The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision denied the Biden administration’s emergency request to partially reinstate its new Title IX rule. The sweeping changes to Title IX, which protects against sex discrimination in schools, cover sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time. Various Republican state attorneys general have persuaded judges to block implementation […]
f you were hoping that one of President Joe Biden’s worst ideas, instituting a national rent-control policy for corporate-owned housing, died along with his presidential campaign, we have some bad news for you. It has been resurrected by Vice President Kamala Harris. At her first major economic address on Friday in North Carolina, Harris unveiled […]
Washington is absorbing the impact of Ukraine’s lightning assault into Russia’s Kursk region as the scale of President Zelensky’s bold gamble emerges. US officials are assessing how the incursion might reshape the political and military dynamics of the war, as well as the implications for Washington’s long-shifting stance on how Ukraine can use American-supplied arms.The […]
If you’re not looking too closely, some recent Kamala Harris ads may give the false impression that some leading news organizations are taking sides in the campaign for president. The advertisements, which have turned up in some Google search feeds, include links to legitimate news stories but feature — in words that appear to be […]
Vice President Kamala Harris will try Friday to shift blame for inflation from a federal government headed by her and President Joe Biden to a greedy private sector. The push against price-gouging not only allows Harris to distance herself from Bidenomics and one of the least popular aspects of the Biden-Harris administration, but it allows […]
President Biden was fed a series of gentle softballs over the weekend by Robert Costa of CBS News. He mumbled through his responses in what felt like an exit interview. After his debate debacle at the end of June, Biden publicly and privately stated that he was staying in the presidential race. It would take […]
Vice President Kamala Harris, who hasn’t released a detailed economic plan, would have to thread the needle between a pair of seemingly contradictory tax pledges if she wins the election. Her campaign says she’s keeping President Joe Biden‘s promise not to raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000. However, she also appears to be keeping […]
The financial hits from the migrant crisis keep on coming. New York City has likely surpassed $5 billion in spending on services for migrants — including nearly $2 billion alone on housing the scores of new arrivals flooding into the Big Apple, according to city data. The eye-popping figures, listed on the city’s online asylum-seeker funding […]
Vice President Harris blindsided Democratic lawmakers and progressive activists by endorsing a proposal first floated by former President Trump to exempt tips for service and hospitality workers from taxes, an idea Democrats had previously criticized as “bogus” and a “ploy” for votes. Harris’s support for the idea is being seen as an aggressive play for […]
Police in New Zealand are racing to trace sweets containing “potentially lethal levels of methamphetamine” after they were distributed by a charity in Auckland.Up to 400 people may have received the sweets from Auckland City Mission as part of a food parcel, said the anti-poverty charity.The sweets were donated anonymously by a member of the […]
The controversy over Robert F Kennedy Jr’s exploits with a dead bear cub is just the latest bizarre twist to hit his presidential campaign and see him become a “laughing stock”, political experts said, but a laughing stock who, against all odds, could still seriously impact the election. Kennedy, the scion of the Democratic political […]
Less than a month after becoming the new presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to appear at this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. She will be making history as the first Black woman and first Asian American to head a major […]
