Jeff Mordock

Biden campaign plans events and rallies to mark Roe anniversary, blast state abortion bans

President Biden's campaign announced it will highlight the battle for abortion rights with a blitz of events ahead of the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.

January 18, 2024

Johnson digs in against Senate border deal after meeting with Biden

House Speaker Mike Johnson emerged from the White House after a meeting Wednesday and rejected President Biden's bid for some concession on border policy in exchange for more war aid to Ukraine.

January 17, 2024

Biden designates Houthis as terrorist organization, shifting from 2021 decision

President Biden on Wednesday designated Yemen's Houthi rebels as terrorists, a partial reversal of his earlier decision to remove the Iran-backed group from the list of foreign terrorist organizations. The decision was seen as a way to ease the humanitarian crisis and pursue a diplomatic deal to end Yemen's civil war.

January 17, 2024

Biden allies alarmed at campaign weaknesses, press him with advice

President Biden is struggling to find his footing for the 2024 campaign and a parade of prominent Democrats are warning that he risks losing reelection.

January 15, 2024

Biden says Houthis are a terrorist group, nearly three years after lifting designation

President Biden suggested that the Houthi rebels are a terrorist organization despite formally removing the Trump-era designation from the group nearly three years ago.

January 12, 2024

Biden, in latest gaffe, says he works in the Senate

Maybe he wishes he had his old job back? President Biden left a group of small-business owners in Pennsylvania confused on Friday when he told them that he still works in the Senate, where he served for more than three decades but left in 2008.

January 12, 2024

Biden says Defense Secretary Austin showed lapse in judgment in concealing health woes

President Biden said Friday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's failure to disclose his lengthy hospitalization following a recent prostate operation was a lapse in judgment, but the president insisted he still has confidence in the 70-year-old former general.

January 12, 2024

‘Squad’ slams Biden for bombing Iran-backed Houthis

Congress' far-left "Squad" condemned President Biden for launching air trikes against the Houthis in Yemen, saying he violated the Constitution by not first seeking congressional approval.

January 12, 2024

Muslim leaders to hold anti-Biden rally in front of the White House

Muslim leaders from several swing states will gather Saturday in front of the White House to take their national campaign against reelecting President Biden directly to the commander-in-chief.

January 11, 2024

White House lawyers warned Biden about Oval Office donor tours

The White House Counsel's office advised President Biden to stop giving high-dollar donors tours of the Oval Office because it raised thorny legal issues, according to a report Thursday.

January 11, 2024

Inflation spikes in December, complicating Biden’s economic pitch

Inflation accelerated in December, the Labor Department revealed Thursday, complicating President Biden's reelection argument that he has made progress on trimming rising prices.

January 11, 2024

Biden meets with family of Paul Whelan, Marine being detained in Russia

President Biden met Wednesday with the sister of Paul Whelan, the former Marine who has been detained in Russia for over five years.

January 10, 2024

Biden found out about Austin’s prostate cancer same day public was told

President Biden learned that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had prostate cancer on Tuesday morning, more than a month after the diagnosis and a day after he was moved out of intensive care, the White House said.

January 9, 2024

Clinton Library pulls trivia question off social media after a barrage of Jeffrey Epstein jokes

The Clinton Presidential Center removed a trivia question from social media after a slew of snarky responses about former President Bill Clinton's ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

January 9, 2024

JPMorgan analyst predicts Biden will drop out of the election

President Biden will drop out of the 2024 presidential race citing health issues and low approval ratings, a top JPMorgan Chase strategist predicted in his list of forecasts for 2024.

January 9, 2024

Increasingly hostile politics breed deadly violence; Trump, Biden both blamed for fanning the flames

President Biden has blamed former President Trump and his followers for the growing wave of political violence in the U.S., but analysts say the surge in threats and attacks is a bipartisan phenomenon.

January 8, 2024

Biden compares Jan. 6 with efforts to harass Black voters in South Carolina speech

President Biden stepped up his outreach to Black voters who appear apathetic about his reelection, warning voters Monday at a South Carolina church where a White Supremacist killed nine Black people in 2015 about the dangers of extremist Republicans.

January 8, 2024

Biden’s speech in South Carolina church interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters

President Biden was interrupted Monday by pro-Palestinian protesters who shouted "ceasefire now" over his remarks during a campaign speech at a South Carolina church where a White supremacist killed nine Black people in 2015.

January 8, 2024

Biden’s first campaign speech makes 2024 all about Trump

President Biden on Friday delivered his first campaign speech of the year and framed the 2024 election as a fight to save American democracy and freedom from former President Donald Trump.

January 5, 2024

U.S. says Russia fired first North Korean-supplied missiles into Ukraine

Russia deployed North Korean-made ballistic missiles into Ukraine for the first time over the New Year's weekend, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Thursday, reflecting a growing concern that U.S. adversaries such as North Korea and Iran are helping the Kremlin sustain its military invasion of its neighbor.

January 4, 2024