Politics

Leigh Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday assembled voting rights leaders to reiterate the White House’s support for the issue as she has taken a public role in advocating for several Democratic priorities — on ballot access as well as abortion rights. For the second time, Harris convened organizers […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Michigan’s presidential primary on Tuesday offers both the most visible test yet of electoral anger with President Joe Biden for his response to the Israel-Hamas war — and another test of voter interest in former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s waning GOP campaign. Critics of the president who say he’s […]

Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden, while campaigning in New York Monday, stopped by 30 Rockefeller to appear on NBC’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers.” The president’s sit down with the comic late Monday included questions about his age and his 2024 agenda versus that of former President Donald Trump, […]

ABC News (GRAND RAPIDS, MI.) — On the campaign trail, President Joe Biden is touting a post-COVID-19 economy that has roared back to life and continued to shatter expectations in recent months. Worries of a recession are fading, unemployment remains very low and average wages are on the rise again after years of being overtaken […]

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will host top congressional leaders at the White House Tuesday as he and fellow Democrats remain at odds with House Republicans over aid to Ukraine and government funding with a partial shutdown deadline just days away. The “Big 4” leaders sitting down with the president are House […]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congress started to return to Washington on Monday facing a familiar predicament: its back against the wall as the clock ticks down to renew funding for several key government agencies before a Friday deadline. Absent action from both chambers, Congress is staring down a partial government shutdown at the end […]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Artificial Intelligence will be the “defining technology of our generation,” when it comes to the future of technology, but specifically the advancement of semiconductors in the United States, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Monday. “You can’t lead on AI if you don’t believe in making leading-edge chips,” Raimondo said […]

Matt Cardy/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Are Facebook, Instagram and YouTube more like newspaper publishers or telephone companies? The Supreme Court on Monday was wrestling with that question in a pair of cases being called the most important tests of the First Amendment in the internet era. The justices’ answer could be critical to setting the […]

Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley delivers remarks at her primary-night rally at the Grappone Conference Center on January 23, 2024 in Concord, New Hampshire. — (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Americans For Prosperity Action, an advocacy organization backed by billionaire Charles Koch and his network of wealthy conservatives supporting Nikki […]

Julia Cherner/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — More than 2,000 people have served in the U.S. Senate since it was established in 1789. But just 12 have been Black — and only three have been Black women, none of whom have ever served together. That could soon change. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Prince George County, Maryland, Executive […]