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JD Vance is supposed to help Donald Trump win the Midwest this fall. But almost immediately after the Ohio senator was announced as Trump's vice presidential pick on Monday, one thing became clear: Vance, a 39-year-old Republican with less than two years in Congress, is not well-known among many in his party, even in the swing states Trump hopes he'll deliver. Michigan Republican Party Chairman Pete Hoekstra offered a blunt response when asked about Trump's pick minutes after it was announced: «We don't know him.» «If he's from Ohio, he understands our state and the other northern battlegrounds,» Hoekstra said, standing on the floor of the Republican National Convention (RNC). «But we haven't had a chance to take his measure yet.»

Republican National Convention began Monday at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It will come to an end on July 18. In this once-in-four-year- convention, delegates will select the nominee for the presidential election and his running mate. Republican contender Donald Trump has announced J.D. Vance as his running mate. He will be the youngest vice presidential nominee. If Trump is nominated officially, he will be the first Republican leader to be nominated the presidential candidate for the third term after Richard Nixon.

MILWAUKEE—In selecting his new apprentice, Donald Trump picked a familiar figure within his populist, right-wing base who brings a fresh face to an election featuring two older men. J.D. Vance, a millennial junior senator from Ohio who gained fame for his “Hillbilly Elegy" memoir about small-town America, offers Trump a natural successor to his MAGA movement.

Donald Trump cements his hold on his Republican Party at its 2024 convention this week, having survived an assassination attempt and navigated numerous legal tangles on the road to the party's presidential nomination. During the four-day event beginning on Monday, the former president will announce his choice for a running mate, having cited as frontrunners Ohio U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, all of whom will speak at the gathering. While the event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will be a festive affair to formally nominate Trump, it occurs at a tense moment in U.S. history on the road to the Nov. 5 election rematch between President Joe Biden, 81, and Trump, 78.

Wisconsin Republican Party Convention scheduled for July 15. The Republican Party is set to host the first convention of the 2024 election cycle in Wisconsin. Republicans are set to gather in Milwaukee to select Donald Trump as their presidential nominee at the party’s four-day convention starting on Monday. Read More: Trump Shooting Attempt: Who is 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, shooter behind attack on former President

Joe Biden was stage-managed? Was a teleprompter used? The Democrat contender spoke with reporters at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Biden read his opening remarks through a teleprompter before embarking on a wide-ranging 50-minute question-and-answer session with reporters. Except for a gaffe, Joe Biden looked comfortable replying to the questions of reporters assembled there, who quizzed him on subjects ranging from NATO to Ukraine War to the 2024 US Presidential Election.

The Associated Press says it will provide free campaign and election night coverage to dozens of small and independent newsrooms located in swing states, through a program funded by a Knight Foundation grant

As Thursday’s presidential debate reverberated through American politics, most attention focused on President Biden’s faltering performance. But there is another dimension to the story. The debate moved foreign policy to center stage in the presidential race even as it raised the temperature of world politics and increased the chances of more international crises as the U.S.

Baird has strengthened its operations in the Northeast as an industry veteran and former wirehouse advisor joins its ranks.

Joe Biden on Friday asserted that he is the presidential nominee of the Democratic party, he is in the race and will win the election again as he sought to clear all the doubts about the future of his candidacy for the November 5 elections. Over the past week, there has been speculation about him leaving the race, with increasing voices inside the party calling for his departure following his poor debate performance in Atlanta last week. On Friday, Biden sought to clear all such doubts. «We had a little debate last week. Can't say it was my best performance. But ever since then, there's been a lot of speculation. What's Joe going to do? Is he going to stay in the race? Is he going to drop out? What's he going to do? Well, here's my answer. I am running and going to win again,» Biden told his cheering supporters in the battle ground State of Wisconsin. «I am the sitting President of the United States of America, no small part because of you. That's not a joke. In 2020, you came through for me. I'm the nominee of the Democratic Party. I'm the nominee of this party because millions of Democrats like you just voted for me in primaries all across America. You voted for me to be your nominee. No one else. You, the votes. The voters did that,» he said during the rally.

Joe Biden's dismal performance in the June 27 presidential debate and the damage has been done. Republican contender Donald Trump is gaining ground in key swing states and may threaten to take states once considered to be safe for Democrats, despite Biden's resolve to stay in the contest and beat the former president once again. According to 'Cook Political Report', Biden's base has further eroded and he is losing the survey polls post-debate. Its Editor-in-Chief Amy Walter wrote in an article that the post-debate polling would further move Minnesota, New Hampshire and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District from “Likely Democratic” to “Lean Democratic.” It also moved Nevada, Arizona and Georgia from “Tossup” to “Lean Republican.”

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Two Lockheed Martin subsidiaries have agreed to pay the federal government $70 million for overcharging the Navy for aircraft parts

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Moon is slowly moving away from Earth, 3.82 centimeters per year. Over millions of years, that movement lengthens the average day on Earth. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined rock formations aged at 90 million years to analyze the Earth-Moon interactions 1.4 billion years ago. The scientists concluded that in 200 million years, days on Earth will last 25 hours.

Joe Biden drop out of the 2024 US Presidential Election? This question is looming large over the party and the political system of the country as he has slipped to the all-time low rating of 37.4%. Pollster Nate Silver has said that «Biden just hit a new all-time low in approval.» He took to the social media platform X to write that dropping out would be a big risk, but there’s some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk.

A new network is launching to carry games from three Chicago pro teams, the Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox

Wisconsin’s relatively small investment in Bitcoin ETFs could snowball into something larger by orders of magnitude, according to an ex-finance professor within the state.

The Supreme Court has given homeowners another chance to force Bank of America and other large banks to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts

A law that drew massive protests and made Wisconsin the center of a national fight over union rights has returned to court, facing a new challenge from teachers and public workers brought after the state’s Supreme Court flipped to liberal control

China has sanctioned 12 defense-related U.S. companies and 10 executives over arms sales to Taiwan and to retaliate for earlier American sanctions on Chinese companies tied to Russia