Shortly after the dust settled on Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump’s allies went to great and strained lengths to distance the then-president from the insurrectionists who had stormed the U.S. Capitol. They falsely linked the attack to antifa and supposed government “provocateurs” — claims that had no basis then and still don’t. “These people don’t […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump described himself as the “father of IVF” during an all-female town hall event in Georgia, telling attendees that he would support in vitro fertilization should he be elected to a second term. “I’m the father of IVF, so I want to hear this question,” he said at the Fox News town […]Read More

An independent panel called Thursdayfor new leadership at the Secret Service, hired mostly from outside the protective agency, saying it needs a major shake-up or security failures such asthe July 13 shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania “can and will happen again.” The bipartisan panel, ordered by President Joe Biden to review the Secret […]Read More

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has offered Americans $47 for each swing state voter they recruit to his effort to elect Donald Trump. Democratic groups have started paying at least $160 to more than 75,000 voters who agree to contact dozens of their friends and relatives with requests to support Kamala Harris. In Philadelphia, […]Read More

BERLIN — President Joe Biden leaves Thursday for what is likely to be his final trip as president to Europe, where Germany will bestow its highest honor on him for spearheading global efforts to protect Ukraine as European leaders strategize for a potential future in which the United States could be less engaged in the […]Read More

SPARKS, Nev. — Ed Lawson, the longtime mayor of this smalldesert city of about 110,000 just outside Reno, said he has never voted for a Democrat. That will change next month when he plans to vote for Sen. Jacky Rosen (D) over her Republican challenger, Sam Brown. “Sam Brown doesn’t get it,” Lawson said in […]Read More

DORAL, Fla. — Donald Trump on Wednesday at times appeared to attempt a more measured tone on immigration, even as he reprised some false, alarmist attacks against migrants during a town hall that will be televised on the Spanish-language network Univision. Trump has frequently warned of a migrant “invasion,” and he has used dehumanizing language […]Read More

The environmental fight that played out insidethe Supreme Court on Wednesday was unusual in many ways: It featured poop, a whopping $10 billion fine and one of the nation’s greenest cities — San Francisco — battling the Environmental Protection Agency over water pollution rules in a case that could reverberate beyond the Bay Area. During […]Read More

A Georgia judge on Wednesday blocked a series of rules approved this year by a pro-Trump majority of the state’s election board, admonishing the board in stinging language that the rules are “ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND VOID.” The judge struck down more than a half-dozen new rules, including one that allowed county election officials to launch […]Read More