The week that changed the US election: Trump’s immunity as Biden falls flat on his face
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The week that changed the US election: Trump’s immunity as Biden falls flat on his face
Plus: A dispatch from Wisconsin, more lies and no more lawyering for Rudy Giuliani. Hello there.. Well, that was interesting, wasn’t it? The election was trundling along pretty normally, then we get a momentous week that changed the shape of the ...Joe Biden -
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Trump Immunity Ruling Leaves Judge Facing Tough Calls on Election Indictment
The Supreme Court decision granting former presidents broad protection from prosecution kicked to the trial court key rulings about how much of Donald Trump’s indictment on election charges can stand.Donald Trump -
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The Big Decisions Facing Trump and Biden This Week
It’s what politicians tell Biden publicly that counts.Joe Biden -
CNBC - Business
Biden faces a 'vital week' to convince voters he can beat Trump, Sen. Murphy says
Five House Democrats so far have publicly called on President Biden to bow out of the 2024 race against Donald Trump.Joe Biden -
The Wall Street Journal - World
Pickup in U.S. Natural Gas Futures Falls Flat
An incipient rally in U.S. natural gas futures petered out as higher production, abundant storage and cooling rain from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl offset higher near-term temperature forecasts across large parts of the U.S. -
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Digested week: Biden’s travails and why the UK election isn’t big news in the US | Emma Brockes
Contest in Britain – between ‘the rich one, the “boring” one, and Trump’s buddy’ – has felt like a foregone conclusion. School’s out in the US, sleep-away camp has started, and as 4 July falls on a Thursday this year, lots of Americans prepare to ...United Kingdom -
The New York Times - World
Starmer Is Aligned With Biden, but How Would That Change With Trump?
Politically aligned, Joe Biden and the new U.K. prime minister agree on climate change, Ukraine and Northern Ireland. Donald Trump would be a different story.Joe Biden -
The Hill - Politics
Biden, critics fear emboldened Trump after Supreme Court immunity ruling
A Supreme Court decision giving presidents wide protection from facing charges after leaving office has sparked fears voiced by President Biden and Democratic critics that former President Trump will be further emboldened should he be elected to a ...Joe Biden -
The Hill - Politics
Biden and his backers are falling for the sunk cost fallacy
Joe Biden’s self-inflicted electoral crisis is a classic case study of political “sunk cost fallacy.”Joe Biden -
The Wall Street Journal - World
Trump Faced Challengers, Biden Avoided Competition
Trump may not be popular, but the primary elections showed that he is more popular than the other Republican candidates.Joe Biden -
NBC News - Politics
Trump seeks to use Supreme Court's immunity ruling to quash classified docs case in Florida
Donald Trump is hoping that the Supreme Court decision in his election interference case can prove to deliver him a third procedural win, this time in the case in which he is accused of hoarding government secrets after he left office.Donald Trump -
The Hill - Politics
Morning Report — Biden faces a tumultuous week as more Dems defect
On Capitol Hill this week, a defiant President Biden faces a brutal reckoning from within his party that could upend the 2024 race. A growing chorus of House Democrats say publicly and privately that the president should forfeit his place at the ...Joe Biden -
The Wall Street Journal - World
Biden faced new calls from prominent Democrats to exit from the race, as he hit the campaign trail to try to dispel mounting concerns over his fitness for office and chances of defeating Trump in November.
Biden faced new calls from prominent Democrats to exit from the race, as he hit the campaign trail to try to dispel mounting concerns over his fitness for office and chances of defeating Trump in November.Joe Biden -
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US election: Biden’s fight to stay in the race
The president defies Democrats who want him to goJoe Biden -
The Wall Street Journal - World
Biden is entering a crucial stretch in which he needs to demonstrate to Americans that he has the capacity to serve a second term and tamp down Democrats' worries about his ability to defeat Trump in November's election.
Biden is entering a crucial stretch in which he needs to demonstrate to Americans that he has the capacity to serve a second term and tamp down Democrats’ worries about his ability to defeat Trump in November’s election.Joe Biden -
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US says Iran's presidential election was 'not free or fair' and won't 'lead to fundamental change in Iran’s direction'
US says Iran's presidential election was 'not free or fair' and won't 'lead to fundamental change in Iran’s direction'Iran -
Financial Times - World
Is US inflation still falling?
Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week aheadInflation -
BBC News - Top stories
Biden faces donor pressure as he digs in on re-election bid
Some major donors are warning they will withhold funds unless Joe Biden steps aside as the Democratic candidate.Joe Biden -
CBS News - Top stories
Biden and Trump didn't talk much about climate change at their last debate. Here's why that matters.
President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump had their first debate of the 2024 presidential election season on June 27 – and golf got more talking time than their plans to address climate change. A day after the debate, Beryl formed, ...Joe Biden -
The Guardian - World
Democrats in disarray as Trump immunity ruling raises stakes
With democracy at a moment of maximum peril, millions were pinning their hopes on the Democratic party as a last wall of defence – but the debate changed that. “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” So wrote supreme court justice Sonia ...Donald Trump -
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Biden pledges to ‘unite America’ as Democrat Schiff says Harris could win if president drops out – live
Adam Schiff says on NBC News that president ‘either has to win overwhelmingly or pass the torch to someone who can’. “God knew Biden needs some love,” said J Louis Felton, the church’s senior pastor, who noted that the president had been due to ...Joe Biden -
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What to know about Venezuela's election
For the first time in decades, Venezuela’s self-described socialist government is facing a serious electoral challenge in a presidential election set for July 28Venezuela -
The Guardian - World
How might a rogue president use the US supreme court immunity ruling?
A first pass shows just how much damage a president could do to the rule of law when no longer constrained by it. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK … It’s, like, incredible.”. The ... -
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Biden rode the perception of electability to victory in 2020. But now it may be his undoing.
Joe Biden’s superpower inside the Democratic Party has been the belief he can beat Donald Trump — a belief that helped him prevail in the crowded 2020 primary campaign.Joe Biden -
The Guardian - World
Biden says he’s best qualified to beat Trump, brushes off low polling and denies cognitive issues – live
President says in occasionally tense ABC interview he is not dropping out and believes he’s the best candidate to win. Full story: Biden calls Trump debate a ‘bad episode’Joe Biden has cancelled his upcoming Sunday address to the National ...Joe Biden -
Financial Times - World
Eric Trump says he is pursuing more Gulf deals as his father seeks re-election
Ambition for family business raises concerns about potential conflicts of interest if ex-president regains officeDonald Trump -
The New York Times - Top stories
Trump’s V.P. Reveal May Be This Week. Or Not.
Donald J. Trump’s monthslong search for a running mate, orchestrated to feed speculation and attention, is nearing an end, but questions of who, and when, remain.Donald Trump -
ABC News - World
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says opposition Labour Party has won the UK election as his Conservatives face a rout
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says opposition Labour Party has won the UK election as his Conservatives face a routUnited Kingdom -
NBC News - Politics
After immunity ruling, Trump’s hush money sentencing delayed
After the Supreme Court’s landmark immunity decision, the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York has postponed his sentencing that was scheduled for July 11, moving it to mid-September. NBC’s Laura Jarrett ... -
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Why Trump's "hush money" sentencing is being delayed over immunity ruling
Donald Trump's sentencing for the conviction in his New York "hush money" trial is being postponed until September after his lawyers moved to toss the guilty verdict because of the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling. Attorney and CBS ...Donald Trump -
The Guardian - World
The Guardian view on Trump and presidential immunity: the return of the king | Editorial
The supreme court’s sweeping ruling is a blow to democracy in the US. The supreme court’s ruling on presidential immunity combines a tectonic constitutional shift and immediate political repercussions to devastating effect. It allows one man to ...Donald Trump -
CBS News - Top stories
Jan. 6 victims frustrated over Supreme Court ruling on Trump immunity
Many of the victims and the families of those who were attacked in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the Capitol are sharing their frustration and anger with the Supreme Court.Donald Trump -
The Guardian - World
Trump would be free to obstruct justice in second term after immunity ruling
Supreme court decision means Trump could freely abuse “core” presidential functions without accountability. When the special counsel Robert Mueller testified to Congress in 2019 about the Russia investigation, he said he believed Donald Trump ...Donald Trump -
The Hill - Politics
Trump latches on to Supreme Court immunity ruling in documents case
Former President Trump is beginning to leverage the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling in his classified documents criminal case. In court papers filed Friday, Trump asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to halt most proceedings in ...Donald Trump -
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Trump asks judge to gut classified documents case after immunity ruling
Filing asks Aileen Cannon to take scalpel to any charges considered ‘official’ acts that could not be prosecuted. Donald Trump moved on Friday to capitalize on the US supreme court’s decision to confer broad immunity to former presidents, asking ...Donald Trump -
The New York Times - Top stories
After Immunity Ruling, Trump Seeks Delay of Classified Documents Case
The former president’s lawyers asked to freeze nearly all proceedings while they sort out whether the Supreme Court decision applies to charges focused on actions after he left the White House.Donald Trump -
NBC News - Top stories
Trump seeks pause in documents case, citing Supreme Court immunity ruling
The former president has argued that removing classified documents from the White House and allegedly designating them as personal items were "official acts."Donald Trump -
The Hill - Politics
Supreme Court immunity decision collides with Trump’s NY conviction
Just one month after a New York jury made him the first former president convicted of a crime, the guilty verdict in former President Trump’s hush money case is already in peril following a Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. Trump’s ...Donald Trump -
The Hill - Politics
Here's the hush money evidence at the center of Trump's immunity claims
Former President Trump has argued prosecutors at his recent hush money trial introduced evidence that is protected under the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling, an assertion that could upend his conviction. Trump does not assert immunity ...Donald Trump -
The Hill - Politics
Schumer pushing bill to strip Trump of court-granted immunity
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Monday that he and other Senate Democrats will work to advance legislation to strip former President Trump of the immunity he was granted under a recent Supreme Court ruling protecting a ...Donald Trump