Allies of President Biden seeking to beat back calls to remove him from the Democratic ticket are framing the debate within the Senate Democratic caucus as a choice between Biden and Vice President Harris, suggesting that Biden remains the safer bet.
These Biden supporters claim Harris would almost certainly be the replacement for Biden if he were to decide to not run for reelection. |
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Former President Trump is wringing every last ounce of suspense out of his running mate announcement. The former president has in recent days been adamant about his desire to announce his pick during the Republican National Convention (RNC), describing it as "the old-fashioned way." But sources indicated the announcement is likely to come before the convention officially begins on Monday. |
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Speculation is swirling around President Biden's political fate — and over who might replace him on the Democratic ticket this fall should he decide to drop out of the race. Biden has insisted he's in it to win it, and Vice President Harris would have the inside track on becoming the party's standard-bearer, but Democratic concerns are growing that his candidacy could cost them the White House and House majority this fall. |
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BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND MIKE LILLIS |
President Biden's middle-of-the-road performance at a high-stakes press conference Thursday has left House Democrats in a state of limbo regarding his fate. The president's supporters are pointing to his high notes as evidence Biden still has what it takes to lead the country through the next four years. Critics are highlighting his gaffes in calling for him to bow out for the sake of keeping former President Trump out of the White House. And the ongoing dispute has left the caucus in a position of suspended ambivalence — one that will only intensify the dilemma facing Democratic leaders as they attempt to steer their party to some timely conclusion without triggering a civil war. |
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President Biden on Friday told supporters at a rally in Michigan that he's not dropping his bid because voters made him the Democratic presidential nominee, taking a jab at the press, pundits, and other Democrats. "I'm the nominee of this party because 14 million Democrats like you voted for me in the primaries," Biden said. "You made me the nominee, no one else. Not the press, not the pundits, not the insiders, not donors, you the voters. You decided, no one else, and I'm not going anywhere." |
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Meta said Friday that it has removed additional guardrails on former President Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the run-up to the 2024 election. "With the party conventions taking place shortly, including the Republican convention next week, the candidates for President of the United States will soon be formally nominated," Meta wrote in an update. |
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President Biden's reelection campaign rallied against Meta Friday for lifting the restrictions on former President Trump's Facebook and Instagram. In a statement first provided to The Hill, the campaign called the move "greedy" and "reckless," arguing that it is an attack on democracy to include the former president on the popular platforms. |
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A judge dismissed Rudy Giuliani's Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday, removing a shield that for six months froze two Georgia election workers' efforts to collect their $148 million defamation judgment. The former New York City mayor had long pushed back on the mounting pressure from his creditors. But in recent days, he consented to dismissal after they increasingly asserted he acted in bad faith and could be liable for bankruptcy crimes, accusations Giuliani denies. |
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BY RACHEL FRAZIN AND ZACK BUDRYK |
Project 2025, a controversial conservative roadmap that aims to guide the next Republican administration, calls for the elimination of multiple energy- and environment-related offices and rules — moves that would restrict the government's ability to combat climate change and pollution.
Policies promoted under the plan would place political personnel in positions to oversee science at major federal agencies and reduce such agencies' limitations on polluting industries. |
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The New Mexico judge overseeing actor Alec Baldwin's "Rust" case dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charges mid-trial Friday, ruling that the state withheld evidence and the case could not be retried. Handing down the ruling from the bench, Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said the withholding of the evidence, related to bullets turned over to law enforcement during the investigation, was "intentional and deliberate." |
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OPINION | Political polarization in the U.S. has reached an alarming level. We have reached the point of fearing an honest conversation. Most Americans — 61 percent of adults, according to a Pew poll from earlier this year — say talking politics with people they disagree with is now "stressful and frustrating." |
OPINION | The American presidency has never been known for its health transparency, just the opposite. Yet transparency is essential for the American public to assess its leader's fitness, justify voting for him or her and feel confident that this leader can fulfill the duties he or she was elected for. I interviewed President Trump following his bout with COVID in late 2020. He appeared open about feelings of weakness, saying "I didn't feel like the president of the U.S. should feel." |
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BY SARAH MASLIN NIR AND CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE |
The leafy market square, ringed by Middle Eastern restaurants in a quiet city where nearly half the residents have immigrant backgrounds, seems like the last place that would spur Germany's latest explosive wave of nationalist backlash. But it was in Mannheim where prosecutors say an Afghan man stabbed six people in May at an anti-Islamist rally, killing an officer who had intervened. No motive has yet been determined. But the death and the fact that the man accused had his asylum claim denied years ago set off calls for the expulsion of some refugees. Such sentiments were once viewed as messaging mostly reserved for the far right. |
BY ISABEL COLES AND IEVGENIIA SIVORKA |
VELYKIY BYCHKIV, Ukraine—It was seven weeks after Pvt. Ivan Pidmalivskiy had been due back on the front line with Russia when rescuers pulled his lifeless body from a river on Ukraine's western edge. His death added to a toll of more than two dozen other men who have drowned in the River Tysa since Russia invaded, many of them fugitives from a military draft aimed at sustaining Ukraine's war effort. Pidmalivskiy was different: He had fought for two years after returning to Ukraine from abroad to defend his country. |
Navarro is set to be released from a Miami prison on Wednesday, July 17, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons' online database of current inmates. That would give him just enough time to board a plane and make it to Milwaukee before the convention wraps Thursday. He was found guilty in September of contempt of Congress charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |
Nearly 200 years after the historic battle, Texans are still fighting over how exactly to remember the Alamo. Officials in San Antonio are preparing to break ground on a $550 million project that will transform the site of the 300-year-old former Spanish mission. In addition to restoring the centuries-old church and convent, a new 100,000-square-foot visitor center and museum, decked out with a 4D theater and a rooftop restaurant, is being built across the street. |
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