Jan 08 Watch 3:44 Where the GOP race stands with 1 week until Iowa caucuses By Amna Nawaz, Matt Loffman, Ian Couzens, Madeline Powell The final countdown to Iowa has begun. With just a week to go before the GOP’s first contest of the 2024 presidential election cycle, Republican candidates are crisscrossing the first-in-the-nation caucus state hoping to court a key voting bloc. Amna… Continue watching
Jan 08 Watch 9:21 Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the final week of the GOP campaign in Iowa By Amna Nawaz, Matt Loffman NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including the final week of the Iowa campaign, if anyone will get close to Trump and Biden's… Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch 5:35 Supreme Court to hear Trump ballot case that could upend 2024 presidential election By Amna Nawaz, Matt Loffman, Ian Couzens There's a major development in a case that could upend the 2024 presidential election. The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Donald Trump can be barred from the ballot. His eligibility has been challenged in dozens of states under the… Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch 7:11 Marking Jan. 6 anniversary, Biden warns political violence poses grave threat to democracy By Laura Barrón-López, Saher Khan, Shrai Popat Speaking Friday near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, a pivotal site in America’s Revolutionary War, President Biden framed the stakes of the 2024 election. Marking the third anniversary of Jan. 6, Biden condemned political violence and Donald Trump. White House Correspondent Laura… Continue watching
Jan 05 Supreme Court to decide if Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential primary ballots By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The justices Friday agreed to take a Colorado case, inserting themselves in the presidential campaign and acknowledging the need to decide quickly. Continue reading
Jan 05 Massachusetts voters become latest to try and keep Trump off the 2024 ballot over Jan. 6 attack By Michael Casey, Associated Press Five voters in Massachusetts have become the latest to challenge Trump's eligibility to appear on Republican primary election ballot in March, claiming he is ineligible to hold office because he encouraged the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Continue reading
Jan 05 Trump’s civil fraud trial nears end as legal filings preview next week’s closing arguments By Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press Launching a final effort to make their case, New York state lawyers and Donald Trump's defense filed court papers Friday highlighting their takeaways from more than 10 weeks of testimony in his civil business fraud trial. Continue reading
Jan 05 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a major mystery is still unsolved By Alanna Durkin Richer, Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Authorities are still working to identify more than 80 people wanted for acts of violence at the Capitol and to find out who placed pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national committees’ offices the day before the Capitol attack. Continue reading
Jan 05 WATCH: Biden lambastes Trump for Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a day ‘we nearly lost America’ By Colleen Long, Zeke Miller, Associated Press Biden warned Friday that Trump's efforts to retake the White House in 2024 pose a grave threat to the country, the day before the third anniversary of the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol by then-President Trump’s supporters aiming to… Continue reading
Jan 04 Proud Boys member who went on the run after conviction in the Jan. 6 riot gets 10 years in prison By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press Christopher Worrell, who was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, had previously went on the run after he was convicted of assaulting police with pepper spray during the riot. Continue reading