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Biden trolls Trump while touting new Microsoft project in 2024 battleground Wisconsin
(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden took shots at former President Donald Trump on Wednesday as he traveled to Wisconsin to tout a new multi-billion dollar Microsoft investment at the same site where a Trump administration project failed.The event in the 2024 election battleground state, billed by the White House as…
Trump praises Kristi Noem amid book controversy: ‘I like her a lot’
(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trump has praised South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, saying he likes her "a lot" and that she's gone through "rough" days amid controversy of her newly released book."She had a rough couple of days. I will say that," Trump said in an interview with Wisconsin's…
Getting illicit pills as easy as ordering food delivery via app, DEA administrator tells Congress
(WASHINGTON) -- Getting illicit pills is as easy as ordering food delivery through an app, the Drug Enforcement Administration warned Congress on Tuesday."We say all the time that the most dangerous place in the world right now is our homes because everyone has a smartphone, and within two or three…
Democrats work to keep protests from disrupting Chicago convention, with concerns over parallels to 1968
(CHICAGO) -- In 1968, violence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with hundreds of protesters arrested in a police crackdown, upended the party's gathering and soured public opinion in the final months before the presidential election.Americans had witnessed it all on their TV screens.Now, more than 50 years later,…
Biden withheld bomb shipment to Israel out of fear it could be used in Rafah: Source
(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration opted to pause a shipment of some 3,500 bombs to Israel last week because of concerns the weapons could be used in Rafah where more than one million civilians are sheltering "with nowhere else to go," a senior administration official told ABC News.Other weapon transfers…
Judge delays Donald Trump’s classified documents trial indefinitely
(WASHINGTON) -- The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case has now indefinitely postponed the trial date pending resolution of outstanding pretrial litigation, including disagreements about how the classified information is used during trial.It comes as Judge Aileen Cannon has continued to delay various deadlines in the case,…
Education Secretary Cardona condemns antisemitism at House hearing
(WASHINGTON) -- Education Secretary Miguel Cardona faced a barrage of questions on antisemitism and college protests during a more than three-hour hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, but repeatedly condemned all forms of hate."Make no mistake, antisemitism is discrimination and is prohibited by Title IV of the Civil Rights Act…
Marjorie Taylor Greene backs off threat to oust Johnson as speaker
(WASHINGTON) -- Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on Tuesday to be backing off her threat to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson this week, though she signaled that she'll preserve her threat indefinitely -- keeping Johnson on a tight leash as he navigates a one-vote majority in…
TikTok sues federal government over potential US ban
(WASHINGTON) -- TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit against the federal government Tuesday over what it called an "unconstitutional" potential ban of the social media platform in the United States.In the lawsuit, TikTok and ByteDance claim the law signed by President Joe Biden last month --…
Biden condemns ‘ferocious surge’ in antisemitism during Holocaust remembrance ceremony
(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden denounced what he called a "ferocious surge" of antisemitism in America and the atrocities committed by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel in a speech at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday.His keynote remarks were part of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ceremony marking…