Biden makes first in-person appeal to donors for '24 campaign

President Joe Biden lambasted "MAGA Republicans" and emphasized abortion rights in a pitch to more than 100 supporters and elected officials Friday, as part of the first in-person donor confab of his 2024 reelection campaign. The reception, while not a fundraiser, was the first of a two-day meeting that offered Democratic Party officials the opportunity to sell donors on...

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DeSantis allies go to war with an unlikely foe: Nikki Haley

For months, the presidential primary looked like the Ron DeSantis-Donald Trump show. So it came as a surprise to some top Republicans this week when the well-funded super PAC supporting DeSantis turned its fire on Nikki Haley, a candidate still registering in the low-single digits in national polls. Never Back Down, the pro-DeSantis group, is now running an ad online attacking...

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Hochul brings back an Albany tradition: The late, late budget

ALBANY, N.Y. — First came her futile attempt to win approval of a controversial judicial nominee. Now, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is leading a drawn out state budget process that’s irritated labor leaders, business interests and her fellow Democrats — and ushered in a new era of dysfunction in Albany. Hochul on Thursday announced a conceptual agreement after a nearly monthlong...

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Iowa lawmakers applaud EPA for higher ethanol gas waiver

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New York set to ban gas furnaces, stoves in new buildings

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York will require new buildings to be zero-emissions starting in 2026 and make a state authority a major player in developing renewables as part of this year's budget, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced late Thursday. The state’s budget will ban fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings under seven stories starting in 2026, with larger buildings covered in...

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Government report shows steep decline in FBI’s ‘backdoor searches’ on Americans

The Biden administration has a new argument in its uphill battle to sell Congress on renewing a controversial electronic surveillance statute: it can rein in abuses of the program itself. The number of times FBI personnel sought information on Americans within a repository of data collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act fell more than 95 percent...

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Think Manchin has coal connections? Meet his rival.

West Virginia voters may swap one coal boss for an even bigger one. Republican Gov. Jim Justice jumped into the race Thursday to challenge Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, setting up a potential collision between two politicians with deep connections to the state’s coal industry. Justice, who was included on Forbes' billionaires list as recently as 2020, has profited from family...

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