The White House is fending off new questions about Hunter Biden, a sign of how the legal problems and personal issues of the president's son are likely to be a lingering distraction as President Biden mounts his reelection campaign. House and Senate Republicans have consistently targeted Hunter Biden with investigations, which are expected to intensify as they argue he received preferential treatment in a plea deal he reached with the Justice Department on tax and gun charges. The president's son is expected to make an initial court appearance on those charges in the weeks ahead. |
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The target on the back of university legacy admissions grew larger after the Supreme Court ruled against the use of race-conscious admissions. Every year, thousands of students are able to get into top schools through their ties to family alumni or wealthy donors, a practice that largely favors applicants who are rich and white. |
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Democrats are hoping to harness anger over the Supreme Court's student loan debt ruling to galvanize younger voters in 2024, a demographic that helped the party earn critical victories in the midterms. The court's decision last week blocked President Biden's debt forgiveness program and left many dispirited and without options or optimism for paying back their mounting school debt. |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is turning to a familiar playbook in shoring up his authority: a smear campaign against Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner Group military leader who led a brief mutiny against the Kremlin. Public opinion against Prigozhin dropped sharply in the days after the rebellion. So Putin moved quickly to discredit Prigozhin's public image. |
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky marked 500 days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a pre-recorded public address Saturday. Speaking from Snake Island — the small Black Sea landmass which Russian warships bombarded in the first day of the war, capturing its small Ukrainian garrison who resisted surrender — Zelensky pledged neither the island nor the country would be "conquered by the occupier." |
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the United Kingdom "discourages" the use of cluster bombs, following President Biden's decision to send the munitions to Ukraine. The United Kingdom is one of over 100 countries that have banned the weapons under an international treaty that prohibits the use, transfer, production and stockpiling of all cluster munitions. |
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Former President Trump addressed a crowd in Nevada during a campaign stop on Saturday, once again using his platform to rail against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is seen as his biggest competition in the 2024 race.
"I'm not a big fan of his and he's highly overrated. He's highly overrated," Trump told the crowd at a GOP volunteer event in Las Vegas. "Remember, he's the one that wanted to cut Social Security. He's the one that wanted to raise the minimum age and he voted on this." |
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Former President Trump continued to slam primary opponent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), in a series of Truth Social posts on Saturday, saying that the governor is "desperately trying to get out" of the 2024 race. "Ron DeSanctimonious is desperately trying to get out of the Presidential race, while at the same time saving face for 2028, where he has been greatly damaged," Trump said. |
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This week marked a grim record for Earth's climate, as temperatures repeatedly hit — and passed — levels not seen in 125,000 years, according to government scientists. For context, the last time things were this hot, the first modern humans were just beginning to leave Africa, and chips of sharpened flint represented the bleeding edge of high technology. Here are five things scientists learned in 2023 about heat waves' insidious impacts — and how to head them off. |
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BY MARIK VON RENNENKAMPFF |
OPINION | In a June 26 interview with NewsNation, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) stated that multiple individuals had corroborated a whistleblower's explosive allegations of a secret, decades-long UFO crash retrieval and reverse-engineering effort.
As the top Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and a member of the so-called Gang of Eight, Rubio's extraordinary comments carry particular weight. |
OPINION | "Sanity" has returned to the internet. That is the message of not only Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, but also a host of gleeful pundits heralding the arrival of the "Twitter killing" text-based app Thread — the Twitter knock-off meant to destroy Elon Musk's platform. This is not just a cage fight between the two billionaires. Many are more interested in whether Zuckerberg can choke out free speech than in whether he can beat Musk. |
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BY ABBIE VAN SICKLE AND STEVE EDER |
If Justice Thomas's life had unfolded as he had envisioned, his Horatio Alger induction might have been a celebration of his triumphs as a prosperous lawyer instead of a judge. But as he tells it, after graduating from Yale Law School, he was turned down by a series of top law firms, rejections he attributes to a perception that he was a token beneficiary of affirmative action. So began his grudging path to a judicial career that brought him great prestige but only modest material wealth after decades of financial struggle. |
BRUSSELS—The outcome of NATO's annual summit, a gathering of three-dozen world leaders in the planning for months, is going down to the wire amid wrangling over one paragraph. |
Traveling out of state was the only abortion option for Victoria, who asked CNN to withhold her last name out of fear of backlash against her and her family. Louisiana is one of several states that have essentially banned all abortions |
BY STEVE HENDRIX SUFIAN TAHA |
JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — Hussein Shibly walked home after Friday prayers through a city struggling to return from devastation to mere poverty. A bulldozer lifted a crushed car; men patched bullet holes in a rooftop water tank; a fire engine washed soot from a crowded street. |
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