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Vivek Ramaswamy is running for president. This is part of a series on the 2024 president ial candidates. Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy was born on Aug. 9, 1985, in Cincinnati to Hindu Indian immigrant parents. He is married to Apoorva Ramaswamy, an assistant professor and clinician at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. They have two sons. He graduated from Harvard College in 2007 and received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2013. In 2014, he founded the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Science s. He said he considered running for the U.S. Senate in Ohio in 2022. In February of 2023, he announced his candidacy for the Republican president ial nomination. Ramaswamy has been quoted saying that "abortion is a form of murder," and he supports state-level six-week abortion bans with some exceptions. He supports abolishing the Department of Education , the FBI and the IRS. Ramaswamy advocates for ending U.S. Military aid to Ukraine and excluding Ukraine from NATO. He oppo...

Joe Biden is running for president in 2024. ABC News Photo Illustration / Alex Gilbeaux Joe Biden was born on Nov. 20, 1942, and grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is married to his wife, Jill, and has two children, Hunter and Ashley, along with two children who are deceased, Beau and Naomi. Naomi, along with Biden’s first wife, Neilia, were killed in a car accident in 1972, leaving Beau and Hunter badly injured. He was sworn in as senator of Delaware from Hunter’s hospital room a couple months later, becoming the youngest senator in History . During his 36 years in the Senate, Biden served as chairman or ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for 16 years. Biden served two terms as vice president under Barack Obama beginning in 2009. In 2015, Biden’s son, Beau, lost his battle with brain cancer and died at the age of 4. In 2016, Biden was tasked by Obama to lead the Cancer Moonshot initiative, with hopes to someday eradicate the disease. Biden was elected president in N...

Former vice president Mike Pence spoke with ABC News' Linsey Davis on Tuesday about former President Donald Trump skipping Wednesday's Republican debate. In a wide-ranging interview Tuesday with ABC News' Linsey Davis, former vice president Mike Pence said his former running mate, former President Donald Trump, should be facing the same questions in Simi Valley, California, as the rest of the field, with hours to go until the second Republican primary debate. "Well, I think he owes it to voters to answer the tough questions and to share his vision for where we lead this country out of the failed policies of the Biden administration," Pence said from outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. "I think that Donald Trump today is different than the Donald Trump of 2016. And you bet I think he ought to be on that debate stage." "He ought to be engaging all of us that are vying for this nomination. He ought to be sharing his vision," he added...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took swipes at former President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin during her portrait unveiling Tuesday. At an event Tuesday highlighting her contributions to American diplomacy as the 67th secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made barbed remarks about her political rivals, issuing thinly veiled criticisms of her one-time presidential opponent Donald Trump and taking direct aim at Russian leader Vladimir Putin. After being introduced by current Secretary of State Antony Blinken, she thanked him for the contributions he had made so far, remarking that at one point it would have been nearly unthinkable for the United States and its allies to remain united behind Ukraine because of what she described as damage done during the Trump administration -- without ever calling out the former president by name. "We had burned so bridges with our allies and our friends, so reinstating a foreign policy that plays to the best of American val...

"This is going to be a historic visit," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said as she previewed Biden's trip to join the UAW picket line. President Joe Biden will join the United Auto Workers picket line Tuesday in his strongest show of support yet for union members striking against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. Biden announced Friday on X that he would travel to Wayne County, Michigan, "to join the picket line and stand in solidarity with the men and women of UAW as they fight for a fair share of the value they helped create." It's a move some experts are calling apparently unprecedented in modern political History , something the White House has been quick to tout. "He supports the UAW workers and tomorrow what you're going to see is historic ," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday, although she declined to give further details on where exactly Biden will be, exactly what he'll do an...

Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom will debate each other on Fox News on Nov. 30 in Georgia; Sean Hannity will moderate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom -- ideological rivals in two of the country's biggest states -- will debate each other on Fox News on Nov. 30 in Georgia, the network announced on Monday. A news release from Fox News describes the 90-minute event as a "red vs. blue state debate ," which will be moderated by Sean Hannity. The showdown further underscores the rising profiles of both men. DeSantis, who easily won reelection last year, is campaigning for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Newsom, a Democrat, likewise cruised to a second term last year and has swatted away chatter that he could be considering a White House bid of his own. A debate between the governors has been in the works for roughly two months, according to both of their public comments over that time. Still, they have sometimes appeared at odds over the par...

The government is on the brink of a shutdown -- and with just five days until the Saturday deadline, many federal workers and agencies are bracing for impact. Much of the government is getting close to shutting down Oct. 1 as Congress struggles to pass a stopgap funding deal -- and on Monday, with just five days to go, many federal workers and agencies were bracing for impact. The House and Senate have until the end of the day on Saturday, Sept. 30 to pass a spending deal. Little progress was made over the weekend, and with Congress not returning until Tuesday evening after being off for the Yom Kippur holiday, there's so little time left a shutdown is being seen as almost inevitable. In anticipation of that, the Office of Management and Budget has advised federal agencies to review and update their shutdown plans. OMB will tell agencies to enact those shutdown plans, including notifying employees whether they have been furloughed or should continue to report to work on Oct. 1. MO...

Rep. Mike Turner accused House Republican renegades of "voting with Nancy Pelosi" as they continue to rebuff Kevin McCarthy in his efforts to avoid a government shutdown. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, on Sunday accused House Republican renegades of " voting with Nancy Pelosi" as a handful of conservatives in the chamber continue to rebuff Speaker Kevin McCarthy's approach to the government budget in his efforts to avoid a shutdown at month's end. "The holdouts keep saying to Kevin McCarthy, 'Don’t bring bipartisan bills to the floor, we don't want to use Democrat votes to try to avert a shutdown ,' but they're using Democrat votes to try to cause a shutdown . And these individuals, these Republican holdouts , are voting with Nancy Pelosi against Republican bills that have been brought to the floor that will -- could trigger a shutdown ," Turner told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz, invoking the name of the sp...