Mariana Alfaro
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President Biden is ready for reelection run, first lady says
Jill Biden, on a trip to Africa, gave the clearest indication yet on the president's plans for 2024. → Read More
Milwaukee to host first Republican presidential primary debate in August
The Republican National Committee’s Standing Committee on Presidential Debates voted to host the first debate in the same city that is scheduled to host the 2024 Republican National Convention. → Read More
Biden to travel to Poland ahead of first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
President Biden will travel to Poland from Feb. 20 to Feb. 22, the White House announced Friday, ahead of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. → Read More
Trump declines to say if he’ll support eventual 2024 GOP presidential nominee
Former President Donald Trump is refusing to say whether he’ll commit to backing the 2024 GOP presidential candidate if it’s not him, injecting uncertainty into Republican hopes of reclaiming the White House next year. → Read More
Brittney Griner, imprisoned in Russia, meets with U.S. Embassy officials
“We are told she's doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One after the State Department confirmed the meeting. Griner has been sentenced to 9½ years in prison for bringing less than a gram of cannabis oil into the country in February. → Read More
Día de los Muertos is not Mexican Halloween
In Mexico, on Nov. 1 we celebrate children who died at a young age. On Nov. 2, we celebrate all of our dead. It's holiday that deserves to be respected. → Read More
Trump vows pardons, government apology to Capitol rioters if elected
The comments came on the same day President Biden was delivering a prime-time address warning of the threat to democracy from “MAGA Republicans” and election deniers. → Read More
Two plead guilty to theft of diary purportedly belonging to Biden’s daughter
Two Florida residents pleaded guilty in a case connected to a stolen diary that reportedly belonged to Ashley Biden, the president’s daughter, and that ended up in the hands of conservative group Project Veritas, which published portions of it in the weeks before the end of the 2020 presidential campaign. → Read More
Cheney calls Trump a ‘coward’ in campaign ad for his daughter
“A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down I think most Republicans know it,” former vice president Dick Cheney says of Donald Trump in an ad for his eldest daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). → Read More
Sen. Hawley accused of transphobic questioning at abortion hearing
The Missouri Republican refused to acknowledge that some transgender men can get pregnant. → Read More
Biden decries case of 10-year-old rape victim forced to travel across state line for abortion
The victim went to Indiana for the procedure when an Ohio ban outlawing abortion after six weeks took effect after the Supreme Court erased Roe v. Wade. → Read More
What conservative justices said about Roe at their confirmation hearings
The vote by the conservative justices in overturning Roe v. Wade forced a fresh look at what they told senators and the nation at their confirmation hearings about the landmark 1973 decision guaranteeing a right to abortion. Neil M. Gorsuch, during his 2017 confirmation hearings, said Roe was a “a precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was reaffirmed in Casey in 1992 and in several other… → Read More
Henry Cuellar defeats Jessica Cisneros in contentious Texas primary race
The incumbent lawmaker fends off the immigration lawyer in the third head-to-head matchup between the two for the Democratic nomination in Texas's 28th Congressional District. → Read More
Biden hopes to make decision on gas tax holiday this week
President Biden said he expects to make a decision on the gas tax holiday as soon as this week. → Read More
Lee worked hard to overturn election, keep Trump in power, texts show
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who served as a Supreme Court clerk, worked long hours to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election and keep Donald Trump in power, according to text messages to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. → Read More
Pelosi backs Rep. Henry Cuellar’s reelection bid in Texas despite FBI investigation
The House speaker said during a visit to Austin that she will support "every one" of her incumbents. → Read More
Republican Sen. Mike Braun says Supreme Court should leave decisions on interracial marriage, abortion to the states
Republican Sen. Mike Braun told reporters that the Supreme Court should leave decisions on interracial marriage, abortion and contraception to the states. → Read More
Former Democratic congresswoman Kendra Horn enters Oklahoma Senate race to succeed GOP’s Inhofe
Horn served one term in the House, between 2019 and 2021, after upsetting Republican Rep. Steve Russell in 2018. → Read More
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, says she attended Jan. 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally before Capitol attack
Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, said she left the rally before former president Donald Trump took the stage. → Read More
N.C. GOP Senate candidate launches ad accusing primary rival of supporting Putin
“As Ukrainians bled and died, Congressman Budd excused their killer,” former North Carolina governor McCrory says in a new video ad. → Read More