Tag: United States Politics and Government

Ukraine Aid Bill Heads for Collapse in Senate as Biden Makes Final Plea

President Biden’s sweeping emergency spending measure to fund the war in Ukraine teetered on the brink of collapse in Congress on Wednesday as Republicans prepared to block it in the Senate over their demands to attach unrelated measures cracking down on migration into the United States. With a critical late afternoon vote looming, Mr. Biden […]

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White House Delays a Decision on Banning Menthol Cigarettes

The Biden administration delayed a decision on Wednesday about whether it would ban menthol cigarettes amid intense lobbying from tobacco companies, convenience stores and industry-backed groups that contend that billions of dollars in sales and jobs will be lost. The proposal has also generated concerns that Black smokers will become the targets of aggressive police […]

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House Republicans Threaten Hunter Biden With Contempt Charge

House Republicans on Wednesday threatened to hold Hunter Biden, the president’s son, in contempt of Congress if he did not appear for a closed-door deposition they scheduled for next week as they hunt for evidence to try to impeach his father. Hunter Biden has offered to testify publicly but resisted submitting to private questioning, saying […]

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Biden Plans to Call on Congress to Approve Aid to Ukraine

President Biden plans to call on Congress on Wednesday to put aside partisan differences and promptly pass a multibillion-dollar aid package for Ukraine, warning that failure to do so could enable President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to reclaim momentum in the war. Efforts to resupply Ukraine as well as Israel appear at an impasse […]

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McCarthy Says He Will Leave Congress at the End of the Year

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, who made history as the first speaker to be ousted from the post, announced on Wednesday that he would leave the House at the end of the year but said he planned to remain engaged in Republican politics. “I will continue to recruit our country’s best and brightest […]

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The 4th Republican Debate: How to Watch, Time and Stream Details

The fourth debate of the Republican presidential primary is Wednesday, Dec. 6, from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern time — or 7 to 9 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where it will be held at the University of Alabama. The debate is sanctioned by the Republican National Committee and will be hosted by NewsNation and three conservative […]

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‘This Is Grim,’ One Democratic Pollster Says

In addition, Kessler wrote, in the past month, The price of gasoline has fallen 20-cents to a national average of $3.24 a gallon. Headline and core inflation have begun their final descent toward benign, historic levels. Interest rates have fallen about 40 basis points in the past several months. The so-called “misery index” (inflation + […]

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What Our Columnists Would Ask at the Debate

Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate, held in Tuscaloosa, Ala., will feature just four candidates — Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy and Chris Christie — sparring over everything from abortion to Israel to former President Donald Trump. When we asked Times Opinion columnists and contributors what they would ask the candidates if they were moderating […]

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Bowman Is Latest House Democrat to Face a Primary Over Israel Stance

After months of public deliberation and prodding from donors aligned with Israel, George Latimer, the Westchester County executive, said on Wednesday that he would mount a Democratic primary challenge against Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York. The decision set the stage for a potentially explosive contest next year that promises to test not only the […]

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Haley and DeSantis Face Off: What to Watch for in the GOP Debate

The debate stage in Tuscaloosa, Ala., will be down to four Republican presidential hopefuls on Wednesday — with the front-runner, Donald J. Trump, still absent — as the imperative to break from the dwindling pack grows more intense less than six weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Nikki Haley, the […]

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Trump Deflects Questions on Retribution and Law-Breaking at Town Hall

Twice during a town hall on “Fox News” on Tuesday night, Sean Hannity asked former President Donald J. Trump to say categorically that he would not abuse presidential power and retaliate against his political opponents if elected next year. Both times, Mr. Trump declined to give an outright denial. First, Mr. Hannity, the moderator, asked […]

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Biden Says ‘I’m Not Sure I’d Be Running’ if Not for Trump

President Biden suggested on Tuesday that he might have been content to serve only a single term if his predecessor, former President Donald J. Trump, were not attempting to recapture the White House. At a campaign fund-raiser in the Boston area, Mr. Biden presented his decision to run for re-election as driven largely by his […]

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Inside the Secret Meeting That Cleared the Way for Tom Suozzi’s Return

With his successor, George Santos, expelled from Congress, Tom Suozzi appeared to be on the brink of a full-scale comeback campaign on Monday. Then he got a worrisome request: Gov. Kathy Hochul wanted to see him. In Albany. Tonight. Mr. Suozzi knew Ms. Hochul, a bitter rival, had been toying for weeks with trying to […]

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Prosecutors Intend to Show Long Pattern of Threats and Baseless Claims by Trump

When former President Donald J. Trump goes on trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, federal prosecutors intend to tell a sweeping story, informing the jury about everything from his support for the far-right Proud Boys to his decade-long history of making baseless claims about election fraud, according to court papers unsealed […]

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Justices Seem Skeptical of Challenge to Trump-Era Tax Provision

The Supreme Court seemed open on Tuesday to narrowly upholding a tax on foreign income in a case that many experts had warned could rewrite vast portions of the U.S. tax system. A majority of the justices appeared skeptical of striking down the tax. Instead, the justices, including the court’s liberal wing and more moderate […]

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Johnson Plans Vote on Impeachment Inquiry, Predicting Unanimous G.O.P. Support

Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday promised a floor vote to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry against President Biden, hoping to provide legal heft to an investigation that has been underway for months but has so far failed to prove Republicans’ claims that Mr. Biden accepted bribes. Republicans have for months avoided scheduling such a vote, […]

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Is Liz Cheney Really Thinking About Running for President in 2024?

Liz Cheney was widely seen as a Republican superstar in the making, perhaps even a future president, before she was elected to Congress in 2016. Ms. Cheney never discouraged the talk, but Donald J. Trump shattered her glittering future after she voted to impeach him in 2021 and became a pariah in the G.O.P. Now, […]

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Tuberville Says He Will Drop Military Promotion Blockade

Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, announced on Tuesday that he would lift his blockade of nearly all the military promotions he had delayed for months in protest of a Pentagon policy ensuring abortion access for service members. Mr. Tuberville said he had lifted his holds on about 440 military promotions. “Everybody but the 10 […]

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Harvard, M.I.T. and Penn Say They Are Acting Against Antisemitism, in Congressional Testimony

The presidents of three of the country’s top universities — Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and M.I.T. — defended themselves against accusations that they had allowed their campuses to be swept by a tide of antisemitism, in opening testimony before a congressional committee on Tuesday. Claudine Gay of Harvard, Elizabeth Magill of Penn and Sally […]

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Top Democratic Donor Gave $250,000 to a Nikki Haley Super PAC

When Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, urged Democratic donors last week to rally behind Nikki Haley to provide Republican voters an alternative to former President Donald J. Trump, it seemed a far-fetched plea. But at least one of the Democratic Party’s biggest financiers has already done exactly that. Reid Hoffman, the billionaire […]

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Nikki Haley’s Path From Trump Critic to Defender and Back

When Nikki Haley was governor of South Carolina in 2016, she said she was appalled by Donald J. Trump’s threat to ban all Muslims from entering the United States should he become president. Ms. Haley, herself the child of Indian immigrants, called the pledge “absolutely un-American,” and part of a pattern of “unacceptable” comments and […]

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Aid for Ukraine Running Low, and a Spy in the State Dept.

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Sandra Day O’Connor’s Barrier-Breaking Marriage

In the wake of Sandra Day O’Connor’s passing, I saw a photo of her with my father, Ronald Reagan, after he had nominated her to be the first woman on the Supreme Court. They were outside on the grounds of the White House, walking side by side, smiling, obviously in the midst of a conversation. […]

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Republicans Weigh New Debate Rules That Could Lead to More Onstage Clashes

The next Republican debate on Wednesday could be the last one sponsored by the Republican National Committee in the 2024 primary race, with the party considering debate rule changes that would open the door to more onstage clashes but also diminish the fanfare around them. The debate in Tuscaloosa, Ala., comes as Nikki Haley, the […]

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White House Warns Ukraine Aid Is Running Out, Pressing Congress for More

The White House warned congressional leaders on Monday that the United States would run out of money to send weapons to Ukraine by year’s end, severely jeopardizing Kyiv’s ability to defend itself against a Russian invasion if lawmakers fail to approve emergency military aid soon. The urgent warning from President Biden’s top budget official, delivered […]

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Talk About Abortion, Don’t Talk About Trump: Governors Give Biden Advice

America’s Democratic governors brag about booming local economies, preside over ribbon-cuttings of projects paid for with new federal legislation and have successfully framed themselves as defenders of abortion rights and democracy. Almost all of them are far more popular in their home states than the Democratic president they hope to re-elect next year. While President […]

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Doug Burgum, Wealthy North Dakota Governor, Ends White House Run

Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota, the wealthy former software executive who entered the presidential campaign in June hoping a back-to-basics appeal on the economy would propel him forward, dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination on Monday. Though his personal fortune could keep his campaign afloat, Mr. Burgum’s mild demeanor and resolute […]

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White House Warns Congress That Weapons Money for Ukraine Will Run Out

The White House warned on Monday that the United States would run out of money to send weapons to Ukraine by the end of the year if Congress does not approve additional emergency support for the war that has been snarled by funding debates. The warning, delivered in a blunt letter to the House speaker, […]

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Large Farmers Received Millions in Insurance Subsidies, Report Says

The federal government provided millions of dollars in subsidies to large farmers to pay for much of the cost of their crop insurance policies last year, according to a Government Accountability Office report set to be released on Monday. The federal crop insurance program is intended to encourage farmers to protect their crops against natural […]

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Will COP28’s Climate Fund Promises Become a Reality?

When there’s a global crisis, wealthy countries tend to find money. That was the case in the United States when big banks were bailed out to soften a global financial crisis. That was the case for the coronavirus pandemic. And for military aid to allies like Ukraine. But the climate crisis? It’s complicated. This weekend, […]

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Why Haley Is Rising Among the Rivals to Trump

If you dozed off while following the Republican primary, I wouldn’t blame you. But it might be worth perking up for a moment. Over the last few months, Nikki Haley has gained enough in the polls that she might be on the verge of surpassing Ron DeSantis as Donald J. Trump’s principal rival in the […]

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