Biden and Trump’s strange co-dependent political lives

President Biden and Donald Trump have something in common: collapsing polling numbers. Increasingly, voters seem to want both of them to ride off into the political sunset. Ironically, their dual falling popularity means they need each other: If one drops out of the 2024 presidential sweepstakes, the other will fall.  The American political landscape is stranger than it has ever been. Solid majorities disapprove of everyone; Biden, Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, former VP Mike Pence and Florida Gov. R

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No close contacts of Biden test positive for COVID-19 since president's infection

White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha said on Sunday that none of the 17 individuals  who were deemed close contacts of President Biden after he became infected with COVID-19 last week have tested positive for the virus. Jha confirmed this to ABC’s “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl, adding that the close contacts are currently following the Centers f

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We’re entering a climate that humans did not evolve to withstand

A record-smashing heat wave and massive wildfires are scorching Europe. On this side of the Atlantic, over 100 million Americans are under an excessive heat warning or heat advisory. Oppressive heat is blanketing over 900 million people in China, while millions across large swaths of South Asia suffered through weeks of a stifl

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Schiff: DOJ should investigate Trump for Jan. 6

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, said on Sunday that he believes the Department of Justice (DOJ) should investigate former President Trump for his actions on that day.  "If the department were now to take the position that you can't investigate or indict a former president, then a president becomes above the law. That's a very dangerous idea that the founders would have never subscribed to," Schiff said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "Even more dangerous, I think in the case of Donald T

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Trump’s enablers should not get a pass

The “crazies” who spun the "Big Lie" about the 2020 presidential election have been exposed by the Jan. 6 committee. It's time to hold accountable the so-called "normals" — the silent enablers. Bill Stepien, Donald Trump's campaign manager,

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