Joe Biden

Joe Biden, America's oldest ever president, said Monday he understood a focus on his age but that he was running for re-election because Donald Trump wanted to "destroy" US democracy.

The 80-year-old usually avoids the age issue but addressed it during a fundraiser at a Broadway theatre in New York, saying his experience helped him deal with crises like Ukraine and Covid.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy told his caucus on Monday that they run the risk of alienating Americans with their budget battle if a government shutdown unfolds.

"If you shut down [the government], you really cede the power to the government," McCarthy said, referring to President Joe Biden as the government while speaking on “The Truth with Lisa Boothe."

Instead of attending the second Republican Party debate, Donald Trump will hold an event with 500 union workers from the United Auto Workers in Detroit. The event will come after Trump attacked the union for the strike. There are 13,000 workers in the UAW "big three." Trump's 500-person rally would be 3.8 percent of the union workers.

The comment comes amid Trump's attacks on the UAW leadership, which he says is leading the union down the wrong path with the strike.

If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be term limited out of his current role at the end of 2026, unless he manages to turn around his fortunes in the presidential race and moves to the White House before that. And there's one figure who appears ready to run to succeed him, reported NBC News on Monday: far-right Congressman Matt Gaetz.

The prominent Freedom Caucus member and Trump ally fueled the speculation while speaking to NBC about a Sunday event he attended celebrating Miami Republican state Rep. Danny Perez, who will be designated state House Speaker.

Donald Trump is urging Republicans to remove President Joe Biden from office by invoking the 25th Amendment, which in part details the process for removing and replacing a sitting U.S. President by his own Vice President and his own Cabinet, not Congress.

The 25th Amendment also allows for a sitting U.S. President to temporarily remove himself or herself from the responsibilities of office and officially had that responsibility to their Vice President, say, if the President were to undergo surgery and be under anesthesia, or in other cases where they decide they should not hold power for a limited time.

Exposure to a range of widely used chemicals may significantly increase the odds of certain hormonally driven cancers in women, according to U.S. government-funded research published Monday.

In a study appearing in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, researchers analyzed data collected by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and found that women exposed to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), phenols, and parabens had higher odds of having been diagnosed with cancers of the breast, ovary, skin, and uterus.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy its being attacked by far-right House Republicans and being mocked as their "victim" as he openly admits to the press that he doesn't "quite know what" they want just days before what appears to be an increasingly-likely federal government shutdown that will lay at the feet of his members including U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

"It's a good thing I love a challenge," Speaker McCarthy told reporters Monday morning (video below) as he slammed extremist members of the House Republican Conference. "Because every day is gonna be a challenge."

US President Joe Biden hailed a prisoner swap with Iran as cause for celebration Monday, but Republican criticism makes the deal politically risky ahead of the 2024 election.

The White House has defended the exchange, in which five "innocent Americans" flew out of Iran following the release of $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds. Five Iranians held in the US were also freed.

Donald Trump dumped on the prisoner exchange agreement brokered by the Biden administration that saw five Americans wrongfully imprisoned in Iran freed Monday.

The agreement gives Tehran access to $6 billion in oil revenues that had been frozen under U.S. sanctions, and five Iranian nationals in U.S. custody are also expected to be released.

Following are key dates in the storied relationship between the United States and its arch-rival Iran since Washington pulled out of a landmark nuclear pact with Tehran in 2018.

2018: nuclear deal walkout

After years of mounting concern over Iran's nuclear enrichment program, world powers reach a deal with Tehran on sanctions relief in exchange for guarantees it will not build an atomic bomb.

At the end of an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) got off a shot at two of his Republican colleagues in the House after he was asked about concerns about President Joe Biden.

Initially speaking with the hosts about Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville's hamstringing of the military over concerns about Pentagon abortion policies, Crow was asked in parting about attacks on Biden's "mental competency" from Republicans.

According to the Colorado Democrat, GOP leaders have a bigger problem on their hands that they need to deal with.

POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office?

"Where do you stand on the president's age and on the age of those senior politicians more generally?" he was asked by panelist Katty Kay.

"I think it's wrong to look at age, I think we should look at capacity, I think we should look at acuity and leadership," he replied.