(The Hill) – Elon Musk is tapping into his wealth and the power of his social platform X to help sway the election toward former President Trump, spurring controversy along the way. After years of drifting toward the political right, the billionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX is throwing his fortune behind a pro-Trump super … Read more
NSW Liberals state director Richard Shields has been sacked following a “mind-boggling” failure to nominate 150 candidates for local government elections. In a statement issued after an emergency meeting late on Thursday night, the party’s state president Don Harwin said its executive had unanimously decided to terminate Shields’ employment over the fiasco. “The state director … Read more
Now that he’s no longer running for reelection, President Joe Biden is ratcheting up his rhetoric against the GOP and taking a page from Donald Trump’s playbook. His first order of business was to lean into the jokes about his advanced age and to hand Trump a new nickname: “Donald Dump.” Biden used the new … Read more
President Biden ripped former President Trump as “Donald Dump” while signaling unity with Vice President Harris at the duo’s first appearance together at an official event since she replaced Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket. Harris and Biden walked out together to Bruce Springsteen’s “We Take Care of Our Own” on a community … Read more
While President Joe Biden may be out of a job soon, it’s clear he still knows how to work a room. The commander in chief poked fun at his employment prospects while addressing the White House Creator Economy Conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, where he praised online content creators for helping reinvent how people … Read more
President Biden and Vice President Harris took a victory lap Thursday after unveiling the initial results of Medicare’s new power to negotiate drug prices. In their first joint event since Biden announced he wasn’t seeking reelection, the president and vice president touted what the administration has said will be billions of dollars in savings on 10 … Read more
Give JD Vance credit for at least one thing: He is truly trying to make Donald Trump look good to voters. Too bad the president’s own behavior keeps getting in the way. “I honor every member of every branch of our armed forces, but the one thing that I think the Marines really do well … Read more
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) doubled down on his attacks on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) military background, arguing during a campaign event Thursday that Vice President Harris’s running mate had misrepresented his service. “Tim Walz said that he carried a weapon in war. He never went to war,” Vance said while campaigning with several House … Read more
A key author of a controversial blueprint for a second Donald Trump administration said he maintains close contact with Trump, despite the former president’s disavowals of his work. Russell Vought, who helped write the Project 2025 policy agenda that includes the mass firing of federal workers, said he’s kept close ties to Trump since serving … Read more
CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Chicago’s unhoused population has tripled over the past year, escalating an issue that is nothing new but that has spiked as the city prepares to host next week’s Democratic National Convention. The city has closed two of 11 total tent encampments in the past month as part of an ongoing campaign to find … Read more
