Politics

HIROSHIMA, Japan — President Joe Biden sought Saturday to rally regional cooperation towards China on the margins of the Group of Seven summit w hile confronting a stalemate in Washington over how to make sure the U.S. avoids default. ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says Democrats hoping former President Donald Trump leads the GOP into the 2024 election must be cautious about what they want for. ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida offered a sneak peek this week into the message he plans to deploy within the 2024 GOP nomination race, telling donors former President Donald Trump will not be electable as a result of damaging views of him are almost definitely set in stone. ...

Former Attorney General William P. Barr is cautioning towards counting the variety of folks prosecuted to measure the success of particular counsel John Durham’s probe into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia collusion probe. ...

WASHINGTON — Debt restrict talks got here to an abrupt standstill Friday after Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy stated it’s time to “pause” negotiations, and a White House official acknowledged there are “real differences” which can be making talks troublesome. ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina filed paperwork on Friday to enter the 2024 Republican presidential race, testing whether or not a extra optimistic imaginative and prescient of America’s future can resonate with GOP voters who've elevated partisan brawlers in recent times. ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The basic election marketing campaign for Kentucky governor bought off to a feisty begin this week as Democrats labored to hyperlink the freshly minted Republican nominee to closely criticized pardons by the vanquished predecessor of Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat who's attempting to win a second time period in GOP territory. ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Chatting with a mother in a New Hampshire diner on Friday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis paid no consideration to the Mickey Mouse shirt worn by her younger son. But the lady mentioned she has been listening to him. ...

The U.S. Border Patrol has agreed in a authorized settlement to not arrange inside checkpoints in a northern New Hampshire city just below 100 miles from the Canadian border earlier than Jan. 1, 2025. ...

Sinn Fein is celebrating early success in council elections in Northern Ireland - whereas the Democratic Unionist Party says unionism might want to "look at where it's going" if poor outcomes and turnout proceed.Voters forged their ballots on Thursday, however counting is about to go on nicely into Saturday as a result of electoral system used. It is the primary election in Northern Ireland since power-sharing collapsed at Stormont final 12 months.Shortly after 6pm on Friday, Sinn Fein had 47 councillors elected, the DUP had 35, the Alliance Party had 15 seats, the Ulster Unionists had 11, the SDLP had six, and 6 have been amongst smaller events.A complete of 462 seats throughout 11 council areas have been up for grabs. Sinn Fein's share of the primary desire vote was up grea...