Politics

Washington — House Republicans are requesting recordings and transcripts of special counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Biden after a lengthy report criticized his handling of classified documents. Hur’s report, released last week, did not charge Mr. Biden with a crime, but said he “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.” …

Former President Donald Trump announced a slate of endorsements to lead the Republican National Committee Monday night in a move that will shake up current leadership of the GOP. Trump said he is backing Michael Whatley, chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, to lead the RNC as its chairman and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to serve as co-chair. This …

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee says he’ll move forward with an evidentiary hearing Thursdayto consider a Trump co-defendant’s motion to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office from prosecuting the 2020 election interference case in Georgia and to drop all the charges against him. Michael Roman, a former Republican National Committee staffer, alleged that Willis …

Migrants in Mexico have made more than 64.3 million requests to enter the U.S. using a smartphone app that the Biden administration has tried to establish as the main gateway to the American asylum system at the southern border, internal federal government documents obtained by CBS News show. In the first year of the program’s implementation, migrants used the phone …

It turns out not all politics is local. In South Carolina’s 2024 Republican primaryelection, most voters look back approvingly on Nikki Haley’s time as the state’s governor, but also say it doesn’t matter to them that she’s from the state — and instead say that they’re thinking nationally about the party’s nomination. So, for that and many other reasons, Donald …

President Biden’s reelection campaign launched its account on TikTok, the popular social media app, Sunday night during the Super Bowl, despite his administration’s concerns about the app’s security and whether user data can be shared with the Chinese government. The account “Biden HQ” posted a video captioned “lol hey guys,” featuring Mr. Biden answering “this or that” Super Bowl-related questions, …

The past can be a challenge for people who would rather dwell on the future. Despite having objected to the 2020 presidential election results from his home state of Pennsylvania, Lloyd Smucker was blistering in his condemnation of the violent Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Republican congressman said in a statement a few days after the assault …

Washington — President Biden said Monday the U.S. is working to negotiate a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas that would pause fighting in Gaza for at least six weeks. In White House remarks alongside King Abdullah II of Jordan, Mr. Biden said the deal “would bring an immediate and sustained period of calm to Gaza for at least six …

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Sunday afternoon following symptoms of an “emergent bladder issue,” according to the Pentagon. He has since transferred his duties to his deputy. He underwent what doctors at Walter Reed described as “non-surgical procedures under general anesthesia” in a statement from the hospital Monday. Austin was taken …

A top Biden administration aide privately admitted failures and “missteps” in the communication of U.S. policy regarding Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza in a closed-door meeting with Arab American and Muslim leaders in Michigan last week. “We have left a very damaging impression, based on what has been a wholly inadequate public accounting for how much the president, the administration, …