MadAboutPolitics.com - Featured News

Featured News

Today's Political News Compilation - Wednesday, May 15, 2024

  • 20
  • 0
map.png
Below are some of the top political news stories of the day:



1715827455558.png

AP Photo

ap.png
Biden and Trump, trading barbs, agree to 2 presidential debates, in June and September

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates — the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC — setting the stage for their first presidential face-off to play out in just over a month.


























[URL...

Latest Posts from our Message Boards

Latest Political News Feed

Dow Jones Industrial Average hits 40,000 for the 1st time

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0

Harris accepts CBS News' vice presidential debate invitation

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
The Biden campaign has accepted CBS News' invitation to participate in a vice presidential debate this summer.

The Biden campaign says that either the proposed dates of Tuesday, July 23, or Tuesday, August 13 would be acceptable for Vice President Kamala Harris to debate. The Trump campaign has not yet publicly accepted the invitation. And former President Donald Trump has not yet named a running mate.

"We look forward to the Trump campaign accepting one of these dates so that the full debate calendar for this campaign can be set," Brian Fallon...
Continue reading...

Witness testimony expected to begin in Bob Menendez trial

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
The bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey continues Thursday, with the first witness expected to take the stand as soon as Thursday afternoon.

Wednesday's proceedings consisted of opening statements, as the defense and prosecution offered very different portraits of the Democratic senator. Menendez, who is being tried separately from his wife, Nadine Menendez, stands accused of trading his influence and power to foreign governments and three New Jersey businessmen in a complex bribery scheme that allegedly spanned from 2018 to 2023...
Continue reading...

Harris accepts CBS News' VP debate offer for the summer

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted an offer from CBS News to participate in a vice-presidential debate this summer, the Biden campaign said Thursday.
Continue reading...

Supreme Court upholds funding structure for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling upholding the funding structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a key consumer watchdog and banking regulator.
Continue reading...

Supreme Court upholds funding structure for CFPB

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the funding structure for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), rescuing the consumer finance agency from another effort by its critics to weaken it.

The court said in a 7 to 2 decision that the agency's funding structure complies with the Constitution's Appropriations Clause. Justice Clarence Thomas authored the majority opinion. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

"Under the Appropriations Clause, an appropriation is simply a law that authorizes expenditures from a...
Continue reading...

House committee demands Biden agency staff reveal travel history amid electioneering claims

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 1
EXCLUSIVE: Republican leaders in the House and Senate sent a joint letter Thursday morning to the U.S. Small Business Administration demanding travel schedules, official calendars and other documents from the cabinet agency amid allegations it is involved in partisan voter registration outreach in key swing states like Michigan.

Republican Reps. Roger Williams of Texas and Joni Ernst of Iowa demanded the SBA comply with congressional oversight on the matter, which has also led to at least one Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from a good-government...
Continue reading...

'Let Trump Speak Act' to ban gag orders on defendants put forward by House GOP

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Andy Ogles is introducing the "Let Trump Speak Act" on Thursday to prohibit judges from issuing gag orders to defendants, like former President Trump, in any criminal or civil proceeding.

"We have watched for years as a politically-weaponized Department of Justice and Democrat activist judges have gone after President Donald J. Trump," the Tennessee Republican told Fox News Digital. "There is no right more sacred to Americans than the right to speak freely, as guaranteed in the First Amendment."

Ogles, a strong Trump ally, added...
Continue reading...

18 Dems vote in favor of GOP-led bill cracking down on DC crime

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0

Riley Gaines unleashes on red state Dem candidate after footage reveals 'ignorant' stance on school sports

  • News source: FOX News
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 1
FIRST ON FOX: Riley Gaines blasted an "ignorant at best or a sellout at worst" Democrat House candidate for claiming to be "in the middle" on issues, then expressing support for students in Montana to play sports based on gender identity.

Monica Tranel, who is running for the seat currently held by Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., has made several claims of taking a more moderate position on issues, writing in a May 8 post on X that "being in the middle is in my DNA." On Tranel's campaign website, the Democrat also said that she is running for Congress "to...
Continue reading...

Michael Cohen faces off with Trump's lawyers again

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
Cohen has already been confronted with questions about his expletive-filled statements aimed at Trump.
Continue reading...

Facebook and Instagram suspected to be 'too addictive'

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
The EU says its concerned the platforms algorithms "stimulate behavioural addictions in children."
Continue reading...

Stars back Kevin Spacey acting return

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
The Oscar winner has not appeared in film or on stage since 2017 after sexual assault claims.
Continue reading...

Could the US economy be doing too well?

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 0
The US economic boom has consequences for the global balance of power - and for the UK.
Continue reading...

The man who turned his dead father into a chatbot

  • News source: BBC News - World
  • Replies: 0
  • Views: 2
The "grief tech" firms helping users create talking avatars of their dead relatives.
Continue reading...

Advertisement

General News Feed

Fact Checkers News Feed

Sponsored

Back
Top Bottom