As President Joe Biden‘s campaign scrambles to calm nerves about the president’s disastrous debate performance, Democrats on Capitol Hill are growing increasingly furious at those around him and increasingly despondent about his prospects for re-election — and their own chances of winning House and Senate majorities. Conversations about a strategy shift are already underway, with […]
By Steve Holland, Helen Coster and Trevor Hunnicutt ATLANTA (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s allies scrambled to contain the fallout on Friday from his faltering performance at the first 2024 U.S. presidential debate after he struggled to stem a barrage of attacks and false claims from his Republican rival Donald Trump. The Biden campaign had hoped […]
If all goes according to plan, right-wing operative/podcaster Steve Bannon, on the heels of several legal defeats, will report to prison on Saturday. His Capitol Hill allies, however, are still exploring ways to keep him free. Politico reported overnight that House Speaker Mike Johnson and his fellow Republican leaders in the chamber agreed to back […]
Families left stranded when heavy rains carved a deep chasm in a road at Camp du Nord near Ely, Minn., were able to leave Saturday after a St. Louis County crew worked throughout Friday to repair the damaged stretch. “It divided our camp in half,” said Michel Tigan, vice president of adventure and camp operations […]
PARIS (AP) — Voters who don’t expect to be able to cast ballots themselves are scrambling to make their voices heard in France’s high-stakes legislative election by signing up in their hundreds of thousands to hand their voting rights to loved ones and friends. The Interior Ministry said Tuesday that it counted 410,000 such requests […]
Voters who do not expect to be able to cast ballots themselves are scrambling to make their voices heard in France’s high-stakes legislative election by signing up in their hundreds of thousands to hand their voting rights to loved ones and friends. The Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that it counted 410,000 such requests in […]
In a prime example of the political musical chairs sparked by term limits, among those seeking three open County Commission seats is a state representative who is being term-limited out of that office, and who happened to have been a county commissioner decades ago before heading to the Florida House and then the Florida Senate […]
Reality Check is a Star series holding those with power to account and shining a light on their decisions. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at RealityCheck@kcstar.com. Sarah DeGondea said many times she has walked outside of her vacuum store on Santa Fe Street in Olathe to see cars crashing into […]
After sitting in court listening to witness after witness testify to his alleged misdeeds, several weeks ago former President Donald Trump began grousing about his lack of support outside the courtroom. Almost immediately, a steady stream of friends, advisers and Republican elected officials from across the nation started to trickle in. Over the past two […]
May 17—NEW LONDON — What was expected to be a routine City Council vote next week to approve the proposed 2024-25 city and school budgets has gotten more complicated with the loss of $800,000 in expected state education aid. The council is slated on Monday to hold its third and final reading on the $57.13 […]
BALTIMORE — Two electrical blackouts on the Dali freighter sent members of its crew and the pilots on board scrambling to control the vessel as it approached the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. Their efforts — which would prove unsuccessful — are laid out in detail in a […]
May 12—State Rep. Randall Pettigrew jumped on the phone the same day Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced she was calling lawmakers back to Santa Fe for a special session in July. Pettigrew, a Republican who lives in Lovington in far southeastern New Mexico — some 300 miles from the capital city — sought to find […]