Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that he has qualified to be on the ballot in California and will accept the nomination of the American Independent Party, which has a history of associating itself with far-right figures and individuals who have expressed racist views. Kennedy’s alliance with the American Independent Party, […]Read More

President Biden will visit North Carolina on Thursday at a time when his campaign is investing heavily in the state and building a robust electoral operation there far earlier than it did in 2020, a reflection of Democrats’ belief that they can make a credible run at winning North Carolina despite losing it to Donald […]Read More

NEW YORK — In the first weeks of testimony at Donald Trump’s hush money trial, witnesses have offered extensive evidence against the former president, describing in detail his efforts during the 2016 election to silence women who claimed to have had sex with him. At times, however, the testimony has been just as devastating to […]Read More

SAN ANTONIO — As House Republicans struggle to advance their agenda with a narrow majority, a primary runoff in a sprawling district along the Texas-Mexico border has emerged as a key test of how GOP voters want the party to govern. Sophomore Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Tex.), who fashions himself as a conservative pragmatist who likes […]Read More

There’s a regular request that readers send to The Fact Checker: Is that personal anecdote that President Biden just told true? The answer, in many cases, is there’s no evidence. Many of these tales are of relatively minor consequence — an apparent effort by the president to make a connection or show that he’s not […]Read More

The Arizona state Senate voted Wednesday to repeal a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions that — because of procedural hurdles — remains on track to temporarily take effect in June. The vote in the Republican-led Senate followed passage in the Arizona House last week. The ban briefly went into effect after the U.S. […]Read More

A half-century after high school kids in California’s Marin County started using “4:20” as code for smoking marijuana, political advisers to the 81-year-old teetotaler president, Joe Biden, began signaling that he was hip to reefer slang. The Department of Health and Human Services announced at 4:20 p.m. one day last year that it was moving […]Read More

NEW YORK — Former film producer Harvey Weinstein’s rape case is expected to be retried sometime after the Labor Day holiday, a judge said Wednesday, as the frail-looking defendant made his first Manhattan court appearance in years. Weinstein’s 2020 conviction in the rape case was overturned last week by New York state’s highest court, the […]Read More

There’s not much context needed for the case Arizona Republican Blake Masters made for his House candidacy in a video shared by his campaign Tuesday. The clip begins with Masters talking about how he wants to battle technology companies and address inflation should he be sent to Washington by Arizona voters. Arizona voters chose not […]Read More

House Republicans are seeking to unite their unruly majority around an evergreen conservative cause, devising a strict response to the wave of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled college campuses across the country in recent weeks. GOP leaders this week announced plans for new oversight investigations of elite universities where — in the words of House […]Read More