Politics

Rival GOP presidential campaigns fire off thoughts on Ron DeSantis’ Fox News town hall

Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis’ rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination took aim at the populist presidential candidate after his Tuesday town hall event. DeSantis joined Fox News for a town hall event in the Hawkeye State ahead of the famous Iowa Caucus, where the governor spoke on inflation and government accountability and took […]

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Ready to vote in 2024? Here are the dates for Republican and Democratic primaries and caucuses, presidential election

It’s officially a presidential election year, which means 2024 is full of primaries, caucuses and more ahead of Election Day. Here are some key political dates for this year’s election calendar: Primaries and caucuses  Democratic and Republican nominees are determined through primaries and caucuses that take place over the course of an election year. While

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Timeline: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization

After days of not revealing what prompted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization, the Pentagon disclosed Tuesday that Austin had previously been treated for prostate cancer.  A statement from medical providers at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center released by the Pentagon said Austin underwent a surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer in December, and his

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Security of Georgia’s Dominion voting machines put on trial

File: Oct. 26, 2020, Georgia: Voters are shown where to insert their unique voter card in order to start voting on this Dominion ballot marking device.  Sue Dorfman/ZUMA Wire/CNN A yearslong dispute over the security of Georgia’s elections and its voting machines came to a head Tuesday morning in an Atlanta courtroom.  Opening statements began

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Judges skeptical that Trump is immune from Jan. 6 prosecution

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save A panel of three federal appellate judges expressed skepticism Tuesday about Donald Trump’s claim to sweeping immunity from criminal prosecution and concerns about the implications, with one suggesting that it would allow a future president to have a political rival assassinated by the military without

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin treated for prostate cancer, severe infection: Pentagon

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized on Jan. 1 for complications following surgery nearly two weeks earlier to treat prostate cancer, doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center revealed Tuesday. The disclosure of Austin’s diagnosis and cause of his hospitalization came amid controversy over the Pentagon’s failure for days to inform the White House

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Ecuador TV studio taken over live on air by masked people brandishing guns

Ecuadorean police members take position outside the premises of Ecuador’s TC television channel after unidentified gunmen burst into the state-owned television studio live on air on January 9, 2024, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, a day after Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency following the escape from prison of a dangerous narco boss. Gerardo

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