Former national security adviser H. R. McMaster on Sunday said Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to China "may portray a bit of weakness" amid heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington. "I think China's sending a message, ‘Hey, we're in charge now. You're finished’ to the West and to the United States. And, and I think it's...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said in an interview that the country's recent string of book bans is “castrating” children. Schools and library systems across the country have been mounted by pressure from parents and conservative lawmakers to ban books that contain certain themes, including LGBTQ and African American history and literature. In an interview...
Former Attorney General Bill Barr blasted former President Trump’s defense in the classified documents case as “absurd” and said the former president “absolutely” was mischaracterizing the Presidential Records Act. “The legal theory by which he gets to take battle plans and sensitive national security information as his personal papers is absurd. It's just as wacky...
Trump-era national security advisor John Bolton said on Sunday that officials responsible for briefing the president on intelligence matters "failed in many cases" by not getting some classified documents back from former President Trump. Bolton is among a list of former White House officials who have been vocal in criticizing their former boss over an...
Former national security adviser John Bolton on Sunday said former President Trump appeared to have a “pattern” of wanting to collect materials “of interest to him,” including classified documents, and knocked Trump’s behavior as “very disturbing.” “I think he was kind of a collector of things that he thought were of interest to him for...
On Tuesday, Indiana’s Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb announced that GM and Samsung will build a $3 billion electric vehicle battery cell plant employing 1,700 people in St. Joseph’s County. On the same day, 600 miles away in Washington, House Republicans were voting — again — to repeal clean energy tax incentives from last year’s Inflation...
The National Archives plans to place the Emancipation Proclamation on permanent public display in its Rotunda alongside the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the agency announced on Saturday. “I am proud that the National Archives will enshrine this seminal document for public display adjacent to our nation’s founding documents. Together,...
Former Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) said Sunday that former President Trump put "lives at risk" by not returning classified documents stored at Mar-a-Lago. "He absolutely could have put people's lives at risk for not returning these documents. And like when I first read the indictment, it's shocking," he told CNN's Jim Acosta. "The fact that...
GOP presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson on Sunday said the suggestion that a U.S. president could pardon themselves is "unseemly" as the question of whether former President Trump could be pardoned is posed to his Republican challengers in 2024. "From a legal standpoint, a constitutional standpoint, that is a question that the courts would have to...
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said on Sunday that he doesn't expect to be a witness in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, but he'd be "glad" to appear if called to testify. "If they call me in as a witness, of course, I would testify," Barr...
Americans may be more likely to identify as socially conservative, but a majority hold viewpoints that would traditionally be considered liberal.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s discussions with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Sunday were “candid, substantive, and constructive,” according to a U.S. State Department spokesperson. In the statement, Matthew Miller said Blinken and Qin discussed “the importance of diplomacy and maintaining open channels of communication across the full range of issues...
National forecasters made it official this month: El Niño is here. But we might not feel the effects of it just yet.
Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson on Sunday said the federal charges former President Trump now faces in the classified documents case are "serious and disqualifying." Hutchinson said on ABC's "This Week" that "cases don’t get any more serious than what’s been outlined" by special counsel Jack Smith "because you’re talking about the allegations of not...
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday said former President Trump has been described as a "hoarder" of classified documents, in the wake of Trump facing federal charges over his alleged mishandling of some of the nation's top secrets. Presented with suggestions both that Trump kept the documents "like a child with a toy" and...
Republicans are doubtful that Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s (R) entrance into the 2024 primary will have much of an effect as he looks to take on two leading candidates who also hail from his state: former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). Suarez’s announcement earlier this week did not come as a big...
All of us — every race, ethnicity and income bracket — pay the price every day for the lack of reparations to Black Americans.
GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie said Sunday that he was "wrong" to think that he could help former President Trump be a "better president." "Look, I made it very clear in 2016 I did not want Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States and I think that was the right decision," the former...
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said on Sunday that he is "skeptical" former President Trump will be convicted in the Georgia investigation into whether the former president or his allies violated the law in their attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. "I don't know much about her case. I don't know if it's, you...
Global oceans are so hot right now, scientists all around the world are struggling to come up with an explanation.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken started high-stakes meetings in Beijing on Sunday amid tensions between China and the United States. Blinken met with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and will attend a working dinner with the foreign minister. Blinken spoke on the phone with Qin last week ahead of his trip to discuss “the importance...
When I brought my then five-month-old son, Hodge, to the House floor during the vote for Speaker in January, I didn’t think twice about carrying him on my chest to soothe him and introduce him for the first time to my colleagues. But within minutes, my phone was dinging nonstop with people excited to see...
Most of former President Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination have taken a cautious path in responding to his indictment — but some veterans of his administration have taken a far more assertive stance. Bill Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general, said that Trump would be “toast” if “even half” of the behavior alleged...
As the generative artificial intelligence (AI) industry booms, the 2024 election cycle is shaping up to be a watershed moment for the technology's role in political campaigns. The proliferation of AI — a technology that can create text, image and video — raises concerns about the spread of misinformation and how voters will react to...
Juneteenth is facing new challenges as it marks its second federal birthday on Monday in the form of both political attacks on the need to understand Black history and diversity, and the mixed emotions of becoming a more commercial holiday. Over the last three years, policymakers in 45 states have proposed 283 laws restricting what...
