Thursday, September 19, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ House Republicans rejected their own funding bill after Trump demanded that the government be shut down if legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote isn’t passed. Noncitizen voting, however, is already illegal in federal elections, and voter …

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ The Springfield City School District has received 36 shooting and bomb threats since Trump and JD Vance falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating pets, forcing local schools to move classes online and cancel on-campus events. Despite no verifiable evid…

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Senate Republicans blocked legislation to federally protect access to in vitro fertilization. The package, called the Right to IVF Act, would establish a nationwide right “to receive fertility treatment from a health care provider, in accordance with widely accept…

Monday, September 16, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ A man waited with a rifle for 12 hours at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida before a Secret Service agent spotted him and opened fire. Trump, who was golfing at the club at the time, was unharmed. The FBI said it “appear[ed] to be an attempted assassi…

Thursday, September 12, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ A North Dakota judge struck down the state’s abortion ban, saying the state constitution creates a “fundamental right” to access abortion before a fetus is viable and restrictions on that right is “a violation on medical freedom.” Judge Bruce Romanick ruled that …

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump had a bad night after Kamala Harris called him “weak,” mocked him, and repeatedly laughed at him during their first – and possibly only – debate. Even before the debate began, Harris walked across the stage to shake Trump’s hand – a self-described germapho…

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t have the votes to pass a spending bill to avert a government shutdown. Although the House voted 209-206 to approve a rule to debate the funding plan, which includes the SAVE Act, which would bar noncitizens from registering to vo…

Monday, September 9, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump’s sentencing for his criminal conviction related to orchestrating an illegal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election will be delayed until after Election Day. The sentencing, which was set for Sept. 18, will instead take place on Nov. 26, Judge Juan Merchan …

Thursday, September 5, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump’s federal criminal election interference case resumed after a nearly yearlong delay. The case had been on hold since late last year, when Trump appealed U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision that he’s not entitled to “presidential immunity” from crimi…

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ A 14-year-old killed two students, two teachers, and left at least nine more hospitalized after a mass shooting at a Georgia high school. Colt Gray will be charged with murder and tried as an adult. The high school reportedly received a phone call warning that th…

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump claimed that he had “every right” to interfere with the 2020 presidential election. In a Fox News interview, Trump said: “It’s so crazy that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have ever…

Thursday, August 29, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ The Army defended the Arlington National Cemetery official involved in an incident with the Trump campaign, saying the employee was “abruptly pushed aside” and “unfairly attacked” after she sought to “ensure adherence” to cemetery rules that bar recording for politi…

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump’s economic proposals would increase the national debt by $5.8 trillion over 10 years – almost five times more than Kamala Harris’ policy plans, which would add $1.2 trillion. According to nonpartisan estimates, Trump’s plan to permanently extend the 2017 tax …

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Special counsel Jack Smith charged Trump in a superseding indictment in the case involving an alleged conspiracy to obstruct the results of the 2020 election. The superseding indictment retains the four charges against Trump from Smith’s original indictment, includin…

Monday, August 26, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal appeals court to reverse the dismissal of the criminal classified documents case against Trump. Last month, Judge Aileen Cannon granted Trump’s request to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that Smith’s appointment as spec…

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, saying: “America, I gave my best to you.” In what is perhaps his last major political speech, he then ad-libbed: “I made a lot of mistakes in my career,…

Thursday, August 15, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump asked the judge overseeing his election interference trial involving falsified business records to postpone his sentencing until after the presidential election in November, arguing that the Sept. 18 sentencing date advances what he claims is “naked election-i…

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ The FBI is investigating the suspected hacking attempts by Iran that targeted both the Trump and the Biden-Harris campaigns. The investigation includes attempted hacks targeting three Biden-Harris campaign staffers, as well as Roger Stone, who said he’d been contacte…

Monday, August 12, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Trump’s presidential campaign was hacked. The scope of the information obtained is unclear. On July 22, Politico started receiving emails from an anonymous sender, who called himself Robert and used an AOL email account, offering internal communications from a senior …

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz introduced himself as Kamala Harris’ running mate during a joint rally in Philadelphia, thanking Harris for “the trust you put in me” and for “bringing back the joy.” He added: “We’ve got 91 days. We’ll sleep when we’re dead.” Walz then took …

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Kamala Harris officially secured the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination, making her the first woman of color in U.S. history to lead a major party ticket. Harris received 4,567 votes from delegates in a virtual roll call – or about 99% of votes from the participa…

Monday, August 5, 2024 Subscribe: Get the Daily Update in your inbox for free 1/ Global stock markets fell sharply as worries about the U.S. economy sparked a world-wide sell-off. Japan’s Nikkei plunged 12.4% for its worst day since the Black Monday crash of 1987, while the S&P 500 dropped 3% – its worst day in nearly two years – the Dow fell 2.6%,…