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With President Biden no longer in the race, former President Donald J. Trump would be the oldest person ever to serve in the Oval Office. But his rambling, sometimes incoherent public statements have stirred concern among voters.
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The former president suggests he wants to see marijuana reclassified as a Schedule III drug, the first time Trump has endorsed the easing of federal restrictions.
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 Rodin Eckenroth/Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesRon Howard has finally started responding to questions about his role in elevating the profile of Donald Trump's now running mate, JD Vance, after adapting Vance's memoir into 2020's Amy Adams and Glenn Close starrer Hillbilly Elegy.
Howard, speaking from the Toronto International Film Festival where he's promoting his latest movie Eden, told Deadline he's been both "surprised and disappointed" by what he's heard from Vance since his ascension to the spotlight after Trump selected him for VP. According to Howard, at the time he was adapting Vance's book into the Netflix film, the Ohio-born lawyer wasn't interested in politics.
"We didn't talk a lot of politics when we were making the movie," Howard told the site, "I was interested in his upbringing and that survival tale. That's what we mostly focused on." But, as Howard said, "that was then."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Andrew Kelly/ReutersDon Lemon says his widely condemned on-air comments about Nikki Haley being past her "prime" were "totally misconstrued."
The former CNN host was fired last year by the network two months after he made the remarks during his ill-fated run on CNN This Morning. Lemon spoke about the incident in a new interview with The New York Times ahead of the release of his new memoir this week.
"That was totally misconstrued," Lemon told the Times of his comments about Haley, who was at the time running for the Republican presidential nomination. He meant to convey that the general public might consider Haley a has-been, the newspaper reports, rather than expressing a view that he personally held.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee summoned the secretary of state for testimony just days before an expected report on the U.S. exit, in which 13 American service members were killed.
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