Politics

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — First lady Dr. Jill Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, her communications director confirmed Monday. “This evening, the First lady tested positive for COVID-19. She is currently experiencing only mild symptoms,” Elizabeth Alexander, communications director for the first lady, said in a statement Sunday night. Dr. […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (SALEM, N.H.) — Former Vice President Mike Pence and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who have become fast foils on the 2024 campaign trail, attended the same picnic in Salem, New Hampshire, on Labor Day, their first time in the same space since sparring at last month’s debate. But Pence slipped out shortly […]

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — President Joe Biden celebrated Labor Day with remarks in front of a union crowd in Philadelphia. Biden, who says he’s the most pro-union president in history, spoke at the Tri-State Labor Day Parade hosted by the Philadelphia AFL-CIO, which is comprised of more than 100 local unions […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Kelly Barnett had a “horrible feeling” about her son after learning of the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate outside Kabul’s airport amid the hectic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. “I kept texting him, ‘Are you OK? Are you good?’” Barnett, mother of Marine Staff Sgt. Darin “Taylor” Hoover, told ABC This Week […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia on Sunday said that he believes a strong legal argument can be made to use the 14th Amendment to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot in 2024, citing Trump’s actions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Shortly after […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, one of Donald Trump’s rivals in the 2024 race and one of the former president’s biggest defenders on the trail, said Sunday that while he would have made different judgments than Trump regarding Jan. 6 and the handling of classified documents — those decisions shouldn’t […]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Bill Richardson was known for many things, the former governor of New Mexico, ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary under the Clinton administration, but one of his most significant professional achievements was working to free wrongfully detained American citizens abroad. Richardson died at 75 at his summer […]

Tasos Katopodis / Stringer/Getty Images (NEW MEXICO) — Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who also served in Congress and as secretary of the Department of Energy in the Clinton administration, has died, according to the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, the organization he founded to promote international peace and dialogue. He was 75. Richardson […]

Shaw Photography Co./Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — President Joe Biden on Saturday morning offered his first on-camera reaction to his meeting with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis falling through as he surveys Hurricane Idalia damage. “I don’t know,” Biden said in response to a shouted question as he and the first lady boarded Marine One about […]

Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Efforts to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment are gaining momentum as election officials in key states are preparing for or starting to respond to legal challenges to Trump’s candidacy. The argument to disqualify Trump from appearing on primary or […]