Representatives for former President Trump pushed back Monday on two leading Democrats' comments that there are potential grounds to remove him from the 2024 presidential ballot under the 14th Amendment's "insurrection clause."
Driving the news: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said Sunday there's a strong case for disqualifying Trump from the ballot due to Section 3 of the amendment, which prevents anyone who "engaged in insurrection" against the U.S. from holding elected office. A Trump campaign spokesperson called this an "absurd conspiracy theory."
President Biden included pointed attacks against former President Trump during a Labor Day speech in Pennsylvania on Monday.
Why it matters: Biden, speaking to the Sheet Metal Workers' Local 19 in Philadelphia, criticized Trump's performance on jobs and infrastructure while also attempting to shore up his union base.
Tuesday is the latest "do or die" deadline for Digital World Acquisition Corp., the blank check acquisition company seeking to take former President Trump's social media company public.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday plans to replace Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov because he said "new approaches" were needed.
Driving the news: Zelensky said in a televised address that lawmakers would vote this week on whether to dismiss Reznikov, who's led the ministry since before Russia's military launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. "I expect the Parliament to support" nominee Rustem Umerov, who heads Ukraine's State Property Fund, Zelensky said.
GOP presidential contender and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley said that America's enemies think the country is "out of control" when older politicians stumble in the public spotlight.
Driving the news: Haley, who has previously called for mental competency tests for some elected officials, told CBS News Sunday that U.S.' enemies are "watching all of this" and the country is "less safe" because of it.
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he wouldn't have nominated fake electors to help contest the 2020 race if put in Trump's shoes.
Driving the news:Ramaswamy said "bad judgments" were made in regard to former President Trump's alleged fake electors scheme to subvert the 2020 election results while speaking to ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week."
The news that West Virginia University (WVU) may ax its entire world languages program sent humanities scholars and others into a tailspin — so much so that the university backpedaled a bit late Tuesday.
The concern is less for what the plan says about the ongoing decline of language education than for how it might imperil socioeconomic opportunity for students in the poor, rural state — and for what it may portend for humanities education more broadly.
