Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a week dogged by self-damaging rhetoric, leaving him to defend the state of his health and scramble to rework his position on abortion after facing dissent from within his own campaign. But on Monday, he hadRead More →
Drnadig via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A bipartisan group of senators, led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, on Wednesday unveiled a “roadmap” for lawmakers aimed at guiding Congress on regulating artificial intelligence. They said the recommendations are a critical step as Congress considers legislation to increase innovation and safeguard againstRead More →
Mint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A jury was selected and sworn in Wednesday for the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez. Federal prosecutors in New York have alleged that the New Jersey Democrat accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, mortgageRead More →
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, are set to face off in an ABC News presidential debate in September. Trump and Biden said they have both agreed to a prime-time debate at ABC News studios on Sept.Read More →
Geo Piatt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s celebrated ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, ending racial segregation in America’s public schools, turns 70 this week, and the anniversary is being marked as a major advance for civil rights. But less well-known is that the landmark caseRead More →
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday challenged Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, to participate in two 2024 presidential debates. The former president responded that he’s “ready and willing” to debate Biden. “Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. SinceRead More →
Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More than 100 years after the nation’s deadliest race massacre, the Senate is considering a bipartisan bill to grant national monument status to Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as “Black Wall Street.” In 1921, Black Wall Street was burned to ashesRead More →
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Fallout continues on Capitol Hill over President Joe Biden’s pause of a bomb shipment to Israel, and his warning the U.S. won’t supply weapons that could be used in an invasion of Rafah, a city in southern Gaza where more than aRead More →
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Voters headed to the polls in Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia on Tuesday to set up several key down-ballot races. Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks won the Democratic nomination in Maryland’s marquee Senate race, while Republicans in West Virginia appointed candidates likely to takeRead More →
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Across two days of testimony in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen detailed Donald Trump’s extensive involvement in an alleged scheme to hide negative information about himself from voters in the run-up to the 2016 election. On TuesdayRead More →
