SACRAMENTO, California — State leaders are grappling with how to restructure funding for roads as California transitions to an electric vehicle future — and they’re running out of time to find solutions. State officials, lawmakers, industry representatives and labor leaders joined POLITICO California policy editor Debra Kahn at a live event Tuesday to discuss how […]
Former President Donald Trump thought the coronavirus would “disappear like magic” and berated him for saying it wouldn’t. Former President George H.W. Bush offered him the job as head of the National Institutes of Health, and he turned it down. And former President Barack Obama stopped him from writing a New York Times op-ed about […]
BEIRUT (AP) — To a degree never seen before, Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza is killing entire Palestinian families. Entire bloodlines, sometimes four generations from the same family, have perished in single airstrikes or a series of airstrikes on members of the same family sheltering together from the bombs. Often there is no […]
OXFORD, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have their sights on a handful of battleground states in the White House race, and North Carolina is one of them. Rural voters in particular will play an important role for both campaigns, but the candidates will have to overcome voter indifference, fatigue and even […]
A couple closer-than-expected races highlighted Tuesday’s elections in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina, which put Donald Trump’s endorsement power to the test as he heads toward a rematch with President Biden. But it was an under-the-radar special election in Ohio that turned out to be the biggest shocker of the night. Elsewhere, Trump-endorsed […]
Lots of tech companies want to make artificial intelligence part of your everyday life. Google and Microsoft are putting AI-generated answers into search results, sometimes with hilarious results. Meta has added an AI chatbot to Instagram and its other apps, annoying some users. Now, it’s Apple’s turn to show why it might be the first […]
Jury deliberations in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial began Monday in Wilmington, Del., following closing arguments after the defense rested without calling the president’s 54-year-old son to testify. Hunter Biden is facing three felony charges over whether he lied about his addiction to crack while applying to purchase the firearm six years ago. He has […]
WILMINGTON, Del. — Hunter Biden’s eldest daughter, Naomi, took the stand in her father’s defense on Friday, telling the court how her father appeared to have taken control of his drug use in the months before prosecutors say he lied on a government background check form. “He seemed like the clearest that I had seen […]
Federal prosecutors rested their case against Hunter Biden on Friday morning after days of testimony that revealed deeply personal and grim details about his struggles with drug addiction. Hunter Biden, the only surviving son of Joe Biden, faces three felony charges tied to a 2018 firearm purchase while using narcotics. He is accused of making […]
Hunter Biden’s trial will enter its fifth day in Wilmington, Del., Friday. The president’s son is on trial for three alleged offenses pertaining to his purchase of a gun in October 2018. The central question is whether he lied by denying he was an addict when he filled out a form in the process of […]
Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial resumed Thursday in Wilmington, Del., where Hallie Biden, the widow of his late brother Beau, testified for the prosecution about finding and disposing of the firearm at the center of the felony case. President Biden’s 54-year-old son is facing three felony charges over whether he lied about his addiction to […]
Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial resumed Thursday in Wilmington, Del., where Hallie Biden, the widow of his late brother Beau, testified for the prosecution about finding and disposing of the firearm at the center of the felony case. President Biden’s 54-year-old son is facing three felony charges over whether he lied about his addiction to […]