The central political question of the guilty verdict handed down at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan is the same question that comes up whenever nearly anything else happens: Does this shift the trajectory of a remarkably static presidential race? Immediately after the verdict, Trump touted a poll in which he claimed to have seen […]Read More

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — President Biden will join world leaders in Normandy on Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a somber setting where he plans to draw a link between the historic fight to defeat the Nazis and the modern-day battles against authoritarianism. While Biden’s speech Thursday will be directed at a global audience […]Read More

Jason and Andrea Fackler of Louisville arrived in Washington this week on summer vacation to show their three young children “how the country works,” including a tour of Capitol Hill. But in the marble rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building on Wednesday, the Facklers encountered a somber reminder of one way in which the […]Read More

A trio of GOP-led House committees wrote to the Justice Department on Wednesday recommending that President Biden’s son Hunter and brother Jamesbe charged for making false statements to Congress during Republicans’ long-running impeachment inquiry into the president. In a 65-page letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Republican chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary, and […]Read More

WILMINGTON, Del. — Kathleen Buhle stood in a beige suit Wednesday and stared through thick-rimmed glasses into the courtroom. Taking the witness stand, she made eye contact with her ex-husband, Hunter Biden, and went on to detail in a sober tone the ways she said his drug use affected her family and changed the man […]Read More

In a 2024 campaign long marked by Donald Trump’s threats of revenge and retribution, the period after he was convicted was bound to get ugly quickly. Sure enough, scores of Trump allies are now threatening to prosecute Democrats and throw them in jail. As always in politics, it’s worth being skeptical. Is this a true […]Read More

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday appointed Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.), two Trump loyalists who denied the results of the 2020 election, to the House Intelligence Committee, granting them oversight of the U.S. intelligence community and sensitive government material. Seats on the committee are highly sought after in Congress and […]Read More

There were several reasons offered in support of the congestion pricing plan that was supposed to go into effect in New York at the end of the month. One was to address congestion — hence the name — by making it more expensive to bring a vehicle into parts of Manhattan. Another was to use […]Read More