Tan, Rested, Not Ready: Bronzed Biden Struggles Through Brief Interview with Former Dem Operative Stephanopoulos

A noticeably orange President Joe Biden on Friday struggled through a brief interview with ABC News moderator and former Democratic Party operative George Stephanopoulos, with the octogenarian blaming his disastrous debate performance on exhaustion that stemmed from “a really bad cold.” But the president refused to concede any deterioration of his condition, telling Stephanopoulos that

Trump Lawyers Ask Judge to Stay Documents Case After Supreme Court Immunity Decision

His attorneys cited Monday’s landmark Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity. Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys on Friday asked a Florida judge to partially stay his classified documents case, citing the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the former president is immune from certain charges related to official acts. In a filing with U.S. District

California to Require High School Students to Take Personal Finance Class Before Graduating

By the 2030–2031 academic year, California public high school students will be required to take and pass a financial literacy class in order to graduate. California is now the 26th U.S. State to add financial literacy instruction as a high school graduation requirement. Assembly Bill 2927, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on June

Trump Says He Has ‘Nothing to Do With’ Project 2025

‘I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it,’ the former president wrote Friday. Former President Donald Trump on Friday distanced himself from the Heritage Foundation think tank’s Project 2025 after the leader of the think tank made comments about a “second American Revolution.” In a Truth Social post, the

US Subpoenas World Aquatics Executive Director to Testify in Chinese Swimmers’ Doping Probe

The probe comes just weeks before the Olympics in Paris later this month. The United States has opened a probe into a case involving 23 Chinese swimmers who were allowed to compete in the 2021 Olympics, despite testing positive for doping. World Aquatics said on July 4 that its executive director, Brent Nowicki, has been

Court Lifts Ban on Key Part of Biden’s Student Loan Repayment Plan

The court lifted an injunction blocking President Biden’s administration from launching the SAVE plan, allowing it to proceed despite ongoing legal challenges. President Joe Biden’s administration has been given the green light to move forward with a key part of a new program for some people with student loans, as legal challenges to the plan

Show Me the Dark Money

“Dark money” is an accusation progressive journalists and pundits have lodged for years to elicit fears of old white men—conservative and perhaps connected to the fossil fuel industry—paying millions of dollars to impose their reactionary politics on an unsuspecting American public it continuously blocks from being on “the right side of history.” The Koch Brothers