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Plus, coronavirus vaccines are finally reaching poor countries, but some can’t cover the cost of administering them, and Women’s sports can do at least one thing men’s can’t, experts say: get bigger.
Plus, Georgia sports teams and major companies such as Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines condemn new state voting law, and the EPA dismisses dozens of key science advisers picked under Trump.
Plus, ‘I stay up nights apologizing to George Floyd,’ says teen who documented his death for the world, and Gretchen Whitmer asks White House to surge vaccines to virus hot spots as cases climb.
Plus, the White House dramatically increased tax proposal as it sought to address tensions over next big spending plan, and the CDC confirms Pfizer, Moderna vaccines are 90% effective after two doses in study of real-life conditions.
Plus, Senators see a possibility of bipartisan support for gun background checks in the wake of mass shootings, and the next phase of crisis at the border.
Plus, Georgia’s governor signs into law a sweeping voting reform bill, and multiple Republican senate candidates gear up for the 2022 elections.
Plus, the White House considers extending a federal ban on evictions, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s family were given special access to COVID testing.
Plus, the Senate confirms Vivek H. Murthy as surgeon general, and North Korea fires short-range missiles in challenge to Biden administration.
Plus, AstraZeneca’s U.S. trial shows coronavirus vaccine is 79 percent effective, and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is confirmed to lead Labor Department.
Plus, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin makes an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, and, the accused gunman in the Atlanta shootings gets expelled from his church.
Plus, the Senate confirms William Burns as next director of the CIA, and Donald Trump faces an onslaught of legal problems, as investigations and dozens of lawsuits trail him from Washington to Florida.
Plus, the IRS to push the filing deadline for 2020 taxes to mid-May, and Ohio attorney general sues Biden administration over the stimulus package.
Plus, House Democrats bring back Medicare-for-all, seeking to push Biden left, and Israeli archaeologists discover new Dead Sea Scrolls for first time in 60 years.
Plus, four of Europe’s largest countries suspend AstraZeneca vaccinations; safety agency says blood clot incidence is low. And Derek Chauvin’s attorney asks for continuance and change of venue in George Floyd case.
Plus, President Biden’s push for equity in education faces a critical test, and, where we stand on the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Plus, DOJ seeks to build large conspiracy case against Oath Keepers for Jan. 6 riot, and, amid criticism for human rights abuses, China offers vaccine doses for all Olympic athletes.
Plus, the leaked U.S. plan to end the war in Afghanistan, and China and Russia to open moon base.
Plus, Brazil’s growing coronavirus outbreak poses a threat far beyond its borders, and Biden’s dogs to return to White House after younger pet causes a ‘minor injury’ to an ‘unfamiliar person.'
Plus, the RNC moves portion of its spring donor retreat to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, and Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah stunned, but is it likely to change the monarchy?
Plus, Biden signs executive order promoting voting rights on 56th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday,' and New York state Senate majority leader says Gov. Andrew Cuomo must resign.
Plus, Meghan Markle says the royal family can’t expect her silence if palace is ‘perpetuating falsehoods,' and David Brooks of New York Times is criticized for undisclosed financial ties.
Plus, Texas and Mississippi move to open ‘100%’ and lift mask mandates, and, reasons you’re tired of Zoom calls.
Plus, female stars and the media machine of the early 2000s, and community colleges are at a crossroads.
Plus, Senate confirms Miguel Cardona as education secretary, and, where Jill Biden drops by for a cup of coffee can make quite a statement.
Plus, the CDC recommends Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine, enabling inoculations to start this week, and the making of Madison Cawthorn.
Plus, Biden defends vaccine rollout as he marks 50 million vaccinations, and a sailor who fell overboard clung to ‘sea rubbish’ for 16 hours to survive.
Plus, Biden nominates three to USPS board of governors as DeJoy testifies on mail crises, and Supreme Court considers giving police greater powers when pursuing suspects.
Plus, the Biden administration preparing to sanction Russia for SolarWinds hacks and the poisoning of an opposition leader, and Justin Trudeau conveys relief in meeting with Biden, but sticking points remain.
Plus, Dominion Voting Systems files a defamation suit against the MyPillow CEO over false election claims, and the first real-world coronavirus vaccine data out of Britain shows a decline in hospitalizations after the first dose.
Plus, the White House reiterates teacher vaccinations are ‘not a prerequisite’ to reopening schools, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz is trying to repair his public image following an ill-timed trip to Mexico.
Plus, the White House announces $4 billion in funding for Covax, the global vaccine effort that Trump spurned, and NASA rover Perseverance lands on Mars in mission to search for past life.
Plus, vaccine shortage prompts U.S. diplomats to request doses from foreign governments, including Russia, and the U.K. gets approval to infect healthy volunteers in world’s first coronavirus ‘challenge trial’
Plus, the Texas grid got crushed because its operators didn’t see the need to prepare for cold weather, and House Homeland Security chairman sues Trump and Giuliani, accusing them of inciting Capitol riot.
Plus, deadly cold snap shuts down central U.S. Texas is ground zero, and, Parler is back online more than a month after tangle with Amazon knocked it offline
Plus, President Biden says that the U.S. will have enough vaccines for 300 million people by the end of July, and dozens of former GOP officials reportedly met last week to discuss mounting a new anti-Trump party.
Plus, the CDC is urging Americans to wear two masks to better prevent the spread of COVID-19, and, the Biden administration tells the Supreme Court the affordable care act is constitutional and should be saved.
Plus, the Biden administration asks for the resignations from current US Attorneys, and after a mission to Wuhan investigating the origins of the pandemic, a World Health Organization team dismisses theories that the virus originated in a lab leak.
Plus, Workers who quit their jobs out of fear of contracting the coronavirus at work are hoping to collect unemployment benefits under the Biden administration and hedge funds may have ended up the biggest winner in the Game Stop stock frenzy.
Plus, senior Democrats to unveil $3,000-per-child benefit as Biden stimulus gains steam, and new Biden rules for ICE point to fewer arrests and deportations, and a more restrained agency.
Plus, Johnson and Johnson seeks emergency FDA authorization for single-shot coronavirus vaccine, and as transit agencies ramp up mask enforcement, Congress airs concerns about safety of transportation workers.
Plus, prosecutors seek to rearrest Kyle Rittenhouse, and Canada declares the Proud Boys a terrorist group.
Plus, Rep. Liz Cheney faces a backlash for voting to impeach Trump in her home state, and as Gamestop stock crumbles, amateur traders reckon with heavy losses.
Plus, former President Trump hires a new legal team for his second impeachment, and a federal study finds that race and ethnicity data is missing for nearly half of vaccine recipients
Plus, experts urge faster vaccinations and stepped up efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus variants, and Republican representative Adam Kinzinger is starting a PAC to challenge the party’s embrace of former President Trump.
Plus, D.C. officials slam a proposal to erect permanent fencing around the U.S. Capitol. And a coronavirus variant first seen in South Africa is identified in South Carolina.
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Plus, Republicans back away from confronting Trump and his loyalists after the Capitol insurrection, embracing them instead, and, at first coronavirus briefing, the White House acknowledges vaccinations will take months.
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Plus, Democrats turn to quick action on Biden’s covid relief bill after a power-sharing deal in Senate, and CDC-backed studies find scant spread of the coronavirus in schools.
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Plus, House Democrats plan to focus impeachment trial on how rioters reacted to Trump’s remarks, and the first U.S. case of a highly transmissible Brazil coronavirus variant has been identified in Minnesota.
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Plus, lawmakers in both parties lobby White House for a more targeted relief bill, and pandemic aftershocks overwhelm global supply lines.
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Plus, Biden signs order requiring masks on planes, buses, trains and at airports, and top Senate Republicans push to delay Trump impeachment trial.
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Plus, Democrats officially take control of a 50-50 Senate, and QAnon believers grapple with doubt and spin new theories as Trump era ends.
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Plus, Uncertainty reigns in the Senate as Mitch McConnell says President Trump provoked the mob, and a dozen members of the National Guard are removed from inaugural duty.
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Plus, QAnon adherents discuss posing as National Guard troops to infiltrate the inauguration, and Senate committees will hold hearings today for Joe Biden’s national security nominees.
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Plus, President Trump plans to offer clemency to more than 100 people, and Global pressure mounts for release of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Plus, Dozens of people on the FBI’s terrorist watch list came to D.C. on the day of the insurrection, and the Secret Service is spending $144,000 so agents protecting Ivanka Trump's house can go to the bathroom.
Plus, President Trump grows increasingly isolated, sullen and vengeful in his final days, and President-elect Biden reluctantly cancels his plans to arrive in Washington by train because of growing security concerns.
Plus, the Secret Service takes command today of all security preparations for the inauguration, and the FBI warned of a “war” at the Capitol the day before the mayhem.
Plus, new details emerge about President Trump's initial refusal to act after the mob stormed the Capitol, and Joe Biden scrambles to prevent a second Trump impeachment trial from hampering his first 100 days.
Plus, the PGA pulls its 2022 championship from President Trump’s golf course, and More evidence emerges that Trump exerted potentially criminal influence on Georgia election officials.
Plus, Senator Josh Hawley faces fierce criticism after Wednesday's violence. And, the siege on the Capitol may have been a COVID-19 superspreader event.
Plus, Some White House aides resign in protest, as others discuss the 25th Amendment, and Joe Biden taps Merrick Garland for attorney general after Democrats win control of the Senate.
Plus, Vice President Pence prepares for a final performance that will infuriate President Trump, and Trump finalizes a rule saying it’s fine to kill millions of birds.
Plus, ambulances are starting to ration oxygen as America shatters its covid hospitalization records, and the EPA finalizes a damaging rule that will make it much harder to safeguard public health.
Plus, President Trump’s deregulatory push has made the pandemic worse, and Iran begins enriching uranium to 20 percent in new violation of nuclear deal.
Plus, vaccines are slow to reach arms as Trump administration leaves final steps of mass vaccination to beleaguered states, and Sen. Josh Hawley’s plan to contest electoral college vote certification ensures drawn-out process
Plus, the first case of highly infectious coronavirus variant detected in Colorado, and Louisville police move to fire two more officers involved in raid that killed Breonna Taylor.
Plus, air travel hits pandemic record amid surging infections and hospitalizations, and Georgia Senate runoffs test whether Trump remains a ‘poison’ for moderate GOP voters.
Plus, authorities identify Anthony Warner as Nashville bomber, say his remains were found in the wreckage. And, in Russia, tough new laws and stepped-up defiance abroad mark Putin’s shift toward unfettered control
Plus, the Trump administration and Pfizer near a deal to purchase tens of millions of additional vaccine doses through the spring and summer. And Justice Department sues Walmart, alleging it helped fuel the opioid crisis.
Plus a new coronavirus believed to have originated in London prompts more travel bans and disruptions. And Attorney General William Barr said he saw no basis for the federal government seizing voting machines.
Plus, a CDC advisory group says front-line essential workers and adults 75 and over should be next to get the coronavirus vaccine, and countries across Europe halt flights from Britain over concerns about coronavirus mutation.
Plus, states report confusion as the federal government reduces their vaccine shipments, and investigators discover evidence of previously unknown Russian tactics used to penetrate US networks.
Plus, Congressional leaders add stimulus checks to a draft relief bill as they near a deal, and after a blast in Beirut destroyed a church, volunteers race to rebuild it by Christmas Eve.
Plus, California’s governor orders 5,000 more body bags in the face of soaring covid deaths, and President Trump further eviscerates the Endangered Species Act on his way out the door.
Plus, the Electoral college makes Joe Biden’s victory official, and Bill Barr is stepping down as attorney general.
Plus, Russian government hackers are behind a broad espionage campaign that has severely compromised U.S. agencies, and the first vials of the coronavirus vaccine are arriving across America.
Plus, FDA authorization is all but certain after federal advisers endorse the Pfizer vaccine, and stimulus talks fall into disarray as deadlines loom.
Plus, President Trump pressures congressional Republicans to join his fight to overturn the election results, and Hunter Biden confirms he is under federal investigation.
Plus, President-elect Biden selects a housing and agriculture secretary, and the White House proposes dramatically lower unemployment benefits in exchange for $600 stimulus checks.
Plus, President Trump asked the Pennsylvania House speaker for help overturning the election results, and Congress will pass a one-week funding bill to avert a shutdown as stimulus negotiations continue.
Plus, Kelly Loeffler dodges questions in a Georgia Senate debate, and Rudy Giuliani tests positive for coronavirus.
Plus, the final draft of a bipartisan defense bill includes several rebukes of President Trump, and tensions flare along Trump’s border wall amid mounting local resistance.
Plus, President-elect Biden’s immigration policies could leave him in a quandary amid a looming surge of migrants, and a third-grade teacher in Minnesota donates a kidney to her school’s custodian.
Plus, Britain beats the U.S. in granting the Pfizer vaccine emergency authorization, and President Trump threatens to veto a defense bill unless a legal shield for tech firms is repealed.
Plus Scott Atlas resigns as President Trump’s top coronavirus adviser, the FDA moves at record speed to review the vaccine candidates.
Plus, president-elect Joe Biden hires an all-female senior communications team. and the Wisconsin recount adds to Biden’s margin of victory.
Plus, President-elect Joe Biden looks to name a slate of independent nominees for the Justice Department, and The first 6.4 million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine could go out in mid-December.
Plus, 86,000 covid patients are hospitalized today in America, and House Democrats reckon with their diminished majority.
Plus, President-elect Joe Biden picks Tony Blinken to be his secretary of state, and Israel's prime minister visits Saudi Arabia for the first time.
Plus, the CDC recommends against traveling or gathering for Thanksgiving, and the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department go to war with each other.
Plus, President Trump maneuvers to delay the final vote count to sow doubt about his loss, and a former Green Beret pleads guilty to spying for Russia.
Plus, Pfizer completes its vaccine trial with more promising data, and the military has a missile breakthrough that might protect us from North Korea.
Plus, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state says he faces GOP pressure to discard legitimate ballots, and President Trump races to auction off drilling rights in ANWR before President-elect Joe Biden can stop it.
Plus, police arrest 21 people amid violent clashes between Trump supporters and opponents in D.C. And President Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran is failing.
Plus, President-elect Joe Biden considers Hillary Clinton for UN ambassador. And the German couple behind Pfizer’s vaccine does not even own a car, but now they're billionaires.
Plus, President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team works around President Trump’s blockade, and Trump’s lawsuits challenging the election results continue to flounder.
Plus, the Supreme Court sounds ready to uphold the Affordable Care Act, and President Trump installs three more White House loyalists in top Pentagon jobs.
Plus, the secretary of defense's termination underscores President Trump's insistence on absolute fealty, and Pfizer’s vaccine could be cleared by mid-December.
Plus, the U.S. will surpass 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases later today, and President-elect Joe Biden announces his coronavirus task force.
Joe Biden, the man who was once the country’s youngest senator, will become the country's oldest president.
Plus, an angry dispute erupts among House Democrats, and Democrats could still win Senate control with two Georgia runoffs.
Plus, Joe Biden's performance with Latinos shows how the Democratic establishment has taken them for granted, and Democrats fail to flip any state legislative chambers ahead of redistricting.
Plus, Republicans are clinging to their Senate majority, and several House Democrats unexpectedly go down.
Plus, governors ready the National Guard for potential post-election unrest, and another top Trump adviser bluntly contradicts the president on the coronavirus.
Plus, Joe Biden focuses on Pennsylvania while President Trump hit 5 states on Sunday, and Trump supporters grow more aggressive with presidential encouragement.
Plus, both President Trump and Biden are seeking to shore up support from Latino voters, and Trump takes gray wolves off the Endangered Species list, putting them in danger of going extinct.
Plus, Hurricane Zeta roars inland after slamming New Orleans, and President Trump formalizes one of the most sweeping public lands rollbacks in American history.
Plus, 70 million Americans have already voted, and millions of your tax dollars are flowing into President Trump’s pockets.
Plus, the coronavirus spreads like wildfire into some of our nation's untouched areas, and rioting shakes Philadelphia overnight after police kill a black man.
Plus, a new wave of covid cases is straining resources nationwide, and eleven are arrested after fights erupt between a pro-Trump caravan and protesters in Manhattan.
Plus, President Trump issues a sweeping order to remove civil service protections for federal workers, and Russia continues to pose a more potent threat for election interference than Iran.
Plus, the CDC expands its definition of who is considered a ‘close contact’ for contact tracing purposes. And Barack Obama makes his 2020 debut on the campaign trail with a blazing critique of his successor.
Plus, Mitch McConnell warns the White House against making a stimulus deal before the election, and records show President Trump paid more tax to the Chinese government than income tax in the U.S.
Plus, the Justice Department indicts six Russian intelligence officers in several high-profile cyberattacks, and a 4-4 Supreme Court split on a voting case shows why confirming Amy Coney Barrett is such a huge deal.
Plus, red-state governors resist measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, even as cases surge, and a federal judge strikes down Trump's plan to slash food stamps for 700,000 unemployed Americans.
Plus, coronavirus hospitalizations are rising in most states, and President Trump was warned that Rudy Giuliani was the target of a Russian intelligence operation.
Plus, as Amy Coney Barrett finishes her time in the hot seat, Democrats acknowledge she’ll be confirmed. And the Treasury Secretary says a coronavirus relief deal seems very unlikely before the election.
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Plus, the Supreme Court allows President Trump to abruptly end the Census, and top scientists are appalled that the White House is entertaining a proposal to hasten “herd immunity.”
Plus, an acrimonious Supreme Court confirmation hearing begins, and a covid-19 reinfection in Nevada adds to questions about immunity,
Plus, Amy Coney Barrett will promise to be a justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia as her confirmation hearing kicks off, and two Stanford professors win the Nobel prize in economics.
Plus, the FBI charges six men with plotting to kidnap Michigan’s governor, and a top Republican fundraiser is charged with secretly being a foreign agent for China.
Plus, the pandemic looms large in a civil, but sharp, vice-presidential debate. And more Republicans in tough races distance themselves from the president.
Plus, the secretive group Amy Coney Barrett was a “handmaid” for is trying to hide records of her role, and Mike Pence reluctantly agrees to plexiglass barriers in tonight’s V.P. debate.
Plus, Eric Trump is interviewed by New York prosecutors investigating possible Trump Organization fraud, and the Nobel Prize in physics is awarded for discoveries about black holes.
Plus, America's enemies may take advantage of our distracted country and hospitalized president, and Pope Francis warns that the world is drifting backward
Plus, France announces new restrictions as coronavirus cases surge in Europe, and House Democrats advance a 2.2 trillion relief bill after talks with the GOP falter.
The fallout from Tuesday's norm-shattering presidential debate. Plus, this recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history. And a top Trump official is concealing a polar bear study that could affect oil drilling contracts in Alaska.
Plus, ICE is preparing targeted, pre-election arrests of immigrants to amplify Trump’s reelection message, and USPS workers quietly resist the postmaster general’s changes to make sure ballots get delivered.
Plus, intelligence professionals say President Trump’s debts and foreign deals pose national security risks, and a new poll shows Joe Biden leading in Pennsylvania ahead of the first debate.
Plus, President Trump reportedly paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. And Democrats plan to make Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation a referendum on Obamacare.
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Plus, Nancy Pelosi abruptly changes course by restarting a push for coronavirus aid amid signs the economy is straining, and protests over the Breonna Taylor decision continue in Louisville for a second night.
Plus, a Kentucky grand jury declines to file homicide charges in the death of Breonna Taylor. And President Trump refuses to commit to the peaceful transfer of power.
Plus, Senate Republicans are racing to confirm Trump's Supreme Court pick before Halloween, and a government shutdown is averted, at least until after the election.
Plus, the Manhattan District Attorney says in court that President Trump could face charges for falsifying business records and tax fraud, and the CDC reverses its covid guidance yet again.
Plus, the U.S. will imminently reach 200,000 fatalities from the coronavirus, and the TikTok tussle shows the uneven economic “decoupling” that’s accelerating between us and China.
Plus, a federal judge temporarily blocks Postal Service changes amid concerns about voters being disenfranchised, and testing limits make it hard to tell how much the coronavirus is spreading silently among kids.
Plus, President Trump’s plan for managing forests won’t save us in a more flammable world, and the CDC director says coronavirus vaccines won’t be widely available until the middle of next year
Plus, a new report says the Boeing 737 Max crashes resulted from a ‘horrific culmination’ of errors, and Breonna Taylor’s family reaches a settlement with the city of Louisville.
Plus, President Trump denies climate change as he inspects fire damage out West, and two major glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints in the Atlantic.
Plus, smoke smothers the Pacific Northwest, hindering firefighting efforts. And Trump appointees seek greater control over CDC reports about the coronavirus.
Plus, how the coronavirus has reshaped today's commemorations. And white roses will mark the names of those who died on their birthday.
Plus, a top homeland security official says he was ordered by President Trump to stop providing intelligence on Russian interference in our election, and dozens of Austrians are wondering why they received U.S. stimulus checks.
The Justice Department moves to take over a defamation case against President Trump, plus another Facebook engineer quits in protest, saying the social network has become a haven for hate.
Plus, shots are fired on the India-China border for the first time in decades, and more than a thousand right-wing protesters gather outside Portland.
Plus, after President Trump’s remarks, election officials warn that trying to vote twice is a crime and could undermine the system, and Nancy Pelosi just entered history’s salon of politically perilous haircuts and hairdos.
Plus, Joe Biden announces record-breaking August fundraising haul of $364.5 million, and ‘no justice, no Derby’ is the latest cry in a Louisville grappling with racial tensions
Plus, the Trump administration announces eviction moratorium, and how the pandemic has changed our grocery shopping habits forever
Plus, citizenship applicants caught in backlog distraught over inability to vote this year, and President Trump to visit Kenosha as local officials ask him to stay away
Plus, senior intelligence officials will no longer brief Congress in person on foreign threats to the 2020 election, and Trump pressures federal scientists over convalescent plasma.
Plus, Hurricane Laura spares population centers but devastates a narrow path north of the Gulf Coast, and Jacob Blake is paralyzed from the waist down but handcuffed to his hospital bed.
Plus, A 17-year-old is charged with homicide after shooting during Kenosha protests, according to authorities. And Laura makes landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane.
Plus, Two are dead and another is seriously wounded after a shooting overnight in Kenosha, Wisconsin. And, the CDC says not all close contacts need to get tested after a coronavirus exposure.
Plus, the Postmaster General says he won't restore the mail-sorting machines he’s disabled, and the FDA commissioner owns up to making false claims about the effectiveness of convalescent plasma.
Plus, Kellyanne Conway is leaving the White House after this week’s Republican convention, and video footage shows Wisconsin police shooting a Black man multiple times in front of his kids.
Plus, President Trump blocks the FDA from regulating coronavirus lab tests, and Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is charged with wire fraud and money laundering.
Plus, Trump praises the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory. And centers that help child abuse victims have seen 40,000 fewer kids amid the pandemic.
Plus, Joe Biden officially becomes the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, and the Postmaster General says he will suspend policies blamed for mail delays until after the election.
Plus, the Democratic convention embraces Black Lives Matter, and Bernie Sanders hails a liberal movement in transition.
Plus, Democrats will juggle hundreds of live feeds to try creating the feel of a traditional convention, and the number of coronavirus cases in children is rising.
Plus, the recession ends for the rich while enduring for everyone else, and President Trump blocking money for the Postal Service threatens to change the outcome of the election.
Plus, the U.S. reports its highest number of coronavirus deaths in a single day since mid-May, and liberal prosecutors face backlash over lenient charges following unrest and looting.
Plus, Biden’s selection of Harris to be his running mate puts her at the forefront of the Democratic Party’s future, and the selection sparks delight in India and Jamaica.
Plus, the pandemic reshapes American spending patterns, and Lebanon’s prime minister resigns.
Plus, anarchists set fire to the police union headquarters in Portland, and Hong Kong arrests a leader of the free press.
Plus, NRA executives are accused of draining $64 million from the nonprofit in just three years, and a former Saudi intelligence officer accuses the crown prince of ordering his assassination.
Plus, Facebook and Twitter penalize Trump for posting coronavirus misinformation. And Senate Republicans criticize Trump’s plan to deliver his convention speech from the White House.
Plus, for the unemployed, rising grocery prices are stretching budgets even more, and Spain’s former king flees his country. But where did he go?
Plus, Chad Wolf emerges as President Trump’s favorite DHS secretary. And Trump says he wants the US government to get a cut from any sale of TikTok.
Plus, Negotiators are still far apart on a relief bill. And NASA astronauts aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule splash down in the Gulf of Mexico.
Plus, Republicans rebuff Trump’s suggestion to postpone the election. And White House sources say they’re willing to support a coronavirus bill without a liability shield.
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Plus, the CEOs of the four biggest tech giants get grilled on Capitol Hill over their market power. And President Trump pulls 12,500 U.S. troops out of Germany.
Plus, President Trump promotes a video full of false covid-19 claims from a doctor who says demons cause illness, and Russia aggressively spreads virus disinformation in the United States.
Plus, two potential coronavirus vaccines are moving into the last phase of testing with 30,000-person trials, and Notre Dame pulls out of hosting the first presidential debate because of safety concerns.
Plus, coronavirus vaccine researchers struggle to convince African Americans to join trials, and ancient teeth show the history of epidemics is much older than we thought.
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Plus, federal agents tear gas the mayor of Portland, and Republican lawmakers privately discuss what to do if President Trump loses and refuses to leave.
Plus, President Trump says the pandemic is likely to get worse before it gets better, and the mayor of Miami threatens to lock up residents who refuse to wear masks.
Plus, President Trump threatens to deploy federal agents to Chicago, New York and other cities led by Democrats, and hundreds are camping out in Oklahoma’s unemployment lines.
Plus, the president struggles to defend his handling of covid-19, and endangered GOP senators are under pressure as Congress returns from recess to take up a new relief package.
Plus, Sun Belt hospitals are feeling the strain from virus’ surge, and tens of thousands of mail ballots have been tossed out in this year’s primaries.
Plus, mask mandates catch on as states and businesses try to bypass a toxic debate, and a fight over nude swimming marks return of pre-coronavirus banalities in Europe.
Plus, Joe Biden embraces more aggressive steps in climate plan, and big banks prepare for protracted recession, report significant drop in profits
Plus, workers are pushed to the brink as they continue to wait for delayed unemployment payments, and Trump cites game show host on pandemic while undercutting doctors and questioning their expertise.
Plus, Anthony Fauci is sidelined by the White House as he steps up blunt talk on pandemic, and President Trump’s drop in polls has confident Democrats sensing ‘a tsunami coming’ in November.
Plus, the GOP eyes narrowing second round of $1,200 stimulus payments, and The Nationals have a new way to kick their habit of spitting sunflower seeds: masks.
Plus, according to body camera transcripts, George Floyd warned police he thought he would die because he couldn’t breathe, and robots can be just what the doctor ordered in time of social distancing
Plus, the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that it is withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization. And, in a Pennsylvania nursing home, some veterans recevied hydroxychloroquine even without covid-19.
Plus, evictions are likely to skyrocket this summer, and SBA data show small-business loans went to private-equity backed chains, members of Congress.
Plus, research finds that the coronavirus will undermine trust in government, and historians question Trump’s choice of ‘heroes’ for national garden monument.
Plus, new coronavirus cases topped 50,000 yesterday for the first time ever, and Pfizer reports some encouraging early vaccine data.
Anthony Fauci warns that America may soon wind up with 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day, and people who got their jobs back after being laid off in March are losing them again.
Plus, reopenings grind to a halt as Sunbelt states witness a surge in hospitalizations, and critical deadlines are approaching to extend expiring relief measures.
Plus, coronavirus infections surpass 2.5 million in the U.S. And Trump allies are pushing the president to shake up his campaign.
Plus, President Trump races to open more than two-thirds of the largest swath of U.S. public land to drilling, and protesters in D.C. are now demanding the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
Plus, Trump is deploying troops and marshals to protect monuments. And Tucson’s police chief offers to resign after releasing unsettling body camera footage.
Plus, a federal prosecutor will testify that he faced political pressure to go easy on Roger Stone, and the Senate is teetering on the cusp of failure in the push for police reform.
Plus, public health officials are leaving their posts in the face of death threats, and President Trump is increasingly preoccupied with defending his mental capacity.
Plus, the president is fuming about his small crowd in Tulsa. And, a Minnesota jail is allegedly giving special treatment to the officer charged with killing George Floyd.
Plus, a deal to start the baseball season appears within reach after a secret meeting in Arizona. And the former Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks was charged with murder.
Plus, an inexpensive steroid is the first drug shown to reduce coronavirus deaths, and some good news for getting kids back to school this fall.
Plus, volunteers put their lives on the line as guinea pigs for a coronavirus vaccine, and cars have rammed into crowds of peaceful protestors 19 times this month.
Plus, a Republican congressman loses his seat because he officiated a gay wedding, and New York’s governor threatens to reverse reopenings because people aren’t social distancing.
Plus, the sign-up page for President Trump’s rallies now includes a coronavirus liability waiver, and the Trump administration is concealing the identities of coronavirus loan recipients, shielding undeserving applicants from public scrutiny.
Plus, the Federal Reserve forecasts a slow recovery – with worsening inequality. And the voting debacle in Georgia’s primary this week does not bode well for November.
Plus, the World Health Organization clarifies that asymptomatic people can transmit the coronavirus, and, patients who survive covid-19 because of ventilators face an arduous recovery.
Plus, fourteen states report new record-high coronavirus infections, and the Trump administration is making it easier for hunters to kill hibernating bear cubs and slaughter wolf pups in national parks.
Plus, protesters in Europe are pushing for a reckoning with racism in their own countries. And, President Trump is struggling to come up with a new campaign slogan.
Plus, as protests continue in D.C., President Trump clashes with the mayor over control of the city’s streets. And the black-white economic divide is as bad today as it was when the 1968 riots broke out.
Plus, Former Defense Secretary Mattis blasts President Trump. And Virginia’s governor is going to take down the Robert E. Lee statue in downtown Richmond.
Plus, Tony Fauci says he’s “cautiously optimistic” about a coronavirus vaccine in the pipeline, and protesters defy curfews again, but tensions appear to ease in several cities.
Plus, more than 60 million Americans are now under curfews, with terrible reports of lootings and shootings from coast to coast. And, local leaders say white instigators are to blame for some of the worst rioting.
Plus, as more cities burn, President Trump stays silent – other than tweeting fuel on the fire. And, the rioting sparks alarm about fresh coronavirus outbreaks in the African American community.
Plus, seven are shot in Louisville as protests against police brutality turn violent from coast to coast, and law enforcement leaders race to distance themselves from the four Minnesota cops who have been fired.
Plus, deadly protests in Minneapolis. And President Trump plans to sign an executive order targeting social media companies.
Plus, the health department watchdog being purged by President Trump is pursuing 14 investigations of his botched response to the coronavirus, and a third of Americans are showing signs of clinical anxiety and depression amid the contagion.
Plus, Memorial Day gatherings alarm public health officials across America, and Joe Biden wears a mask as he leaves his house for the first time in months.
Plus, young adults are increasingly affected by the Kawasaki-like syndrome linked to the contagion, and local governments are filling the void on contact tracing that’s been left by lackluster federal and state efforts.
Plus, Fauci worries that "Operation Warp Speed" plays into the hands of anti-vaxxers. And Trump considers a travel ban on Brazil.
Plus, the strongest and most dangerous hurricanes are now far more likely because of climate change, and EPA staff warned that mileage rollbacks had flaws, but Trump officials ignored them.
Plus, President Trump says he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, and Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine shows encouraging early results.
Plus, transit workers are paying a heavy price during the pandemic, and White House tensions with CDC spill into public view as top Trump adviser criticizes agency response.
Plus, the CDC releases short reopening checklists after the White House blocks the release of substantive guidance, and an experiment shows human speech generates droplets that linger in the air for more than 8 minutes.
Plus, Wisconsin's Supreme Court strikes down the governor’s stay-at-home order. And the sidelined federal vaccine chief will testify today that we’re headed for "the darkest winter in modern history."
Plus, President Trump's lawyer claims he has absolute immunity from being investigated, and a federal judge puts a hold on the Justice Department's move to throw out Michael Flynn's guilty plea.
Plus, the White House implements a stringent mask policy, but President Trump still won’t wear one. And after years of struggles amid Trump's trade wars, farmers and ranchers face their worst crisis since the early 1980s.
Plus, President Trump’s top advisers say the unemployment rate could soon reach 25 percent, and Britain will quarantine all foreign travelers as part of its plan to unlock the lockdown.
Plus, President Trump’s valet tests positive for the coronavirus, sparking fear in the West Wing, and, as the Trump administration pushes remdesivir, an unequal rollout angers doctors.
Plus, Trump reverses course on the future of the coronavirus task force. And a woman in New York goes $600,000 into debt to buy protective equipment for medical workers.
Plus, federal researchers hypothesize that the coronavirus has mutated to a more contagious strain, and more than 2 million Americans still don't have indoor plumbing.
Plus, the FDA steps up scrutiny of commercial antibody tests, and President Trump cheers on governors who are ignoring White House guidelines for safely reopening,
Plus, the housing market faces its next crisis as May rent and mortgage payments come due, and a city in Oklahoma rescinds its order that people wear masks.
Plus, the government is racing to develop a vaccine that could be fielded nationwide by January, and hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns, flood Michigan's Capitol.
Plus, hopes rise for an experimental drug therapy to treat covid-19 patients. And 1 in 6 nursing homes acknowledge the contagion has infected residents or staff.
Plus, President Trump orders meat plants to stay open, and West Point cadets are being forced to fly back to campus so they can watch Trump give a speech.
Plus, the CDC confirms six coronavirus symptoms that keep showing up over and over in patients, and schools are plotting how they’ll reopen in the fall.
Plus, Debbie Birx warns that social distancing will probably remain in place through the summer, and President Trump calls reports he might fire Alex Azar “fake news.”
Plus, lawmakers are already talking about the next stimulus bill as the House passes a $484 billion package. And farmers are throwing away tons of food, even as needy American families go hungry.
Plus, President Trump’s immigration order contains broad exceptions, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is using the contagion to consolidate power.
Plus, the first coronavirus deaths in America occurred weeks earlier than previously thought, and the CDC director warns that the second wave of the contagion could be even more devastating.
Plus, President Trump says he will sign an order to temporarily suspend immigration, and South Korea’s government says it cannot confirm reports that Kim Jong Un is gravely ill.
Plus, President Trump says the federal government will do more to make swabs available for coronavirus testing, and pro-gun activists are using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests.
Plus, glitches are preventing stimulus checks from reaching millions of Americans, and virus outbreaks are closing meat processing plants.
Plus, survivors share what it’s like to be alive on the other side of the coronavirus, and as humans stay indoors, wild animals take back what was once theirs.
Plus, coronavirus checkpoints targeting out-of-state residents draw growing legal scrutiny, and more than 9,000 U.S. health-care workers have been infected with the contagion.
Plus, school closures could severely stunt the development of millions of poor children, and the coronavirus ravages Little Italy in New York.
Plus, demand from coronavirus patients is causing shortages of asthma drugs and sedatives, and experts inside the government say reopening the economy by May 1 may be unrealistic.
Plus, President Trump wants to reopen most of the country next month, and with Holy Week hushed by the pandemic, Pope Francis does social distancing his own way.
Plus, Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee after Bernie Sanders drops out of the race, and Democrats clash with President Trump over more money for small businesses.
Plus, the acting navy secretary resigns, and the ventilator shortage pits New York hospitals against one another.
Plus, the president’s embrace of hydroxychloroquine illustrates how he prioritizes anecdote over science, and Boris Johnson is getting oxygen in an ICU.
Plus, Texas is going to begin screening drivers who enter the state from virus-stricken Louisiana, and Scotland’s chief medical officer resigned last night for violating her own guidance to stay home.
Plus, the coronavirus recession is shaping up to be the biggest blow to the U.S. economy since the Great Recession, and Italy and Spain report the number of coronavirus cases in their countries are beginning to stabilize.
Plus, Florida finally issues a stay-at-home order, and Republicans are using the coronavirus crisis as cover to restrict women’s reproductive rights.
Plus, some New York hospitals have stopped resuscitating coronavirus victims, and the United Nations says this pandemic is the single biggest challenge facing the globe since World War II.
Plus, states surge medical capacity to prepare for the influx of coronavirus victims, and more governors issue mandatory stay-at-home orders.
Plus, a choir practice in Washington state turns fatal, and the virus collides with maid culture in Latin America.
Plus, President Trump clashes with governors over relaxing restrictions, and medical workers are rushing to update their wills in case they don't survive the pandemic.
Plus, soldiers around the world are being mobilized to enforce lockdowns, and more states order residents to stay home.
Plus, India is on a nationwide three week lockdown, and the Senate and the White House finalized a deal on a $2 trillion stimulus package.
Plus, a deal on a stimulus package could be near, and President Trump wants to reopen the economy, even as public health officials object.
Plus, the stimulus package to respond to the coronavirus hits a speed bump, and Sen. Rand Paul finds out he tested positive moments after swimming in the congressional pool.
Plus, the shortage of testing kits has amplified inequities in our health-care system, and rural areas of the country are likely to have the highest death rates.
Plus, Jared Kushner exerts control over the government's response to the pandemic, and President Trump gambles his reelection on what could be $2 trillion in bailouts.
Plus, Europe is closing its borders, and Joe Biden sweeps primaries in Florida, Illinois and Arizona.
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Plus, the Federal Reserve drops benchmark interest rate to zero, and essential details of the White House's coronavirus testing plan remain murky.
Plus, President Trump launches airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, and Joe Biden hires a new campaign manager.
Plus, people are starting to get laid off because of the spreading coronavirus, and the unintended consequences of Italy's national coronavirus lockdown.
Plus, updates on the current total number of coronavirus cases, and President Trump’s proposal to dramatically reduce the payroll tax.
Plus, Joe Biden chips away at the white working class vote, two Marines are killed during an operation against the Islamic State, and Democrats face a heavy lift as they hope to win the Senate.
In speeches this weekend, Sanders has cautiously tested new and forceful attacks on Biden’s record on gay rights and women’s issues, potent critiques aimed at two key bases of the Democratic Party.
Military helicopters delivered testing kits Thursday to a cruise ship being held off the coast of California, as officials in Washington faced angry questions about whether the vessel is set to become the latest breeding ground for the coronavirus.
Elizabeth Warren flew home to Boston to reassess her campaign, weighing whether to end her bid and allow liberals in the party to unite behind Sanders the way moderates quickly coalesced for Biden.
Joe Biden swept the South and did surprisingly well in New England and the Upper Midwest on Super Tuesday. He appears poised to seize control of the Democratic presidential race and overtake Bernie Sanders as the delegate leader.
The coronavirus has claimed six American lives, and patients are now being treated in at least 15 states.
The coronavirus has been circulating undetected and has possibly infected scores of people over the past six weeks in Washington state.
Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China without proper training for infection control or appropriate protective gear.
The CDC reported last night that a person in Northern California has contracted the coronavirus without traveling to regions hit by the outbreak or coming in contact with anyone known to have the infection.
Bernie Sanders came under withering and sustained criticism during last night's presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina, as his six rivals launched urgent attempts to stop the candidate who has the clearest path to the Democratic nomination.
With Sanders now surging to the top of the Democratic presidential field, those three-decade-old impressions on his Cold War travels introduced a volatile new element in the race Monday.
Bernie Sanders has seized a commanding position in the Democratic presidential race, building a diverse coalition that is driving his liberal movement toward the cusp of taking over the party.
A senior U.S. intelligence official told lawmakers last week that Russia wants to see President Trump reelected, viewing his administration as more favorable to the Kremlin’s interests.
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg suffered a punishing welcome in the Las Vegas Democratic debate on Wednesday night.
President Trump granted clemency yesterday to a clutch of political allies, circumventing the usual Justice Department process.
Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg qualified for Wednesday’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas, setting the stage for a clash that will test the staying power of a campaign that has so far been defined by its astronomical advertising spending.
Attorney General Bill Barr pushed back last night against Trump’s attacks on the Justice Department. The remarkable public rebuke of the president by a sitting member of the cabinet arose from a crisis of confidence at the Justice Department.
Usually the early Democratic presidential contests shrink the field. This year, they’ve expanded it.
Democrats are bracing themselves for a long and divisive slog for the presidential nomination after New Hampshire has added new uncertainty to a race that was already scrambled by last week's caucuses in Iowa.
This first-in-the-nation primary state, which votes today, is at the leading edge of Americans’ frustration with flaws of the U.S. health-care system.
The two top finishers in last week's Iowa caucuses, representing opposite ends of the Democratic Party's ideological spectrum, are heading for a showdown in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
A Chinese doctor who was silenced by police for trying to share news about the new coronavirus long before Chinese health authorities disclosed its full threat died after coming down with the illness.
Mitt Romney sealed a place in history yesterday by voting to convict President Trump of abuse of power, becoming a lone voice of dissent in a Republican Party that otherwise marched in lockstep with the president throughout the impeachment proceedings.
President Trump’s State of the Union address last night amounted to a more subdued version of one of his raucous campaign rallies.
On the night Iowa was asked to deliver a definitive primary result, the entire precinct caucus system broke down, and Iowa's place in the nominating process became the story.
On Sunday, an NBC reporter overheard one of the former vice president’s top surrogates, John F. Kerry, in the hotel lobby speculating over the idea that he would jump into the race.
The Democratic presidential candidates returned to Iowa in full force yesterday, using a brief break from impeachment proceedings to rally supporters ahead of tomorrow’s caucuses.
A handwritten sign posted on the wall inside a Bernie Sanders campaign office here in Des Moines tells volunteers how to respond when people raise concerns about his identity as a socialist.
At a pivotal, potentially energizing moment for Democrats, preparing for the first votes of their long-awaited effort to unseat Trump, the presidential candidates found themselves reacting to his massive shadow rather than setting their own course.
President Trump’s legal team offered a startling defense yesterday as senators debated his fate in the impeachment trial, arguing that presidents could do nearly anything so long as they believe their reelection is in the public interest.
Congressional Republicans are pivoting hard to a new argument: the president’s actions are not impeachable, even if it turns out he did leverage his office for an investigation of a domestic rival.
Sensational revelations from President Trump’s former national security adviser threatened to upend the Senate impeachment trial Monday, increasing the chances that senators would vote to allow witnesses in a perilous development for the White House.
John Bolton’s forthcoming book, “The Room Where It Happened,” is scheduled for publication March 17, but a White House review could attempt to delay its publication or block some of its contents.
In the impeachment trial, Democrats detailed their defense of Joe Biden’s actions regarding Ukraine in anticipation that it will be a major portion of the White House’s defense later this week.
House Democrats charged with prosecuting the impeachment case against President Trump scaled back their fiery language yesterday following that scolding from Chief Justice John Roberts
A little 1 a.m. Eastern time this morning, Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked House impeachment managers and defense lawyers for President Trump over their decorum.
Later yesterday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally released the ground rules that will guide trial proceedings.
For three years, Trump’s hotel near the White House has been a loose, anybody-welcome hangout for Republicans.
President Trump has often revealed himself as woefully uninformed about the basics of geography and history during his three years as the most powerful man in the world.
New materials released by House Democrats appear to show Ukraine’s top prosecutor offering one of Rudy Giuliani's associates damaging information related to Joe Biden if the Trump administration recalled the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
Russian military spies have hacked the Ukrainian gas company that is at the heart of the impeachment trial of Trump.
The only woman in Iran to ever have won an Olympic medal has defected from that country, announcing her departure in a poignant Instagram post this weekend that accuses the government in Tehran of “hypocrisy,” “injustice” and oppressing women.
Instant messages and other internal Boeing documents released on Thursday night show company employees discussing efforts to manipulate U.S. and international safety regulators.
U.S. officials said they knew by Tuesday afternoon that the Iranians intended to strike at American targets in Iraq, although it was not immediately clear exactly which they would choose.
No American casualties have been reported after Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing US personnel last night.
If the United States withdraws from Iraq as backlash over the killing widens, Russia could strengthen its foothold in the country — much as it did in Syria after Trump ordered a troop pullout there last fall, a step that was later partly reversed.
Mike Pompeo spoke to President Trump multiple times every day last week, culminating in Trump’s decision to approve the killing of Iran’s top military commander, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, at the strong urging of Pompeo.
A U.S. airstrike killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad on Thursday, the Pentagon said, a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two countries that could lead to widespread violence in the region and beyond.
The siege by supporters of an Iranian-backed militia at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad ended Wednesday after the militia ordered them to withdraw.
When the Latino Community Foundation sent questionnaires to the Democratic presidential candidates asking where they stood on issues such as education, health care and immigration, the result was hardly what it anticipated: no response at all.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a key potential Republican swing vote, told an Anchorage TV station that she was “disturbed” by the Senate majority leader’s statement last week that the verdict in President Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial was already determined.
An official from the White House budget office directed the Defense Department to “hold off” on sending military aid to Ukraine less than two hours after President Trump’s controversial phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Former White House officials say they feared Vladimir Putin influenced President Trump’s views on Ukraine and the 2016 campaign.
The House of Representatives voted last night to impeach President Trump on charges that he abused his office and obstructed Congress, branding an indelible mark on the most turbulent presidency of modern times.
President Trump, on the eve of his expected impeachment, lit into congressional Democrats. Trump wrote a rambling and raging letter that voters would punish Democrats and history would vindicate him.
Congressional negotiators cemented a $1.3 trillion federal spending deal, with a pay raise for federal workers, money for federal gun violence research and the repeal of several taxes associated with the 2010 health care law.
Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.) could reach conservative voters in a way Democrats can’t, potentially bolstering their case to the public. He could also provide Democrats cover from GOP accusations that they’re pursuing a partisan impeachment.
Ballots tallied through the night affirmed that Johnson and his Conservative Party had achieved a smashing success, the largest win for the Tories since Margaret Thatcher prevailed a third time in 1987.
Several GOP senators say privately that it would be much better to limit the trial and quickly vote to acquit Trump, rather than engage in what could become a political circus.
The nation saw a split screen Tuesday, in which Nancy Pelosi dashed from a somber announcement of articles of impeachment against the president to a jubilant proclamation of a revised North American trade accord.
Justice Department IG report examining the FBI investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign rebutted accusations that officials were driven by political bias, but found broad failures requiring major changes.
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The Post obtained records from more than 400 of the interviews after a three-year legal battle. The documents reveal that people who were directly involved in the war could not shake their doubts about the strategy and mission.
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with a five-minute nationally televised address on Thursday morning, Pelosi has become the reluctant face of the impeachment effort.
Over the past year, my colleagues Josh Parlow and Dave Fahrenthold have interviewed 48 people who worked illegally for the Trump Organization at 11 of its properties in Florida, New Jersey, New York and Virginia.
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Some of Capitol Hill’s most aggressive and colorful characters in both parties will have a new platform as the impeachment inquiry moves to the Judiciary Committee
Attorney General Bill Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department’s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report about the FBI’s Russia investigation.
By the end of this month, more than 500 Ukrainian prosecutors will be out of their jobs as part of sweeping professional reviews under Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
President Trump knew about the whistleblower's complaint before he reluctantly unfroze the military aid to Ukraine.
A federal court ruled last night that former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a House subpoena, finding that “no one is above the law” and that top presidential advisers cannot ignore congressional demands for information.
A confidential White House review of President Trump’s decision to place a hold on military aid to Ukraine has turned up hundreds of documents that reveal extensive efforts to generate an after-the-fact justification for the decision.
Hill emerged as one of the few witnesses over the past two weeks able to move from providing accounts of events inside the White House to placing the unfolding Ukraine scandal in a broader political context.
Gordon Sondland was almost nonchalant as he implicated the president and his top advisers in a scheme – maybe even a conspiracy – to pressure Ukraine.
Three current and former Trump administration officials described during congressional testimony yesterday how they harbored a variety of concerns surrounding the July 25 call.
A counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine told lawmakers that he was shocked to overhear a phone call in which a top diplomat assured President Trump that Ukrainian officials would pursue an investigation of interest to the U.S. commander in chief.
Everything seemed ready to go: President Trump’s ban on most flavored e-cigarettes had been cleared by federal regulators. But the night before a planned morning news conference, the president balked.
Using her most aggressive language yet, Nancy Pelosi accused Trump of committing “bribery” by seeking to use U.S. military aid as leverage to pressure the Ukrainian government to conduct investigations that could politically benefit the president.
The first day of public impeachment hearings unearthed new evidence potentially implicating President Trump more directly in a scheme to center American policy toward Ukraine on political investigations.
The House will begin the public phase of its impeachment inquiry with Democrats and Republicans prepared to offer competing narratives of whether President Trump inappropriately pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
The White House’s bifurcated and disjointed response to the impeachment inquiry has been fueled by a battle between acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and White House counsel Pat Cipollone.
In the nearly 3,000 pages of interview transcripts from the House impeachment inquiry released last week, Trump often seems like a supporting character in someone else’s drama.
The House GOP's emerging plan to save Trump is to turn the blame on three of his deputies: E.U. Ambassador Gordon Sondland, personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and, possibly, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
President Trump wanted Attorney General Bill Barr to hold a news conference declaring that the commander in chief had broken no laws during a phone call in which he pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a political rival.
The results of Tuesday’s off-year elections have left Republicans stumbling and increasingly uncertain about their own political fates next year, as they’re increasingly tied to an embattled and unpopular president.
An attorney for Lev Parnas, one of the two associates of Rudy Giuliani who was arrested last month as he tried to fly to Europe with a one-way plane ticket, said last night that his client is willing to comply with the House impeachment inquiry.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s allies in the administration plan to stonewall and obstruct the impeachment inquiry as much as possible in a bid to ingratiate themselves with President Trump
New research shows that rising seas will be much worse and more expensive to deal with than previously thought.
As depositions continue, the House is on track today to pass the set of rules governing the next phase of the impeachment inquiry.
President Trump and his allies on television lashed out yesterday at Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman as he testified under oath on Capitol Hill for more than 10 hours.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, was part of a small group of White House officials assigned to listen in on Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
President Trump announced Sunday morning that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive Islamic State commander, died during a U.S. military operation in Syria.
The White House’s trade representative in late August withdrew a recommendation to restore some of Ukraine’s trade privileges after John Bolton warned him that President Trump probably would oppose any action that benefited the government in Kyiv.
A group of Trump’s congressional allies escalated their complaints about the impeachment inquiry by barging into a secure facility on Capitol Hill where a Pentagon official was to testify before the House Intelligence Committee.
The explosive, closed-door testimony from acting ambassador William B. Taylor Jr. undermined Trump’s insistence that he never pressured Ukrainian officials in a potentially improper “quid pro quo.”
President Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine for information he could use against political rivals came as he was being urged to adopt a hostile view of that country by its regional adversaries, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Trump was forced to abandon his decision to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his private golf club in Florida after it became clear the move had alienated Republicans and given Democrats another possible article for impeachment.
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney admitted during a news conference yesterday that President Trump withheld nearly $400 million in military aid in part to pressure Ukraine to pursue an investigation that could benefit him politically.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republican senators Wednesday to be ready for an impeachment trial of Trump as soon as Thanksgiving.
Elizabeth Warren came under sustained attack for the first time during last night’s Democratic primary debate in Ohio.
Fiona Hill, the former top Russia adviser at the White House, testified Monday that John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser, was furious over Giuliani’s politically motivated activities in Ukraine.
President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria, where they have long kept an uneasy peace among competing forces, has left the region in upheaval and the administration is scrambling to respond to fast-moving events.
At least four national security officials were so alarmed by the Trump administration’s attempts to pressure Ukraine for political purposes that they raised concerns with a White House lawyer before and after the July 25th call.
After green lighting the Turkish invasion of their territory, President Trump is trying to downplay the value of the U.S. alliance with Syrian Kurds.
The White House announced last night that it will not cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry of President Trump. In an eight-page letter, White House counsel Pat Cippolone claimed that the inquiry into the Ukraine scandal is without merit.
A brand new Washington Post-Schar School poll, which was in the field through Sunday night, shows that a 58 percent majority of Americans support the decision to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
The Supreme Court’s fall term begins today. It will test Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.’s efforts to portray the institution as above the noisy and partisan battles of the moment.
House investigators released numerous text messages late Thursday night illustrating how senior State Department officials coordinated with the Ukrainian president’s top aide and President Trump’s personal lawyer.
President Trump repeatedly involved Vice President Pence in efforts to exert pressure on the leader of Ukraine at a time when the president was using other channels to solicit information that he hoped would be damaging to a Democratic rival.
President Trump's destructive trade war and his blind loyalty to Big Oil are combining to cripple Iowa farmers and could put the Farm Belt in play next year.
Barr’s personal involvement has stoked further criticism from Democrats pursuing impeachment that he is helping the Trump administration use executive branch powers to augment investigations aimed primarily at the president’s adversaries.
Pelosi has sidelined Jerry Nadler and elevated Adam Schiff to lead the investigation, which will focus narrowly on the Ukraine matter.
The document the whistleblower delivered reveals almost as much about the investigative mission he carried out in stealth as it does about the alleged abuses of power by the president.
Justice Department officials took less than a month to abandon an inquiry into President Trump’s communications with his Ukrainian counterpart about investigating former vice president Joe Biden.
President Trump’s attempt to pressure the leader of Ukraine followed a months-long fight inside the administration that sidelined national security officials and empowered political loyalists.
President Trump told Mick Mulvaney to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the son of Joe Biden.
Democratic frustration with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unwillingness to impeach President Trump is reaching a fever pitch following reports that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate a political rival.
The complaint involved communications with a foreign leader and a “promise” that Trump made, which was so alarming that a U.S. intelligence official who had worked at the White House went to the inspector general of the intelligence community.
The whistleblower complaint that has triggered a tense showdown between the U.S. intelligence community and Congress involves President Trump’s communications with a foreign leader.
Bulldozers and excavators rushing to install President Trump’s border barrier could damage or destroy up to 22 archaeological sites within Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in coming months.
Pentagon officials are recommending a restrained response to the recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities, arguing against a potentially costly conflict with Iran.
Drug companies facing more than 2,000 lawsuits over their alleged roles in the opioid epidemic demanded Saturday that the federal judge overseeing the case step aside, questioning his impartiality.
The trio at the center of the stage have consistently held the top places in the polls, with the rest of the candidates trailing far behind and therefore growing increasingly desperate.
The rupture between President Trump and John Bolton, as chronicled in public and in private accounts of administration officials, is a case study of the president’s sometimes Kafkaesque management style.
Over a turbulent 17 months, President Trump and national security adviser John Bolton had disagreed on a variety of issues, from North Korea to Venezuela to Iran. But Trump finally decided to remove his top security aide on Tuesday.
Two years ago, the United States extracted from Russia an important CIA source who had provided information about the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Plans for U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan have been thrown into confusion following Trump’s decision to call off a secret meeting he planned at Camp David with Afghan and Taliban leaders to secure a peace deal.
A White House official says President Trump himself used a Sharpie to mark up an official National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration map, which he displayed during an Oval Office briefing on Wednesday.
Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate the speech of a company executive and dupe his subordinate into wiring hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account.
Nicholas Soames, a member of Parliament representing Mid Sussex, was among the group of 21 Conservative politicians who defied Johnson’s wishes by voting for a motion that paves the way for Brexit to be delayed till 2020.
House Democrats plan to make President Trump’s alleged involvement in a 2016 scheme to silence two women who claimed they had affairs with him a major investigative focus this fall.
President Trump made dire predictions Thursday for Hurricane Dorian’s potential landfall, warning that the storm was likely going to “hit very hard” and “be very big.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who struggled to gain traction in a crowded field, ended her presidential run Wednesday, a further winnowing of the Democrats hoping to take on President Trump in 2020.
Keeping China guessing is all part of a strategy to gain the upper hand in the trade war, President Trump suggested after a whiplash-inducing series of contradictory and confusing statements about relations between the world’s two largest economies.
President Trump capped days of advocacy on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin by announcing here Monday that he intends to invite the leader to the Group of Seven summit in 2020.
A summit of world leaders devolved into a confusing spectacle on Sunday when President Trump signaled regret for his trade war with China only to have the White House reverse his position hours later.
Already, President Trump has shaken up the G-7 summit schedule, calling at the last minute for a special meeting Sunday morning to discuss the global economy.
The anti-Trump movement inside the Republican Party — long a political wasteland — is feeling new urgency to mount a credible opposition to Trump before it’s too late.
When President Trump targeted mental illness as the cause of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton that killed 31 people, federal health officials made sure no government experts might contradict him.
The White House is eyeing a temporary cut in the payroll tax as one way to stave off the looming recession. The talks are still in their early stages and have included a range of other tax breaks.
With the pace of mass shootings accelerating — and their tolls dramatically increasing — criminologists and reform advocates are more intently focused on limiting access to high-capacity magazines as one of the most potent ways to curb the epidemic.
President Trump has pushed top aides to investigate whether the U.S. government can purchase the giant ice-covered island of Greenland.
An autopsy found that Jeffrey Epstein sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones, deepening the mystery about the circumstances around his death.
China is threatening to use force in Hong Kong, hoping that threats alone will disperse the mass protests, as students and others who yearn for freedom make plans to continue protesting once universities resume classes next month.
New rules will allow the administration to reduce the amount of habitat set aside for wildlife and remove critical tools that officials use to predict future harm to species as the result of climate change.
Corrections officers had not checked in on financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for “several” hours before he was found hanging in his cell on Saturday. It’s just one in a series of missteps in the hours leading up to his death.
President Trump said in a tweet last night that he will name Joseph Maguire, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as the acting director of national intelligence, following his aborted effort to install a political loyalist.
The mother’s attorneys says she contacted police because she was worried about her son owning the weapon given his age, maturity level and lack of experience handling such a firearm.
Trump and Republican leaders have made ‘red flags’ such as mental illness, violent crimes or domestic attacks a priority for identifying people who should not be allowed to have guns. But that may not be enough.
The United States employs an arsenal of armed forces, unmanned drones and intelligence agencies to contain Islamist terrorism. No comparable array of national power has been directed against the threat emerging from the far right.
After two mass slayings, the question surrounding the president is no longer whether he will respond as other presidents once did, but whether his words contributed to the carnage.
The Trump administration is preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in exchange for concessions from the Taliban, including a cease-fire and a renunciation of al-Qaeda, as part of an initial deal to end the nearly 18-year-old war.
Joe Biden tried in Detroit last night to regain his footing by adopting a more aggressive and combative posture during a Democratic presidential debate. But he faced relentless attacks on his decades-long Senate record on some of the nation’s top issues.
It has been building since the first primary debate in Miami ended, and at last night's debate it broke out into the open: a full-scale ideological brawl about the direction of the Democratic Party and what it will take to defeat President Trump in 2020.
Two American service members were shot dead and a third wounded overnight in a rare “insider” attack when an Afghan soldier opened fire on a group of American forces at a military base in a conflict-torn region of southern Kandahar province.
Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats will leave his position next month, and President Trump announced Sunday that he will nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex.) as his replacement.
American voters are likely to be targeted in the coming campaign season by more foreign disinformation than ever before, say those studying such operations.
Bob Mueller’s testimony on Capitol Hill yesterday wasn’t the made-for-TV moment Democrats had hoped for. Mueller appeared confused at times, stumbling over his answers and frequently imploring his questioners to repeat their queries.
The Department of Justice last night announced it is opening a wide-ranging antitrust review of “market-leading online platforms,” an unprecedented probe of the tech industry that could heighten calls for Amazon, Facebook and Google to be broken up.
The Trump administration today will significantly expand its power to quickly deport undocumented immigrants who have illegally entered the United States within the past two years, using a fast-track deportation process that bypasses immigration judges.
President Trump’s rally in Greenville, North Carolina, last week, and the ‘Send her back’ chants it inspired, divided much of the country, and Greenville was no exception.
Manuel Duran, a native of El Salvador, was working for the Spanish-language news outlet Memphis Noticias. For the past 15 months, Duran was held in a U.S. immigration detention center.
In November 1992, Donald Trump threw a raucous party at Mar-a-Lago. NBC taped the event and aired the footage on Wednesday. The video shows Trump grabbing dancing cheerleaders and socializing with Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested last week.
John Paul Stevens, the third-longest-serving justice on the court before he retired in 2010, died July 16 at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 99 years old.
President Trump recently tweeted that four minority congresswomen should “go back” to their countries of ancestry. A handful of Republican lawmakers spoke out against the comments. But most have stayed quiet.
Mick Mulvaney wields a growing influence over the White House. One official says Mulvaney is building “his own fiefdom” centered on pushing conservative politics.
A new book that’s coming out next week details how a number of top Republicans who once criticized President Trump – publicly and privately – changed their tune after his election and struck a Faustian bargain to gain power.
Jolted by a new report that shows the Treasury Department running out of cash much faster than previously forecasted, the White House is pushing congressional leaders to strike a spending deal and increase the debt limit in the next two or three weeks.
A federal judge rejected the administration’s attempt to swap out its lawyers for the case related to putting a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman denied the legal bid to do so.
The new sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein, unsealed yesterday, allege that the billionaire abused dozens of young girls at his Manhattan and Florida homes.
Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years reveal that federal investigators have turned state departments of motor vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure.
Trump administration officials reluctantly concluded that there would not be enough time to continue the census question legal battle and to meet the printing deadlines for the census questionnaire.
President Trump has asked the Pentagon to marshal a broadening array of military hardware, including tanks and fighter jets, to showcase his planned Fourth of July address to the nation.
Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese-born academic, has not surfaced publicly since 2017, when he told La Republica he was not a secret agent for the Russians. Now, Trump advisers have suggested he was a Western intelligence plant.
Rival Democratic presidential contenders pummeled former vice president Joe Biden with searing, emotional critiques on Thursday night in Miami at round two of the first debate.
The first debate of the 2020 presidential campaign last night offered a pretty clear road map of a new Democratic Party, one that favors a series of ambitious and liberal domestic initiatives.
A heartbreaking image from the Associated Press sparked outrage and humanized the extent to which President Trump's policies are putting the lives of many migrants at risk.
James Robinson, a black Revolutionary War hero, was denied his liberty and military honors. He was finally given a military funeral on Saturday in his adopted hometown of Detroit.
On Saturday, President Trump announced that he is postponing for two weeks the massive ICE raids he himself announced last week. Despite the delay of the raids, immigrant communities are still mobilizing and preparing for potential roundups.
President Trump ordered an attack on Iran yesterday in retaliation for the downing of a surveillance drone in the Strait of Hormuz, but he called the operation off just hours before it was due to occur.
Joe Biden faced a growing backlash Wednesday from prominent Democrats — and a bit of second-guessing within his own campaign — over comments in which he proudly described his history of working hand-in-hand in the Senate with avowed racists.
Democratic lawmakers said the latest revelations about Patrick Shanahan's family's history with domestic violence demonstrated the Trump administration’s failure to properly vet candidates for high-level positions.
The president is officially kicking off his bid for a second term tonight with a huge rally in Orlando. As he does, we’re getting more details about drama and palace intrigue inside his 2020 campaign.
Iran threatened overnight to increase its uranium stockpile limit set by the 2015 nuclear deal in the next 10 days, amid escalating tensions with the United States and so far unsuccessful European efforts to salvage the deal.
The head of the Office of Special Counsel, which enforces civil service laws, recommended yesterday that White House adviser Kellyanne Conway be removed from office for repeatedly and willfully violating the Hatch Act.
In an interview with ABC News, President Trump said that he would be open to accepting opposition research on a presidential rival from foreign sources. He added that he wouldn’t necessarily go to the FBI if his campaign were approached.
President Trump is fixated on his belief that he is immune to impeachment because he has done nothing wrong. The president is intrigued by the notion of impeachment but wary of its practical dangers, one outside adviser says.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials disclosed last night that photos of travelers have been compromised as part of a “malicious cyberattack.”
18 members of the National Rifle Association’s 76-member board, who are not paid as directors, collected money from the group during the past three years, according to tax filings, state charitable reports and a massive trove of NRA records.
To Walmart executives, the self-driving floor scrubber is the future of retail automation. They have made a multimillion-dollar bet that advanced robots will optimize operations, cut costs and revolutionize the American superstore.
President Trump reiterated overnight that he’s serious about imposing new tariffs next week unless he is satisfied Mexico has done enough to stem a surge of migrants.
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign lifted language without credit, at times word for word, when crafting its education and climate plans, incidents the campaign acknowledged and said were inadvertent.
Congressional Republicans have begun discussing at the highest levels whether they may hold a vote to block President Trump’s planned new tariffs on Mexico.
The president's state visit to Britain this week, the first of his presidency, is missing some of the traditional trappings of past U.K. trips by American leaders.
President Trump’s announcement of an escalating series of new tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico is likely to trigger economic upheaval on both sides of the border.
A senior Navy official confirms to The Post that he was aware someone at the White House sent a message to service officials in the Pacific requesting that the USS John McCain be kept out of the picture while President Trump was there.
The Supreme Court agreed to a compromise on Indiana’s contested abortion law, an outcome that revealed its openness to state restrictions on the procedure but also favored a cautious path in confronting one of the nation’s enduring controversies.
As the first state trial of the opioid epidemic begins in Oklahoma today, families that have lost loved ones to opioid overdoses see a chance to hold drug companies accountable after years of waiting for recompense.
President Trump has personally and repeatedly urged the head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award a border wall contract to a North Dakota construction firm whose top executive is a GOP donor and a frequent guest on Fox News.
The president angrily walked out of a meeting yesterday with congressional Democrats that was supposed to be about infrastructure, saying he wouldn’t work with them unless they abandon all inquiries into his businesses, presidency and personal finances.
President Trump has apparently selected former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli to be his so-called immigration czar. Cuccinelli is disliked by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has vowed to block him from any Senate-confirmed post.
President Trump lost an early round of his court fight with Democrats last night after a federal judge ruled the president’s accounting firm must turn over his financial records to Congress as lawmakers seek to assert their oversight authority.
In his opening weeks as a presidential candidate, Joe Biden has rejected much of the conventional wisdom that drove the opening stretch of the Democratic nomination fight.
The Senate yesterday confirmed Wendy Vitter, the wife of a senator turned lobbyist, to a lifetime appointment as a federal judge despite her outspoken hostility to abortion rights as a longtime pro-life activist.
President Trump is frustrated with some of his top advisers, who he thinks could rush the United States into a military confrontation with Iran and shatter his long-standing pledge to withdraw from costly foreign wars.
The Alabama Senate passed the country’s most restrictive abortion ban overnight. It makes no exceptions for victims of rape and incest, and the state's Republican governor is expected to swiftly sign it.
At a meeting of President Trump’s top national security aides last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East.
The United States hasn’t taken any new material from the moon since the last Apollo landing in 1972. Now, NASA is releasing three new moon rock samples for analysis.
American and Chinese negotiators failed to reach a deal by midnight, so the United States has officially doubled tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports.
The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress, hours after President Trump asserted executive privilege over special counsel Bob Mueller’s report.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that his country is taking steps to halt its compliance with elements of the landmark nuclear deal in response to Trump pulling out of the accord and stiffening sanctions on Tehran.
Pro-free-trade senators have tried private meetings with President Trump, op-eds in prominent newspapers and other tactics to warn Trump away from a new round of tariffs on foreign cars and auto parts.
Armed factions in Gaza said that they have agreed to a cease-fire with Israel that took hold in the early hours of Monday morning, after militants fired more than 600 rockets toward Israel this weekend. Israel responded with major airstrikes.
With little fanfare, the Trump administration has dramatically weakened offshore drilling safeguards that were put in place after the 2010 explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform.
Attorney General Bill Barr defended his handling of special counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation during an often-contentious Senate hearing yesterday.
Bob Mueller complained in a letter to Bill Barr that the four-page letter the attorney general sent to Congress describing the special counsel's principal conclusions did not “fully capture the context, nature and substance” of his work.
A major new survey shows growing numbers of people across the globe are dissatisfied with democracy and, even in the West, they’re becoming more susceptible to strongmen who promise easy solutions to complex problems.
On the final day of a major Jewish holiday, at a synagogue near San Diego, a 19-year-old man with an assault rifle and apparent anti-Semitic views opened fire, leaving one dead and three injured, authorities said.
North Korea issued a $2 million bill for the hospital care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, insisting that a U.S. official signed a pledge to pay it before being allowed to fly the University of Virginia student home from Pyongyang in 2017.
Joe Biden made it official this morning. He launched his third campaign for the presidency with an announcement posted on YouTube. Biden’s entry is certain to shape at least the next few months of the 2020 Democratic primary fight.
In an interview with The Washington Post last night, Trump said that complying with congressional requests was unnecessary after the White House cooperated with Bob Mueller’s probe.
Three hotels and three churches were attacked by suicide bombers belonging to the radical Islamist group National Thowheed Jamaath.
Bob Mueller’s report lays out abundant evidence against President Trump, finding 10 separate “episodes” of potential obstruction of justice but ultimately concluding it was not the special counsel’s role to determine whether the president broke the law.
The Justice Department plans to release a lightly redacted version of special counsel Bob Mueller’s 400-page report today, offering a granular look at the ways in which President Trump was suspected of having obstructed justice.
Legal filings provide new details about the events surrounding the deadly assault of Army Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar. The documents throw back a veil of secrecy on a culture in which womanizing and heavy drinking were said to be commonplace.
Notre Dame, completed in the 14th century, has withstood the test of time and the assault of history. In his remarks to a grieving nation close to midnight on Monday, President Emmanuel Macron promised to rebuild the cathedral.
Sanders feuded with the Center For American Progress, an influential liberal think tank that is aligned with the Hillary Clinton wing of the party. Sanders said CAP is “using its resources to smear” him.
White House officials have proposed transporting detained immigrants to sanctuary cities at least twice in the past six months.
Ecuador, which took Julian Assange in when he was facing a Swedish rape investigation in 2012, said it was rescinding asylum because of his “discourteous and aggressive behavior” and for violating the terms of his asylum.
President Trump's increasingly erratic behavior over the past 12 days has alarmed top Republicans, business officials and foreign leaders. They fear that he might exacerbate problems at the border, harm the U.S. economy and degrade national security.
President Trump continued to dismantle the leadership of the nation’s top domestic security agency Monday, as the White House announced the imminent removal of U.S. Secret Service Director Randolph D. “Tex” Alles.
President Trump announced yesterday that Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as secretary of homeland security. Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, will replace her on an acting basis.
The White House has become fixated on blocking the disclosure of President Trump’s tax returns, teeing up a dispute that could go to the Supreme Court.
Members of Robert Mueller’s team have complained to close associates that the evidence they gathered on obstruction was alarming and significant. One person said, “It was much more acute than Barr suggested.”
President Trump has left his advisers and GOP lawmakers reeling from policy whiplash in recent days.
Tricia Newbold, a White House security adviser, told the House Oversight Committee that 25 people were given access to national security information despite concerns about ties to foreign influence and questionable or criminal conduct.
The White House doubled down Sunday on President Trump’s threat to close the border with Mexico despite warnings that doing so would cripple the American economy and hurt consumers.
President Trump misled lenders and potential business partners about his net worth by producing “Statements of Financial Condition” that included a number of errors about his financial holdings.
Attorney General William Barr said it would take, at a minimum, weeks before lawmakers can see an edited version of the report, making it clear that the Justice Department will not meet the April 2 deadline that Democrats set.
Barbara Bush said that by today’s terms, she would no longer classify herself as a Republican. With President Trump’s rise, she saw a party she could not continue to support.
President Trump has privately signaled he will not approve any additional help for Puerto Rico beyond the food-stamp money, setting up a congressional showdown with Democrats who have pushed for more expansive help for the island.
The president called Robert Mueller’s report a “total exoneration,” even though Mueller reached no conclusion about whether the president obstructed justice.
The commandant of the Marine Corps warned in secret memos that President Trump's diversions of money from the military's budget to build his wall pose an “unacceptable risk to the combat readiness and solvency” of our armed forces.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the country will launch a buyback program to take existing weapons out of circulation while those who don’t comply will be subject to fines.
Federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration at least 63 times over the past two years. It’s an extraordinary record of legal defeat that has stymied large parts of the president’s agenda on the environment, immigration and other matters.
President Trump has a long history of disparaging Muslims and other minorities, while simultaneously refusing to forcefully condemn white supremacy and violent nationalism.
New Zealand’s coalition government plans to formally unveil strict new gun laws within the next week as a direct response to the attacks on the mosques in Christchurch.
Forty-nine people are dead and scores more are seriously injured after a heavily armed gunman clad in military-style gear opened fire during prayers at a mosque in the center of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday.
Following days of resistance, the FAA issued an emergency order grounding Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 jets. President Trump announced the abrupt about-face Wednesday, after U.S. officials found themselves alone in allowing the planes to remain in the air.
Fifty people were charged yesterday with allegedly participating in a multimillion-dollar scheme to get their children admitted to prestigious colleges.
A chummy discussion between Vice President Pence and Dick Cheney quickly turned into a vigorous back-and-forth over President Trump’s foreign policy during a private retreat for donors this weekend.
President Trump and his advisers are launching a behemoth 2020 campaign operation combining his raw populist message from 2016 with a massive data-gathering and get-out-the-vote push aimed at dwarfing any previous presidential reelection effort.
Legal experts generally expected Judge T.S. Ellis to sentence Manafort to somewhere below the suggested range of 19 to 24 years in prison. But many were shocked by how little time the Ronald Reagan appointee gave the former Reagan campaign staffer.
Omar suggested last week that supporters of Israel here have an "allegiance to a foreign country." Her defenders argued that House Democratic leaders are applying a double standard in singling out one of the two Muslim women in Congress.
New York state regulators subpoenaed documents yesterday from the Trump Organization’s insurance broker after Michael Cohen testified that the president exaggerated his wealth to insurance companies.
The House Judiciary Committee's inquiries touch on a wide array of matters, from the president’s business dealings with Russia to the firing of former FBI director James Comey to hush payments made to women.
Several Democratic presidential hopefuls came to Selma, Ala., on Sunday for the annual pilgrimage to remember Bloody Sunday and the civil rights movement. But, for much of the day, the focus was on past candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Some foreign officials, whose communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies, privately discussed ways they could try to manipulate Kushner.
President Trump said the main impediment to a deal was Kim Jong Un's requirement that the United States lift all economic sanctions on North Korea in exchange for the closure of only one North Korean nuclear facility.
In the opening statement, Michael Cohen plans to call Trump a “conman.” He’ll also level accusations that the president personally signed a check to cover “hush-money” payments to keep quiet an affair with Stormy Daniels.
Justice Elena Kagan has emerged as one of the Supreme Court’s most powerful voices on the separation of church and state, often rebuking conservative colleagues for allowing government actions that she says favor one religion over another.
The National Security Council initiative would include hand-picked scientists who have questioned both the severity of climate change and the extent to which humans contribute to the problem.
The ruling is a stinging rebuke for prosecutors and how they behaved in the grim, high-profile Jeffrey Epstein case.
President Trump’s special North Korea envoy Stephen Biegun arrived in Hanoi overnight. He’s on a mission to iron out a deal with Pyongyang ahead of next week’s second nuclear summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un.
One adviser who spoke with the president this weekend said Trump is still enraged about Coats’s congressional testimony on national security threats from last month.
A coalition of 16 states led by California filed a federal lawsuit Monday aimed at stopping Trump’s plan to build a border wall by declaring a national emergency.
Congress approved a massive budget deal last night to avert a government shutdown and President Trump promised to sign it, but only after announcing he would also declare a national emergency so he can get more money for a border wall.
The House Judiciary Committee passed a measure that would require background checks for all gun sales and most gun transfers within the United States. It is the most significant gun-control legislation to advance this far in Congress in years.
Prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, one of Mueller’s top lieutenants, told a federal judge during a sealed hearing last week that the meeting at the cigar club goes, “very much to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating.”
Key lawmakers reached a tentative compromise agreement last night to avoid another government shutdown at the end of the week. But hurdles remained, and President Trump’s ultimate backing was in doubt after quick opposition emerged from conservatives.
North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones passed away Sunday, on his 76th birthday. Once a supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he underwent a dramatic change of heart and emerged as one of the most prominent critics of the war.
The justices may yet consider whether the 2014 law — requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals — unduly burdens women’s access to abortion.
Virginia’s top three Democratic leaders are all embroiled in scandals this morning that threaten to end their political careers.
For many historians, President Trump decrying the investigation was eerily reminiscent of Richard Nixon’s 1974 State of the Union.
The subpoena indicates that prosecutors are investigating crimes related to conspiracy to defraud the United States, mail fraud, false statements, wire fraud and money laundering.
Calling the Sunday night meeting was a clear signal of Northam’s effort to weigh support within the administration as he evaluates his options.
The presidents new comments came as Nancy Pelosi once again insisted a deal would not include any wall funding, which the president has called a prerequisite.
The era of accommodation on Capitol Hill is over, as President Trump faces an increasingly adversarial Congress — in both parties.
Leaders of the intelligence community repeatedly offered assessments during congressional testimony yesterday that are starkly at odds with proclamations made by President Trump, who appointed each of them.
While federal employees tried to get the government back up to speed yesterday, the possibility of another shutdown in just three weeks hangs over every office.
President Trump is again considering declaring a national emergency at the southern border to get wall funding after he agreed to end the shutdown without any of his demands met.
A tense lunch between the vice president and the Senate GOP highlight the toll the shutdown has taken on Republican lawmakers.
After a day of scathing back-and-forth between Trump and Nancy Pelosi, the president announced last night that he will indefinitely postpone his State of the Union address until after the shutdown ends.
The Trump administration last week ordered at least 30,000 IRS workers back to their offices, where they have been working to process refunds without pay. But employees across the country won't be clocking in.
The government shutdown drew no closer to an end over the holiday weekend, with the House and Senate planning to pursue separate bills that are both expected to die before reaching Trump’s desk. Meanwhile, some Trump supporters are turning on him for it.
As tensions flare between the president and Democrats, the shutdown looks likely to drag into its second month.
The president has shown more and more frustration as negative coverage mounts of his role in the government shutdown.
The landslide vote was pure humiliation for a British leader who has spent the past two years trying to sell her vision of Brexit to a skeptical public.
The Republican congressman from Iowa questioned how the term “white supremacist” came to be considered offensive.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested temporarily reopening the government while continuing negotiations.
The White House continues laying the groundwork to declare a national emergency to get money for President Trump’s border wall, and they’re looking seriously at tapping disaster relief funds.
The White House beefed up its legal team and plans to aggressively invoke executive privilege in a bid to contain the potential fallout of Bob Mueller’s report and to curtail oversight by House Democrats.
In a nationally televised address from the Oval Office last night, Trump declared “a growing humanitarian and security crisis” at the southern border to make the case for his proposed wall.
Trump administration officials made an urgent case on Monday that the situation at the border with Mexico has reached a crisis level, laying the groundwork for the president to possibly declare a national emergency.
White House national security adviser John Bolton said that several “objectives” must be achieved before a pullout from Syria could take place.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic-controlled House plan to push through legislation to reopen the federal government. But the measure has been declared dead on arrival in the GOP-led Senate.
A scathing op-ed by the incoming senator and 2012 GOP presidential nominee is a thunderclap in the Republican Party.
President Trump invited congressional leaders to the White House for a briefing on border security, the first face-to-face session involving Republicans and Democrats as the partial government shutdown entered its second week.
Democrats have settled on a strategy for attempting to reopen the government when they take control of the House on Thursday, aimed at ending the partial shutdown quickly — but denying President Trump the new money he wants for a border wall.
Trump's latest overtures in the wake of the midterm elections stand in stark contrast to the historical behavior of modern presidents, who have moved at least briefly toward the political center after being humbled at the ballot box.
A week after President Trump directed the military to draw up plans to withdraw about half the U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan, military officials are walking a fine line detailing the future of the longest U.S. war in history.
The president’s visit to an air base west of Baghdad, which was shrouded in secrecy, followed months of public pressure for him to spend time with troops deployed to conflicts in the Middle East.
The president defended his plan to build a border barrier and cast doubt about the performance of Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell after a sharp downturn in U.S. markets.
U.S. stock markets suffered their steepest Christmas Eve decline in decades Monday, defying the best efforts by the Trump administration to instill confidence, and coming very close to ending a record 10-year upward run.
President Trump, who aides said has been seething about news coverage of Mattis’s resignation letter, abruptly announced Sunday that he was removing Mattis two months early and installing Patrick Shanahan as acting defense secretary.
The secretary of defense saw only one solution left to his distress with President Trump’s approach to national security.
The president's decision to abruptly withdraw troops from Syria is a clear rebuke to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the last remaining member of a retinue of military men Trump once fondly referred to as “my generals.”
A federal judge delayed sentencing Flynn, after suggesting President Trump’s former national security adviser may have betrayed his country.
One of the efforts aims to identify key issues that matter to swing-state voters the GOP has previously lost.
The operation used every major social media platform to help elect Donald Trump — and worked even harder to support him once he took office.
Nancy Pelosi locked down the votes this week to become speaker again by tapping a vast network of allies, relying on a grab bag of political favors and – most importantly -- methodically undermining her opposition.
After weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiating, Pelosi backed off her resistance to setting a date for her departure and agreed to step aside by 2022.
Preliminary indications show the breach -- which affected up to 500 million people -- was executed by hackers affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security
Butina was accused of working to push Moscow’s agenda by forming bonds with National Rifle Association officials and other conservative leaders, and making outreach to 2016 presidential candidates, including Donald Trump.
President Trump’s top pick to be his next chief of staff, Nick Ayers, will not take the job and instead leave the White House at the end of the year, reopening negotiations over who will succeed the departing John Kelly as his third chief of staff.
Victorina Morales says she has worked for Trump's golf club in New Jersey since 2013 along with other undocumented immigrants and that at least two supervisors at the club were aware of it and took steps to help them evade detection.
Former president George W. Bush eulogized his father with a perfect mix of serious and funny, remembering his bravery in combat and his dislike of broccoli, his patriotism, and his lousy dancing.
A far-reaching proposal by Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin would weaken the authority of the state's governor-elect, Democrat Tony Evers.
As Trump reaches a deal with China in the trade war, the relationship between Beijing and Washington remains rocky.
The latest guilty plea of Trump's longtime fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen proves that the president has emerged as a major subject of interest in special counsel Bob Mueller’s Russia investigation.
The government put out life expectancy numbers early Thursday morning in a bleak series of reports that show a nation still in the grip of escalating drug and suicide crises.
Some legal experts think it was a play by Manafort to get a presidential pardon even as he worked with Mueller in hopes of a lighter sentence.
Manafort denied lying intentionally, but both sides agreed that sentencing should be set immediately.
The President has flummoxed his own aides by repeatedly seeking new spending while ruling out measures needed to address the country’s unbalanced budget.
The inquiries include only a portion of the questions that Mueller has sought to pose to Trump for nearly a year, when he first requested an interview with the president.
White House ethics officials learned of her repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit.
In an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” Trump went after the retired Navy SEAL and Special Operations commander who oversaw the killing of Osama bin Laden and the capture of Saddam Hussein during his 37 years in the military.
It was not immediately clear what charges Assange would face. In the past, prosecutors had contemplated pursuing a case involving conspiracy, theft of government property or violating the Espionage Act.
The very public spat between deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel and First Lady Melania Trump began with the first lady's Africa trip last month.
President Trump has been lashing out in frustration over the midterm results and his poorly-received Europe trip.
Sinema, who was once a spokeswoman for the Green Party, repackaged herself as a moderate and overcame tens of millions in attacks on her liberal record. She is the state’s first female senator, and our nation’s first openly bisexual senator.
Republican Gov. Rick Scott sharpened his attacks on his opponent in the razor-tight U.S. Senate race and filed a new round of lawsuits against Democratic election officials.
On Thursday, Democrats maneuvered for position in down-ballot races, hoping to claim a sliver of power in the party’s first majority in eight years.
A Justice Department official said Whitaker would assume authority over the special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — though his role will be subject to the normal review process for conflicts.
Two-thirds of voters said the president was a factor in how they voted, according to network exit polls. That allowed Democrats to win control of the House, and Republicans to expand their majority in the Senate.
President Trump's speeches at three campaign rallies yesterday were meant to shore up challenging Senate races in states where he won overwhelmingly. White House aides have all but given up on keeping control of the House.
The fierce battle for control of Congress and the nation’s governorships has turned toward blatant and overtly racial attacks rarely seen since the civil rights era of the 1960s.
On Thursday, Trump ratcheted up the anti-immigrant rhetoric that has been the centerpiece of his midterm push by portraying a slow-moving migrant caravan, consisting mostly of families traveling on foot through Mexico, as a dangerous ‘invasion.'
Special counsel Bob Mueller is also probing whether Trump ally and longtime confidant Roger Stone may have helped Wikileaks time its release of Democratic emails.
A former Rabbi at Tree of Life synagogue also said during an appearance on MSNBC that President Trump should wait a week before visiting the city where the deadly shooting took place.
Police identified the 11 victims killed in Saturday’s mass shooting at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue, the deadliest attack on Jews in American history.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been telling associates that Republicans are in a strong position to hold the Senate and could pad their narrow 51-to-49 advantage by a couple of seats, though he’s avoiding precise predictions.
The discovery of five pipe bombs mailed to prominent Democrats, CNN and a liberal billionaire have put the country on edge and sent law enforcement officials scrambling to prevent any more packages from reaching their targets.
The U.S. Cyber Command has begun targeting Russian operatives, warning them that the military is tracking their activities in an attempt to deter them from disrupting the fast-approaching midterm elections.
White House aides say the migrant caravan has proved to be a particularly effective wedge issue for Trump. His approach in many ways seeks to re-create the 2016 playbook that unexpectedly lifted him to the presidency.
The Democratic nominees for governor in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Kansas are intentionally bland. In contrast, Democratic voters selected the more fiery candidates for governor in primaries in states like Texas and Georgia.
While some GOP leaders in the House had initially hoped to focus their election message on the economy, President Trump has continued to highlight immigration.
President Trump’s hesitation and friendly engagement with the Saudis underscores his transactional approach that prioritizes geopolitics and economic interests over human rights and democracy.
While making the case for a third term as governor, Scott Walker compared himself to the star quarterback for the Green Bay Packers.
If you made a list five years ago of national Democratic surrogates that a candidate in a purple state like Wisconsin would want to campaign with, Kathleen Sebelius would not be on it.
President Trump talked about how he'll handle Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance, his mockery of Christine Blasey Ford, his unsupported assertion that China meddled in the 2016 elections and more.
The Turkish government has told U.S. officials that they have audio and video recordings to support their conclusion that Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
The feud between Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe dates back to Robert Mueller's May 2017 appointment as special counsel.
In an op-ed for today’s print edition of The Washington Post, Khashoggi's fiancee calls on Trump to help shed light on his disappearance.
Since Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed on Saturday, Trump has seemed more interested in inflaming rather than reducing the tensions over his pick amid questions over whether the high court is becoming too politicized.
Sens. Susan Collins and Jeff Flake indicated Thursday that the additional FBI probe was adequate. A third Republican, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, has not yet announced her vote.
In anticipation of the report’s arrival, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday night teed up a key vote to advance Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for Friday. That could set up a final vote on Saturday.
Tuesday’s attack could further inflame tensions in the pitched battle over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation — and alienate moderate key votes like Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
The question is not whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should face prosecution. It’s whether he should receive a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land.
Increasingly, it looks like Christine Blasey Ford’s fear may come true: That it would all be for naught.
President Trump’s argument Wednesday cast doubt on the credibility not only of the three women who have accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, but also on scores of other women who have claimed sexual abuse by prominent men, including the president himself.
President Trump’s charged rhetoric came as Republicans quickly closed ranks around Kavanaugh, even as a handful of pivotal swing votes remained quiet on whether they would ultimately support his confirmation in the coming days.
President Trump called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday with an unmistakable message: Call the vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, and call it soon.
A new accusation roiled Kavanaugh’s nomination hours after the Senate Judiciary Committee agreed to let Christine Blasey Ford testify on Thursday about her claim that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers and attempted to rape her.
An attorney for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually said Ford appearing at a hearing on Monday to detail her claims is “not possible” but has offered to testify on Thursday.
GOP senators strongly signaled on Wednesday that they will forge ahead with embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, even as his accuser called the rush for a public hearing next Monday deeply unfair.
Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, wants the FBI to investigate her allegation before she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her decades ago will testify publicly setting up a potentially dramatic and politically perilous hearing that could determine the fate of his nomination.
Republicans face a potential backlash from female voters, especially suburban women, if they press ahead with Brett Kavanaugh's nomination despite the allegation.
Instead of focusing on Hurricane Florence, President Trump’s attention on Thursday was devoted to airing personal grievances related to last year’s Hurricane Maria.
Democrats are pummeling Republican gubernatorial and senate candidates over a pending lawsuit by 20 GOP-led states that could allow insurance companies to stop covering people with preexisting medical conditions.
The president has long struggled with public displays of empathy and with rising to the role of consoler in chief.
The idea of selling naming rights to rockets and spacecrafts is part of a broader effort to generate more private-sector involvement in low Earth orbit.
Vice President Mike Pence denied on Fox News and CBS that he was part of discussions to remove President Trump from office or that he had anonymously written an explosive op-ed against him.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who has spent much of his life as a Republican operative, claimed he stays out of politics.
The parlor game in Washington is guessing which senior official is behind the anonymous opinion piece published in The New York Times on Wednesday.
The confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh launched Tuesday as a bitter political brawl
President Trump’s latest public broadsides against his own attorney general offered a timely reminder of how high the stakes are in the confirmation hearing that starts today for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Evidence of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s past skepticism toward affirmative action is being studied closely – and it's giving heartburn to civil rights advocates.
The ousting of White House counsel Don McGahn has led to growing concern among some of President Trump's closest allies that both the president and his top aides are woefully unprepared for the coming legal storm.
A Republican propelled by President Trump and an African American Democrat won the nominations for governor of Florida on Tuesday, setting up a colossal fall showdown forces in the country’s biggest swing state.
A damning new inspector general's report released Monday concludes that the head of the General Services Administration may have misled Congress about President Trump’s personal role in scuttling plans for a new FBI headquarters outside of Washington.
President Trump has repeatedly declined to say anything nice about McCain, even while he was dying.
President Trump’s lawyers say they’re afraid Mueller will lay “a perjury trap,” but the Fox hit shows Trump doesn’t need to be coaxed like a bear in the backwoods of Maine with donuts.
Michael Cohen’s guilty plea raises the likelihood that he will attempt to leverage the secrets he knows about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is the do-as-I-say, not-as-a-I-do president. His in-laws became U.S. citizens this week because their daughter, Melania, sponsored them, even though Trump decries this form of family reunification.
The first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump allegedly committed felony insider trading last year while standing on the White House lawn.
A tight special election between Democrat Danny O’Connor and Republican Troy Balderson in a deep-red Ohio House district Tuesday reinforced a trend that has been developing for more than a year.
As Rick Gates implicated himself and his former boss Paul Manafort in multiple criminal acts, Manafort, who could spend the rest of his life in prison, gave the cooperating witness with an icy glare.
One week before the first anniversary of his botched response to the racial violence in Virginia, President Trump again sparked controversy this weekend with personal attacks on the intelligence of three prominent African Americans.
Their show of unity just steps from the Oval Office on Thursday appeared aimed at easing public concerns about President Trump’s public skepticism of Russia’s intentions.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has offered to limit the number of questions that his team would ask Trump in a potential interview in an effort to restart stalled negotiations with the president’s legal team.
Two stories from yesterday illustrate innovation's dark side. A federal judge blocked the publication of blueprints for 3-D-printed guns, and Facebook acknowledged that there is an ongoing disinformation campaign on its platform.
It’s increasingly clear that President Trump got burned by North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
A U.S. Air Force plane carrying what are thought to be the remains of 55 Americans killed during the Korean War arrived at Osan Air Base in South Korea on Friday morning -- the 65th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War.
Michael Cohen – the president's longtime attorney, consigliere and fixer – once vowed he’d take a bullet for his boss.
A September 2016 recording by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen reveals that Donald Trump appeared familiar with a deal that a Playboy model made to sell the rights to her story of an alleged affair with him.
The watershed case is back in the news after it emerged over the weekend that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh argued in 1999 that the “tensions of the time” may have led to what he called an “erroneous decision."
In a string of four Sunday tweets, President Trump made several demonstrably false assertions about what’s actually in the documents. He continued to hammer on this theme Monday morning.
Tensions have ratcheted up here in Washington after the White House announced Thursday that President Trump has invited Vladimir Putin to visit the United States in the fall.
President Trump, who is increasingly isolated, found himself at odds on Wednesday with his own people who work out of Foggy Bottom, Fort Meade, Langley, the Pentagon and the J. Edgar Hoover Building.
It’s striking to compare the current president’s European adventures to his predecessor’s Africa foray.
Everyone around President Trump urged him to take a firm stance with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Trump's afternoon tea with Queen Elizabeth II marks the culmination of a sometimes tortured fascination with the British royal family, dating back two decades to the divorce of Princess Diana.
President Trump is remaking the global order without significant political resistance or penalty, unchecked by a largely compliant Congress and bolstered by the loyalty of his supporters — even those likely to be hurt by his burgeoning global trade war.
It’s not saturating the news any more, but immigrant families are still feeling the aftershocks of President Trump’s policy to tear them apart at the border.
President Trump nominated federal judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Monday night, a move that elevates a conservative stalwart with deep ties to the Republican establishment to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
President Trump sounded genuinely baffled by George H.W. Bush’s 1988 campaign slogan, “A thousand points of light," during a rally in Montana last week.
This is a big win for White House chief of staff John Kelly, who has been on the outs but has pushed hard internally for Pruitt's removal over the past several weeks.
President Trump's comments were laughed off by foreign policy experts as the kind of bluster people have come to expect from the reality TV star turned commander in chief. But he was serious.
A wealthy British businessman and his hard-partying associates have sparked the interests of special counsel Bob Mueller.
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced Wednesday that he is retiring from the Supreme Court, a move that will give Trump a chance to replace the pivotal justice and solidify a more conservative majority on the court.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez embodies and personifies several trends we’ve seen in this election cycle. She’s a woman. She’s a first-time candidate. Her mother immigrated to New York from Puerto Rico. And she beat 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley.
Harley-Davidson's decision to move its production of motorcycles bound for European customers are another tangible display of the costs associated with the president’s so-called ‘America First’ agenda.
These episodes, which have gone viral on social media, risk backfiring by playing into Trump’s hands, allowing him to galvanize conservatives and alienating middle-of-the-road independents who prize tolerance and respectful discourse.
In scenes reminiscent of the botched ‘Muslim ban’ in the early days of the Trump presidency, federal agencies Thursday were largely left to interpret the sudden changes ordered by the White House the day before and figure out how to implement them.
President Trump lost the battle on family separations, but he’s not surrendering the war.
President Trump and top administration officials are unwilling — for the moment, at least — to unilaterally reverse the separation policy.
Time and time again, the president has sought to shift the blame for his own decisions and their consequences to his political opponents.
Administration officials are alternating erratically between defending the policy, blaming Democrats for it, trying to use it as leverage in negotiations with Congress and even denying that it exists at all.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions used religion to defend the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy toward adults who attempt to cross the border illegally.
Senator Orrin Hatch, an 84-year-old conservative Mormon from Utah, used to be one of the most outspoken critics of gay rights in Congress. Yesterday, he delivered a passionate speech on the Senate floor in an attempt to atone.
Mark Sanford survived the fallout from his “hike” on “the Appalachian trail,” but he couldn’t survive the backlash to his past criticisms of President Trump.
President Trump said he “developed a very special bond” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their historic summit in Singapore on Tuesday.
Both nations have sought to lower expectations for an immediate breakthrough this week.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sat down with James at The Washington Post’s headquarters on Wednesday for The Daily 202 Live, a monthly events series that convenes newsmakers.
President Trump, who knows little about history, had a tense phone call late last month with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the steel and aluminum tariffs, during which the president erroneously blamed Canada for the War of 1812.
On the biggest primary day of the year, with voters going to the polls in eight states, the national Democratic establishment got the last laugh.
Exactly two years before his death, on June 6, 1966, Robert F. Kennedy delivered the best speech of his life at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Most legal experts say that the assertion that a president cannot obstruct justice is absurd and legally indefensible
President Trump said Thursday that Rod Blagojevich should not have gone to jail for the crimes he was convicted of in Illinois.
President Trump could fire Sessions at any time, but for nearly a year, he has chosen instead merely to insult his attorney general.
Mitt Romney is heavily favored to win the June 26th primary, but he’s bending over backwards not to directly criticize the president – even as he expresses concern about some of his policies.
Rep. Thomas Garrett (R-Va.) announced Monday that he is struggling with alcoholism and will abandon his run for a second term in Congress so he can focus on recovery and his family.
At the core of President Trump’s foreign policy is a belief that he can use his personal charisma to charm his way to world peace.
President Trump has been embellishing reports that a longtime U.S. government informant approached members of his campaign during the 2016 presidential election in a possible bid to glean intelligence on Russian efforts to sway the election.
Fresh faces with compelling life stories prevailed in Democratic primaries across several southern states Tuesday, beating candidates with deeper political pedigrees and more governing experience in several key races.
The White House and the Justice Department have put off a high-stakes confrontation over the FBI’s use of a confidential source to aid an investigation into the Trump campaign.
Hillary Clinton got a rock star’s reception Sunday afternoon when she spoke at a commencement ceremony for Yale University. She said she was not going to get political - and then she did.
President Trump’s administration has seen more turnover than “The Apprentice.” Literally.
The publicist who first contacted Donald Trump Jr. to set up the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower told investigators that he did so only after receiving assurances that the Russian lawyer he was bringing along had dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Tuesday was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Democratic moderates across primaries in four states.
Moqtada al-Sadr’s surprisingly strong performance in the Iraqi elections will rattle U.S. relations with the country.
Separate groups of conservative and liberals have just published deep dives into Donald Trump’s strength in a Michigan country that was previously a Democratic stronghold.
There’s a nastiness and bitterness in Washington now. It’s not just you. It’s getting worse.
Gina Haspel said she would not allow the CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal. But she demurred when pressed on whether waterboarding and other techniques she oversaw were immoral – even in hindsight.
Often obscured under the avalanche of news and the clouds of intrigue, President Trump and his appointees continue to systematically deconstruct the administrative state.
Rudy Giuliani is playing to an audience of one – creating more problems for his client.
There are also two other stories in today’s newspaper that show the enduring power of the patriarchy and how men take advantage of their positions of authority.
Michael Cohen, the longtime attorney of President Trump, told a federal judge on Wednesday that he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in a lawsuit brought by adult entertainer Stormy Daniels.
The President is standing behind Ronny Jackson’s nomination to run the department of veterans affairs as misconduct allegations continue to mount against the White House physician.
The president promises “extreme vetting” of all immigrants, but he has repeatedly failed to hold his own Cabinet picks, senior White House staff and judicial nominees to the same standard.
President Trump has denied Comey's account of their conversations, and he's now trying to claim vindication from the memos.
Signs show that the $1.5 trillion tax cut is not the political gift Republicans had expected it to be last year.
Many of the Democratic talking heads you see on television are making arguments, frankly, that aren’t rhetorically helpful to the party’s candidates for 2018. Several prominent progressive groups and leading Democratic pollsters are trying to change that.
Hope Hicks announced her departure as White House communications director in February, but President Trump still has not picked a replacement. Instead, he continues to do the job himself.
In his interview with George Stephanopoulos that aired Sunday night on ABC, fired FBI director James Comey said he believes Trump is “morally unfit to be president."
President Trump is once again showing himself to be a do-as-I-say, not as-I-do president. But the biggest issue is the message the pardon would send to people who are being questioned right now by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
As he announced his exit from public life, House Speaker Paul Ryan tried hard to show appreciation for the man who took the Republican Party from his grasp and transformed it into something else.
Every time President Trump threatens to fire Bob Mueller, it gets harder for congressional Republicans to dismiss questions about why they are not protecting the special counsel.
Today, for the first time, the 33-year-old billionaire is scheduled to testify before Congress, as part of a crusade to protect not only the company he founded but also his broader legacy.
The likelihood of a United States strike against Syria after a suspected chemical weapons attack increased Sunday as President Trump said there would be a “big price to pay” and officials in France vowed the country would “do its duty” in responding.
Another day brought another string of devastating revelations about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and the potential misuse of his position for private gain.
Anyone who is surprised by President Trump’s most recent moves on foreign policy, trade and immigration either wasn’t paying attention during the 2016 campaign, has a short-term memory or selectively listened to hear what they wanted to hear.
Special Counsel Bob Mueller may release multiple reports on President Trump, obstruction and Russian interference.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s final speech, delivered 50 years ago tonight in Memphis on the eve of his assassination, is well remembered for its prophetic musings on mortality.
Donald Trump is either woefully uninformed or intentionally misleading the American people about one of his most consequential decisions as president. Which is the more charitable explanation?
Donald Trump has defiantly refused to criticize Vladimir Putin in public. Administration officials are signaling this may soon change, and the president’s Alpha Male inclinations are a big reason why.
Fealty to Trump has become more of a litmus test than ever for Republicans. This is no longer the party of Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush. It’s the party of Donald J. Trump.
When historian Niall Ferguson moved from Harvard to Stanford two years ago, he was struck by Silicon Valley’s indifference to history.
The Hoover Institution, the center-right think tank on the campus of Stanford University, is approaching climate change as both a market failure and a serious national security challenge.
Today, millions of young people aren’t worried about being drafted to fight. But they are palpably concerned that they or someone they know could get shot at school.
President Trump named former ambassador John Bolton as his new national security adviser, tapping the Fox News commentator and conservative firebrand to replace Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.
Congressional leaders and the White House last night unveiled a $1.3 trillion spending deal that will fund the federal government through the end of September.
The second primary night of the year, in the country’s fifth most populous state, showcased how angry the electorate remains in this Age of Disruption.
President Trump shook up his legal team on Monday by hiring a combative former prosecutor who has publicly argued that Trump is the target of an elaborate FBI conspiracy.
Ayana McAllister wanted to become a detective who helped victims of sexual assault. “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” was her favorite show. But one year ago tomorrow, the 18-year-old was shot and killed in Northeast Washington.
Donald Trump’s reality television presidency may be getting more star power for season two.
Third Way is calling for Democrats to offer a new social contract for the digital age. Leaders Matt Bennett and Jim Kessler shared their ideas with James.
National Republicans threw the kitchen sink to hold a House seat in Pennsylvania, but while the special election remains too close to call, Democrat Conor Lamb clings to a narrow lead and declared victory early this morning.
President Trump has put forward a modest package of gun-safety measures this week that has none of the provisions opposed by the NRA that he seemed to back days earlier.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) is one of 10 Democratic senators up for reelection this year in a state Trump carried in 2016.
If Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone wins an unexpectedly close special election here next Tuesday, it will be on Trump’s coattails.
If you don’t like President Trump’s position on a particular issue, just wait a day. It may change.
Politics is downstream of culture. Trump’s election would never have been possible without systemic cultural shifts, enabled by reality TV and social media, that increased the premium average Americans place on celebrity for celebrity’s sake.
Since last week, Peter Navarro has been taking an extended victory lap and trying to sell the president's position on tariffs.
The first primaries of 2018 are in Texas on Tuesday. They could set the tune for six months of Democratic infighting.
President Trump campaigned like a populist but has mostly governed like a plutocrat. On trade, he’s decided to follow his populist id.
President Trump’s comments on Wednesday showed a startling disregard for foundational rights that are enumerated in the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. The legal concept of due process is as old as the Magna Carta.
Hicks is just the latest administration official to refuse to answer questions on topics she thought the president might later want to put off limits by invoking executive privilege.
President Trump crossed his arms and looked annoyed as Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington State, spoke out against arming teachers during an event at the White House on Monday.
President Trump shows his ability to move GOP opinion, but voters remain pessimistic that Congress will act.
After signaling earlier in the week that he was serious about doing something on guns in the wake of last week’s massacre at a Florida high school, Trump’s promises to take meaningful action on guns look increasingly hollow.
Trump’s Alpha Male brand is built around projecting toughness and strength, but braggadocio becomes a liability against the backdrop of tragedy – when Americans yearn for their leaders to show that they feel their pain.
The president might be having a true change of heart after Florida, but this could also just be political posturing.
Florida shooting aftermath shows a generation that’s more impressive than typically portrayed.
President Trump could've gotten the border wall. Democrats were more than willing to cave on that in exchange for saving the dreamers. But instead, Trump moved the goal posts.
This opening has become especially glaring against the backdrop of the White House’s botched response to revelations that former senior aide Rob Porter allegedly assaulted both of his ex-wives.
Democrats are so eager to shield young foreign-born “dreamers” from deportation that they’re now offering to make concessions that might have been hard to imagine a year ago.
Many of his proposals are dead on arrival in Congress, but the blueprint nonetheless speaks volumes about the president’s values – and contradicts many promises he made as a candidate.
The open immigration debate that Mitch McConnell promised to end last month’s government shutdown will begin Monday night. It may be the most consequential story of the week, but even the wisest insiders are unsure about how it will play out.
Rand Paul’s short-lived shutdown is ending, but his warning about GOP deficit hypocrisy reverberates
If it looked like a tsunami was headed for Republicans at the end of the year, now it's looking more like a normal wave. And some congressmen who looked like they'd get wiped out not long ago now may be able to surf it.
Jim Mattis tees off on continuing resolutions, just as Ash Carter did before him, while Trump says he’s open to a shutdown.
A president loosely accusing the opposition party of “treason” represents a far greater danger to the long-term health of the American system than a 4.6 percent drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The memo published Friday may have been the most overhyped dud since Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone's empty vault in 1986.
The long-simmering feud between President Trump and the Justice Department erupted into open conflict Wednesday.
People have come to terms with the idea that there will always be a teleprompter Trump and a Twitter Trump. And everyone knows its not a question of if, but when, he goes back to his polarizing ways.
Top strategists briefed their mega donors at a strategy session on Monday about how bad the environment is becoming for Republicans and outlined their top targets.
Another bombshell suggests that the special counsel could be building an obstruction of justice case against the president.
There's new evidence that Robert Mueller’s team is focused as much or more on potential obstruction of justice as possible collusion with Russia.
It took Republicans two weeks to come around during the 2013 shutdown. Democrats could only hold out for two full days.
The failed efforts this weekend by moderates to end the government shutdown underscored how poisoned the well has become.
Public and private polling is giving both sides something to hang their hat on if the federal government partially shuts down.
The president announces 11 ‘Fake News awards,’ as a new RAND Corporation study explores the growing disagreement about basic facts.
The lesson here for national Democrats: Patty Schachtner is the sort of candidate who can actually defeat a GOP incumbent in red congressional districts this fall.
Republican Senators Tom Cotton (Ga.) and David Perdue (Ark.) have put all the Republicans who were in the room into a tough spot.
The president badly lags his predecessors in filling mid-level posts that make government work.
Donald Trump wholeheartedly embraced earmarks Tuesday as a lubricant to grease the gears of government, drawing cheers from the swamp he promised to drain.
A Manchurian Candidate who was secretly trying to alienate Hispanics would be hard pressed to do as much damage to the Republican brand as President Trump has.
The best way to run against Washington in 2018 is by calling for an end to gridlock and dysfunction.
With the proposed expansion of offshore drilling and a crackdown on legal marijuana, the Trump administration created huge political headaches Thursday for scores of Republicans who were already facing a tough environment in 2018.
President Trump’s insistence that Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist and a top aide at the White House until five months ago, was a mere “staffer” is akin to Joseph Stalin trying to erase Leon Trotsky from the history of the Russian Revolution.
Trump's political appointees in Washington worked overtime over the holidays to deconstruct the administrative state and eviscerate several of Barack Obama’s signature achievements.
To celebrate the new year, we're re-running the last Big Idea of 2017. In it, James poses several questions that he think will shape 2018.
James spoke with Democratic operatives who argued passionately that the tax bill is not going to become a winner for the other side – even if some people see benefits.
The bill is historically unpopular. But in the short-term, the majority will actually benefit from it. And several outside groups are planning ad campaigns to make sure you know it.
After John Neely Kennedy helped torpedo three would-be judges in just the past week, the White House is paying attention.
The narrative of President Trump’s first year will shift this week when he signs into law the biggest overhaul of the tax code in three decades.
Many politically-savvy Democrats worry that fighting over whether Trump should resign is not the way to win in 2018.
The backlash in the suburbs against President Trump is one of the most significant political stories of 2017. If Democrats win the House next year, it will be the main reason why.
Democrats win a stunning victory in Alabama – and Trump suffers another humiliating defeat.
There are 36 governor’s races next year, including 26 in states currently held by Republicans. Inslee, the new chairman of the Democratic governors association, thinks Trump will be so toxic in 2018 that Dem candidates won’t need to mention him.
Interviews in the town that inspired ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ reveal pervasive African-American fears that their votes won’t make a difference.
The willingness of women lawmakers to directly confront the pervasive culture of sexual harassment that exists in Congress will offer a data point for female candidates in 2018 to make the case that there needs to be more women on Capitol Hill.
James spoke with 20 women at Moore's rally last night about why they support the Republican Senate candidate despite allegations against him of sexual misconduct.
The tax bill would not have stalled on the Senate floor last night if Republican leaders had followed regular order and the White House had shown more respect for the legislative process.
Tension over adding ‘triggers’ to the tax bill highlights the Republican identity crisis over deficits.
Senator Elizabeth Warren decries Mick Mulvaney’s takeover of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in an interview with James.
December is going to be a wild month on Capitol Hill. As lawmakers return today from Thanksgiving, they’ve got so much on their plates that many are holding off on making Christmas plans.
The daily stream of revelations about sexual harassment should be viewed, at least in part, as a belated backlash to Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, which came despite the emergence of the “Access Hollywood” video.
Pruitt said the work he’s doing right now “is some of the most consequential things domestically that can occur.”
Republican women who voted for President Trump in North Carolina said during a focus group Wednesday night that they are embarrassed by and exasperated with him.
Last week, James joined the Wisconsin governor at three events over three days as he launched his campaign for a third term.
If Roy Moore goes down next month, the GOP’s working majority becomes much more fragile. If he wins, Republicans would struggle to get rid of him, and his presence would cause countless headaches in 2018.
After a week of impressive message discipline across Asia, President Trump reopened a wound Saturday when he indicated that he believes Vladimir Putin’s denials that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The reactions to the allegation that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore initiated sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl when he was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney have highlighted deep divisions within the Republican Party.
Tuesday was the best day for Democrats politically since Barack Obama won reelection in 2012.
The potency of Ed Gillespie’s law-and-order message in the Virginia governor’s race may have a chilling effect on criminal justice reform efforts around the country by deterring other Republicans from taking up the issue.
A rainy get-out-the-vote rally in Fairfax on Saturday night was a fitting coda to a rough week for Virginia Democrats. Virginians will finally head to the polls on Tuesday.
Even though they have unified control of all three branches of the federal government, a lot of Republican lawmakers are just not having that much fun in this unproductive Congress.
10 Senate Democrats are up for reelection next year in states that Trump carried in 2016. These lawmakers each insist they are not just willing, but eager, to work with the president on taxes.
By unveiling the first batch of criminal allegations to come from probes into possible Russian influence in the American political system, Robert S. Mueller III proved Monday that he is not messing around.
While Washington elites are fixated on Robert Mueller, the chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party is doing everything he can to prevent his activists and candidates from becoming distracted by the special counsel and his next moves.
President Trump’s decision to acquiesce to the CIA over the John F. Kennedy assassination files will only add to the cloud of public suspicion that hangs over the official story line — even 54 years later — that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Republican leaders are trying to downplay the significance of Jeff Flake’s retirement speech by insisting that the party is unified and that critiques of President Trump are entirely about his personality — not his policies.
In a year of remarkable days, yesterday was one of the most remarkable. Whether it will be a pivot point remains unclear.
At a conference sponsored by the conservative Hudson Institute, veterans of the war in Iraq caution against declaring that the Islamic State is in its last throes.
Donald Trump celebrated Sunday that his campaign to delegitimize the free press is working.
On Thursday, both former presidents used major speeches to repudiate President Trump’s brand of politics and approach to the world.
Jeff Sessions was the personification of a hostile witness whenever a Democratic lawmaker questioned him during a contentious five-hour oversight hearing on Wednesday.
President Trump’s bellicose rhetoric toward North Korea is making it harder to marshal domestic support for potential United States intervention.
It was striking how little criticism there was of Trump at the Koch retreat in Manhattan last Thursday and Friday. Meanwhile, the anger directed toward moderate Republicans in the Senate was palpable.
The president's latest comments add fresh data points to the cementing narrative that the brooding president has become increasingly isolated and angry.
Several worrisome stories popped overnight that underscore the growing vulnerability of the United States to hacking and cyberespionage by foreign governments, specifically Russia and North Korea.
Democrats have a real problem in rural America, and it was on display in the third and final Virginia governor’s debate last night.
Donald Trump’s escalating feud with Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, captures in miniature why he’s been ineffective during his first nine months as president.
The Virginia governor’s race is a base election, and Ed Gillespie has a problem with his base. A new Virginia poll shows why Gillespie is fighting the culture wars.
Everywhere he looks, Republican strategist and lobbyist Bruce Mehlman sees “eerie” parallels between the Gilded Age and today. Stay tuned to the end of the episode to hear part of James' conversation with Mehlman on what those parallels are.
The horror in Las Vegas may not dramatically change the debate about guns. But the response to the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, which has left at least 59 dead and hundreds more wounded, reveals a great deal about our politics.
If Donald Trump doesn’t have anything presidential to say, maybe he shouldn’t say anything at all.
Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans are expected to permanently move into Florida as the result of Hurricane Maria. That could tip the swingiest of swing states toward the Democrats.
Roy Moore’s victory and Bob Corker’s retirement are fresh indicators of a Senate that’s coming apart.
The dichotomy between what the president promises his tax plan will do and what’s he’s planning to unveil on Wednesday is just the latest example of the president’s actions not backing up his rhetoric.
Picking fights with people like Colin Kaepernick is Trump’s modus operandi. He thrives on feuds, and he likes setting up binary contrasts between himself and others.
If you took a shot of liquor every time Luther Strange name-dropped the president during a televised debate last night, you’d probably be too hammered to attend Donald Trump’s rally for him in Huntsville later today.
With the Virginia governor’s race neck-and-neck, whether Republican Ed Gillespie chooses to campaign with President Trump could be determinative.
Many conservatives don’t want leaders to speak the language of diplomacy. They want a streetfighter. For those on the right, Trump offered a little something for everyone.
The collection of works that she cites across the 494 pages of her new memoir showcases a top-flight intellect and would make for a compelling graduate school seminar.
Immigration has always been Sessions' signature issue. But Trump's DACA deal was too good to be true.
Four secretaries of state and other election officials from around the country huddled with cybersecurity experts and federal officials yesterday to talk about what they can do differently in the future to prevent election hacking.
Hundreds of Washington insiders gathered last night in the Kennedy Center Opera House for an advance screening of Ken Burns’s new documentary on Vietnam.
Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency has created a feeling of misery for leading figures in the establishment of both parties. Two such figures are now teaming up to push back on Trumpism as an ideological force.
Any loss of life is a tragedy, but it’s remarkable the extent to which the human cost of a storm as destructive and powerful as this one can be mitigated.
In this special episode, James highlights a portion of his interview with Ross on trade and NAFTA during The Daily 202 Live on Sept. 8. You can watch the full interview and learn more about The Daily 202 Live by visiting wapo.st/202Ross.
Exhausted from his ideological battles with the House Freedom Caucus and clashes with Donald Trump’s White House, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) has decided to retire.
Entertaining counterfactuals can be silly, but what if Trump had acted this way from Day One?
The untold story on DACA is the degree to which Democrats are now in lockstep on what not long ago was an issue that divided them.
Trump's DACA decision highlights chasm between Trump’s compassionate rhetoric and reality.
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
National reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James Hohmann with today's political headlines.
By creating a new artificial crisis and making a demand that’s unlikely to be met, Trump is setting up his supporters to be disappointed once again. But he’s banking that Republicans on Capitol Hill will get blamed far more than him if the gambit fails.
Reading carefully from a teleprompter, in his first prime-time address to the nation, the president sought to explain why he’s been persuaded that staying in Afghanistan is in America’s national interest.
The growing number of charities canceling galas, stars boycotting ceremonies and chief executives resigning from advisory boards is further isolating President Trump.
Trump’s sudden decision to become the leading cheerleader for preserving Confederate memorials is a strategic political maneuver designed to change the terms of the post-Charlottesville conversation.
President Trump has a troubling tendency to blame “both sides.” It's not just Charlottesville.
Donald Trump often behaves as if he’s first and foremost the president of the states and the people who voted for him. That’s at odds with the American tradition, and it’s problematic as a governing philosophy – especially in a moment of crisis.
Seattle, known for its rain, just went a record-breaking 55 days without any. Climate change is leading to more extreme weather, and no other region has experienced that so much over the last year as the Pacific Northwest.
Last night’s news that Robert S. Mueller III has begun using a grand jury in federal court in Washington, as part of his investigation into possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign, further boxes in the president.
The White House has accumulated vastly more power than the men who wrote the Constitution intended, and one unintended consequence of the Trump presidency may be a long-term rebalancing between the three branches of the federal government.
The Arizona Republican senator now stands athwart Trump, yelling stop, at a time when few others in the conservative movement are inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.
John Kelly proved he can manage up by firing communications director Anthony Scaramucci on his first day. Many in the West Wing saw Trump’s firing of Scaramucci -- who served just 10 days as communications director -- as a sign he wants to impose order.
The president holds an absolutist, black-and-white view: You’re either with him or against him. There is no in between.
President Trump’s attacks on Republican senators are finally catching up with him, and Lisa Murkowski will not be bullied.
Reflecting how dramatically the national conversation on LGBTQ rights has shifted in recent years, Trump's ban on transgender troops drew swift rebukes from top Senate Republicans.
Mitch McConnell is like a quarterback who has just converted on fourth-and-long. The Senate majority leader kept the drive to repeal Obamacare alive, but he’s still trailing by a touchdown, the game clock keeps ticking down and a win is not inevitable.
Almost every day, it feels like someone else in the administration’s orbit gets sucked into the Russian vortex.
President Trump has repeatedly dismissed the knowledge and wisdom of experts while elevating non-experts who lack relevant experience into important jobs across the federal government.
Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the probe.
President Trump attacks his own attorney general, the Russia investigation and the special counsel.
As Republicans all but admit defeat in their seven-year quest to overturn the Affordable Care Act, the president made one thing clear yesterday: “I’m not going to own it.”
A last-gasp Hail Mary for full repeal of Obamacare appears certain to fail. There are not the votes in either chamber of Congress.
President Trump is not Teflon, and the conventional wisdom that “nothing matters” is wrong.
The president's son hires a criminal defense attorney amidst new revelations about what he knew before meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower last year.
Debut edition: Trying to keep up with someone who routinely shifts his story often leaves White House surrogates holding the bag. Sunday brought three fresh illustrations of how perilous it can be to speak for Trump.
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