Former President Trump may be set for controversy at next month's Republican National Convention — and not only because he reportedly described its host city of Milwaukee as "horrible" earlier this week. The convention's planners are making contingencies for the possibility that Trump will not be able to attend the event in person, according to an NBC News report. |
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Former President Trump took a swing at President Biden Friday during his birthday message, reupping his calls for aptitude tests as the incumbent continues to face scrutiny over his mental fitness. Trump celebrated his 78th birthday Friday at a Club 47 event in West Palm Beach, Fla., using much of his speech attacking Biden as the two presumptive party nominees head for a rematch in November, The Associated Press reported. |
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who is running to head up a potential GOP majority in 2025, knocked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) Friday, saying former President Trump is going to need new leadership to help support his agenda for a possible second term. "We have Republicans in the Senate that are caving to Democrats for all sorts of horrible bills. Now, remember this so-called infrastructure bill? … That required Republican votes. Guess who gave it to 'em? Mitch McConnell," Scott told a crowd at The People's Convention in Detroit, organized by the conservative activist group Turning Point Action. |
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| BY ALEX GANGITANO AND BRETT SAMUELS |
Hunter Biden's guilty verdict marks the latest wrinkle thrown into the 2024 campaign between President Biden and former President Trump ahead of their November contest.
For Biden, the outcome blunts Republican claims of a two-tiered Justice system and the weaponization of the DOJ against the president's political rival. But those close to Biden said the personal toll will be heavy for a man who is close with his family, as evidenced by a quickly arranged trip to Delaware to be with his son following the verdict. |
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| BY ZACH SCHONFELD AND ELLA LEE |
The Supreme Court's decision invalidating the nationwide bump stock ban ignited a firestorm among Democrats and gun control groups that have long maligned the device used to perpetrate the nation's deadliest mass shooting. The groups expressed worry about not only the impacts of lifting the ban, which could trigger a booming rapid-fire marketplace, but also the other gun cases that remain pending on the justices' docket. |
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| Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a fiery dissent harshly denounced a Supreme Court ruling Friday that rejected a ban on bump stocks, saying it "eviscerates" the congressional regulation of machine guns. "Today, the Court puts bump stocks back in civilian hands," Sotomayor wrote in a dissent joined by fellow liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. "To do so, it casts aside Congress's definition of 'machinegun' and seizes upon one that is inconsistent with the ordinary meaning of the statutory text and unsupported by context or purpose." |
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The Justice Department (DOJ) issued a determination Friday that Attorney General Merrick Garland committed no crime in failing to meet the demands of House Republicans who subpoenaed audio of President Biden's conversation with special counsel Robert Hur. The determination is in line with a memo from the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel that stated Biden's claim of executive privilege over the tapes protected Garland from prosecution. That memo publicly surfaced hours before all but one House Republican approved a resolution to hold Garland in contempt of Congress, an effort to kick off prosecution of the attorney general. |
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Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will take their contempt of Congress case against Attorney General Merrick Garland's to court, after the Justice Department (DOJ) refused to pursue charges. "It is sadly predictable that the Biden administration's Justice Department will not prosecute Garland for defying congressional subpoenas even though the department aggressively prosecuted Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro for the same thing," Johnson said in a statement, referring to two allies of former President Trump, |
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Russia's increasing use of hybrid and gray-zone attacks against European countries is posing a major challenge for the U.S. and NATO: how to respond without sparking a major conflict with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Baltic countries, Poland and the Czech Republic in particular, are raising alarm that acts of sabotage — and sometimes fatal attacks against individuals — allegedly sponsored by Russia are a growing threat to Europe and the defensive alliance. |
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BY CAROLINE VAKIL AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) announced Friday he will not run for reelection in November, capping off months of speculation over whether he would run for another term after redistricting impacted his House seat. Graves — who has served in the House since 2015, was a key ally of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and played a key role in last year's negotiations to suspend the debt limit — revealed his retirement after the Supreme Court ruled last month that Louisiana could use a new map that created a second Black-majority House district for the general election in 2024. |
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OPINION | Do you believe the U.S. added 272,000 jobs last month? If not, you have plenty of company. The figure is so out of scale, and so at odds with other indicators of the employment picture, that it almost surely is wrong, and likely to be revised sharply lower. After all, another Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows that 625,000 fewer people were employed full-time last month. When even Jay Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, suggests the numbers are somewhat bogus, distrust in the White House's read on the economy — and the data used to back up their rosy claims — blossoms. |
OPINION | Last weekend, the European Union's electorate of more than 400 million went to the polls to elect 720 members of the European Parliament. There are seven political groups representing dozens of parties, plus 100 MEPs who belong to no faction, so drawing conclusions from the results is an intricate task. Two developments dominated the elections: the surge of the far-right in some parts of the EU but not in others, and the relative buoyancy of the center-right. |
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| The Southern Baptist Convention voted to condemn in vitro fertilization at its annual meeting in Indianapolis this week, over the objections of some members. |
BY CARA LOMBARDO, DANA MATTIOLI AND ALEXANDER SAEEDY |
When Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016, business leaders flocked to meet with him, hoping to tone down his trade policies and populist rhetoric while encouraging his business-friendly tax and deregulation agenda. |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States military unleashed a wave of attacks targeting radar sites operated by Yemen's Houthi rebels over their assaults on shipping in the crucial Red Sea corridor, authorities said Saturday, after one merchant sailor went missing following an earlier Houthi strike on a ship. |
BY ADELA SULIMAN, HAZEM BALOUSHA AND BRYAN PIETSCH |
As wrangling continued Friday over a cease-fire proposal meant to facilitate the delivery of aid into the Gaza Strip, the humanitarian situation grew only more dire. |
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