It was perhaps not wise for Didier Raoult, a French microbiologist, to become the authoritative face of using chloroquine or its variant hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19. Four years ago, only weeks into the pandemic’s emergence in the United States, President Donald Trump was actively hyping claims that the drug would prove to be an effective […]Read More

NEW YORK — A New York appeals court judge Monday rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to delay the hush money trial scheduled to begin April 15 while he pursued an appeal to determine whether a change of venue is necessary outside Manhattan, a largely liberal part of the state. A short time after an emergency hearing, […]Read More

Donald Trump is eyeing a more authoritarian second term in the White House. And, increasingly, Republicans seem inclined to support that goal. Polling on the GOP’s appetite for a more powerful chief executive has been slow in coming. But it has been coming. And the emerging picture is that Republicans are remarkably on-board with a […]Read More

Justice Department officials told House Republicans they don’t intend to provide audio recordings of President Biden’s interviews with the special counsel who investigated his handling of classified documents — suggesting that since lawmakers already have the transcripts of those interviews, the request was more about scoring political points than seeking information. Carlos Uriarte, a senior […]Read More

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) thinks he has figured out a stone that can kill two particular birds his party has been hunting. The steady increase in jobs reflected in monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics — like the increase shown Friday — isn’t what it seems. Instead, Vance claimed Sunday, it’s heavily attributable […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump, who has wavered between highlighting and downplaying his role in curtailing abortion rights, suggested Monday that the politically volatile issue should be left to states, after months of mixed signals about his position. In a video posted on social media, Trump took credit for the overturning of Roe v. Wade but […]Read More

Fox host Maria Bartiromo has proved to be one of the most credulous members of the right-wing media universe. This was understood by her own employers in 2020 when one executive warned another that she had “GOP conspiracy theorists in her ear and they use her for their message sometimes.” In the wake of the […]Read More

Donald Trump would like you to know that he has decided not to take much of a position at all on abortion restrictions. And he would also like you to know that he is punting on this issue for transparently political reasons. Trump on Monday morning released a video laying out his thinking, as promised. […]Read More