The e-commerce company eBay has added three new members to its government relations team, including a former adviser to Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee following the exit of President Biden on July 21. EBay already has a robust government relations presence in Washington, spending nearly $1.9 million on federal lobbying last year,...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday doubled down on Democrats’ strategy of labeling the GOP presidential ticket as “weird,” after former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy criticized the argument as “dumb” and “juvenile.” “Being obsessed with repressing women is goofy. Trying to watch what LGBTQ+ people do all the time is abnormal. Punishing people who...
The sun has had an active weekend, which means some of us have a chance at seeing the northern lights.
Patrick Rome is participating in the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge for the second time.
{beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Monday. This week already has some August vibes. We just need the Senate to skedaddle. In the meantime, here’s what’s happening: President Biden wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post where he endorsed a major overhaul of the Supreme Court. Democrats are feeling a mixture of relief and excitement about Vice...
As a law in Iowa takes effect that bans abortion before most women know they are pregnant, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is calling for action. The campaign is using the Iowa ban as a jumping off point to launch a “Fight for Reproductive Freedom Week of Action" with events across key battleground states,...
The U.S. and Japan announced a major new military command structure Sunday that aims to counter Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific region. U.S. Forces Japan will work more closely with Japanese troops under a Joint Force Headquarters reporting to the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, in close collaboration with Japan's Joint Operations Command. This modernizing...
The Biden administration said Monday it is confident an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah can be avoided, and it is engaging Israeli and Lebanese counterparts to calm tensions in the region. “Nobody wants a broader war, and I'm confident that we'll be able to avoid such an outcome,” said John Kirby, the White House National Security Council communications adviser, in...
Janiyah Thomas has carved her way through the Republican Party, working both for South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s presidential campaign, which he ended in November and later endorsed former President Trump, and for the Republican National Convention. She has since joined the Trump campaign, where she now serves as the former president’s Black Media Director....
At no other time in American history has a current and former president and an Israeli prime minister pontificated on the same day and in the same country on such monumental issues.
California farmers are willing to cut back on groundwater usage when their local governments start charging for this formerly free resource, new research has found. Historically, Golden State farmers have kept their crops irrigated amid extreme heat and drought by tapping into groundwater beneath their properties — at no charge, other than the costs of...
Former President Trump has agreed to sit with the FBI for an interview following the July 13 shooting at one of his campaign rallies, the agency said Monday. During a Monday briefing, the bureau said Trump would sit for a “standard victim interview” about the shooting, something it called consistent with practices for any crime...
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP vice presidential nominee, said this weekend his feelings are not hurt by Democrats labeling him “weird” as past comments he made before being tapped as former President Trump’s running mate are resurfaced. “No, not at all,” Vance told a Fox News reporter in an interview that aired Sunday. “It...
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) criticized Vice President Harris for refusing to meet with him when they were both in California’s congressional delegation, claiming that Harris had a reputation for a toxic office culture. “When she got elected to the U.S. Senate, I was the majority leader. I reached out to meet with her, not...
A law that bans abortion before most women know they are pregnant takes effect in Iowa on Monday, further reshaping abortion access in America more than two years after Roe v. Wade was overturned. The law bans abortions after fetal “cardiac activity” can be detected — electrical activity that’s usually spotted by an ultrasound after...
Vice President Kamala Harris has a history of disregarding constitutional norms and civil rights in order to advance her political ambitions, including concealing evidence, refusing to seek the death penalty, and enacting policies by fiat.
Senate negotiators are punting consideration of their full-year Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill as both sides struggle to find bipartisan agreement. The powerful Senate Appropriations Committee was set to consider the bill, along with four other full-year funding measures, on Thursday as it works to pass all 12 annual government funding bills. “Over...
Imagine living your whole life devoid of any sort of redeeming narrative, and then someone suddenly informs you that, no, you do indeed have a story. And, in fact, you are the villain.
Vice President Harris will be in Houston on Thursday for the funeral of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, the White House confirmed Monday, after the Texas Democrat died earlier this month Jackson Lee, a three-decade House veteran and bastion of Houston politics, died shortly after revealing she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Harris called Jackson Lee...
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) pushed back on the idea that Vice President Harris’s running mate must be a white man and called concerns over an all-female presidential ticket “baloney,” in an interview Monday on “CBS Mornings.” “I don't agree with that,” said Whitmer, a co-chair of the Harris campaign, when asked about the idea...
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Monday announced a slate of 26 Republican candidates as part of its “Young Gun” program, which highlights nonincumbent candidates and challengers in competitive districts. The initial list of 2024 candidates includes 24 Republicans who are either challenging incumbent Democrats or seeking a seat that a Democrat is vacating,...
President Biden’s former communications director poured water on some Democrat’s concerns Sunday that former President Trump implied there won’t be future elections if he’s elected again. Trump made the remarks at a Turning Point USA event on Friday, telling supporters, “In four years, you won’t have to vote again.” Kate Bedingfield wrote on social media...
MAGA-supporting Republicans set a land speed record rolling out sexist and racist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said in a Monday interview she expects Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic nominee, to announce a running mate in the next six or seven days. “Everything is truncated, and she's going to make that decision probably in the next six, seven days,” Whitmer, a co-chair of the Harris...
Security at former President Trump’s Butler, Pa., rally first noticed the man who later shot at Trump more than 90 minutes before shots were fired, according to texts reported by The New York Times, adding to criticism of the Secret Service’s handling of the event. A local countersniper first noticed gunman Thomas Crooks at 4:26...