Illustration: Maura Losch/Axios Some Pennsylvania swing voters who identify as "pro-life" are still firmly against banning the common abortion drug mifepristone — and view it as the latest example of GOP extremism and overreach, according to our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups. Driving the news: The findings suggest Republicans across the country could be punished for […]
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn Corp., speaks during the Bridge Forum in San Francisco, California, on Apr. 16, 2019. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman provided legal funding for writer E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault lawsuit against Donald Trump, attorneys for the former president said Thursday. Driving the news: Trump […]
Former President Donald J. Trump said in an online campaign advertisement on Thursday that if he were re-elected he would “completely overhaul” the F.B.I. and the Justice Department and launch “sweeping civil rights investigations” into local district attorneys’ offices. Mr. Trump’s three-minute ad promising to crack down on local prosecutors in Democratic cities — whom […]
Jeremy Hunt defends pensions tax break Labour’s claim that the average worker would have to work for 400 years to benefit from a Tory pensions tax cut has been ridiculed by leading experts. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt used his spring Budget to abolish the tax-free lifetime allowance, which had stood at £1.07 million. But new analysis […]
Representative Mike McCaul visited Taiwan last week, becoming the latest in a string of U.S. lawmakers to visit the island. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images China on Thursday sanctioned Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee, for visiting Taiwan. The big picture: McCaul met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei […]
Tory MP says he ‘will not have any second jobs’ MPs are permitted to have a second job alongside serving their constituents as long as they are not a Government minister or have conflicting interests. MPs are required to declare any earnings they make outside of Parliament. Over the last three years, more than £17million […]
Protests in Nashville on Monday. Photo: Seth Herald/Getty Images Former President Trump will travel this week to Nashville, the epicenter of a growing youth-led backlash over the Tennessee House's expulsion of two Black Democratic state lawmakers for joining protests against gun violence. The big picture: Trump's appearance at the Republican National Committee's donor retreat Friday […]
State Rep. Justin Pearson. Photo: Seth Herald/Getty Images The Shelby County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to send state Rep. Justin Pearson back to Nashville. Driving the news: Republicans expelled Pearson (D-Memphis) and state Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) from the Tennessee House last week for violating decorum rules by leading protest chants for gun […]
President Biden returns to the White House from Walter Reed hospital on the South Lawn on Jan. 11, 2023. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The White House said Thursday that a second set of classified documents from when President Biden was vice president had been discovered at his Wilmington, Del. home. The big picture: […]
The ruling by a federal judge in Texas last week revoking the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone could be the most consequential abortion decision since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. But a lot remains uncertain. Here is what is at stake and what could happen next. […]