If you have not been paying attention to the effort by House Republicans to build a case for impeaching President Biden, here is a quick recap. The impeachment inquiry was announced in September as then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was fending off pressure from his conference’s right-most flank. By that point, Republicans had been in […]Read More

The New York judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial later this month for alleged business records fraud has ruled that jurors’ names will be shielded from the public but known to the lawyers, the former president and his consultants. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan issued a ruling largely granting the request by the […]Read More

President Biden heads into his third State of the Union address on Thursday rather unpopular — and with key voters more than a bit concerned about his age and his ability to steadily guide the country for another four years. He is about even or narrowly trails former president Donald Trump in early polls of […]Read More

Official Washington loves the State of the Union address. If the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is the Golden Globes, SOTU is the Oscars: the serious event that serious people attend and at which serious issues are discussed. The Constitution mandates that the president update Congress on the state of things every so often, an edict […]Read More

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