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During an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Vice President Kamala Harris ackowledged that President Joe Biden had a “slow start” during Thursday night’s debate but insisted that it was a “strong finish.” Cooper repeatedly pressed Harris on Democratic concerns over Biden’s performance, in which…

"This cannot be real life. It just can’t," said an animated and live Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. The Comedy Central show was airing live Thursday after the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, and Stewart didn't hold back his disappointment about the…

If there was any winner in Thursday night’s first presidential debate, it was CNN. If there was a loser, it was absolutely Joe Biden. Throwing the already tight race into a tailspin for the faltering incumbent almost from the very beginning, the most memorable line maybe Biden's inability to finish…

UPDATED, 7:53 PM: “It was a game-changing debate in the sense that right now, as we speak, there is a deep, a wide and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party,” CNN’s John King said immediately after the the first debate of the 2024 presidential election season between Joe Biden and Donald Trump…

The first of two scheduled presidential debates ahead of the 2024 election will become the earliest debate in the history of a campaign as Democratic incumbent Joe Biden and third-time Republican candidate Donald Trump face off once again. Simulcasts and extra coverage will be available to watch on…

Supporters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump planned to hold watch parties across the country for CNN’s presidential debate, seizing on the event to energize their bases. In Los Angeles, three Democratic governors — Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Andy Beshear of Kentucky and JB Pritzker of Illinois — were…

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have each arrived in Atlanta for this evening’s CNN debate, an event that many predicted would unravel when it was first announced last month. Biden arrived at about 3:15 p.m. ET, and greeted an entourage that included former UN ambassador Andrew…

UPDATED, with CNN comment: The White House Correspondents’ Association is urging CNN to allow at least one print pool reporter inside the studio for the duration of tonight’s presidential debate, after the network rejected previous requests. When President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump…

UPDATE: A Supreme Court order will allow emergency abortions to continue in Idaho despite a strict new state law. The order, released today, is not a surprise: A document inadvertently posted to the court’s website on Wednesday was spotted by Bloomberg News, which reported on the pending…

Editor's note: It’s Debate Night in America and the Deadline ElectionLine podcast is kicking off our dawn-to dusk-coverage today of what will be the first face-off this year between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump. Stay tuned; later today we will be following the debate with breaking…

When UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took to the sodden steps of Downing Street just over a month ago, the world of British TV news was blindsided that a general election would take place in just six weeks time, an election that – scarcely believably – will be the first on these isles for five…

EXCLUSIVE: GB News represents “what Nigel Farage wants the future of the right to be,” according to Channel 4’s lead general election anchor. Farage was one of the right-leaning news network’s starriest presenters but quit several weeks ago in order to run for parliament and lead Reform UK, an…