Virginia B Patterson

President Biden’s disastrous debate performance has left Democrats scrambling for ways to strengthen their weakened president. Democratic lawmakers and strategists for months had predicted the presidential race would be extremely close, but they now see Biden as an underdog after he stumbled against former President Trump on the debate stage. The discussion over whether Biden should be the nominee has not ended, and new swing state polls in the coming week could give new ammunition to those who argue the party would be better off pushing Biden to step away in favor of another candidate. But Biden’s campaign, the White House and some of his top allies are insisting he’s not going anywhere. They’re more focused on strengthening Biden as the nominee.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tea Rohrberg was heading into her county's treasurer's office in Omaha, Nebraska, on Monday when she says she was approached by a man and asked if she wanted to sign a “pro-choice petition.” Because she believes access to abortion is a right all women should have, she readily signed. But Rohrberg soon learned from a different volunteer that she had actually signed a petition being circulated by Protect Women and Children, which seeks to ask voters in November to codify Nebraska's new 12-week abortion ban in the state constitution. She approached the man who she said had coerced her into signing the petition by calling it a “pro-choice” measure. She told him she wanted to cross her name off the petition. He told her he'd cross it off later, she said. “I was like, ‘No, I just want my name off it.' Then he said, 'Well then just vote no later,'" she said. What she did instead was head to the Omaha office of Protect Our Rights, which is...

The Supreme Court opened the door Monday to new, broad challenges to regulations long after they take effect, the third blow in a week to federal agencies. The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of a truck stop in North Dakota that wants to sue over a regulation on debit card swipe fees that the federal appeals court in Washington upheld 10 years ago. Federal law sets a six-year deadline for broad challenges to regulations. In this case, the regulation from the Federal Reserve governing the fees merchants must pay banks whenever customers use a debit card took effect in