Tag: Political

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Several prominent House Democrats are jostling to fend off Republican former baseball great Steve Garvey in the yearlong battle to fill the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, with two slots on California’s November ballot at stake.In a state where a Republican hasn’t won a Senate…

© Reuters. Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, delivers speech after elected as Pakistan’s prime minister for second term, in the National Assembly building in Islamabad, Pakistan March 3, 2024. Pakistan National Assembly/Handout via REUTERS ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif took the oath on Monday to officially become prime minister for a second time,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A poll finds that a growing share of U.S. adults doubt that 81-year-old President Joe Biden has the memory and acuity for the job, turning his coming State of the Union address into something of a real-time audition for a second term.Roughly 6 in 10 say they’re not very or not at…

Three of Congress’s top four leaders had a loud and unified message for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) when they met with him at the White House on Tuesday: Ignore the pressure from conservative critics and avoid a government shutdown on Friday.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The bipartisan Indiana Election Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to remove one of two Republican U.S. Senate candidates from the primary ballot, and the state Supreme Court rejected his legal challenge to the law barring his candidacy.The decision to remove John Rust from the ballot leaves U.S. Rep. Jim Banks as the only…

How long does it take voters to shake off inflation? We may finally be getting an answer.Inflation has dropped from a peak of 9% in June 2022 to just 3.1% now, and most economists think it will continue to trend lower. But that improvement hasn’t boosted President Biden’s approval ratings, which tanked as inflation worsened…

The Trump vs. Biden Economy: A Comparison in 10 Charts

Donald Trump styled himself as a “proud political dissident” and promised “judgment day” for political opponents in an address that offered a chilling vision of a democracy in imminent peril.In classic carnival barker form, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination accused Joe Biden of weaponising the government against him with “Stalinist show trials”. He…

As he spoke at a Bay Area fundraiser today, Joe Biden spotted Katie Couric among the attendees.“Two of your former colleagues, not at the same network, personally told me if he wins, they will have to leave the country because he’s threatened to put them in jail,” Biden said, according to a pool report.More from…

HENDERSON, Nev. — Amy Brown was a single, ambitious 24-year-old in 2008, a time when she felt invincible.She was striving to become an Army dietician while stationed at a San Antonio medical center and was on the cusp of completing an internship to land a full-time job. That’s when she found out something that turned…