Declaring major new restrictions on border crossings. Canceling billions of additional dollars in student debt. Reclassifying marijuana as less dangerous. Declaring a climate emergency. With six months to go before the election, President Biden is taking or mulling these and other unilateral actions, the latest sign that he plans to fully deploy his executive powers […]Read More

Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) stepped to the microphone on the House floor Monday to speak about one of her latest pieces of legislation, as she has done many times before during her five years in Congress. But the voice that gave the speech wasn’t hers — it was from a text-to-voice application, an assistive device […]Read More

Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) on Monday denounced racism and discrimination several days after he shared a video of counterprotesters at the University of Mississippi that included a shot of one participant making apelike gestures and noises in front of a Black woman. The move came after Collins on Friday shared on X a video of […]Read More

The Biden administration is expected to notify Congress this week whether it believes Israel has violated U.S. or international law in Gaza, a determination with significant moral and political stakes for President Biden. The forthcoming report, portions of which are expected to be made public after its transmission to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, arrives at […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump mocked Sen. Jon Tester’s weight at a fundraiser Saturday night in Palm Beach, Fla., comparing his appearance to that of a pregnant woman, according to a recording of the event obtained by The Washington Post. Trump made the remark at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser for Rep. Ronnie Jackson (R-Tex.), Trump’s former White […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump mocked Montana Sen. Jon Tester’s weight at a fundraiser Saturday night in Palm Beach, Fla., comparing the Democrat’s appearance to that of a pregnant woman, according to a recording of the event obtained by The Washington Post. The remarks came at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser for Rep. Ronnie Jackson (R-Tex.), Trump’s former […]Read More

NEW YORK — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial found him in contempt of court Monday — the 10th such violation of a gag order — and warned the former president that he was flirting with jail time if he continued to talk or post online statements about witnesses, jurors, or relatives of those […]Read More

It appears increasingly possible that Donald Trump could face actual jail time before we ever get a verdict in any of his four criminal trials. Jail would be a fraught outcome that few seem to truly desire — and might never happen for a host of reasons — but it’s time to ask whether the […]Read More

Speaking to Semafor, New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn explained how he saw his newsroom’s role in the 2024 election. “It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have,” Kahn said, responding to criticism that his paper has been insufficiently critical of Donald Trump. “At the moment, democracy is one […]Read More

Over the weekend, New York Police Chief of Patrol John Chell took to social media to offer thoughts on the college campus protests that his department had a role in disrupting a few days before. “Who is funding this? What is happening? There is an unknown entity who is radicalizing our vulnerable students,” he wrote […]Read More