US presidential race 2024: Key dates and events

US presidential race 2024: Key dates and events

Representative image | Photo Credit: AFP Former President Donald Trump leads a pack of six Republican candidates jostling to be their party’s presidential nominee for the 2024 election, while President Joe Biden faces little opposition in the Democratic Party. Here is a timeline of events related to the Nov. 5, 2024, election between Jan 01, … Read more

With elections looming, Trump drums up cash, support for January 6 rioters

With elections looming, Trump drums up cash, support for January 6 rioters

One day after January 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump denounced the rioters who violently stormed the Capitol building, breaking through barricades, battling law enforcement and sending members of Congress — who were set to formally certify his re-election loss — running for their lives. “Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and … Read more

Biden’s election war chest trails Trump’s in size, filings show

Biden’s election war chest trails Trump’s in size, filings show

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy, on June 28, 2023, at the Old Post Office in Chicago. | Photo Credit: AP President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign ended last month with about $20 million in the bank, just trailing the $22 million plus reported by leading Republican candidate Donald Trump, according to financial disclosures … Read more

Trump, facing criminal charges, calls for defunding the FBI

Trump, facing criminal charges, calls for defunding the FBI

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on his fellow Republicans in Congress to slash funding for the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI, one day after pleading not guilty in New York to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump, who is seeking to regain the presidency in 2024, took aim at federal … Read more

Joe Biden says in State of Union that US is ‘unbowed, unbroken’

Joe Biden says in State of Union that US is ‘unbowed, unbroken’

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is using his State of the Union address Tuesday night to call on Republicans to work with him to “finish the job” of rebuilding the economy and uniting the nation as he seeks to overcome pessimism in the country and navigate political divisions in Washington. The address comes as the nation … Read more

McCarthy makes big gains for speaker, but he’s still short

McCarthy makes big gains for speaker, but he’s still short

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy flipped 15 colleagues to support him in dramatic votes for House speaker on Friday, January 6, 2023, making extraordinary gains on the fourth day and the 12th and 13th ballots of a historic standoff that was testing American democracy and the GOP majority’s ability to govern. The switched votes from conservative … Read more

Kevin McCarthy fails and fails again: GOP stalemate on new speaker

Kevin McCarthy fails and fails again: GOP stalemate on new speaker

Object previewFor a third day, divided Republicans left the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House sitting empty Thursday, January 5, 2023, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed and failed again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP votes to seize the chamber’s gavel. Pressure was building as McCarthy lost the seventh and … Read more

Donald Trump’s tax returns released after long fight with Congress

Donald Trump’s tax returns released after long fight with Congress

Washington: Democrats in Congress released six years’ worth of former President Donald Trump‘s tax returns on Friday, the culmination of a yearslong effort to learn about the finances of a onetime business mogul who broke decades of political norms when he refused to voluntarily release the information as he sought the White House. The returns, … Read more

Hakeem Jeffries elected to lead House Democrats after Nancy Pelosi

Hakeem Jeffries elected to lead House Democrats after Nancy Pelosi

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., joined by Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., speaks to reporters after they were elected by House Democrats to form the new leadership. | Photo Credit: AP Emboldened House Democrats ushered in a new generation of leaders on November 30 with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries elected to be the … Read more

Republicans on cusp of gaining House majority, elect Kevin McCarthy for speaker

Republicans on cusp of gaining House majority, elect Kevin McCarthy for speaker

Top U.S. Republican Kevin McCarthy was chosen as his party’s leader in the House of Representatives, putting him in a prime position to become Speaker if his camp reclaims control of the chamber as expected. File | Photo Credit: AP On the cusp of touching the magic number of 218 that would give the Republicans … Read more