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CNN — It’s not only about Donald Trump’s courtroom dramas. As the ex-president tries to ride a narrative of personal political persecution through his criminal trial quagmire back to the White House, other substantial political forces are gathering that could be equally critical to November’s election. Political drama from Washington to North Carolina and California on Tuesday highlighted an already intense campaign ahead of a rematch between the presumptive Republican nominee and President Joe Biden. A trio of events in those states also showed that in an election that could hang on several hundred votes in a handful of swing…
President Joe Biden has plans to bring Palestinian refugees into the country, prompting a letter of concern written by several Republican members of the Senate. “Your administration’s reported plan to accept Gazan refugees poses a national security risk to the United States. With more than a third of Gazans supporting the Hamas militants, we are not confident that your administration can adequately vet this high-risk population for terrorist ties and sympathies before admitting them into the United States. We are further worried that accepting Gazan refugees might cause a crisis at the Egypt-Gaza border, leading to chaos that would only…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen argues that a fractured democracy can have destructive effects on the economy — an indirect jab at Donald Trump.Yellen delivered an address Friday in Arizona, using economic data to paint a picture of how disregard for America’s democratic processes and institutions can cause economic stagnation for decades.Yellen, taking a rare step toward to the political arena, never mentioned Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, by name in her speech for the McCain Institute’s Sedona Forum, but she hinted at the former president’s potential impact if he regains the White House.Her remarks serve as…
Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is raging against the expansion of a gag order in the former president’s New York hush-money case, insisting that the order prevents “core political speech.”New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan expanded the gag order to include prohibitions on Trump making statements about the families of the justice and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who on Friday requested the move in a letter sent to Merchan. Trump earlier last week made two social media posts denouncing Merchan’s daughter as a “super liberal” operative for Democrats.Merchan did not include himself, Bragg or their…
Miguel Cardona, education secretary for the Biden administration, faced questioning in a Tuesday Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing centered on the 2025 Department of Education (DOE) budget request. During the hearing, Republican senators expressed concerns that Jewish students are facing extreme antisemitism on college campuses across the nation, with little to no relief provided from the department. “You have more immediate means at your disposal,” stated Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, who noted that the DOE has the ability to remove federal funds from institutions that violate Title VI and asked, “Are you intending to do that?” Cardona told legislators…
1:08 p.m. ET, May 3, 2024 Hicks says Trump wanted to be sure there was a denial of any relationship with Stormy Daniels in 2016 article Hicks says a Wall Street Journal reporter told her on the phone that Stormy Daniels would also be mentioned in a forthcoming story about Karen McDougal. She told Trump about it, and he “wanted to know the context, and he wanted to make sure that there was a denial of any kind of relationship,” Hicks testifies. “I felt the point of the story was that the National Enquirer paid a woman for her story…
In the basement of an unassuming building in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania, you’ll find what’s known as “The Underground.” “This is the Lancaster Democrats’ headquarters. Has been for a number of years,” said Stella Sexton, the group’s vice chair, after unlocking an old wooden door and turning on the overhead lights. What You Need To Know Spectrum News spent three days in eastern Pennsylvania speaking with organizers and voters as a Biden-Trump rematch takes shape Of the six or seven battleground states that will decide the 2024 election, Pennsylvania is the biggest prize with 19 electoral votes President Joe Biden won…
(May 3, 2024 / JNS) Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee want a hearing on “civil rights violations of Jewish students and the proliferation of terrorist ideology on college campuses.” “Since Hamas barbarically attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, anti-Israel activists have threatened the safety and rights of Jewish university students,” the senators wrote to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the committee chair. “This hostile antisemitism has reached an inflection point over the past two weeks at several prominent, and federally funded, universities,” the GOP senators wrote. “Jewish students are being actively targeted, harassed, intimidated, threatened and in some cases assaulted…
Democratic lawmakers are sounding the alarm over what they see as conservative justices and judges tipping the scales in favor of former President Trump in two federal cases. The two cases accuse the former president of attempting to subvert the 2020 election and obstructing justice related to his handling of classified documents. Some Democratic senators suggest conservative justices on the Supreme Court are playing politics by slow-walking special counsel Jack Smith’s case related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, so that there’s no chance of it reaching a verdict before Election Day. And they are perplexed that Judge Aileen…
Former President Donald Trump is playing down but not ruling out the possibility of political violence if he loses the November election.”I don’t think we’re going to have that. I think we’re going to win,” Trump told Time magazine in a cover story published on Tuesday.He had been asked about an earlier comment to Time that “I think we’re gonna have a big victory and I think there will be no violence” — but “what if you don’t win, sir?” the Time reporter said.”If we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election,”…