DENVER — Colorado’s latest congressional campaign fundraising snapshot — the final one before the June 25 primary — showed new and intriguing dynamics emerging to stir things up in a high-profile presidential election year.

But some things have stayed the same — including in U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s current district, long after ...Read more

CNN's deal to produce the first debate of the 2024 presidential election cycle is a major coup for the news network. It won't let viewers forget it.

The scheduled June 27 showdown between the presumptive nominees, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, is the first time in history that a single TV network has landed exclusive ...Read more

The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebrations.

The perils of unjust laws and racist social customs were ...Read more

The numbers look grim for President Joe Biden and his party. Donald Trump, despite his criminal convictions, still leads the 2024 race by about a percentage point nationally and by significant margins in almost every battleground state. Biden’s approval rating has been underwater since 2021 and hasn’t topped 40% in nine months. Democratic ...Read more

The Supreme Court did the right thing Thursday by unanimously ruling against a challenge to the safety of mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in medication abortions.

Of course, this wasn’t the Court protecting access to abortion, which it gutted by overturning Roe vs. Wade two years ago and taking away the constitutional right to ...Read more

I was in France during the recent European Union elections and witnessed the shock of many as Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally nearly doubled its support from five years ago. National Rally secured 31.5% of the vote, more than twice that of French President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance coalition. Though it was most pronounced in ...Read more

Ethics reform at the Supreme Court is not a partisan issue. Nor is it a cynical attempt to shame or bully the court. It’s true that the justices most in the news for ethical lapses — Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — are staunch conservatives. But liberal justices have had their issues, too.

Pointing this out isn’t “both-sidesing” ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — In the month since Florida imposed a six-week abortion ban, Lana’e Hernandez has helped nearly 200 women figure out how to end later pregnancies, work that sometimes means securing airfare, hotel rooms and money to pay clinics in places as far away as Illinois.

Her clients have included a first-time mother who terminated a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Abortion-rights advocates are in the midst of a campaign to enshrine abortion protections in a state constitutional amendment this fall.

Parental rights advocates also are gearing up in opposition — door-knocking and sharing literature with voters, preparing for TV and radio advertisements and fundraising. They say the proposed ...Read more

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Celebrating his birthday, former President Donald Trump presented a dark vision of America that he said could only be transformed one way — with his return as president.

He said the country was hobbled by rising prices, endangered by criminals from other countries and threatened by terrorists he claimed are roaming ...Read more

The interim CEO of Wichita’s largest abortion clinic resigned Friday, and the clinic’s board hired a national healthcare consultant in hopes of reopening this summer.

Trust Women Wichita has not offered abortions for nearly a month after its board of directors reportedly fired the clinic’s co-executive directors — Schaunta James-Boyd ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Democratic Party has launched two billboards in Baltimore to highlight former President Donald Trump’s new support of Republican Larry Hogan — the latest sign, slightly more than 24 hours after Trump’s statement, that Democrats think the former president is a liability to Hogan’s chances in Maryland’s U.S. ...Read more

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The thousands of Donald Trump supporters who gathered Friday in West Palm Beach for a combination campaign rally and birthday celebration all seemed to support his wish — to win another term as president.

“I love him,” said Judith Seide, 67, of Wellington, who attended with her husband, Fritz Seide. “He did ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A group whose leaders have been aligned with Republican causes has asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate whether Angela Alsobrooks improperly used funds from her state campaign account to assist in her bid for the U.S. Senate.

Virginia-based Americans for Public Trust, in a complaint filed Wednesday, asked the FEC ...Read more

The same Supreme Court that overruled Roe v. Wade two years ago on Thursday followed well-established constitutional principles to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to restrict the availability of mifepristone, a drug used to medically induce abortions. The bottom line is that the decision upholds the Food and Drug Administration’s rules for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and challenger Donald Trump face the same problem in their first debate: How to sway voters in a tight race where most Americans say they’ve already made up their minds.

The candidates are already at work, conferring with close advisers before the first face-to-face showdown of 2024 on June 27 in Atlanta. ...Read more

Over the past few weeks, Marco Rubio has refused to commit to accepting the results of the November 2024 presidential election, signed onto a letter vowing to block President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations and compared Donald Trump’s felony conviction in New York to the show trials carried out in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution.

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