Manny Rutinel, Democratic candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, once co-authored a paper that argued that livestock — not fossil fuels — should be more of a focus to combat global warming. “Simply put, achieving the Paris Agreement goals will be nearly impossible without ambitious policies that reform our food system,” Rutinel wrote in a 2022 paper with the Environmental Law Institute. “Despite the growing awareness...

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said Wednesday he would not vote for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to officially take over the role leading the Department of Justice. During a Wednesday appearance on comedian Jon Stewart’s podcast, Fetterman was pressed on Democrats’ failure to use the Senate filibuster to block President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees. The senator responded by claiming he would not vote for Blanche, who is Trump’s...

President Donald Trump has publicly been coy about whether he might back Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio to succeed him in the White House, but private comments to donors suggest he might be leaning toward the man he already picked as his running mate in 2024. “At the end of the day, we need to elect JD,” Trump said during an Oval Office...