Latest David Axelrod News

CNN defamation trial comes at a rough time for legacy media — and for the struggling network

Jan. 08, 2025 16:49 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — At a particularly inopportune time for legacy media and CNN, the news outlet is on trial in Florida this week, accused of defaming a Navy veteran involved in rescuing endangered Afghans from that country when the U.S. ended its involvement there in 2021. The...

Carter and Biden's long friendship had wrinkles. It will be on display a final time with a eulogy

Jan. 08, 2025 09:08 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is the consummate Washington insider. Jimmy Carter was anything but. Yet the 46th and 39th U.S. presidents had a decades-long friendship starting when Biden, as a young Delaware lawmaker, became the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s outsider...

Biden has become notably quiet after the 2024 election and Democrats' loss

Nov. 20, 2024 18:51 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has been notably quiet since the Democrats' gut-wrenching defeat at the polls. After warning voters for years that a Donald Trump win would be calamitous for American democracy, Biden has gone largely silent on his concerns about what lays...