Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) said Friday that he will not enter the 2024 presidential race, quashing speculation that he might launch a third-party independent campaign. “I will not be seeking a third-party run. I will not be involved in a presidential run,” the Democratic senator said during a speech at West Virginia University. Some
President Joe Biden has long publicly defended his controversial withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, but, according to a new book, his remarks were not just out of political convenience—Biden genuinely believes his administration did not make any mistakes during the withdrawal. “No one offered to resign [after the Afghanistan exit], in large part because the
Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis (D.) took to the witness stand Thursday to give fiery testimony pushing back against accusations that she benefited financially from her relationship with prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she appointed to lead the case against former president Donald Trump. Throughout her testimony, Willis sprinkled in nuggets of her best life
Russia’s most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny collapsed and died on Friday after a walk at the “Polar Wolf” Arctic penal colony where he was serving a long jail term, the Russian prison service said. Navalny, a 47-year-old former lawyer, rose to prominence more than a decade ago with blogs on what he said was vast corruption
Harvard University was hit with a congressional subpoena on Friday for obstructing a House probe into rampant anti-Semitism on its campus. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), who is helming the investigation as chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, announced that she had served the Ivy League school with several subpoenas after
Column: The pro-Israel, pro-Ukraine majority deserves to be heard Mike Johnson (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) On February 13, the Senate passed a $95 billion aid package for weapons to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. The vote was 70 to 29. Action now moves to the House—which is out of session. And where the bill looks dead on
On January 24, Stanford University held a forum on combating anti-Semitism. The event, which featured Stanford president Richard Saller and provost Jenny Martinez, was meant to reassure Jewish students that the university had their back amid the wave of anti-Semitism sweeping college campuses. “We really do want to make sure that all of the communities