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“I think the country would be well served by a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats to step up,” Phillips said in a radio interview.

Republicans stripped out a provision to cap insulin costs at $35 for private insurers, but the Inflation Reduction Act still includes an insulin price cap for seniors on Medicare.

President Joe Biden signed legislation Friday to avoid a potentially catastrophic rail strike after Congress approved the measure this week. Biden had pleaded with congressional lawmakers to act swiftly, warning of significant damage to supply chains that could threaten the U.S. economy just weeks before Christmas. In his remarks before signing the bill, Biden said his economic advisers reported that as many as 765,000 Americans “would have been put out of work for the first time within the firs…

A number of Republicans have distanced themselves from Ye, who recently dined with Trump, after the rapper’s antisemitic interview with a conspiracy theorist.

The pages were discovered by White House lawyer Richard Sauber on Thursday in a box initially uncovered by the president’s personal lawyers on Wednesday.

The Sunshine Protection Act stalled in the House after it passed the Senate last year by unanimous consent.

Marianne Williamson, the self-help author and spiritual adviser, launched her 2024 presidential campaign Saturday in an unlikely space: Union Station, the Washington, D.C., transportation hub where commuters catch Amtrak and metro trains. “It is our job to create a vision of justice and love that is so powerful that it will override the forces of hatred and injustice and fear,” Williamson told a crowd gathered in the station’s East Hall. “I, as of today, am a candidate for the office of Presiden…

It looks like the possibility of a debate between California’s Gavin Newsom and Florida’s Ron DeSantis — two governors on the opposite ends of the political spectrum — may still be a way off. Newsom’s team Saturday slammed DeSantis’ proposed rules for their debate on Fox News. “What a joke,” Newsom spokesman Nathan Click said in a statement in response to the proposal that DeSantis’ team sent Fox News host Sean Hannity on Friday. “Desantis’ counterproposal is littered with crutches to hide his…

Donald Trump renewed his attacks on the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial in New York and the judge’s law clerk, baselessly accusing them both of political bias in a Thanksgiving Day social media post. Trump had repeatedly raged against Judge Arthur Engoron and his clerk, leading the judge to impose a gag order last month on the second day of the $250 million New York civil fraud trial against the former president. The gag order was later expanded, placing similar restrictions on members of…

Speaker Mike Johnson said Saturday that he thinks House Republicans have the votes to launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, insisting that such a move has “become a necessary step.” In an appearance alongside Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., another member of House GOP leadership, on Fox News, Johnson, R-La., said he plans to bring a vote on impeachment. “Elise and I both served on the impeachment defense team of Donald Trump twice, when the Democrats used it for brazen, part…