Trump, Trailing Biden in Cash, Relies on Big Donors to Try to Catch Up Major Republican donors have begun to open their checkbooks for Donald Trump now that he is the presumptive nominee, as he struggles to keep pace with President Biden. By Rebecca Davis O’Brien ... 04/15/2024 - 4:53 pm | View Link
Democratic donors paid $1.7m to Biden lawyers in classified files probe Democratic donors paid at least $1.7m (£1.35m) of US President Joe Biden's legal fees during the investigation into his handling of classified documents, records show. The Democratic National ... 04/11/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Biden hauls in $90 million in March as campaign embarks on general election blitz Deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty credited the success of the Biden’s fundraising to small-dollar donors, arguing the campaign has built out a “robust grassroots fundraising machine and a ... 04/6/2024 - 1:01 am | View Link
Exclusive: Concern over Biden's stance on Israel-Hamas war rattles high-profile campaign donors But some former donors who served on his finance committee told USA TODAY they are withholding their dollars. Two prominent donors said they skipped the March 28 fundraiser held at Radio City ... 04/5/2024 - 11:05 pm | View Link
Biden Ad Courts Nikki Haley Voters—Even As Her Big-Name Donors Coalesce Behind Trump President Joe Biden’s campaign wooed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s supporters in a new ad Friday highlighting former President Donald Trump’s criticism of his former primary ... 03/29/2024 - 8:45 am | View Link
by Ariana Figueroa, Arizona Mirror April 19, 2024
WASHINGTON — The U. S. Department of Education on Friday announced a final rule that will update Title IX regulations governing how schools respond to sexual misconduct, undoing changes made under the Trump administration and former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
“For more than 50 years, Title IX has promised an equal opportunity to learn and thrive in our nation’s schools free from sex discrimination,” Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said on a call with reporters on Thursday night.
On April 18, the Kennedy family held a press conference in Philadelphia to announce their support of President Joe Biden and a slap in the face to RFK Jr.
The Guardian reported that RFK Jr.'s sister, Kerry Kennedy, led the announcement. "President Biden has been a champion for all the rights and freedoms that my father and uncle stood for," Kerry Kennedy said.
The independent candidate's sister continued, "That's why nearly every single grandchild of Joe and Rose Kennedy supports Joe Biden.
“The U. S. is drafting sanctions that threaten to cut some Chinese banks off from the global financial system, arming Washington’s top envoy with diplomatic leverage that officials hope will stop Beijing’s commercial support of Russia’s military production,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Four Germans were caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where the Nazi dictator was born in western Austria on the anniversary of his birth, and one gave a Hitler salute as they posed for photos,” the AP reports.
“India’s main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims ‘infiltrators’ — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith, days after the country began its weekslong general election,” ABC News reports.
“Critics of the prime minister — an avowed Hindu nationalist — say India’s tradition of diversity and secularism has come under attack since his Bharatiya Janata Party won power a decade ago.
Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell (D) “told police that she broke into her stepmother’s home because her stepmother refused to give her items of sentimental value from her late father, including his ashes,” the AP reports.