Nearly 50 House Democrats called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases Tuesday, questioning whether the jurist could be impartial after an upside-down flag flew at his home in the weeks after the U.S. Capitol attack in 2021. Rep. Hank Johnson (Ga.), the ranking Democrat on the […]Read More

Over the seven months since Hamas’s terrorist attack in Israel and Israel’s military response in Gaza, American opinions of the parties to the conflict and the U.S. government’s response have evolved in often subtle ways. New polling from YouGov, conducted for Yahoo News, offers a good example: Americans are now about equally likely to say […]Read More

Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest election developments of 2024 — a year in which truly anything can happen, judging by my Minnesota Timberwolves making the Western Conference finals. (Can you tell I’m excited? I can barely work.) (Oh, and if you haven’t yet, make sure you sign up here to […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump declared on Tuesday that he did not support a ban on birth control, despite his responses in a television interview earlier in the day that suggested he was open to states restricting access to contraceptives. “I HAVE NEVER, AND WILL NEVER ADVOCATE IMPOSING RESTRICTIONS ON BIRTH CONTROL, or other contraceptives,” Trump […]Read More

Very few Americans have seen what is happening in the Manhattan courtroom where former president Donald Trump is on trial. We hear about it, read news articles about it or watch televised discussions about it. But beyond those lucky enough to earn a spot in the courtroom on any given day, peoples’ visual understanding of […]Read More

A video posted to Donald Trump’s social media platform featured references to “the creation of a unified Reich” along with hypothetical news headlines should the former president win the election in 2024. In the 30-second video posted Monday, which was deleted from his Truth Social account Tuesday morning, mock-up headlines and newspaper clippings envisioned media […]Read More

The last time Donald Trump was found in violation of his gag order — two weeks ago, and for the 10th time during his Manhattan trial — New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan signaled that further violations could well come with jail time. This post appeared first on The Washington PostRead More

Almost exactly a month after introducing Nicole Shanahan as his vice-presidential pick in a carefully choreographed Bay Area extravaganza, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. still seemed a bit unclear on exactly how his running mate was spending her time. At a late April event in Dallas, Kennedy told reporters that Shanahan — who […]Read More

Martin O’Malley, the former Baltimore mayor, two-term Maryland governor and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, is in his fifth month as Social Security Administration commissioner. He took the reins of an agency that had been without a Senate-confirmed leader since July 2021 — and has struggled in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic to provide basic […]Read More