ATLANTA (NewsNation) — A Georgia judge will decide Friday whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can remain on the prosecution team in the election interference case against President Donald Trump. Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee had previously set a self-imposed two-week deadline‚ which will expire Friday. He emphasized his mandate regarding the Willis hearings‚ stating in an interview with WSB-TV that his focus will solely be on the law‚ not politics. “The message I want to...

What’s next for ByteDance’s U.S. investors? As Beijing makes it increasingly clear that it opposes efforts by Congress to force TikTok’s Chinese parent company‚ ByteDance‚ to sell the popular video app — government officials in China said American lawmakers were acting like a “bandit” — the tech giant’s U.S. backers are increasingly finding themselves in a quandary. DealBook has spoken with people in the know about what these investors‚ including financial giants like the Susquehanna...

Former President Trump and President Joe Biden are deadlocked in a tight race as the 2024 election nears the corner as the two candidates secured their parties' nominations With only eight months until Americans cast their vote‚ Trump holds just a slim advantage over Biden in Pennsylvania by just three points.  According to a Fox News Poll‚ Trump has 49 percent of the vote in the Keystone state while Biden sits at 46 percent— suggesting that this year’s election will see a repeat of...

Kali Gaddie was a college senior when the pandemic abruptly upended her life plans—and made her part of a big and deeply unhappy political force that figures to play a huge role in the 2024 election season. Her graduation was postponed‚ she was let go from her college job and her summer internship got canceled. She spent the final months of school taking online classes from her parents’ house. “You would think that there’s a plan B or a safety net‚” she said. “But there’s actually not.”...

During his 2024 State of the Union address‚ President Joe Biden referred frequently to his "predecessor‚" who happens to be the expected Republican nominee trying to deny him reelection this year. Without using Donald Trump’s name‚ Biden focused part of his March 7 speech on his many contrasts with his presidential predecessor‚ which Biden said extended to management of the nation’s finances. Trump’s administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in...

It’s official — we have a rematch. This week‚ both Joe Biden and Donald Trump officially secured the delegates needed to win renomination in their respective primaries. This will be the first contest since the 1892 race between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland where a former challenger‚ now incumbent‚ faces off against a former incumbent‚ now challenger‚ for a second term in the White House. Cleveland won his challenge‚ but this does not tell us anything about our situation. Truth...

Donald Trump oversaw the release of two rounds of stimulus check packages while in office‚ providing Americans with thousands of dollars in relief during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans received $1‚200 in March 2020 and $600 in December 2020. The former president urged lawmakers to increase the amount in December 2020 to $2‚000 but eventually signed legislation approving the lower figure. Recently‚ a group of viral TikToks suggested Trump will bring back the COVID-era...

In his State of the Union address last week‚ President Joe Biden ditched the term “climate change.” Apparently‚ the phrase isn’t scary enough. Instead‚ as the New York Times noted‚ Biden employed a different alliterative phrase: climate crisis. That the Earth’s climate is changing and human activity influences these changes to some degree or another is something that few today deny. But the claim that these changes represent a crisis to humanity deserves scrutiny. It’s...

President Joe Biden's State of the Union address wasn't well received by most Americans‚ according to four polls taken following his speech‚ reports The Federalist. Fifty-nine percent of registered voters told HarrisX/Forbes pollsters that Biden's speech served to divide the country further‚ not unify it‚ compared to 41% who said the opposite. Otherwise‚ Biden's address didn't do much to boost his numbers in other polls‚ including YouGov‚ Yahoo‚ Rasmussen‚...

Joe Biden might hope his annual St. Patrick's Day celebrations will be a chance to drum up support as his presidential reelection campaign kicks off in earnest. But while he hobnobs with a number of international politicians including Michelle O'Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly‚ the first and deputy first ministers of Northern Ireland‚ the United States president will face anger from some on both sides of Ireland's border who oppose his response to the Israel-Hamas war. The U.S....