Jeff Stein, Cat Zakrzewski, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris is signaling support for expansion of the cryptocurrency industry in the United States, attempting to rebuff claims that she would seek a crackdown on the rapidly growing but controversial sector. In a speech in Pittsburgh about the economy on Wednesday, Harris said it […]
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Free covid tests by mail program revived by Biden administration
By Fenit Nirappil, The Washington Post (c) 2024 CORRECTION: The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service. Follow this story and more by signing up for health, science, and environment email alerts. Americans can again order free rapid coronavirus tests by mail, the Biden administration announced Thursday. People can […]
NYC Mayor Eric Adams’s indictment comes after years of connections to Turkey
Mikhail Klimentov, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Long before Eric Adams was charged Thursday over accusations of “corrupt relationships” with Turkish business executives and at least one official, the New York mayor was known for his sometimes eccentric connections to Turkey. “I’m probably the only mayor in the history of this city that has not […]
Trump wants Mike Pence out of Jan. 6 trial. Would the case survive?
By Perry Stein, The Washington Post (c) 2024 The federal election interference indictment against Donald Trump offers example after example of the then-president allegedly trying to pressure his vice president, Mike Pence, to help him overturn the 2020 election results. There was the Dec. 25 phone call when Pence called Trump to wish him a […]
Young voters play ‘potentially decisive’ role in 2024 election
By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post (c) 2024 ATLANTA – On the way to his dorm between classes at Morehouse College, freshman Daylan Moore, 18, was stopped in his tracks by a question: “Baby, have you registered to vote?” A bright-eyed woman, donning the royal blue and gold colors of the sorority Sigma Gamma […]
Arizona official who certifies elections alleges fraud after his defeat
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – Fresh off losing a campaignfor sheriff, Pinal County Supervisor Kevin Cavanaugh (R) voted “under duress” in August to certify the county’s primary election results. This week, he threatened to sue the Arizona county that employs him, claiming – much like President Donald Trump did after […]
Trump’s pledge to deport legal immigrants is toxic in more ways than one
By Philip Bump, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Earlier this month, Pennsylvania state Sen. Camera Bartolotta (R) repeatedly found herself challenging anti-immigrant rhetoric from the leader of her party and his allies. Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, had isolated Charleroi, Pa., in Bartolotta’s district as an example of the sort of place under […]
Biden urges Israel and Lebanon to step back from all-out war
Yasmeen Abutaleb, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, The Washington Post (c) 2024 NEW YORK – President Joe Biden urged Israel and Hezbollah to step away from the precipice of all-out war on Tuesday, warning in a major speech before the United Nations that such a conflict could be catastrophic and arguing that there was still time for the […]
Harris voices support for eliminating filibuster to secure abortion rights
Mariana Alfaro, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support Tuesday for eliminating the Senate filibuster to pass a law restoring the protections of Roe v. Wadeand securing abortion rights nationwide. “I think we should eliminate the filibuster for Roe,” Harris told Wisconsin Public Radio. “To actually put back in law the protections […]
Dark money group agrees to disclose donors
By Marjorie Childress and Trip Jennings A dark money group that ran political advertising in the weeks before the June primary election and has fought divulging the source of its money and the details of its spending for months will disclose both by next week. News of the settlement with The New Mexico Project came Monday […]