Politics

Henrik5000/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Idaho Democrats held their presidential caucuses on Thursday. President Joe Biden is projected to win, ABC News reports. He was the only major candidate running and he clinched the party’s 2024 nomination earlier this year. Voting took place across Idaho from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., according to the state […]

(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump made his first public comments on former GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley finally breaking her silence and saying she would vote for him. “I appreciated what she said,” Trump told Long Island’s News 12 after his rally on Thursday when asked about her comments. Trump then suggested there […]

(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign held a call with a group of supporters of former presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Wednesday night — after Haley said she would vote for former President Donald Trump in November. ABC News has confirmed that Juan Peñalosa, the deputy political director of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, […]

(WASHINGTON) — Lawmakers on the GOP-led House Education Committee grilled more university leaders on Thursday, insisting they defend their handling of pro-Palestinian protests and respond to allegations of antisemitism on campus. As in previous hearings, there were heated exchanges between lawmakers and school officials over what Republicans, especially, are making an election-year issue. Leaders from […]

(WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump opened the door to restricting access to contraceptives earlier this week, less than a week after Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two bills that would have established the right to contraception in the state. Now, Democrats are sounding the alarm over the fact that access to birth control […]

(WASHINGTON) — Congressional Democrats on Thursday accused oil companies of inflating the cost of gasoline and vowed to investigate them, pushing back on who’s to blame for rising prices hurting President Joe Biden’s reelection chances. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top Democrats were flanked by supporters in matching blue shirts holding signs that […]

(WASHINGTON) — For the second time in three months, an immigration and border security measure negotiated earlier this year by a bipartisan group of lawmakers failed to advance in the Senate. The legislation fell well short of the 60 votes needed — the final tally was 43 to 50 — as nearly all Republicans voted […]

(BATON ROUGUE, La.) — Louisiana is moving closer to classifying the abortion pill regimen — mifepristone and misoprostol — as a “controlled dangerous substance,” putting them in the same category as opioids and other addictive medications. If a new bill becomes law, possession of the the medications without valid prescriptions or orders from medical professionals […]

(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday slammed former President Donald Trump for insinuating President Joe Biden authorized his potential assassination during the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in August 2022 for confidential government material, pointing out that a similar Justice Department memo on the use of deadly force was also used in […]

(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is set to hold a rally in deep-blue South Bronx, New York, on Thursday evening as he looks to court the Hispanic and Black voters that make up a majority of the area’s population. Several thousand Trump supporters are expected to head to Crotona Park in the South […]