Politics

FILE - President Joe Biden addresses the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sunday, July 14, 2024, about the assassination attempt of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday on his decision to drop his 2024 Democratic reelection bid.

Biden will address the nation Wednesday on his decision to drop his 2024 Democratic reelection bid

July 23, 2024, 12:00pm Latest News

President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening on his decision to drop his 2024 Democratic reelection bid. Read story

Who’s No. 2? Four leading Democrats emerge as a possible running mate for Kamala Harris

July 23, 2024, 11:56am Politics

No one knows the importance of selecting the right running mate better than Vice President Kamala Harris. With Harris now the leading candidate to succeed President Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, a look at the top contenders to be on the ticket. Read story

FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. annual convention during the 71st biennial Boule at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. The #WinWithBlackWomen network says more than 40,000 Black women joined a Zoom call to support Harris on Sunday, July 21, hours after Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris, and that the meeting was streamed to another 50,000 via other platforms.

‘We were built for this moment’: Black women rally around Kamala Harris

July 23, 2024, 11:41am Nation & World

Four years ago, a Zoom meeting to build support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic vice presidential nominee attracted just 90 participants. On Sunday night, an estimated 90,000 Black women and allies logged on at the same time to support her brand-new presidential campaign. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden, center, makes opening remarks during the NATO summit in Washington, July 10, 2024. It’s been two weeks since Biden’s debate with Donald Trump and there’s rampant gloom in the party about Biden’s chances in the fall if he stays in the race. On Thursday, July 11, the 11th lawmaker joined the list of Democrats calling on Biden to end his candidacy. After days of reckoning, many more are known to be harboring that wish.

Biden aims for more achievements despite the bane of lame-duck presidents: diminished relevance

July 23, 2024, 9:48am Nation & World

President Joe Biden says he’s “determined to get as much done” as he possibly can in his final six months in the White House as he tries to beat back a defining force that his lame-duck predecessors struggled to vanquish: diminished relevance. Read story

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a cabinet meeting at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Dec. 24, 2023. Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week is looming as a particularly fraught one between two allies. The Israeli leader is coming to address Congress Wednesday, July 24, 2024, at a moment of extreme political flux in the United States.

Netanyahu is in Washington at a fraught time for Israel and the US. What to know about his visit

July 23, 2024, 9:45am Nation & World

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week is looming as a fraught one between the two allies, coming at a moment of extreme political flux in the United States and wariness among American leaders about Netanyahu’s history of interjecting himself into U.S. domestic politics. Read story

Jon Stewart pushes VA to help veterans sickened after post-9/11 exposure to uranium

FILE - Entertainer and activist Jon Stewart speaks at the Capitol in Washington, May 26, 2021. Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that has left out some of the very first troops who responded after the Sept. 11 attacks. They got sick from staying at at Karshi-Khanabad, Uzbekistan, or K2, a base contaminated with enriched uranium. (AP Photo/J.

July 23, 2024, 9:39am Health

Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that left out some of the first U.S. troops who responded after the Sept. 11 attacks and got sick after deploying to a base contaminated with dangerous levels of uranium. Read story

Nearly all Washington Democrats in Congress endorse Kamala Harris for president

July 23, 2024, 8:48am Election

In the hours after President Joe Biden on Sunday announced he would end his re-election bid, elected Democrats swiftly coalesced around his vice president. By Monday afternoon, nearly all Washington Democrats holding federal or statewide office had endorsed Kamala Harris as their party’s nominee for president. Read story