade of senior military nominations. Haley said the Pentagon’s policy of reimbursing personnel who travel for abortions — the source of Tuberville’s ire — is misguided, […]
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A newly revealed memo from December 2020 offers new insight into efforts by then-President Donald Trump’s legal team to keep Trump in power following his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The Dec. 6, 2020, memo, authored by attorney Kenneth Chesebro, lays out a plan to pursue slates of […]
Julia Nikhinson/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Wednesday released a 19-page memo with “new information obtained in the [Oversight] Committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes,” according to Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the panel’s chairman. But an initial review of the document indicates that the conduct it describes draws heavily from […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WAILUKU, Hawaii) — Hawaii residents recounted fleeing from deadly, ferocious wildfires, which have prompted an emergency proclamation from the acting governor. “We started smelling the smoke, and that’s when we knew we had trouble,” Maui resident Steve Scott ABC News’ Gio Benitez on Wednesday. “It came, and it came quick.” The wildfires are spreading […]
