When it comes to President Joe Biden's chances of returning to the White House next year, one issue seems to stand above all else the economy. "The economy is kind of getting out of hand," said Biden supporter George Douglas. Democratic voters are also concerned about health care costs and abortion, according to Pew Research. So what has President Biden done so far on the issues? When it comes to the economy, or so-called "Bidenomics," the president signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which provided financial credits and incentives for clean energy initiatives and jobs. Then there's the Bipart ..read more

Six months ahead of election day, Scripps News is talking with one of President Bidens top advisers, Michael Tyler, about the state of the race. Tyler is the Biden-Harris campaigns communications director and was a guest on The Race: Weekend. Moderator Joe St. George asked Tyler why his candidate was down in all major swing states and whether the campaign was in need of a shakeup. "We know this is going to be an incredibly close race," Tyler said. "On all the metrics that really matter right now this campaign is on its front foot while the Trump campaign is on its back foot." Tyler points to m ..read more

President Joe Biden bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 19 people on Friday, including civil rights icons such as the late Medgar Evers, political leaders such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the actor Michelle Yeoh. President Biden said at the White House that the award is the nation's highest civilian honor and that this year's recipients are incredible people whose relentless curiosity, inventiveness, ingenuity and hope have kept faith in a better tomorrow. Clarence B. Jones, one of the recipients, said in an interview that he thought a prankster was on the line when he a ..read more

The economy is continually rated as one of the top issues Americans are concerned about ahead of the 2024 election. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is speaking at the Sedona Forum in Sedona, Arizona, Friday to discuss the role of democracy in the economy. "I'm going to talk about why it's important for our economy to work," Yellen told Scripps News in an exclusive interview. Acknowledging higher grocery prices and housing costs, Yellen noted that inflation is cooling. "Inflation has come down by two-thirds off peak, and its progress can't be expected to be absolutely a straight line, but I thi ..read more

Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife were indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges and taken into custody Friday in connection with a U.S. Department of Justice probe into ties between American business leaders and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. From 2014 to 2021, Cuellar and his wife accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico, and in exchange, Cuellar agreed to advance the interests of the country and the bank in the U.S., according to the indictment. Among other things, Cuellar agreed to influence legi ..read more

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she would call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, forcing her colleagues to choose sides in a difficult showdown after Democratic leaders announced they would provide the votes to save the Republican speaker's job. Speaking outside the Capitol, Greene ranted against Republican Party leaders at the highest levels and pushed back against their public entreaties, including from Donald Trump, to avoid another messy political fight so close to the November election. With her was Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., one of the few lawm ..read more

Republican legislators moved Monday to enact a ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors and bar state employees from advocating social transitioning for transgender youth, brushing aside criticism that they were hurting the state's image. The GOP-supermajority Kansas House expected to vote on overriding Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto only hours after the Senate did on a 27-13 vote, exactly the required two-thirds margin. The vote in the House was expected to be close after LGBTQ+ rights advocates raised questions about whether the provision against promoting social transitioning i ..read more

Hundreds of college students across the U.S. spent the weekend camped out on campuses protesting the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Police at several universities moved in to clear the encampments, arresting dozens of protesters, with many universities focusing largely on removing non-students. Washington University announced on Saturday that they arrested 100 individuals, all of whom are now facing charges of trespassing, with some also facing charges of resisting arrest and assault, particularly concerning injuries inflicted upon three police officers. Among those detained, the u ..read more

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem a potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is getting attention again. This time, it's for a new book where she writes about killing an unruly dog, and a smelly goat, too. The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem's soon-to-be released book, No Going Back: The Truth on Whats Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward. In it, she tells the story of the ill-fated Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer she was training for pheasant hunting. She writes, according to the Guardian, that the tale was included to show h ..read more

President Joe Biden said Friday that he is willing to debate his presumptive Republican opponent, Donald Trump, later this fall his most definitive comment yet on the issue. The comment came during an interview with the Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern, who asked President Biden whether he would participate in debates against Trump. I am, somewhere. I dont know when, he said. But Im happy to debate him. So far, President Bidens reelection campaign had declined to commit to participating in the debates, a hallmark of every general election presidential campaign since 1976. The president himsel ..read more