STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Doug Emhoff was late to learn his life had changed, he told an enthusiastic audience of Democratic volunteers Saturday as they prepared to knock on doors in support of his wife, Vice President Harris, running for president. At home in Los Angeles last Sunday after a campaign swing through Nevada, the […]Read More

Members offormer president Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail and his top advisers have privately questioned why they were not informed that local police were tracking a suspicious person before that person opened fire on Trump at his July 13 rally in western Pennsylvania, according to people with direct knowledge of the concerns. Approximately 20 to […]Read More

Democratic lawmakers and Vice President Harris’s campaign joined a chorus of online critics in calling out remarks Donald Trump aimed at a Christian audience on Friday, arguing that the former president and current Republican presidential nominee had implied he would end elections in the United States if he won a second term. At the conclusion […]Read More

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Donald Trump supporters lining up to enter a rally here passed the usual tents hawking MAGA merchandise, but suddenly most of the gear attacking President Biden (often in vulgar terms) was gone. A few straggler “Let’s go Brandon” stickers remained. New swag targeting Vice President Harris, the new presumptive Democratic nominee, […]Read More

Vice President Harris has had an extraordinary week — a campaign-changing stretch that has unified and energized Democrats, flummoxed former president Donald Trump and upended the 2024 election. She has 100 days to convert all that into a winning campaign. Robby Mook, who was campaign manager for Hillary Clinton in 2016, said Harris had a […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump vowed Saturday to stage more outdoor rallies two weeks after surviving an assassination attempt and claimed the Secret Service has agreed to “substantially step up their operation” to protect him. Trump wrote on Truth Social in a post Saturday morning that the Secret Service, which has been sharply criticized for its […]Read More

In his bid to claim the House speaker’s gavel and end three weeks of chaos last fall, Rep. Mike Johnson mapped out an ambitious agenda. Week by week, month by month, the Louisiana Republican promised to meet the “urgency of this hour” with “bold, decisive action.” Above all else, Johnson promised, the House GOP would […]Read More

SAN FRANCISCO — They filed in tentatively, taking seats on plush couches and folding chairs arranged in a semicircle in the cafe’s gently lit backroom. Here would be safe to share their deepest feelings, they were assured, to unspool their still-fresh emotions. And the Democrats gathered at Manny’s — for what looked and sounded a […]Read More

During her rise through America’s most prestigious schools, law firms and judicial clerkships, Usha Vance rarely— if ever — volunteered her opinions on the nation’s bitterly partisan politics to friends and colleagues. But she did express revulsion at former president Donald Trump’s actionson Jan. 6, 2021. Vance told friends she was outraged by Trump’s incitementofthe […]Read More

The applause was loudest at the beginning, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared to a joint meeting of Congress that Israel “will win” in its fight against Hamas. They applauded, too, when he spotlighted the resilience of those who remain hostages in Gaza and lauded the bravery of the Jewish state’s front-line soldiers. Far fewer […]Read More