The Republican National Committee’s 2024 platform, approved by its platform committee and released Monday, is influenced heavily by presumptive presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump, and in a change from prior years, it backs the rights of states to make their own abortion laws. The 2016 RNC platform mentioned the word “abortion” 35 times
Pentagon says decision prompted by ‘false accusations’ by the Georgian government against the United States and ’other western entities.’ The U.S. military has halted a set of training exercises with Georgia, while the Pentagon reviews its bilateral security partnership with the Eurasian country. The U.S. Army was set to train with its Georgian counterparts from
The appeals court found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce a policy requiring districts that ensure minority representation. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other groups in Arkansas will not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that states private groups can’t sue under a key section of
The House Committee on Rules meets at 4 p.m. ET on July 8 on the following measures: H.R. 8772 – Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2025. H.R. 8281 – Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. H.J. Res. 165 – Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by
President Joe Biden told the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe in a Monday phone interview that he will remain in the presidential race, even as members of his own party are calling for him to drop out following his disastrous debate with former president Donald Trump. Biden’s Morning Joe call isn’t likely to allay Democrats’
Washington — A slow leak of Democratic lawmakers has begun to call for President Biden to withdraw from the race in the wake of his debate performance last month. Capitol Hill will be the focus of attention this week, as Democratic lawmakers face competing arguments about whether Mr. Biden should be the party’s nominee. So
Columbia University will not fire the four deans who exchanged caustic and derogatory text messages during an alumni panel on anti-Semitism, opting instead to reassign three of them while letting the most senior administrator, Columbia College dean Josef Sorett, remain in his post, according to three people familiar with the university’s decision and an announcement