Politics

Caroline Purser/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the clock ticking for lawmakers to reach a debt ceiling deal or risk an unprecedented default, several emergency scenarios and short-term fixes are being debated. A White House meeting between President Joe Biden and congressional leaders on Tuesday, which was the first major discussion between the parties in months, […]

CNN (MERRIMACK, N.H.) — As New Hampshire Republican voters cheered on former President Donald Trump at CNN’s town hall Wednesday night, there was one questioner who stood out. Julie Miles, a registered nurse for more than 20 years, living in Merrimack, New Hampshire, wanted to know how Trump felt about abortion rights after the Supreme Court […]

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (GOFFSTOWN, N.H.) — Former President Donald Trump’s town hall on CNN Wednesday featured no shortage of theatrics, from calling moderator Kaitlin Collins “nasty” to sparking laughs from a supportive audience with a jab against E. Jean Carroll, the author who accused him of rape and won a civil case […]

Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With the end of the last major Trump-era Title 42 border restrictions Thursday, the Biden administration will revert to processing all migrants as was done before the pandemic. Authorities will now rely more heavily on immigration law as defined under Title 8 of the U.S. Code. The law outlines processes […]

JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump sat down for a prime-time town hall on CNN on Wednesday, a day after he was found liable for battery and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll civil case. A New York jury awarded Carroll a total of $5 million in the lawsuit, […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A day after a New York jury verdict that found Donald Trump liable for battery and defamation flooded the airwaves, it appeared on Wednesday to have caused little more than a ripple on the 2024 campaign trail. To be sure, the finding in the civil case that a former president […]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein arrived at the Capitol for the first time in three months on Wednesday, gingerly emerging out of a gray sedan with the help of aides who assisted her into a black wheelchair. The 89-year-old Democrat, welcomed back by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, said she was feeling […]

Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., has been indicted on 13 counts, including seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District […]

Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A day after Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., was charged by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York, the embattled congressman could make his first court appearance as soon as Wednesday, according to sources familiar with the matter. While the charges remain sealed, sources have previously […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A high-stakes meeting Tuesday between President Joe Biden and congressional leaders on the debt ceiling ended with no solution as the nation barrels toward a June 1 deadline to reach a deal or risk default. “Everybody in this meeting reiterated the positions they were at. I didn’t see any new movement,” […]