Tuesday, Nov. 5, is Election Day – but if Americans vote like they did in the last two election cycles, most of them will have already cast a ballot before the big day. Wisconsin kicks off early voting today; the first state to make absentee ballots widely available to voters. By the end of the month, more than half of ...
Among the placards dotting lawns in northern Westchester County, N.Y., in the weeks before the November election are ones that do far more than simply remind passersby about the names of local candidates. Over the past few weeks, scores of white signs have appeared that instead prominently feature a pithy slogan: “Save Girls Sports.” Only below that, in much smaller ...
Monday evening saw dueling television interviews between the two major-party candidates for president. Originally, both interviews were scheduled to take place on the same network, CBS, on its flagship news program “60 Minutes.” But Republican candidate Donald Trump balked at the idea that “60 Minutes” would correct his false claims on the program so he declined to participate. So CBS’s ...
Bob Woodward’s “War,” set to be released next week, is the author and Washington Post associate editor’s fourth book since Donald Trump’s upset victory in 2016. The new book opens the aperture to reveal how a years-long political contest between Trump and President Joe Biden — and now Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee — has ...
Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced a plan for Medicare to cover long-term care services at home, a significant expansion of the program that would be aimed at helping tens of millions of Americans who are caring for aging parents. Harris’s announcement was designed to address the growing number of elderly Americans with serious medical needs who hope to ...
The Supreme Court seemed poised on Tuesday to uphold a major gun regulation imposed by the Biden administration that requires background checks, serial numbers and sales records for the nearly untraceable firearms known as ghost guns. A majority of the justices seemed skeptical of arguments by gun owners, parts makers and Second Amendment groups that the governmentexceeded its authority in ...
Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for an interview on ’60 Minutes’ on Monday, when she dodged or refused to get specific about her plans for the country. With less than a month before the election, CBS correspondent Bill Whitaker repeatedly pressed Harris for details on how to pay for her economic proposals, on whether President Biden’s loose immigration policies ...
Vice President Kamala Harris sat down for an interview on ’60 Minutes’ on Monday, when she dodged or refused to get specific about her plans for the country. With less than a month before the election, CBS correspondent Bill Whitaker repeatedly pressed Harris for details on how to pay for her economic proposals, on whether President Biden’s loose immigration policies ...
As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted teststo Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use. Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, ...
As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted teststo Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use. Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, ...