Mike Johnson makes a sharp exit from RNC stage after teleprompter cuts out during speech
House Speaker Mike Johnson made a quick exit after the teleprompter cut out during the first day of the Republican National Convention.
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Supreme Court grants death row inmate last minute stay of execution
Minutes before a death row inmate in Texas was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection, the Supreme Court handed him a lifeline and halted the execution to consider his claim of innocence.
Delay of Texas death row inmate’s execution has not been the norm for Supreme Court, experts say
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas inmate Ruben Gutierrez had spent some of the hours leading up to his scheduled execution Tuesday evening talking with his wife and attorney before being eventually transferred to a holding cell at the state prison in Huntsville to await his lethal injection.
Eyewitnesses describe scene at Trump rally shooting: ‘It’s pure insanity’
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Fed’s Powell Welcomes Cooler Inflation but Steers Clear of Rate Cut Timing
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, avoided sending a clear signal about when the central bank would begin to cut interest rates even as he welcomed a recent cool-down in inflation.
Fact-Checking Biden’s ABC Interview
President Biden rejected concerns about his fumbling performance in the first presidential debate last month in a prime-time interview on Friday.
I was at Biden’s ‘big boy’ press conference. It was stage-managed to a fault
Just hours before the ‘big boy’ press conference that was intended to reassure us all, President Joe Biden made a catastrophic mistake. Inviting Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, to the stage at a NATO event, he accidentally referred to him as “President Putin”. It was a nail-biting moment and groans could be heard in the room as it happened. Biden’s seconds-later excuse — that he was just “so focused about beating Putin” while he was talking that he slipped up — was hardly reassuring.