For much of the last year, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and a bipartisan group of his colleagues have been huddling with tech CEOs, civil rights leaders and top researchers to develop an “all hands on deck” plan to address the urgent threats posed by artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, the Senate AI Gang, as […]
NEW YORK — Prosecutors who are trying to convict Donald Trump of falsifying documents bet big on Michael Cohen this week. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has relied on Trump’s fixer and attorney to make their case at trial that the former president was directly involved in a scheme to conceal a hush money payment […]
Beyoncé gave tickets to Vice President Harris for the superstar’s concert last year as a gift, according to a new financial disclosure by Harris. The tickets were valued at $1,655.92, according to the disclosure, which the White House released Wednesday. Harris also disclosed that ESPN gifted her tickets to a college-football game last year. Harris, […]
When Donald Trump first ran for president in 2015, he promised that he would implement a process for deporting the 11 million residents of the United States who are here without authorization. There would be a “deportation force,” he said, one that leveraged local law enforcement to identify and expel undocumented immigrants. He offered words […]
A Jewish American Biden political appointee resigned from her post at the Interior Department on Wednesday, saying she could no longer work for the administration because of President Biden’s continued support of Israel’s war in Gaza. Lily Greenberg Call, special assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department, cited her Jewish upbringing and […]
Do you have a very wealthy friend who is considering spending gobs of money trying to get elected to political office? You might want to show them the results of the Maryland Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday — and, of course, this post. Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) spent $62 million of his own money on […]
Inflation “was at 9 percent when I came in and it’s now down around 3 percent.” — President Biden, in an interview with Yahoo Finance, May 14 Inflation continues to be an albatross for President Biden as he seeks reelection. After decades of stable prices — inflation of about 2 percent a year — the […]
Some of former president Donald Trump’s co-defendants in a Georgia election interference case are receiving legal funding from a charity started to help people charged in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to people familiar with the group. The legal fund beneficiaries include John Eastman, a lawyer who advised the Trump campaign on […]
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) defeated a challenger from the right flank of his party in his attempt to win reelection in Nebraska’s 2nd District without the support of the state and local chapters of the Republican Party. Bacon will now face Democrat Tony Vargas, whom he defeated in the 2022 election by just under three […]
Republican Rep. Carol Miller won her party’s primary in West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District, defeating Derrick Evans, a former state lawmaker who served three months in prison after pleading guilty to a felony for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The three-term congresswoman is a staunch supporter of former president […]