Joe Biden

They have been shadowboxing at separate campaign stops across the United States for weeks but the Democratic and Republican leaders find themselves on the same battlefield Saturday as they make closing pitches in Pennsylvania for next week's midterm election.

President Joe Biden will rally alongside his old boss Barack Obama as the Democrats deploy their big guns to build the energy they hope will spread nationwide and reverse the late rightward-shift in polling.

President Joe Biden took executive action in August to forgive the student loans of millions of Americans, and immediately hit tremendous opposition from Republicans. Now, for the second time, the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block President Biden's student loan forgiveness program – at least for now.

16 million Americans have already been approved by the U.S. Dept. of Education to have their loans, or a portion of their loans, forgiven. 26 million have already applied.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday night signaled to his supporters in Sioux City, Iowa that he's close to making an announcement about the 2024 election, as his advisers are reportedly preparing for a campaign launch days after the midterms.

As Axios reported Friday, Trump's aides are "discussing announcing the launch of a 2024 presidential campaign on November 14."

President Joe Biden on Friday accused the Republican leadership of "rooting for a recession" after new Labor Department figures showed the U.S. economy added 261,000 jobs in October, more than analysts expected but down slightly from the previous month.

"Today's jobs report—adding 261,000 jobs with the unemployment rate still at a historically low 3.7%—shows that our jobs recovery remains strong," Biden said in a statement.

United States Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently told a roomful of constituents that he wants former President Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico to be completed because other historical barriers prevented people from crossing between neighboring nations.

"When you have an open border, you don't really have a country because sovereignty is connected with who can come to America or not come to America, just like any other country," said Grassley – who at the age of eighty-nine was born closer to the 1861 start of Abraham Lincoln's presidency than Joe Biden's in 2020 – is seeking an eighth consecutive Senate term. If the GOP retakes the Senate majority in the midterm elections next Tuesday, Grassley as pro tempore would be third in the presidential line of succession.

Entering the final stretch of the midterm campaign, Sen. Bernie Sanders warned in a Fox News op-ed Friday that the United States is in the midst of an economic crisis caused by corporate greed—and that a Republican-controlled Congress would "make a bad situation even worse."

"During this campaign, my Republican colleagues talk a lot about inflation, and they are right to do so," Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote. "Over the last year, Americans have become sick and tired of paying outrageously high prices for food, gas, healthcare, prescription drugs, housing, and other necessities."

Former president Donald Trump’s two remaining Georgia endorsees, Senate candidate Herschel Walker and lieutenant governor hopeful state Sen. Burt Jones met up outside a Smyrna gun store Thursday evening as the sun set on the state’s penultimate day of early voting.

Republican nominee Walker is neck-and-neck with Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, while polls show Jones holds a single-digit lead over his opponent, attorney Charlie Bailey.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Friday angrily lashed out after seeing his new company suffer a massive drop in advertising revenue -- and then had to see his own platform offer a fact check to his claims.

In a tweet posted Friday morning, Musk complained that "Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists."

According to a report from CNN, Donald Trump may announce his run for the 2024 Republican Party nomination on Nov. 14, but another announcement -- or announcements -- may preempt the former president's third bid for the presidency which could complicate its impact.

The report states that the Department of Justice will be free of their "quiet period" on announcing criminal investigations or indictments related to the Jan. 6 insurrection after the midterm election on Tuesday, and lawyers for members of Trump's inner circle have no idea if their clients may be one of those named.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released the October jobs report and economists are thrilled once again with the numbers. Employment increased by 261,000 in October, and unemployment ticked up slightly to 3.7% – which remains an astonishingly great number. Economists used to say 5% unemployment was considered "full" employment.

"This is a very strong economy," writes popular University of Michigan School of Economics Professor Justin Wolfers, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution.

According to a report from the Washington Post, the growing sea-change in Arizona, which appeared to be becoming more of a swing-state based on the 2020 election results, is going back to being a conservative bastion thanks to the work of a pro-Trump youth group that has bullied and threatened moderate Republicans in the state to fall in line.

As the Post reports, Turning Point USA has become a force in Arizona based upon "...audio recordings of private meetings, personal messages and interviews with more than 80 people, including current and former Turning Point employees, public officials and their staffers, political consultants and state and local party activists who have interacted with the nonprofit’s leaders."