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The combat for Senate management is taking part in out nearly totally in Democratically held seats this 12 months as President Biden’s party defends a slim 51-49 seat majority. The retirement of Senator Joe Manchin III, a Democrat, in deep-red West Virginia has all however ceded one seat to the Republicans, who’re concentrating on a […] More

We’re nonetheless in a post-primary lull earlier than the marketing campaign begins to warmth up — and earlier than Donald J. Trump goes on trial. Here are just a few fast notes to finish the week. Joe Lieberman and the butterfly poll Joe Lieberman, the previous Democratic senator, died this week at 82. He was […] More

Former President Donald J. Trump posted a video on Friday to his social media web site that options a picture of President Biden together with his arms and ft tied collectively. Mr. Trump posted the video to Truth Social early Friday afternoon with a line that mentioned it was filmed on Long Island on Thursday, […] More

His efficiency impressed executives at NBC’s mother or father firm, Comcast. In May 2020, Jeff Shell, then the NBCUniversal chief government, put Mr. Conde in command of the NBC News Group, changing a veteran newsman, Andrew Lack. Privately, Mr. Shell acknowledged that Mr. Conde had a unique background from his predecessor. According to 2 folks […] More

Through essentially the most tense encounters with President Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia over the previous decade, there was one venture wherein Washington and Moscow have claimed widespread trigger: maintaining North Korea from increasing its arsenal of nuclear weapons. Now, even that has fallen aside. On Thursday, Russia used its veto energy within the United Nations […] More

The current cyberattack on the billing and cost colossus Change Healthcare revealed simply how severe the vulnerabilities are all through the U.S. well being care system, and alerted business leaders and policymakers to the pressing want for higher digital safety. Hospitals, well being insurers, doctor clinics and others within the business have more and more […] More

Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday wrote to Senator Chuck Schumer, the bulk chief, demanding that the Senate maintain an impeachment trial subsequent month of Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland safety secretary. The speaker referred to as plans to shortly dismiss the fees towards Mr. Mayorkas “a violation of our constitutional order and an affront to […] More

The morning after President Biden’s fund-raiser with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, his marketing campaign has deliberate a daylong retreat on Friday for 175 of his largest financiers and fund-raisers in New York. The gathering of what the marketing campaign calls Mr. Biden’s nationwide finance committee will function a half-dozen briefings from his […] More

In a case that has prompted outrage from voting-rights activists for years, a Texas appeals courtroom reversed itself on Thursday and acquitted a lady who had been sentenced to 5 years in jail for illegally casting a provisional poll within the 2016 election. The resolution got here two years after the Texas Court of Criminal […] More

The epicenter of the presidential marketing campaign shifted to New York on Thursday, because the incumbent president and three of his predecessors descended on the world for dueling occasions that illustrated the sorts of political clashes that might come to outline the final election. For Democrats, it was a high-profile fund-raiser for President Biden in […] More

The e mail went out to members of Justice Clarence Thomas’s regulation clerk community late final month celebrating his latest addition to an unique membership. The justice’s choice wanted no introduction. “Crystal Clanton’s clerkship for OT ’24 was introduced by Scalia Law immediately!” wrote an assistant to Virginia Thomas, the justice’s spouse, who is called […] More

A Republican operative who stated he had been groped by Matt Schlapp, the pinnacle of one of many nation’s largest conservative advocacy teams, dropped his lawsuit in opposition to Mr. Schlapp after receiving a $480,000 settlement, in response to three folks aware of the deal. The operative, Carlton Huffman, 40, had accused Mr. Schlapp of […] More