Wisconsin Supreme Court changes course, will allow expanded use of ballot drop boxes this fall
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court docket dominated Friday that officers can place poll drop containers round their communities on this fall’s elections, overturning its personal ruling two years in the past limiting their use within the presidential swing state. The courtroom restricted using drop containers in July 2022, ruling then that they might be positioned solely in native election clerks’ workplaces and nobody aside from the voter…
RFK Jr. pledges to ‘open the files’ on 9/11 attacks
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is enjoying to his conspiracy-minded base days after a disastrous response to questions on his previous. The unbiased candidate for president, who has lengthy stoked conspiracy theories about vaccines and different issues, turned Friday to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults — promising he would “open the recordsdata” to handle lingering questions in regards to the plot. Kennedy mentioned in a sequence of posts on X…
Heart surgeon who rose to power in parliament is now Iran’s president-elect
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — After the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, Iranian lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian wrote that it was “unacceptable within the Islamic Republic to arrest a woman for her hijab after which hand over her useless physique to her household.” Days later, as nationwide protests and a bloody crackdown on all dissent took maintain, he warned that these “insulting the supreme chief … will create nothing besides long-lasting…
Biden concedes he ‘screwed up’ at the debate
President Joe Biden admitted he “screwed up” and “made a mistake” ultimately week’s presidential debate, conceding that his efficiency was rocky in a few of his first interviews for the reason that meltdown. “I had a foul evening,” Biden informed Earl Ingram on WAUK, a radio station based mostly in Waukesha, Wisconsin. “I didn’t have a great debate. That’s 90 minutes on stage. Have a look at what I’ve finished…
Governors Undermine Efforts by Congressional Democrats to Nudge Biden Aside
Democratic governors to Democratic members of Congress: Drop lifeless. That could be overstating the message despatched Wednesday evening by a bunch of the nation’s governors, however not by a lot. By descending on Washington to fulfill with President Joe Biden after which rising from the West Wing to oh-so-earnestly pledge their public help to the beleaguered president, the governors difficult the efforts of congressional Democrats to ease him off the…
As challengers emerge, Eric Adams touts support from Al Sharpton
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams eagerly shared a supportive op-ed from Al Sharpton Tuesday — signaling to an rising subject of rivals that prying away his Black help won't be simple. “I actually wish to thank Reverend Sharpton,” Adams stated firstly of his weekly, wide-ranging press convention. “He actually simply laid out. Whenever you learn how this administration is roofed, you’d assume you’re dwelling in a distinct metropolis!” He…
Biden campaign sends all-staff memo seeking to calm fears about his candidacy
Joe Biden’s marketing campaign despatched an all-staff memo on Wednesday morning that features inside polling exhibiting a still-tight race with Donald Trump, the most recent effort by Biden’s advisers to calm workers after the president’s poor debate efficiency. The memo, obtained by POLITICO, highlights inside battleground state monitoring polls from earlier than and after the controversy, exhibiting Biden dropping by half a proportion level throughout that interval. Biden receives 43…
Gavin Newsom travels to Washington to ‘stand with’ Biden amid calls to step down
SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom will journey to Washington on Wednesday to attend a gathering between President Joe Biden and Democratic governors amid the fallout from the president’s disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump. "Governor Newsom will head to White Home tomorrow to attend the Governors assembly and to face with the President,” a spokesperson for the California Democrat mentioned late Tuesday. As White Home aides scramble to…
‘We’ve all enabled the situation’: Dems turn on Biden’s inner sanctum post debate
Over the course of his presidency, Joe Biden’s small clutch of advisers have constructed an more and more protecting circle round him, limiting his publicity to the media and outdoors recommendation — an effort to handle public perceptions of the oldest individual to ever maintain the workplace and tightly management his political operation. However contained in the White Home, Biden’s rising limitations had been changing into obvious lengthy earlier than…
‘WTF’: Panicked Dems start looking for alternatives to Biden
Democrats are so panicked over President Joe Biden’s faltering debate efficiency some are actively discussing what was as soon as unspeakable: changing him on the ticket. Three strategists shut to 3 potential Democratic presidential candidates mentioned they'd been bombarded with textual content messages all through the talk. One adviser mentioned they obtained pleas for his or her candidate to step ahead as a substitute for Biden. One other adviser mentioned…
