Alec Hernández

Nov 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | Katherine Doyle |Alec Hernández

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump will return to Washington on Wednesday — entering the White House for the first time since he was voted out of office — to meet with President Joe Biden for a ceremony meant to signal the peaceful transfer of power. Trump did not offer to Biden the same meeting in 2020, as he refused to concede the election results and worked to delay Biden’s taking office.

Nov 13, 2024 | yahoo.com | Henry Gomez |Alec Hernández |Katherine Doyle |Ben Kamisar

In the memoir that made him famous, JD Vance practically apologized for the book’s existence, writing that he had “accomplished nothing great” in his life — “certainly nothing that would justify a complete stranger paying money to read about it.”Nearly a decade later, Vance, now 40, is the vice president-elect and potential heir to a political movement that has realigned the Republican Party. History will remember him for more than “Hillbilly Elegy,” his bestseller that was made into a movie.

Nov 5, 2024 | yahoo.com | Alec Hernández

An effort to legalize the use of recreational marijuana in Florida has failed at the ballot box, NBC News projects. Despite endorsements running the gamut from the Florida Democratic Party to former President Donald Trump, Amendment 3, which would have legalized the recreational use and manufacturing of marijuana in the state, failed to get the 60% voter support needed to pass a state constitutional amendment.

Nov 4, 2024 | yahoo.com | Henry Gomez |Alec Hernández

FLINT, Mich. — Sen. JD Vance, who says his partnership with Donald Trump has cost him friends, is wrapping up his campaign for vice president by asking voters not to let their political differences come between them. “I really don’t like Kamala Harris and her policies, but most of the people who are voting for Kamala Harris are fundamentally decent people,” Vance, R-Ohio, said in an interview aboard his campaign plane Monday.

Oct 30, 2024 | yahoo.com | Alec Hernández |Annemarie Bonner

Nicky Jam, a Puerto Rican Dominican singer who endorsed former President Donald Trump in September, has backtracked after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally Sunday. “Never in my life did I think that just one month later a comedian would show up and criticize my country, and speak poorly of my country.