MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin voters opted Tuesday to ban private funding for election administration, joining more than two dozen states that have ended or limited the practice after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife spent $350 million to help local governments run elections during the coronavirus pandemic. Voters approved an amendment to the state […]Read More

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly advanced an argument Monday that President Biden poses a greater threat to democracy than Donald Trump, a comment that drew swift rebukes from several historians and experts. Kennedy, speaking to CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday night, criticized the Biden administration’s push for social media companies to monitor […]Read More

As former president Donald Trump struggled last month to post a bond for more than $450 million to keep authorities from seizing his properties, California billionaire Don Hankey and his wife, Debbi, started discussing a solution: Hankey’s business could cover it. Hankey, a Trump supporter who made a fortune providing high-interest auto loans to customers […]Read More

A group of six Muslim leaders will meet with President Biden and Vice President Harris on Tuesday evening to discuss U.S. policy in the Gaza Strip, after they were invited for a small Ramadan dinner but rejected such a gathering as inappropriate given the administration’s continued support of Israel amid devastation in the territory. Biden […]Read More

As the 2020 election approached, President Donald Trump had two problematic groups of supporters that he didn’t want to alienate. One was the Proud Boys, an extremist group that had already earned a reputation for engaging in violence against opponents. The other was more loosely knit: adherents of the QAnon movement. QAnon was problematic for […]Read More

It’s difficult to think of a more combustible mixture than Donald Trump and a gag order. Even with the former president’s freedom on the line, that combination is smoldering again. After violating gag orders on at least two and arguably three previous occasions — and after a judge this week employed a novel tactic to […]Read More

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will probably forever be known as the prosecutor who became the first person to indict a sitting or former U.S. president: Donald Trump. Trump is set to go on trial on April 15 on charges of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels […]Read More

From the outside, being a member of the House of Representatives seems like a uniquely crummy job. Sure, you have some ostensible power, but it doesn’t actually manifest very often for many people, thanks to the chamber’s general antipathy toward consensus. Members haven’t gotten a raise in more than a decade and have to spend […]Read More

The Florida Supreme Court on Monday did much the same thing the U.S. Supreme Court did two years ago in overturning Roe v. Wade: It gave Republicans a significant policy win on abortion, while giving Democrats a significant political opportunity. The court affirmed Florida Republicans’ 15-week abortion ban — and by extension their six-week ban, […]Read More

For all of his complaints about the timing and his insistence that his various indictments and trials are an effort to block his return to the White House, Donald Trump has benefited enormously from the overlap of his campaign and his legal travails, and he continues to do so. The most obvious way this is […]Read More