In Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman flipped a Republican-controlled Senate seat key to the party. In the evenly split Senate, battleground was focussed on the deeply contested States of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin In Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman flipped a Republican-controlled Senate seat key to the party. In the evenly split Senate, battleground was focussed … Read more
The outcome of races for House and Senate will determine the future of President Joe Biden’s agenda and serve as a referendum on his administration The outcome of races for House and Senate will determine the future of President Joe Biden’s agenda and serve as a referendum on his administration Control of Congress hung in … Read more
9.21pm GMT 21:21 Joe Biden will have a meeting with members of his national security team in Delaware tomorrow, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. Right before Psaki’s briefing started, the White House updated the president’s official schedule to note that he will travel to his home in Wilmington, Delaware, this evening and … Read more
3.40pm GMT 15:40 In a fascinating new interview, Politico’s Ryan Lizza sits down with J Michael Luttig, a former appeals court judge and conservative legal thinker who played a central role in the behind-the-scenes wrangling between Trump and then vice president Mike Pence over whether a vice president could overturn the results of the election. … Read more
James is seeking to enforce subpoenas her office issued in December to Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. James, a Democrat, said her civil investigation has uncovered evidence Trump’s company used “fraudulent or misleading” valuations of assets like golf clubs and skyscrapers to get loans and tax benefits. Trump’s lawyers … Read more
Donald Trump was never one for following protocol. In fact, he seemed to delight in flouting the very rules and regulations that guided his predecessors throughout their time in office. That applied to the retention of his presidential records. According to a new report from the Washington Post, presidential records including “love letters” from Kim … Read more
2.32pm GMT 14:32 Today, Biden will be relaunching an Obama-era cancer prevention program, “ending cancer as we know it today” with a set of new long-term goals including reducing the cancer death rate by 50% across the next 25 years. The reviving of the “Cancer Moonshot” program, an initiative that Biden oversaw during the final … Read more
The [three Republican] incumbents targeted by Trump ended 2021 with more money in their campaign war chests than any of their challengers, including those backed by Trump. A week after the deadly January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump’s supporters, the House voted to impeach him, with the Senate then … Read more
William Barr, Donald Trump’s second attorney general and perceived hatchet man until he split from the former president over his lies about election fraud, has a book deal. William Barr’s book. Photograph: AP The publisher of One Damn Thing After Another, due out on 8 March, Harper Collins, promised a “vivid and forthright” read on … Read more
Even as Democrats filed into their caucus meeting with Biden about changing Senate rules to reform federal elections, a response to GOP-backed state laws designed to restrict ballot access, a good portion of them were unaware they had already lost. Just minutes before the group’s meeting with Biden, [Kyrsten Sinema] slammed the door on weakening … Read more