Wisconsin State

HuffPost

Critics called out the former president for a bonkers Independence Day message that barely mentioned the holiday.

Trump Throws 4th Of July Fit In 'Disgraceful' New Holiday Tantrum

Joe Biden’s spotty debate performance immediately triggered new questions from worried Democrats about whether he would leave the presidential race.

What would happen if Biden decided to leave the race?

TheDailyBeast

Former President Barack Obama has reportedly told allies that Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance has made his bid to win back the White House even tougher than it had been previously.The Washington Post reports that Obama gave a harsher private assessment of Biden’s chances of re-election following the debate despite publicly trying to ease concerns by tweeting that “bad debates happen.”The outlet reported that Obama “spoke directly with Biden by phone after last Thursday’s debate to offer his support as a sounding board and private counselor for his embattled former vice president,” according to WaPo.It remains unclear how much or...

Obama Privately Goes Shaky After Offering to Prop Up Biden

The Independent

Behind the scenes at the first debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the buzzy atmosphere of the spin room descended into horror-struck silence within a first few minutes of the president opening his mouth. While Trump told bombastic lies in front of us, Biden struggled to recall what were obviously canned responses. At one point, a former prominent TV commentator got up from their seat and started pacing back and forth, worriedly. Biden aides and surrogates, who had been in constant communication with each of us throughout the day, fell silent, one by one.When the cameras stopped rolling and...

I was at the Trump-Biden presidential debate and it became very clear what had gone wrong

NBC News

President Joe Biden told Democratic governors Wednesday that he’d been cleared by a doctor after last week’s debate, contradicting earlier statements from the White House about his medical care. The president met with the Democratic governors in person and by video call Wednesday evening and faced questions about...

Biden says he saw a doctor after the debate and acknowledges: 'I screwed up'

 Joe Biden has caused concern with a new blunder that saw him suggest he was the “first Black woman to serve alongside a Black president.”The US president was appearing on Philadelphia’s Wurd radio station as part of 4 July celebrations, when he spoke of his achievements.“By the way, I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice-president, first Black woman… to serve with a Black president,” he said, confusing his achievements alongside Barack Obama with Kamala Harris’.It comes shortly after denial that he’d be quitting the presidential race over concerns about his health.

Listen: Joe Biden says he is ‘first Black woman to serve with a Black president’

The Hill

President Biden will participate in a high-stakes interview Friday with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos that the television network is calling a “primetime special” and airing at 8 p.m. The potential make-or-break interview comes eight days after Biden’s disastrous debate performance, which has undermined his presidential campaign and has resulted in calls for him to drop…

How to watch, what to know: Biden’s interview with Stephanopoulos

The US Sun

BARRON Trump was spotted looking very glum during a rare public outing with his father. The youngest Trump son was captured in a video sitting in a golf cart next to his father, who was talking to reporters on Wednesday. In a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, by New York Post reporter Jon Levine […]

Barron Trump looks glum and remains silent as he makes a rare appearance beside dad Donald on the golf course

South Carolina State

The Atlantic

Joe Biden’s most effective promotion of his vice president could be entirely inadvertent.

The White House’s Kamala Harris Blunder

For someone without any qualifications, Lauren Boebert sure spends a lot of time questioning Democrats' credentials. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter. The conservative representative recently took to Twitter/X to insult Karine Jean-Pierre, the first out gay Black woman...

Lauren Boebert mercilessly mocked for calling White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre a 'DEI hire'

If the president wants to protect American democracy, he should hand over his office to Kamala Harris.

Biden Must Resign

North Carolina State

Jill Biden revealed to The New York Times reporter Katie Rogers what Joe told her following the debate. Rogers queried Jill at a Biden campaign fundraising event in the Hamptons on Friday. “You know, Jill, I don’t know what happened. I didn’t feel that great.” Biden reportedly told the first lady, according to an X post by Rogers. Jill responded, “Look, Joe, we are not going to let 90 minutes define the four years that you’ve been President.” Biden has not been cagey around acknowledging his poor performance on Thursday night. Biden told a crowd in North Carolina on Friday that he knows he’s “not a young man,” and went on to acknowledge other signs of his age, “I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t walk as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to.” Biden added, “But I know what I do know—I know how to tell the truth, I know right from wrong, and I know how to do this job.”Read it at Daily MailRead more at The Daily Beast.

Jill Biden Discloses What Joe Told Her After His Debate Performance

Fox News

A New York Magazine reporter shared multiple accounts about a "conspiracy" of silence among Biden's inner circle to protect his decline from being exposed.

Longtime Biden friends say president didn’t remember their names in social settings: Report

Mississippi State

Claiborne County, MS

Two "dangerous" inmates being held on murder charges escaped from a Mississippi jail early Friday morning sparking a manhunt. Tyrekennel Collins, 24, and Dezarrious Johnson, 18, broke free from the Claiborne County Detention Center around 2:20 a.m., the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post. Chief Deputy Christy Sykes said...

2 'dangerous' inmates being held on murder charges spark manhunt after escape from Mississippi jail

Mediaite

President Joe Biden sparked confusion on Thursday after he used Santa Claus’ famous Christmas greeting, “Ho, ho, ho!” at the White House 4th of July celebration. During the celebration, Biden appeared on-stage with First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, as Harris said, “Happy 4th of July, everyone! Happy Independence Day! And today as we celebrate freedom, as we celebrate the promise of America, we also celebrate and express our gratitude to our service members, to our veterans, to our military families.”

‘Ho, Ho, Ho!’ Biden Celebrates 4th of July With Santa Claus’ Famous Greeting

The Vatican on Friday informed a Donald Trump-supporting archbishop that he is being excommunicated for refusing to recognize Pope Francis' authority after years of outspoken public attacks.Carlo Maria Vigano, an ultra-conservative who served as the Vatican’s diplomat to Washington, D.C. between 2011 and 2016, was formally accused last month of schism, which is one of the most serious offenses in canon law. Schism is “the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him,” according to the Vatican.“His public statements manifesting his refusal to recognize and submit to the Supreme...

Pope Excommunicates Trump-Loving Ultra-Conservative

California State

Scorching temperatures on the Fourth of July fueled wildfires in California, as warnings from meteorologists that the coming days could see dangerously hot weather. With much of the country in the grip of a heat wave that is set to break records and make conditions dangerously hot, a large blaze near Yosemite National Park has triggered evacuations and forced hospital patients to shelter in place.

Evacuations ordered as new California wildfire ignites in scorching heat wave

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Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

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Biden doubles-down at Wisconsin rally: 'I'm staying in the race'

President Joe Biden said Friday at a campaign rally in the key battleground state of Wisconsin that he's staying in the 2024 presidential race and expressed...

Biden doubles-down at Wisconsin rally: 'I'm staying in the race'

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