Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, who suspended her run for the Republican nomination for president in early March, announced she will vote for Donald Trump but reiterated that he should not assume that her supporters will back him. “I will be voting for Trump. Having said that, I stand by what I said in my […]Read More

A candidate for president of the United States is on trial for allegedly helping facilitate a hush money payment to a porn star to avoid a sex scandal during his 2016 campaign, and then fraudulently disguising those payments in violation of the law. He’s also charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He’s […]Read More

One of the lines of argument used by Donald Trump and his supporters to attack the criminal trial that’s underway in Manhattan is that no jury in such a pro-Democratic place could possibly be fair. As jury selection was underway in the trial, which is likely to go to a jury next week, Trump’s allies […]Read More

Pro-Palestinian college protests have faded somewhat from the news, as law enforcement has cracked down on encampments and schools break for the summer — though the protests continue on some campuses across the country. While the protests might have earned some concessions from administrators, it’s become clear that they’ve failed in one key respect: winning […]Read More

A rebel Republican bloc aiming to curb far-right extremism in North Idaho made significant gains Tuesday, flipping dozens of local seats, but fell short of the votes needed to change the hard-line GOP leadership in an area with historic ties to the far right. The primary-election showdown in Kootenai County, a mountainous region near the […]Read More

When Yahoo News presented Americans with a number of phrases describing the 2024 presidential election, the one that received the most agreement from poll respondents was one focused on the importance of defending democracy. Six in 10 respondents in the poll conducted by YouGov offered at least some agreement with the statement, which read: “Whether […]Read More

The Senate confirmed President Biden’s 200th judicial nominee Wednesday, a significant milestone for Democratic and White House efforts to remake a federal court system that grew increasingly conservative under President Donald Trump. Magistrate Judge Angela Martinez, who previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney, was approved to become a federal judge in the District of […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump’s botched handling of a question about contraception was somewhat inexplicable. When asked by a local TV news reporter if he supported any restrictions on contraception, Trump answered that it was a state issue — the implication being that he was open to some states restricting it. This was a problem, given […]Read More

At the end of April, Judge Aileen M. Cannon unsealed a number of documents related to the investigation into Donald Trump’s retention of documents marked as classified after he left the White House. Within hours, a new line of rhetoric emerged among the former president’s most fervent supporters: The whole thing had been a frame-up! […]Read More