Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is eating into President Joe Biden‘s support with key voters he has struggled to keep in his column throughout his presidency. Polls conducted by the New York Times, Siena College, and the Philadelphia Inquirer indicate that the independent presidential candidate is drawing his strongest support from voters under 30 and Latinos, giving truth to the concern Democrats have he could spoil Biden’s reelection campaign. Kennedy has 18% support from voters under 30 and 14%...

Latinos and young people—two key Democratic voting blocs that have strayed from President Joe Biden—are among Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s biggest supporters, according to a new poll of battleground states that comes as both Biden’s and former President Donald Trump’s campaigns have shown signs they’re unnerved by Kennedy’s influence in the race. Kennedy has the support of just 10% of voters in six battleground states in a six-way contest, but support grows to 18% for voters between the ages of...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is polling stronger than any third-party candidate has in decades, pulling in roughly 10 percent of registered voters across the battleground states as he saps support from both President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, a new series of polls has found. The overall results in the Biden versus Trump contest were virtually unchanged when Mr. Kennedy was included in the polls conducted by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer. But...

In the hours before a wayward cargo ship lost electrical power and knocked down Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, killing six people, the vessel suffered two blackouts while still in port, according to a preliminary report released on Tuesday. In a 24-page summary of findings so far, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board said the Dali cargo vessel had experienced at least two electrical failures on the day before the accident, causing the crew to adjust the...

Rumble, the publicly-traded YouTube alternative that's favored by conservatives, has filed a lawsuit against Google and its parent Alphabet. The big picture: The lawsuit argues that Google owes Rumble upwards of $1 billion in damages for lost ad revenue as a client, and for illegally leveraging its dominance in ad technology to hamper Rumble's ability to compete as an ad tech competitor. This is the second lawsuit filed by the video company against Google. Rumble first sued Google in 2021...

The majority of Americans still support broad access to abortion, new research shows, despite aggressive efforts by the GOP to convince voters it’s dangerous and immoral. The findings released by Pew Research on Monday show 63% of Americans say abortion should be legal “in all or most cases,” up four percentage points from that share in 2021. Even two-thirds of moderate and liberal Republicans share that view, the survey found. Only 8% of Americans say the procedure should be illegal in...

Shares of GameStop, the embattled video game retailer at the center of the 2021 meme stock frenzy, are surging again after the return of the “Roaring Kitty.” Roaring Kitty, who is legally known as Keith Gill, kicked off another stock market surge this week with his first post on social media in nearly four years. His return sparked a new flood of interest in shares of GameStop, the stock that launched Gill to fame and fortune, along with others favored by an online community of amateur...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin must pay to rebuild what he has destroyed in Ukraine. Speaking in Kyiv, Mr Blinken said Washington has the power to seize Russian assets in the US and will use them to help rebuild Ukraine. He also said that Ukraine is getting "closer to Nato". Earlier, the top US diplomat told Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky that military aid is "now on its way". "What Putin destroyed, Russia should - must -...

Supporters of former president Donald Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement criticized Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday for attending Trump's criminal hush money trial in New York. Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a frequent foil for Johnson, took to X, formerly Twitter, to share her disapproval stating that Johnson should instead be defunding the Department of Justice's (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith. "The Speaker of the House should be...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated Tuesday that the central bank will be patient and wait for evidence that inflation is slowing before it cuts interest rates.  Speaking during a panel discussion in Amsterdam, Powell said that recent inflation figures – which have come in higher than expected since the start of the year – suggest it will take longer than previously thought to attain the confidence needed to start loosening monetary policy.   "We did not expect this...