In 1908, a White mob incited a race riot in Springfield, Ill., leaving several people dead, hundreds injured and dozens of Black-owned businesses and homes burned and destroyed. On Friday, President Joe Biden will designate a national monument to commemorate the violent event,the White House confirmed to The Washington Post on Wednesday. Biden, aiming to […]Read More

Hannibal Lecter is a cannibalistic serial killer, a lover of fava beans and a nice chianti, fictional — and now, a regular feature in Donald Trump’s speeches. As the Republican presidential nominee riffed on immigration and the border at an Aug. 3 rally in Atlanta, he declared: “They hate when I use Dr. Hannibal Lecter. […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris aims to share the campaign trail vibes with the public in Chicago next week with free manicures, friendship bracelet making and campaign training at the city’s convention center. The daytime programing, dubbed “DemPalooza” by party bosses, will take place at the McCormick Place convention center, about 5 miles from the United […]Read More

Former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner has won the Democratic nomination to replace the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.), making Turner her likely successor next year in the heavily Democratic district that she represented for nearly three decades. Democratic precinct chairs in the 18th Congressional District on Tuesday night picked Turner to take Jackson Lee’s […]Read More

NEW ORLEANS — President Joe Biden announced $150 million in additional funding for cancer research during a Tuesday visit to Louisiana, a rare public appearance since announcing he would not seek reelection on July 21, and one that hints that he may focus the remainder of his tenure on issues that are especially close to […]Read More

A pro-Trump lawyer facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was disqualified Tuesday from representing former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne after a judge found her and Byrne responsible for leaking up to 1 million confidential records turned over in a separate defamation lawsuit. Stefanie Lambert was barred from representing […]Read More

LOS ANGELES — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pushed back on GOP attacks on his military service and the timing of his departure from the Army National Guard during his first solo campaign appearance a week after being named Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate. During a speech Tuesday before one of the nation’s largest public […]Read More

An attorney involved in efforts to upend the results of the 2020 election was arrested in federal court in Washington this week and ordered to turn herself in to authorities in Michigan as civil and criminal cases involving claims of voter fraud collided. Stefanie Lambert’s arrest came more than a week after officials had issued […]Read More

Donald Trump’s political history is easy to summarize. Polls leading up to the 2016 and 2020 general election underestimated his support. In 2016, that was largely because his support increased sharply in the final week of the contest. In 2020, the polls were simply further from the mark. In both elections, though, he got similar […]Read More

In the week since Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate, Donald Trump’s campaign and its allies have arguably spent even more time attacking him than Harris. They’ve called his record as governor too liberal and focused extensively on his claims about his military service — even as […]Read More