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Donald Trump was a president on his way out of office four years ago Tuesday, on Jan. 7, 2021, as Washington, D.C., was grappling with the...
President-elect Donald Trump spent the eight weeks since his November victory talking as if he is at the wheel of a Republican steamroller, with...
It was a gruesome and ghastly act perpetrated to terrorize Americans gathered in a festive mood to enjoy together the city around them. Then,...
Did you forget what Donald Trump's first term as president was like? This week we get a reminder – governing is for losers. Burning things down so...
President-elect Donald Trump made plenty of promises on the campaign trail this year. One stood out as his most audacious vow – he would swiftly...
President-elect Donald Trump's announcement Wednesday that he wants Kari Lake to run Voice of America was heavy with his usual bombastic nonsense...
Here's a remarkable split-screen moment in American politics, fraught with terrible timing. Former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a one-time...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's daughter and granddaughter had just settled into their seats Thursday evening for a revival performance of "Gypsy," the still...
There's an age-old concept – in crisis, opportunity – that should be deployed as President Joe Biden winds down his administration by signing off...
Donald Trump, during his run to regain the presidency, repeatedly vowed to end "forever wars" abroad. Now we know why Trump wants to bring...
Donald Trump, now the president-elect, has spent 35 years demonizing five Black and Latino men who as teenagers were wrongfully convicted for a...
Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate who sounded shocked by President-elect Donald Trump's selection of Matt Gaetz for attorney general must...
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry had a remarkably frivolous and flip response earlier this year to parents suing to stop his state's mandate that every...
Donald Trump didn't just win the presidency on Tuesday. He also prevailed against the U.S. Department of Justice's efforts to hold him accountable...
The good news coming out of Tuesday's election is clear: No matter which presidential candidate you supported, our free and fair system of...
Presidential campaigns typically spend plenty of time strategizing and staging a closing message, the final bid for support and an ending appeal...
I'll wager that most American voters, no matter who wins the presidency next week, will feel a measure of relief when the political ads on...
Arab American activists are keenly aware of both their leverage and the dangers in deploying it. They demanded on Tuesday that Vice President...
The videos have been viewed millions of times on X, that stinkhole of disinformation previously known as Twitter, and are still posted there...
Elon Musk has finally found his place in American politics as the overeager face of the closing argument for Donald Trump's presidential bid. Musk...
Donald Trump’s notorious inability to acknowledge a mistake – even when everyone else can clearly see how wrong he is – will now probably cost...
Early voting is under way in several states and mail ballots are already arriving in others for America's latest too-close-to-call presidential...
WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. — Pennsylvania, the center of the universe for the presidential election, is a statistical dead heat in polling right now...
OAKS, Pa. — Donald Trump’s “town hall” rally in this Philadelphia suburb Monday night careened from worrisome to deeply weird, even for a...
Let's start by acknowledging that almost any national event that dominates a news cycle during a presidential election now inevitably also becomes...
The most likely path to the White House for Vice President Kamala Harris runs through the "blue wall" states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and...
The presidential election is 30 days away, and voters are starting to hear plenty of forceful sentiments from Republicans about Donald Trump. It's...
The most conspicuous fault line in 2024's very peculiar presidential election has to be the histrionics Donald Trump and JD Vance have shown us...
With the scale of deadly devastation from Hurricane Helene now coming into focus, the easy path here would be to center attention on the...
The filibuster, a parliamentary practice in the U.S. Senate allowing members in the minority to block the will of the majority, has been around in...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Top election officials from six swing states gathered here Thursday for an all-day briefing with journalists to discuss their...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The general election is still 46 days away, but some results are already in: Dead people are not casting ballots, and...
Donald Trump insisting that he has no connection to Project 2025 sounds like your angry old uncle showing up hungry for Thanksgiving dinner while...
The presidential debate Tuesday had a hinge moment when Vice President Kamala Harris knocked former President Donald Trump completely off his game...
Politicians returned to the Congress in Washington, D.C., this week from their August break, and House Speaker Mike Johnson was eager to get back...
Former President Donald Trump sat down in late May for an interview with Tim Pool, a right-wing "influencer," where they commiserated about the...
Rewriting history can be challenging, especially for something as notorious as the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It requires...
Vice President Kamala Harris has faced a barrage of questions in the more than five weeks since she became a presidential candidate about when she...
Being the running mate on Donald Trump's presidential ticket has always required a certain flexibility with truth and accuracy. But U.S. Sen. JD...
Donald Trump launched his political career in June 2015 with a brazen and bogus appeal to American fear, based on a distortion that immigrants to...
Former President Donald Trump, in his weeklong attempt to counterprogram the Democratic National Convention, visited Michigan on Tuesday to accuse...
PHILADELPHIA — JD Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio chosen as a running mate five weeks ago by former President Donald Trump, came to this...
Donald Trump, to the chagrin of many campaign advisers, just cannot stop lying about how the 2020 presidential election was "rigged" in favor of...
PHILADELPHIA — This so very odd race for the presidency, with November's election just 13 weeks away, finally settled all its players into place...