ASHEVILLE, N.C.—President Joe Biden was set to survey the devastation in the mountains of Western North Carolina on Wednesday, where exhausted emergency workers continued to work around-the-clock to clear roads, restore power, and cellphone service, and reach people left stranded by Hurricane Helene. The storm killed at least 133 people and hundreds more were still
The endorsement is the latest development in Harris’s career-long evolving positions on marijuana policy. For the first time since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated her support for legalizing marijuana at the federal level, going further on the issue than President Joe Biden. During a nearly hourlong interview on the sports
A similar pattern emerged in my recent report on crime in Washington, D.C. There, too, there are signs that disorder has risen, relative to both the pandemic and pre-pandemic, as the police have attended to it less. Unsheltered homelessness, unsanitary conditions, shoplifting, farebeating—all seem to have become more common in D.C. And those problems have come as
Both candidates are expected to appeal to undecided voters during Tuesday’s debate in the final stretch of their 2024 campaigns. Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) are set to face off for their vice presidential debate on Oct. 1 in New York City, which will mark the final televised debate of
The Democratic nominee is facing an uphill battle among black male voters, which could impact her campaign’s fate in November. Sherman Younger, a registered voter from the small town of Chatham in Virginia, voted for Joe Biden in 2020. This year, however, he is on the fence about supporting Vice President Kamala Harris. Younger is
The president says he will travel to Georgia and Florida ‘as soon as possible.’ President Joe Biden announced that he will visit North Carolina on Oct. 3, making his first trip to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Helene. “I’m going to North Carolina on Wednesday,” he said in front of members of the press
Former President Donald Trump posted a traditional prayer to St. Michael the Archangel on Sept. 29, provoking a wide range of reactions. Sept. 29 is when Catholics worldwide celebrate the Feast of St. Michael, originally called Michaelmas. The post on X followed Trump’s Sept. 8 post celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary. Catholic priest