Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord, a veteran of America’s clandestine operations who served as the point man for the transactions in the Iran-contra affair, the arms-for-hostages scandal that metastasized into the most serious crisis of the Reagan administration, died Oct. 15at a nursing home in Port Orange, Fla. He was 92. A […]Read More

Powered by small-dollar donors, Democrats have seized control of the fundraising game in the battle for the House and the Senate, leaving Republicans at a disadvantage — and increasingly reliant on a small clutch of mega-rich donors. In 25 of the 26 most competitive House races, the Democratic candidate raised more than the Republican in […]Read More

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hoped the ongoing violence in the Middle East might simmer below the surface in the final weeks of the presidential race, but fresh Israelimilitary offensives are making that virtually impossible, U.S. officials and campaign aides say. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set the Gaza Strip ablaze with […]Read More

President Joe Biden, who has long idolized Robert F. Kennedy and who served for decades in the Senate with Edward M. Kennedy, on Wednesday delivered an emotional eulogy for Ethel Kennedy. He dabbed his eyes several times. He apologized for his emotions. His voice grew faint as he recounted the ways in which Ethel Kennedy, […]Read More

Nebraska residents who were convicted of felonies and have finished their sentences can vote in the November election, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, potentially opening the door for thousands of Nebraskans to cast their ballot. The ruling could have implications for the presidential race as Nebraska, which is solidly red, is one of two […]Read More

The 2024 election is less than three weeks away. But who wins isn’t the only major question; so too is what happens afterward. And more specifically, it’s whether a large chunk of the country baselessly rejects the election results (again) and whether a segment of them might take to drastic measures (again). The bad news […]Read More

A presidential election season lawn pocked with Thomas Dewey, Barry Goldwater and Aaron Burr signs might seem like some sort of prank. Barbara VanDenburgh had never seen anything quite like the display in her Central Phoenix neighborhood, so she took some photos and posted the exhibit on X. The “graveyard to failed American presidential campaigns,” […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump doesn’t spend much time talking to contentious interviewers. He does a lot of interviews with right-wing media outlets and podcasts with hosts unlikely to press him on the vagueness of his tariffs-and-immigration campaign platform. He knows, as does everyone else, that he simply needs his steady, supportive segment of the electorate […]Read More

In the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, election observers, state officials and the media repeatedly articulated that results would be slow in coming. The coronavirus pandemic had triggered an expansion of remote-voting options across the country, with the side effect of increasing the number of votes that required verification and slower methods […]Read More

Donald Trump “was president for four years, and he didn’t go after his political opponents. You know who did go after her political opponents? Kamala Harris, who has tried to arrest everything from pro-life activists to her political opponents … and used the Department of Justice as a weapon against people.” — GOP vice-presidential candidate […]Read More