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
10.41pm GMT 22:41 ‘Everything is on the table’ Canadian officials warn members of anti-vaccine blockade A Canadian judge ordered protesters blockading a bridge at the US-Canada border to disperse by 7 p.m. this evening, capping a day of warning from Canadian officials that they were prepared to take action to end the blockade. Key statements … Read more
Asked if she agreed with the Republican National Committee that the January 6 attack on the US Capitol was “legitimate political discourse”, a senior member of House Republican leadership repeatedly compared the deadly riot to protests, which sometimes involved violence, for racial justice in US cities in 2020. Elise Stefanik, a New York congresswoman, was … 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
President: ‘Raise your hand if you think the present tax structure is fair’ Democrats seek to revive parts of Biden’s Build Back Better program Senator Joe Manchin doomed the legislation last month Sign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by email Joe Biden initially indicated he would not take any questions from … 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