Voters in San Francisco, a famously liberal stronghold, embraced unusually conservative policies this week as they passed a pair of controversial ballot measures that take increasingly aggressive steps to curb the city’s intertwined troika of troubles: Homelessness, drug addiction and crime. The initiatives require drug screening for welfare recipients and give police more surveillance power […]Read More

The reason that Donald Trump’s allies began describing the 2020 presidential election as “rigged” was that it was more defensible than echoing his baseless and debunked claims about election fraud. Instead, they insisted that the rules had been unfairly changed or that turnout had been encouraged or that social media companies had conspired with the […]Read More

The first child born via in vitro fertilization. A doctor who came forward to say she provided an abortion to a 10-year-old girl who had been raped and denied care in Ohio. Two women who fled their home states seeking to terminate their pregnancies after learning the fetuses they carried had fatal abnormalities. Democrats have […]Read More

Katie Boyd Britt, the junior senator from Alabama, will deliver the Republican rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday — remarks that are likely to elevate the youngest woman in the chamber into the national spotlight. Tabbed for the prime speaking spot just days after her home state became the epicenter […]Read More

Once upon a time in another America, many considered diversity, equity and inclusion fundamental national values, at least nominally. Now those notions are so reviled in much of America that one senator is threatening the promotion of a highly qualified and praised Air Force officer. Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt (Mo). is blocking Col. Benjamin Jonsson’s […]Read More

When Mike Johnson (R-La.) campaigned to become speaker of the House, he privately told Republicans that he could help manage the whims of hard-right members because they were cut from the same ideological cloth. But the debate over how to fund the government — which has consistently torn the conference apart — has made Johnson […]Read More

President Biden often has had a ready rejoinder for anyone who expresses concerns about his age: “Watch me.” When he arrives at the rostrum at the front of the U.S. House chamber on Thursday night, he will have more Americans watching him than he has had in some time. In an election year where a […]Read More

Every president announces a slew of initiatives in a State of the Union address, and we can expect many to be advanced on Thursday when President Biden goes before Congress. Here, in order of delivery, is a summary of 24 key proposals, pledges or priorities he announced in his address last year — and what […]Read More

PHOENIX — An Arizona grand jury has issued subpoenas to Republicans who took part in the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election by signing and transmitting paperwork that falsely purported to show Donald Trump had won the state’s 11 electoral votes. The total number of subpoenas issued to the Trump electors is unclear. But […]Read More

Super Tuesday dealt another blow to the already shrinking bloc of House Republicans who prefer governance over political performance art, as several below-the-radar races delivered victories for the hard-right faction. In Alabama, after redistricting thrust two incumbent Republicans into the same district, Rep. Barry Moore defeated Rep. Jerry L. Carl despite getting outspent by a […]Read More