May 20 WATCH: Biden delivers remarks celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month By Associated Press President Joe Biden delivered remarks celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in the Rose Garden. Continue reading
May 19 Watch 7:06 ‘Stop the Steal’ flag at Supreme Court Justice Alito’s home raises concerns By Laura Barrón-López, Harry Zahn The lie that President Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election, which led to the violent January 6 insurrection, is alive and well. This week, we learned that a “Stop the Steal” flag was flying at the home of Supreme… Continue watching
May 18 Trump urges gun owners to vote in 2024 as he receives NRA endorsement By Adriana Gomez Licon, Jill Colvin, Associated Press Former President Donald Trump urged gun owners to vote in the 2024 election as he addressed thousands of members of the National Rifle Association, which officially endorsed him just before Trump took the stage at their annual meeting in Texas on Saturday. Continue reading
May 17 Trump changes tone on mail-in ballots and other forms of early voting By Nicholas Riccardi, Margery A. Beck, Associated Press Former President Donald Trump tells republican voters that mail-in ballots and other forms of early voting options can be trusted. Continue reading
May 17 Immigrants are vastly underrepresented in elected office. This program is trying to change that By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang New American Leaders has trained more than 1,700 immigrants, refugees, and second-generation Americans to run for office. The goal: embrace their stories and redefine what a political candidate can look like. Continue reading
May 17 Justice Alito’s home flew a U.S. flag upside down after Jan. 6, a report says By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press The upside-down flag is a symbol associated with Trump's lies about election fraud. The New York Times says the flag was outside Alito's Virginia home days after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol Jan. 6, 2021, carrying similarly inverted flags. Continue reading
May 17 Trump to campaign in Minnesota on day off from trial By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press Trump will headline the state GOP’s annual Lincoln Reagan dinner, which coincides with the party’s state convention, after attending his son Barron's high school graduation in Florida. Continue reading
May 17 WATCH: Biden speaks at NAACP event commemorating Brown v. Board anniversary By Seung Min Kim, Colleen Long, Associated Press Biden's speech was part of a stepped-up effort to highlight his administration's commitment to racial equity and to Black voters more generally in the midst of the 2024 election campaign. Continue reading
May 16 Watch 3:49 Biden uses executive privilege block GOP access to special counsel interview audio By Amna Nawaz, Shrai Popat President Biden used executive privilege to deny House Republicans access to audio from his interview with special counsel Robert Hur. The October 2023 interview centered on the president’s handling of classified documents. Republicans requested the audio and planned to hold… Continue watching
May 16 White House blocks audio of Biden’s special counsel interview, arguing GOP has political motives By Alanna Durkin Richer, Colleen Long, Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press “The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal — to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes," White House counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a scathing letter to… Continue reading