The under-the-radar issues that could shake up 2024
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
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US economy grew at weak 1.1% rate in Q1 in sign of slowdown
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
“Solito”: Salvadoran Writer Javier Zamora Details His Solo 4,000-Mile Journey to U.S. as a 9-Year-Old
As President Biden ends Title 42, the Trump-era policy blocking asylum seekers, and plans stronger enforcement measures on the border, we speak with Salvadoran poet and writer Javier Zamora, whose best-selling memoir, Solito, details his odyssey as a 9-year-old child traveling unaccompanied through Guatemala, Mexico and eventually through the Sonoran Desert, before he makes it to Arizona and reunites with his parents with the aid of other migrants.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Fawning Take On Donald Trump CNN Town Hall Backfires
The extremist congresswoman claimed she “laughed and laughed” with the former president after his lie-soaked appearance.
Nicolle Wallace Exposes CNN’s Most ‘Brazen’ Hypocrisy In Trump Town Hall Event
The MSNBC host called out the rival network over this week’s widely panned event featuring the former president.
Dylan Mulvaney On Her TikTok After Bud Light Backlash: It Became A ‘Culture War’
“It, in a weird way, has been a blessing to sort of break that people-pleasing mentality,” said Mulvaney on the “Dear Schuyler” podcast this week.
E. Jean Carroll Considering Suing Trump Again In Wake Of CNN Town Hall: Attorney
Carroll told The New York Times that she’s been “insulted by better people” after the former president’s comments about her on CNN on Wednesday.
‘Incredible Bulls**t’: Anderson Cooper Ripped For ‘Gaslighting’ Over Trump Event
The CNN host tried to defend his network for hosting a Donald Trump town hall this week.
FDA eases restrictions on blood donation for men who have sex with men
The FDA said it “strongly believes” the new policy will not hurt the safety or availability of the nation’s blood supply.
One Year After Israeli Sniper Kills Shireen Abu Akleh, No Justice for Palestinian-American Journalist
One year ago, on May 11, 2022, an Israeli soldier fatally shot the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the head as she was reporting on an Israeli military raid just outside the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. She was shot while wearing a blue helmet and blue flak jacket clearly emblazoned with the word “press.” Abu Akleh was one of the most prominent TV journalists in the Arab world and had worked for Al Jazeera for a quarter of a century.
Web of Lies: George Santos Charged with 13 Felonies, But GOP Leaders Refuse to Expel Him from Congress
Scandal-plagued New York Republican Congressmember George Santos pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges at a courthouse on Long Island Wednesday. He is charged with wire fraud, money laundering, lying on federal disclosure forms, and fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits while earning a $120,000 salary.
E. Jean Carroll Wins Major Victory for Sexual Abuse Survivors Even as Trump Continues to Target Her
Under a law passed last year in New York that allows sexual abuse survivors to sue their abusers in civil court even after the criminal statute of limitations has passed, a jury has found former President Donald Trump to be liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll at a department store in the 1990s. After just three hours of deliberations, the jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million. Following the ruling, Trump appeared in a televised town hall on CNN, where he mocked E.
Blue states put the brakes on health care for undocumented immigrants
The intra-party debate comes as the Biden administration and Democrats at the national level grapple with how to expand health care access for noncitizens.
What goes away when the Covid health emergency ends this week
The state of emergency is over and that will affect everything from from free vaccines and tests to food assistance programs.
12-week abortion ban will do great harm, North Carolina’s governor says
Gov. Roy Cooper has vowed to veto the bill, but his veto could be overriden.
Entirely Unrepentant
In an unhinged town hall, Donald Trump repeated familiar lies and tested new talking points.
We’re Living in Post-Shame America
Donald Trump and George Santos are facing justice. But basic decency is still under attack.
The Latest COVID Variants Have a Surprising Feature in Common
Over and over again, genetic mutations are preventing a protein once thought to be key to the virus’s success from being expressed.
The under-the-radar issues that could shake up 2024
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
US economy grew at weak 1.1% rate in Q1 in sign of slowdown
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
Justice for Jordan Neely: Friend Remembers Dancer as “Gentleman” as Calls Grow for Killer’s Arrest
Eleven people were arrested at a protest in New York on Monday demanding justice for Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old unhoused Black man who was choked to death on a subway car last week by another passenger. Neely was well known as a dancer and Michael Jackson impersonator. He was crying out that he was hungry, when he was fatally attacked on the train by a 24-year-old former marine named Daniel Penny, who was questioned by police but released without charges.
New York Daily News Hits Rep. George Santos With Damning Cover
The controversial congressman’s hometown newspaper illustrated the news of his arrest with a blistering front page image.
‘Putin’s Puppet’: Chris Christie Puts Trump On Blast Over Ukraine Claim
The former New Jersey governor slammed the ex-president after the CNN town hall debacle.
House Democrat Rips James Comer For Focusing On Public Pee Instead Of Guns
“You’re the chairman, I’m just a lowly Democratic freshman,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) told House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.).
Trump’s Still Stuck In 2020, And Other Takeaways From His CNN Town Hall
The former president hasn’t changed much since the last time we did this.
Hakeem Jeffries Torches Trump Republicans By Naming Their 3 Basic Pillars
The House minority leader told MSNBC what the MAGA wing really believes.
FDA advisers recommend the agency approve the first over-the-counter birth control pill
Independent advisers concluded that HRA Pharma’s application indicated that the benefit of allowing Opill to be sold without a prescription outweighed the risk of consumers taking it improperly.
U.S. prices pick up, showing inflation pressures persist
The Fed is paying particular attention to so-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs and are regarded as a better gauge of longer-term inflation trends.