A bill intended to boost privacy and safety for children online that had broad bipartisan support in the Senate is stalling in the House amid resistance from leadership, putting a spotlight on Republican divisions on tech policy. Supporters of the legislation are outwardly optimistic about advancing it before the end of the year, hoping momentum … Read more
After spending months trying to get voters to think about anything other than how old their party’s presidential candidate was, Democrats are now putting age front and center as they work to sell Vice President Kamala Harris to the public, arguing the former prosecutor is just the right age to become commander in chief. “She’s … Read more
Businessman Eric Hovde has won the Republican nomination for Senate in Wisconsin, setting up a matchup with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Decision Desk HQ projects. Hovde defeated two minor candidates, farmer Charles Barman and chair of College Republicans at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Rejani Raveendran, to win the primary. He will now face Baldwin … Read more
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s attorney general has dropped a lawsuit that accused the state’s largest hospital system of violating patient privacy laws when a doctor told a newspaper that a 10-year-old Ohio girl had traveled to Indiana for an abortion. A federal judge last week approved Attorney General Todd Rokita’s request to dismiss his lawsuit, … Read more
Business owner Rebecca Cooke won the Wisconsin Democratic primary for first-term Rep. Derrick Van Orden’s (R-Wis.) seat in the House, Decision Desk HQ has projected. Cooke, with support from moderate voices such as Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and the Blue Dog PAC, beat out Wisconsin state Rep. Katrina Shankland (D) in the 3rd Congressional District. Shankland was backed … Read more
New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan denied for the third time a request by Donald Trump to recuse himself from overseeing the criminal hush money case against the former president. On May 30, Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying New York state business records for the purpose of concealing a hush … Read more
NEW YORK (NewsNation) — Ahead of next month’s presidential debate on ABC News, Vice President Kamala Harris’ long-standing friendship with a top Disney executive is under scrutiny. Dana Walden, a senior Disney executive whose portfolio includes ABC News, is one of Harris’ “extraordinary friends,” the New York Times reported. ABC, which is owned by Disney, defends its … Read more
Some Canadian farmers say changes to a federal incentive billed as a method to lower the impact from the capital gains inclusion rate increase “doesn’t go far enough” and are calling on Ottawa to return the inclusion rate for farmers to what it was before this year’s change. On Monday, the Department of Finance provided … Read more
Donald Trump has clearly struggled to adapt to the new presidential race against Vice President Kamala Harris, and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman says there are “two things” that are rattling the former president. “Number one, she’s closed the polling gap with him in a pretty short amount of time, and he had gotten … Read more
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) experienced a “mild” stroke Sunday night and, after treatment, is not experiencing lingering symptoms, the congressman’s office announced Tuesday. A spokesperson for Hoyer — the 85-year-old former House majority leader — said the Maryland Democrat expects to resume his normal schedule next week. “On Sunday night, August 11, Rep. Steny Hoyer experienced … Read more
