BY JULIA MANCHESTER AND HANNA TRUDO |
Democrats are outraged over a special counsel report that raised new fears about President Biden's memory, super-charging a long-standing issue that threatens to be the party's biggest political liability in November. In a 388-page report, special counsel Robert Hur argued it would be unlikely for a jury to convict the president for his handling of classified documents, setting up what would ordinarily be a resounding relief for a struggling incumbent hoping for positive news. |
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Democrats are still reeling from a dismal day for President Biden on Thursday. The report from Special Counsel Robert Hur that characterized Biden as a "well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" was followed by a fractious White House news conference at which the president — seeking to shore up concerns about his cognitive state — misidentified the president of Egypt as the president of Mexico. |
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The White House went on the attack Friday against a special counsel report that gave Republicans and critics of President Biden new ammunition to go after his age and fitness for office. Ian Sams, the spokesperson for the White House counsel's office who rarely appears at the briefing room podium, blasted "gratuitous" passages in the report by special counsel Robert Hur that characterized Biden as an elderly man with memory problems. |
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) scrutinized language in the special counsel's report, released Thursday, on President Biden's retention of classified documents — including comments about the president's age and memory. "I smell a rat," Pritzker, one of the top surrogates in Biden's reelection campaign, said during a press conference Friday. |
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The Senate voted Friday evening to push a $95.3 billion package funding Ukraine, Israel and other national security priorities closer to passing the upper chamber, even though many Republican senators are upset the legislation doesn't include provisions to stop the flood of migrants across the southern border. Senators voted after negotiating throughout the day over amendments to the legislation, which initially included a bipartisan border security deal to reform the nation's asylum laws and give President Biden greater authority to expel migrants. |
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Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) called Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) a "peckerhead" for forcing colleagues to grind through procedural votes Friday night and Super Bowl Sunday in order to pass a funding package for Ukraine and Israel. Fetterman, who often sports a Pittsburgh Steelers beanie around the Senate, didn't seem pleased at all over Paul's threat to keep senators churning through votes during the Super Bowl to make the process of passing an emergency defense spending supplemental as arduous as possible. |
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The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee is predicting that members of his party would swoop in to rescue Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) if he faces an internal GOP revolt over Ukraine aid. "Democrats would support Johnson," Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said this week. |
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Former President Trump made a new vow to National Rifle Association (NRA) members Friday, promising stronger protections for Second Amendment rights if he's reelected in November. "I promise you this, with me at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, no one will lay a finger on your firearms — just as took place for four years when I was your president," Trump said during his keynote address Friday at an NRA event in Harrisburg, Pa. "I will uphold those glorious words, 'shall not be infringed.'" |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin used an interview he granted to pundit Tucker Carlson this week to spread propaganda about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, criticize the United States and justify his crackdown on independent media coverage of the Kremlin. The interview also served as a headline-grabbing moment for Carlson, the former cable news host who launched a new show on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after leaving Fox News last year. Here are five things to know about the interview. |
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OPINION | Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard former President Donald J. Trump's challenge to state decisions removing him from the 2024 presidential primary ballot. Concluding his actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol constituted insurrection, Colorado's Supreme Court in December declared Trump ineligible for public office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Days later, Maine's secretary of State also cited Section 3 to exclude Trump from its ballot. Similar disqualification actions are progressing in several other states. |
OPINION | In a statement supporting the Senate Border Act of 2024 (Border Act), President Joe Biden says it would give him authority to shut down the border when it is overwhelmed and give him the funding needed for an additional 1,300 border patrol agents, 375 immigration judges and 1,600 asylum officers. He claims that the "House Republicans have to decide. Do they want to solve the problem? Or do they want to keep playing politics with the border?" |
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BY KATIE ROGERS AND LISA LERER |
The White House's cloistered nature reflects the concern of aides who worry that even small mistakes will be amplified. Lately, the president has burst through that bubble, with mixed results. |
BY GINA HEEB AND RACHEL LOUISE ENSIGN |
New York Community Bancorp closed a transformational deal in late 2022, buying mortgage lender Flagstar Bancorp to nearly double its size. Four months later, it struck again, buying parts of Signature Bank, which had just been seized by regulators during a bank run. |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan on Saturday hit back at criticism over the conduct of its parliamentary elections, which were held amid sporadic militant attacks and an unprecedented stoppage of all mobile phone services. |
Bill Ackman used Wall Street tactics to oust Harvard's first Black president. He's part of a wave of business leaders attacking diversity initiatives spurred by George Floyd's death. |
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