Vice President Harris is nearing a decision on her running mate, with an official announcement expected early Tuesday ahead of an evening rally in Philadelphia. Harris spent the weekend interviewing finalists to join her on the ticket, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). The campaign...
Vice President Kamala Harris has an opportunity to reset the U.S. policy on Afghanistan by committing to keeping promises to Afghan allies, reuniting families, signing the Afghan Adjustment Act, and developing a robust approach to dealing with the Taliban.
Pollster Nate Silver’s election forecast now shows Vice President Harris narrowly leading former President Trump for the first time since the model launched. Harris tops Trump by 1.4 percentage points in the Silver Bulletin’s national polling average, marking the vice president's first lead in the forecast. The latest model shows Harris with 45.5 percent support...
???? Plus: RFK Jr. admits dumping dead bear in Central Park {beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Monday. The Olympic women’s beam and floor finals were INSANE this morning. Simone Biles and Suni Lee both fell on beam and Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade won gold on floor — Simone won silver. Oh, and Jordan Chiles’s fifth-place score...
Progressive allies of Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) will hold a virtual rally Monday ahead of her high-stakes primary on Tuesday, which could deal another blow to a "squad" House member. The virtual event will be held over Zoom on Monday night and feature various left-wing allies of Bush, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Jamaal Bowman...
British singer-songwriter Rod Stewart poked fun at former President Trump for questioning Vice President Harris’s race and ethnicity, saying he never knew Trump “was Orange” until the GOP presidential nominee suddenly “became an Orange person.” “I didn’t know he was Orange until a number of years ago, when he happened to turn Orange,” Stewart wrote...
MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough predicted former President Trump and Vice President Harris will not meet on a debate stage for a clash hosted by Fox News. The morning talk show host said Monday that Trump was "trying to get out" of debating Harris, who has said she is willing to debate Trump on Sept. 10...
A Virginia man is facing charges for threatening online to kill Vice President Harris, on top of threats to other public officials. Frank Lucio Carillo was arrested Friday after a search of his account on the alternative social media platform GETTR by law enforcement yielded a series of violent threats against the vice president. ...
President Biden and Vice President Harris will meet with national security officials in the White House Situation Room on Monday, as Iran reiterates its intention to punish Israel for the apparent assassination of top Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. The meeting will focus on developments in the Middle East, the White House said. Concerns about...
Goldman Sachs increased their odds of a recession in the next year Monday following consecutive days of an equity market selloff, though the investment bank sees the risk of a serious downturn as “limited.” The bank boosted its year-ahead recession probability by 10 percentage points to 25 percent while noting that it expects the Federal...
He makes waves with his interviews with lawmakers and other high-profile Washington figures, and Charlamagne Tha God says he's not ruling out a future leap into the political waters himself. "I am not a person that will rule anything out because I was born in 1978, and one thing I've learned about life is that...
There is no telling how much damage the current Supreme Court majority could do in the years it would take for term limits to become effective.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India on Monday shortly after resigning from her post, following weeks of unrest in the South Asian nation that culminated in nearly 100 deaths in clashes this weekend. Hasina arrived on Monday at Hindon Airbase in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, according to Indian media. She...
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly described former President Trump as a "terrible human being," calling him the "worse president ever" in a recent text exchange reported by The New Yorker on Monday. "In a recent text exchange, Kennedy told one person that Trump was 'a terrible human being. The worse president ever...
Charlamagne tha God is predicting that even if former President Trump loses the election in November to Vice President Harris, the Supreme Court will overturn the results and name him the winner. "Everybody should be focusing on the Supreme Court," the "Breakfast Club" co-host said in an exclusive interview with ITK. "The Supreme Court is...
U.S. forces have completed a troop withdrawal from Niger after the country fell to a coup in 2023 and demanded American service members exit the country, a setback for Washington in its counterterrorism fight in the Sahel. The Pentagon and Niger's national defense department released a joint statement Monday saying the withdrawal from Airbase 201...
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she did not ask President Biden to step aside and insisted she did not make any phone calls on the matter, despite reports saying she led a pressure campaign to get Biden off the ticket. In an interview on "CBS News Sunday Morning," Pelosi declined to detail her private...
It’s time to get serious about restoring trust in the court because the court’s power relies on trust and respect.
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) responded Monday to the increased criticism of vice presidential contender and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) within the Democratic Party, arguing it had a “strong undercurrent of antisemitism.” “Those in the overly online left who are attacking Josh Shapiro’s pro-Israel positions in a different way than they are attacking non-Jewish veep...
Charlamagne Tha God says the only real instance of a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hire in the White House race is the need for Vice President Harris to select a "straight, white male" as her running mate. "We can't sit here and act like she doesn't need a straight, white male," the "Breakfast Club"...
Stocks plunged Monday morning as mounting concerns about the strength of the U.S. economy and the outlook for microchip production shook Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened with a loss of 1,100 points Monday, plunging 2.8 percent after the opening bell. Dow futures tumbled more than 1,200 points before the market opened Monday....
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Sunday deleted a post on X in which he said his mission is now "serving Arizonans" and stoked further speculation about Vice President Harris’s running mate search. Kelly, who is on the shortlist to be Harris's VP pick, issued a statement Sunday on X in which he suggested he was ultimately...
President Biden has issued a warning about the current Supreme Court's lack of public trust and the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power, echoing President Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posed with a bloody bear carcass in a 2014 photo, which resurfaced Monday after he claimed that he was the one to dump a dead bear in New York City's Central Park a decade ago. The photo was featured in The New Yorker's profile on Kennedy, published Monday,...
Hurricane Debby made landfall at 7 a.m. EST on Monday in the Florida Big Bend, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The storm reached maximum winds of approximately 80 mph, making it a Category 1 hurricane. It made landfall near Steinhatchee, Fla., roughly 70 miles southeast of Tallahassee, heading north/northeast direction at 10 mph, the...