The road to a crisis: How Democrats let Biden glide to renomination
In the aftermath of Thursday’s presidential debate, as Jill Biden led President Joe Biden off the stage, former Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., raised what she called a “hard and heartbreaking” question.
There’s no reason to resign ourselves to Biden
Though Joe Biden’s debate performance last week was among the most painful things I’ve ever witnessed, it at least seemed to offer clarity. Suddenly, even many people who love this president realized that his campaign has become untenable.
Supreme Court says Trump is partly shielded from prosecution
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump is entitled to substantial immunity from prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the last election, a blockbuster decision in the heat of the 2024 campaign that vastly expanded presidential power.
Russia maintains punishing pace of deadly strikes on Ukrainian cities
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian missile attack on a small town in southeastern Ukraine and the fiery inferno that followed killed at least seven civilians, including three children, the country’s authorities said as they surveyed on Sunday the deadly toll of two days of fierce Russian assaults.
Scientists in Japan give robots a fleshy face and a smile
Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile.
At least 18 people killed in multiple suicide bombings in Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — At least 18 people were killed and dozens of others were injured in a series of suicide bombings, all carried out by women, Saturday afternoon in northeastern Nigeria. They included one explosion that went off at the wedding of a young couple and another at a funeral, according to local officials.
Biden’s debate cleanup tour starts at an LGBTQ+ fundraiser in NYC
NEW YORK — Hundreds of LGBTQ+ donors and activists gathered in midtown Manhattan for a fundraiser supporting President Joe Biden on Friday, but the president’s debate performance cast an anxious shadow over what normally would have been an energizing political event. As they mingled in a lavender-lit event space at the Manhattan Center, many donors huddled in small groups and fretted over what they had all witnessed on television the night before. The debate was “definitely the main topic of conversation,” said one attendee, who declined to be named because he works in Democratic politics.
Long Island man charged in crash that killed 4 people at nail salon
A Long Island man was charged with driving while intoxicated after driving an SUV through a nail salon Friday afternoon, leaving four people dead and 10 injured, according to the Suffolk County police.
Too much winning? Even Trump’s fans are uneasy after Biden’s weak debate.
CHESAPEAKE, Va. —The day after President Joe Biden melted down in Thursday’s prime-time debate, Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia stood beside former President Donald Trump on a farm in Chesapeake, gushing.
Beryl, now a hurricane, to bring ‘life-threatening winds,’ officials warn
Tropical Storm Beryl officially became Hurricane Beryl on Saturday afternoon, an unusual early-season storm that strengthened since its formation late Friday and that forecasters warned could rapidly intensify.
Astronauts not stuck on space station, NASA and Boeing officials say
Two NASA astronauts who traveled at the start of June to the International Space Station were originally scheduled to return home a couple of weeks ago, completing a test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.
How does bird flu spread in cows? Experiment yields some ‘good news.’
Ever since scientists discovered influenza infecting American cows earlier this year, they have been puzzling over how it spreads from one animal to another. An experiment carried out in Kansas and Germany has shed some light on the mystery.
Prosecutors in Menendez bribery trial rest their case
NEW YORK — After seven weeks of trial, federal prosecutors rested their case Friday against Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who is accused of conspiring to take hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold, cash and other bribes in return for his willingness to dispense political favors at home and abroad.
Joe Biden is a good man and a good president. He must bow out of the race.
I watched the Biden-Trump debate alone in a Lisbon, Portugal, hotel room, and it made me weep. I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime, precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no business running for reelection. And Donald Trump, a malicious man and a petty president, has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. He is the same fire hose of lies he always was, obsessed with his grievances — nowhere close to what it will take for America to lead in the 21st century.
To serve his country, President Biden should leave the race
President Joe Biden has repeatedly and rightfully described the stakes in this November’s presidential election as nothing less than the future of American democracy.
Fearful and doubting Biden, Democrats face an uncertain path forward
The Democratic Party faced a brewing crisis Friday as a wide range of lawmakers, party officials and activists began to actively consider what had previously been a pipe dream for pundits and worried voters: the prospect of replacing President Joe Biden on the ticket roughly four months before Election Day.
Supreme Court upholds ban on sleeping outdoors in homelessness case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld an Oregon city’s ban on homeless residents sleeping outdoors, a decision likely to reverberate far beyond the West Coast as cities across the country grapple with a growing homelessness crisis.
Supreme Court jeopardizes opioid deal, rejecting protections for Sacklers
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday that members of the Sackler family cannot be shielded from liability for civil claims related to the opioid epidemic, jeopardizing a bankruptcy plan that would have offered such protection in exchange for channeling billions of dollars toward addressing the crisis.
Supreme Court blocks Biden plan on air pollution
WASHINGTON (NYT) — The Supreme Court temporarily put on hold Thursday an Environmental Protection Agency plan to curtail air pollution that drifts across state lines, dealing another blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to protect the environment.
Supreme Court allows, for now, emergency abortions in Idaho
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday that it would dismiss a case about emergency abortions in Idaho, temporarily clearing the way for women in the state to receive an abortion when their health is at risk.
