Jeff Mordock

Zelenskyy to visit Washington as Congress debates $24B in Ukraine aid

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit President Biden at the White House and lawmakers on Capitol Hill next week, national security advisor Jake Sullivan announced Friday.

September 15, 2023

Trump criticizes auto workers’ union, says its members are ‘being sold down the river’

Former President Donald Trump accused the United Auto Workers union of failing its members and moving jobs to China as thousands of workers went on strike Friday against the big three automakers.

September 15, 2023

Biden signals support for striking autoworkers

President Biden on Friday leaned toward the striking United Auto Workers union, saying Detroit's three major automakers have enjoyed profits that should be shared to a greater extent with employees.

September 15, 2023

U.S. Chamber blames Biden for encouraging UAW strike that now threatens economy

One of the nation's largest business organizations on Friday squarely blamed President Biden for the historic strike by members of the United Auto Workers union, which is the first time its members walked out simultaneously on all three major Detroit automakers.

September 15, 2023

Hunter Biden’s attorney blames MAGA Republicans for gun indictment

Hunter Biden's lawyer said Thursday that the federal gun charges filed against the first son are politically motivated and barred by an agreement he reached with prosecutors earlier this year.

September 14, 2023

Hunter Biden is indicted on federal firearms charges in a long-running probe weeks after a plea deal

Federal prosecutors on Thursday indicted President Biden's son Hunter Biden on three gun charges tied to possessing a firearm while using narcotics.

September 14, 2023

Mark Meadows withdraws emergency petition to delay trial

Mark Meadows, who was chief of staff under former President Donald Trump, told a federal appeals court Thursday he's withdrawing his emergency petition to pause the proceedings against him in the Georgia criminal interference case.

September 14, 2023

Georgia judge blocks Fani Willis’ aim to have Trump trial in October

Former President Donald Trump and 16 co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case will not go to trial in October, a state judge ruled Thursday in a stunning legal loss for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

September 14, 2023

Biden dismisses impeachment inquiry: ‘I’ve got a job to do’

President Biden brushed aside impeachment talk late Wednesday saying he was going to focus on his job and not what he claims is a political stunt.

September 13, 2023

White House refuses to answer questions about Biden’s false claims

The White House on Wednesday refused to answer questions about President Biden's history of telling embellished, if not outright fabricated stories during public remarks.

September 13, 2023

11th Circuit fast-tracks Meadows’ bid to have Georgia criminal case moved to federal court

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit wasted no time Tuesday taking up an emergency motion filed by Mark Meadows, President Trump's former chief of staff, to move his Georgia criminal election-interference case to a federal court.

September 12, 2023

Biden draws sharp rebuke for joke, false claim in 9/11 remarks

President Biden was sharply criticized for his rambling remarks commemorating the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that included a joke about playing football and a false claim that he was at ground zero in Manhattan the day after the World Trade Center collapsed.

September 12, 2023

Biden defends honoring 9/11 far from terror attack sites, says fighter jets scrambled in Alaska, too

President Biden commemorated the September 11 anniversary on Monday in Alaska, far from Ground Zero in Manhattan or other sites memorializing the 2,977 Americans who died that day.

September 11, 2023

Meadows requests emergency stay in Georgia case so he can appeal federal judge’s ruling on trial

Mark Meadows, President Trump's former chief of staff, filed an emergency motion Monday asking a federal judge to pause an order that kept his Georgia criminal election interference case in a state court, as he seeks to appeal the decision to a higher federal court.

September 11, 2023

Disgraced ex-FBI official in Trump-Russia probe asks court for more time to craft plea deal

The disgraced former FBI official who was once part of the bureau's Trump-Russia collusion probe has asked a federal court in Washington, D.C. for more time to negotiate a plea deal on charges that he violated U.S. sanctions while conspiring with a Russian oligarch.

September 11, 2023

Medal of Honor awarded to Army pilot who performed daring helicopter rescue in Vietnam

President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor on Tuesday to a Vietnam War Army helicopter pilot who scrambled to perform a daring rescue of four soldiers surrounded by heavy enemy fire and facing almost certain death.

September 5, 2023

Biden faces backlash after forgoing trips to East Palestine for 7 months

Seven months have passed since the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, and President Biden has yet to issue a disaster declaration at the site or visit the area.

September 5, 2023

Biden considering trip to East Palestine as soon as ‘this week’ despite packed schedule

President Biden appeared to have changed his tune on a possible visit to East Palestine, Ohio.

September 2, 2023

Biden to visit Florida Saturday, but will not meet with DeSantis

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden are traveling to Florida's Big Bend region early Saturday to survey damage from Hurricane Idalia, but the president won't be seeing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

September 2, 2023

White House says McCarthy floating impeachment to ‘throw red meat’ to GOP

The White House says that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's plans to move forward with an impeachment inquiry are baseless, accusing him of simply trying to throw "red meat" to "right-wing" Republicans.

September 1, 2023