In a move that could alter the dynamics of the 2024 election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Monday that he would continue his presidential run as an independent candidate, ending his long-shot pursuit of the Democratic nomination against an incumbent president. “I am here to declare myself an independent candidate for president of the…
Jack Schlossberg had enough. The only grandson of President John F. Kennedy, Mr. Schlossberg had been watching the presidential campaign of his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with increasing dismay. To Mr. Schlossberg, the quixotic challenge to President Biden for the Democratic nomination was just a “vanity project” that was tarnishing the legacy of his…
The Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came to Capitol Hill on Thursday and pointedly declared that he is neither an antisemite nor a racist, while giving a fiery defense of free speech and accusing the Biden administration and his political opponents of trying to silence him. Mr. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who turned…
He has promoted a conspiracy theory that coronavirus vaccines were developed to control people via microchips. He has endorsed the false notion that antidepressants are linked to school shootings. And he has pushed the decades-old theory that the C.I.A. killed his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer, is…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the political scion and prominent vaccine skeptic who is challenging President Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, reported an income of $7.8 million in the year leading up to his entry into the race, including nearly $1.6 million from his consulting work for a personal injury law firm known for litigation…
A passenger plane flying out of Kennedy International Airport had to bring its takeoff to an abrupt halt on Friday night after another crossed the runway in its path 1,000 feet ahead, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The departing plane, a Boeing 737 operated by Delta Air Lines, was about to take off around…
In fact, Mr. Schrade came to believe that there were two gunmen: Mr. Sirhan, who shot him and the other four people, and another, who shot Senator Kennedy. He claimed that the Los Angeles police did not do their best to find the second gunman, and that more than the eight bullets in Mr. Sirhan’s…