President Biden could kick off his 2024 reelection campaign as soon as Tuesday, according to multiple news reports. That day would be exactly four years since Biden launched his successful 2020 bid after previously failing to secure the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008. Here are some of the big questions Biden faces as he gets set to begin his quest for a second term. |
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BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
Fox News has settled a blockbuster case brought by Dominion Voting Systems, but the network's legal headaches are not over yet. A separate lawsuit from voting systems company Smartmatic similarly accuses Fox of maliciously giving Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani a platform to air false claims about the 2020 presidential election. |
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A key Democrat is warning this week that only a stock market collapse will break the partisan stalemate over raising the debt ceiling and preventing a government default over the summer. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a former Goldman Sachs executive and senior member of the Financial Services Committee, said the Republicans' opposition to a debt limit hike without steep spending cuts is so entrenched that only an economy-rattling market tumble — like the crash that accompanied the financial crisis of 2008 — will shake GOP leaders to accept a bipartisan compromise. |
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The U.S. military has evacuated embassy personnel and their families from Sudan, as fighting continues between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group. Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a late night statement confirming that the U.S. Embassy in the city of Khartoum was temporarily suspended and they had "safely evacuated all U.S. personnel and their dependents." |
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The silencing of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after she called Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a liar in a hearing has led to a pledge for a more civil House Homeland Security Committee going forward — a standard lawmakers may struggle to meet as they gear up for the secretary's impeachment. When Mayorkas appeared before Congress this week, Chair Mark (R-Tenn.) accused him of intentional disruption at the border and said his answers to prior questions show "incompetence." Rep. Clay Higgins told Mayorkas it was "shameful what you brought upon our country." Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) accused him of being smug. |
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Former Vice President Mike Pence said in a new interview that anyone in the GOP who is serious about running for president in 2024 needs to enter the race by June. "I think that anyone that would be serious about seeking the Republican nomination would need to be in this contest by June," he told CBS News's "Face the Nation" in an interview clip released on Saturday. |
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Democrats have watched in dismay as voters in rural and old industrial strongholds say they want more of what the Republican Party is offering, resisting the establishment's approach to win them back and raising questions about their party's strategy. One progressive — a suited-up, camera-ready U.S. congressman from California — is determined to try a different approach to pique their interest. |
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The Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the House Judiciary Committee on Friday came to an agreement for Mark Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor in the office's criminal investigation of former President Trump, to testify before the panel. The committee subpoenaed Pomerantz as part of its probe into the DA's office that began after Trump predicted his forthcoming arrest in the investigation. District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) initially sought to block the subpoena, but a federal judge denied that effort earlier this week. A day later, a federal appeals court temporarily delayed Pomerantz's deposition hours before it was scheduled to take place amid an appeal from the DA's office. |
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Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.) announced on Saturday that he has been released from the hospital after undergoing a "successful surgery" to remove a cancerous tumor. "I am happy to be leaving the hospital after a successful surgery to remove a small cancerous tumor," he tweeted. |
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OPINION | On the cusp of the anniversary of the Supreme Court leak that foretold the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, we face another threat to reproductive care. The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of mifepristone, a safe and effective medication used for decades to terminate pregnancy in the first 10 weeks, is in jeopardy based on the ruling of a single judge. Although the Supreme Court issued a temporary stay, millions of women and people who can become pregnant face uncertainty as to whether a safe and effective treatment option, available for decades and used by many, will suddenly be taken away from them. |
BY CRISTINA TZINTZÚN RAMIREZ |
OPINION | Earlier this month, young people again defied stereotypes by turning out in droves to elect progressive jurist Janet Protasiewicz to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. Their determination to advance more humanistic and equitable policies on issues from reproductive rights to gun control, immigration to climate change, racial justice to economic fairness, is creating a new normal: Young citizens willing to lift up their voices and their votes to bring this country's practices in line with its principles. |
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BY KEN THOMAS AND AARON ZITNER | Biden's impending campaign entry and Trump's lead in GOP field mean they could square off again. |
The court's order seemed to vindicate a commitment in last year's decision in Dobbs: to leave further questions about abortion to the political process. |
The former vice president, who has made moves toward launching a presidential run, rejected the idea that laws should be left solely to each state. |
One of the most important munitions of the Ukraine war comes from a historic factory in this city built by coal barons, where tons of steel rods are brought in by train to be forged into the artillery shells Kyiv can't get enough of — and that the U.S. can't produce fast enough. |
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