Democrats are taking extraordinary steps to prevent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from hindering their efforts to keep the White House in November.
From rallying Kennedy's family around President Biden, to dumping opposition research and holding press briefings about how he helps former President Trump, Democrats watching Kennedy qualify for more state ballots are pulling out all the stops to prevent him from hurting Biden in the fall. |
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President Biden's campaign is feeling good about where it is in its battle for reelection.
The president had a successful week, it says, stumping in Pennsylvania and picking up a big endorsement from the Kennedy family.
Here's what keeps the Biden campaign up at night. |
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The New York attorney general's office has asked a judge to void the $175 million bond former President Trump secured to put off paying the larger monetary damage award in his civil fraud case. State lawyers said in court filings Friday that the former president and his co-defendants — the Trump Organization and its top executives, including his two eldest sons — failed to prove the surety Trump used to obtain the bond actually has the money to back it. |
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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
A person has self-immolated outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Trump's first criminal trial is ongoing, police confirmed to The Hill. Max Azzarello, 37, walked into a park outside the courthouse where protests of Trump's trial have taken place this week and threw conspiratorial pamphlets in the air before pouring an accelerant on himself and setting himself on fire, New York Police Department spokespeople said at a press conference Friday. |
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House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) pushed back on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) motion to vacate against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), saying it is "not the right business model." "Now Mike Johnson walked into a bad situation," Comer said Friday an interview with Fox News's Martha MacCallum. "It's gotten a lot worse since he's been here. But changing Speakers is not the right business model." |
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BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND MIKE LILLIS |
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) announced Friday that he will co-sponsor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) resolution to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from the House's top job, becoming the third House Republican to back his ouster. Gosar, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, revealed his support for dismissing Johnson minutes after the House — with help from Democrats — advanced a foreign aid package that omitted border security provisions. |
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| BY ALEXANDER BOLTON AND REBECCA BEITSCH |
The Senate early Saturday passed a two-year reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's (FISA) warrantless surveillance program after hours of intense and sometimes acrimonious debate on the Senate floor, narrowly avoiding a key national intelligence gathering capability going dark. Senators voted 60-34 to send the bill to President Biden's desk shortly after the midnight deadline for a lapse in expanded surveillance powers. |
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Senate conservatives led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) urged House Republicans to oppose what they called a "sham" procedural tactic devised by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to break an emergency foreign aid package into four different pieces to give it a better chance of passing. Senate conservatives warned it would result in the House passing an emergency foreign aid package "almost identical" to the $95 billion aid bill that the Senate passed in February, and which a majority of Republican senators opposed. The bill includes funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. |
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The Israeli military struck near a major air base and nuclear site in Iran early Friday, in what appeared to be its first military response to Tehran's attack over the weekend. Iranian officials claimed the strike, which included at least three drones, hit its military base near the city of Isfahan, in the country's center. But they also said the attack was ineffective, appearing to downplay the incident. |
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| BY REBECCA KLAR AND TAYLOR GIORNO |
Opponents of legislation that could ban TikTok in the United States are pinning their hopes on the Senate as the House readies to send a major foreign aid package to the upper chamber.
The legislation would force TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the popular app or be banned in the U.S., and it is part of a foreign aid bill the House is expected to pass in a Saturday vote. |
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| OPINION | After two years of being assured that the U.S. government has exquisite oversight on aid provided to Ukraine, last week Sens. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah), along with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), exposed nearly $14 billion in Ukraine aid that the Biden administration's Office of Management and Budget had failed to take into account. Yet rather than taking the administration to task, this week House Republican leadership is set to perform some creative accounting of their own to send yet another aid package to Ukraine. |
OPINION | It's practically an international article of faith: Countries may not default on their sovereign debt. Yet China has done just that on $1 trillion it owes to U.S. bondholders. Is there nothing we can do about it? Finding members of Congress willing to talk tough isn't hard. |
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Rebel fighters have handed Myanmar's army defeat after defeat, for the first time raising the possibility that the military junta could be at risk of collapse. |
BY SUMMER SAID AND STEPHEN KALIN |
DUBAI—Hamas's political leadership is looking to move from its current base in Qatar, as U.S. legislators build pressure on the Gulf state to deliver on cease-fire negotiations that look likely to fail. |
BY AYANNA ALEXANDER, ASSOCIATED PRESS |
FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island's Nassau County. Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county's local governing body, the 19-member Nassau County Legislature? |
JERUSALEM — As Israel mulled a response to Iran's massive drone and missile attack, the decision to strike with a carefully calibrated limited strike early Friday was made by just five men. |
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