Politics

Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images/Getty Images (HARRISBURG, Pa.) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday — which is National Voter Registration Day — that the state will now automatically register residents to vote while getting their driver’s license or state I.D. “I made a commitment when I was campaigning for this office that we would bring automatic voter […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With only a few days until the start of early voting in Virginia’s high-stakes election, Republicans and Democrats are making one last push to encourage early and absentee voting in the commonwealth. Every seat in both the House of Delegates and state Senate are up for grabs this fall — […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden will on Tuesday issue a defense of American leadership abroad and reiterate U.S. support for Ukraine, during a high-profile speech at the United Nations, according to senior Biden administration officials — as the 2024 presidential election ramps up at home. In particular, […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump, not for the first time, sparked criticism on Monday after he posted on his Truth Social platform knocking “liberal Jews who voted against America & Israel.” Elsewhere, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back on criticism out of Capitol Hill — and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott weighed in […]

Daniel Knighton/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A debris field has been found in South Carolina during the search for a F-35 fighter jet that had gone missing after a “mishap” on Sunday, military officials confirmed in a statement on Monday night. Officials said the debris was found in Williamsburg County some two hours northeast of Joint […]

Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., announced Monday she will not seek reelection in 2024 after receiving a new diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy. Wexton, 55, was initially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease earlier this year. At the time, she said she was “feeling good” and hoped to continue […]

Julia Nikhinson/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats on Sunday sought to play down the ramifications in Washington from last week’s indictment of Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, while Republicans seized on the development. In appearances on the Sunday public affairs show circuit, top Democrats noted the lack of firm evidence to back up […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries argued on Sunday that his Republicans colleagues are “in the middle of a civil war” over the best way forward amid a newly launched impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, an ongoing spending fight and another looming shutdown of the federal government. “Civil war has the following […]

William B. Plowman/NBC via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a new interview, former President Donald Trump refused or avoided answering many specific questions about his conduct on Jan. 6 — but maintained that it was his decision to challenge the 2020 election, the manner of which is now at the center of two of the four […]

Butch Dill – Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday delivered a stirring defense of the need to educate American school children about the nation’s dark history of racial inequality and violence in a still-ongoing battle for civil rights. “The work of our time is maintaining that hard-won freedom, and […]