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Top News Stories for Saturday, July 27th 2024
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday, urging him to agree to a ceasefire and hostage-release deal in a renewed push to end the Israel-Hamas war. Former President Donald Trump plans to meet with the Israeli leader on Friday. Families of American hostages reported an "absolute commitment" from Biden and Netanyahu to bring ...
Source: wpbf.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
This article was featured in One Great Story , New York 's reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Early last year, I joined Kamala Harris on a mostly unremarkable day trip to Atlanta, where she talked about climate change and promoted the administration's credits for buying electric vehicles. It was the day after Joe Biden 's State of the Union address, and Harris was struggling to earn ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
Riley Griffin | (TNS) Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's campaign refused to commit to a debate with Kamala Harris after the Democratic candidate challenged the Republican nominee to show up to a previously scheduled face-off. Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said Thursday night that debate plans "cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee." "It would be inappropriate to ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are putting their support behind Kamala Harris for president. In a statement Friday, the Obamas said they "couldn't be more excited for her -- or more thrilled to endorse" the vice president. "There is no doubt in our mind that Kamala Harris has exactly what it takes to win this election and deliver for the American people," a statement from the ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
Washington — The FBI stated Friday that former President Donald Trump was injured by a bullet after FBI director Christopher Wray testified earlier this week that there was still "some question" about what grazed Trump's right ear during the assassination attempt at his rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month. "What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
MEXICO CITY — Mexico was not informed of the secret U.S. operation to whisk two Sinaloa cartel leaders to the United States until after the men were taken into custody, one of the country's top security officials said Friday. The arrests of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López on Thursday were a historic coup for U.S. agents pursuing a drug syndicate that has flooded the ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
Former President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent Friday morning meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, the first meeting for the pair since Trump left office. The high-stakes meeting comes as tensions in the Middle East continue to escalate and the Israel-Hamas war is a top foreign policy issue heading into November's election. Netanyahu has spent the week in the United States ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
Texas Senator Ted Cruz said Friday that Democrats , specifically President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris , have shown complacency when it comes to crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the United States. Cruz was speaking on his podcast "Verdict: With Ted Cruz " on which he repeated Republican claims that migrants were responsible for a wave of crime across the country. The Republican senator ...
Source: newsweek.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
Labour government says it will not pursue questions on court's jurisdiction over Netanyahu and Gallant The UK has dropped its opposition to an international arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu , removing a key hurdle to one being issued and underlining the tougher stance being taken towards Israel by the new Labour government. Downing Street confirmed on Friday that the government would not submit a challenge to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
JD Vance responded to the backlash over his past "childless cat ladies" comment — by clarifying that he has nothing against cats. In a Friday episode of "The Megyn Kelly Show," host and conservative personality Kelly asked the Republican vice presidential nominee to weigh in on the controversy surrounding the comment. Vance defended himself, telling Kelly, "Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I've got ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
Former first lady, who has been mostly absent as her husband campaigns, has never told her own story at length before The former first lady Melania Trump has a memoir coming out this fall, Melania, billed by her office as "a powerful and inspiring story of a woman who has carved her own path, overcome adversity and defined personal excellence". It's the first memoir by Trump, who has been mostly absent as her ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
The Point Conversations and insights about the moment. Taylor Swift fans are vowing vengeance on JD Vance. Jennifer Aniston is cursing him . Those are hardly data points auguring the outcome on Nov. 5, but they're developments unusual enough to carry a message: Donald Trump chose a creepy bully for a running mate — a much younger and more grammatical facsimile of himself — and may come to regret it. ...
Source: nytimes.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
In reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress on Wednesday, raucous anti-Israel protests erupted across Washington, D.C. Protesters vandalized statues outside D.C.'s Union Station with phrases like "Hamas is comin" and "long live the resistance." At one point, protesters replaced the American flag with a Palestinian flag and then burned the American flag. In response to the flag ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two former FBI officials settled lawsuits with the Justice Department on Friday, resolving claims that their privacy rights were violated when the department leaked to the news media text messages that they had sent one another that disparaged former President Donald Trump. Peter Strzok , a former top counterintelligence agent who played a crucial role in the investigation into Russian ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
Donald Trump said Friday he plans to return to Butler, Pennsylvania – the place where the former president survived an assassination attempt nearly two weeks ago – for a rally that will honor slain supporter Corey Comperatore and those injured in the shooting. Trump announced the "big and beautiful" rally in an all-caps post on his Truth Social platform, noting that the event would be "honoring the soul ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
JD Vance has had a difficult week, and some Republicans aren't hiding their frustration. Despite momentum after former President named him as his running mate, the Ohio senator started receiving unwanted attention after old clips resurfaced of him calling some Democrats "childless cat ladies" and suggesting parents should have more political power than non-parents. Vance's change of fortune also collided with the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
Former Attorney General Bill Barr was personally involved in the decision to release a misleading Justice Department statement on the eve of the 2020 election, falsely claiming there was voter fraud because nine mail-in ballots for Donald Trump were found discarded in a dumpster in Pennsylvania, according to an inspector general's report released Thursday, CNN reported . On September 23, 2020, Barr told Trump at a ...
Source: salon.com
Friday, Jul 26th, 2024 -
Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday that she would support the creation of a committee of judges to examine potential violations of the Supreme Court's new ethics code, speaking out on a contentious subject as President Biden and others are increasingly calling for reform at the high court. Kagan suggested that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. could appoint an outside panel of highly respected, experienced judges to ...
Source: abajournal.com
Thursday, Jul 25th, 2024 -
In a major victory for app-based companies, their drivers will not be considered employees. The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that drivers for app-based companies including Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash will remain independent contractors, as opposed to employees. The decision, upholding a state ballot measure called Proposition 22 , was considered a major victory for the gig-economy companies. ...
Source: wired.com
Thursday, Jul 25th, 2024 -
Vice president's video tackles themes of abortion and gun violence to the backdrop of her campaign anthem: Beyoncé's Freedom Kamala Harris has launched her first official campaign video as she vies to officially secure the Democratic presidential nomination and defeat Donald Trump – just days after Joe Biden announced he was abandoning his reelection bid. The 59-year-old vice president 's campaign team ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Jul 25th, 2024 -
Supreme Court's ruling does not apply to Trump's 'wholly unofficial conduct' in covering up Stormy Daniels payments, DA Alvin Bragg's office says Manhattan prosecutors are urging Donald Trump 's criminal hush money judge to keep a 34-count verdict after the former president argued the case should be tossed following the Supreme Court 's ruling on presidential "immunity." Prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Jul 25th, 2024 -
The bankruptcy judge floated the idea that the former mayor may have to testify under oath Rudy Giulian i's never-ending bankruptcy case continues — and the former mayor may now may have to testify in court about the finances he's been so cagey about. Earlier this month, Judge Sean Lane threw out the broke ex-mayor's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case , but Giuliani and his creditors have not reached a resolution on ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Jul 25th, 2024 -
Families of hostages held captive in Gaza condemned Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the United States Congress , as pressure grows on the Israeli prime minister to agree to a deal to secure their release. "The speech and applause won't erase the one sad fact: The words 'Deal Now!' were absent from the prime minister's address," The Hostage and Missing Families Forum in Israel said in a statement. Although ...
Source: cnn.com