President Biden made a fresh appeal for voting rights reform as he commemorated the 58th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama.
Driving the news: A critical day in the Civil Rights movement, "Bloody Sunday" in 1965 saw a peaceful demonstration demanding, in part, for an expansion of voting rights end with police beating demonstrators.
Former President Trump won't become the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2024, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) predicted during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
Driving the news: "He's not going to be the nominee, that's just not going to happen," Sununu said, adding the GOP is looking for fresh leadership.
Driving the news: No hazardous chemicals were released from the train, officials said at a news conference Sunday. Two tankers had residual amounts of diesel exhaust fluid, and the other had residual amounts of polyacrylamide water solution.
First lady Jill Biden dismissed former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley's call for competency tests for older politicians during an interview with CNN set to air Monday night, calling the idea "ridiculous."
Driving the news: During her presidential campaign announcement, Haley touted the idea that politicians over the age of 75 should be required to take mandatory mental competency tests.
This week's CPAC conference underscored the difficulty Republicans will have in keeping their increasingly fractured coalition together for 2024.
Why it matters: The Republican Party once was defined by its general ideological unity on three core conservative principles: free markets, a muscular foreign policy and traditional social values. Those pillars made up the Reagan revolution.
D.C. local officials criticized President Biden's announcement that he would block changes to the city's criminal code as a major setback for statehood in the nation's capital.
Why it matters: Officials say the intervention in D.C. political affairs undermines their legislative autonomy — and they fear that the congressional meddling may reach other bills in the nation's capital.
The top Democrat and Republican on the House Intelligence Committee say that last week's classified document briefing left questions still unanswered on the series of document discoveries found at the residences of President Biden, former President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.
Driving the news: "Let's just say that neither one of us are satisfied that we got enough information to execute our primary responsibility of making sure that sources and methods have been protected," Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday on NBC News' "Meet the Press."
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized the Trump administration's track record on fiscal policy during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday."
Why it matters: The criticism from Pompeo — who served in the Trump administration — comes amid long-swirling speculation that he may be mulling a 2024 presidential run himself.
Former President Trump escalated his attacks on China at CPAC last night, testing his ability to move the U.S. toward a more confrontational approach on trade with the communist nation.
Why it matters: The last six years have shown that Trump’s hawkish proposals on China — initially dismissed as dangerous and impossible — have a way of becoming plausible, and even policy.
