President Biden and former president Donald Trump will visit border cities in Texas on Thursday, underscoring the central role of border security and immigration heading into the election to determine which party will control the White House and Congress. Biden will travel to Brownsville, Tex., on Thursday to meet with U.S. Border Patrol agents, law […]Read More
Violent crime is one of those issues for which the introduction of nuance is understandably tricky. No one wants to be the person tasked with suggesting that, anecdotal examples of horrible crimes notwithstanding, trends aren’t as bleak as they seem. Just as the conflation of anecdotes with trends triggered the need for the nuance, the […]Read More
Banning abortion has been far better in theory than in practice for the Republican Party. After the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door to abortion restrictions, the party has struggled mightily with the new paradigm. And few examples drive that home like the party’s embrace of in vitro fertilization […]Read More
The Biden administration is suing to block a proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons supermarket chains, saying the deal would lead to higher food prices for consumers. The Federal Trade Commission announced the suit in a release Monday on its website. ‘The FTC charges that the proposed deal will eliminate fierce competition between Kroger and […]Read More
The Biden administration is suing to block a proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons supermarket chains, saying the deal would lead to higher food prices for consumers. The Federal Trade Commission announced the suit in a release Monday on its website. ‘The FTC charges that the proposed deal will eliminate fierce competition between Kroger and […]Read More
AT&T cellphone users across America were experiencing outages Thursday that cut off their access to cellular service. For now, the company is advising users to connect to Wi-Fi to access communications. For people who use Apple iPhones, their only service option during an outage or when cellular service is unavailable can be accessed through the […]Read More
COSTA MESA, Calif. — A week after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are people, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he had not read the decision, and he would not say when he thinks life begins. In an interview with The Washington Post, Kennedy said the Alabama decision on in […]Read More
Michigan will hold a Republican presidential primary on Tuesday, but that contest won’t award all the state’s delegates — the GOP also will hold a state convention days later to award the rest. The hybrid plan for the nominating contest stems from a change made by the state’s Democratic-led legislature. To accommodate President Biden’s plan […]Read More
In February alone, Donald Trump encouraged Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to NATO allies that do not contribute sufficiently to the military alliance. He refused to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for the death of Alexei Navalny, 47, a Kremlin critic who died suddenly on Feb. 16 in a Russian penal colony […]Read More
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, has endorsed former president Donald Trump in the GOP presidential primary. His endorsement comes a day after Trump defeated his last remaining GOP opponent, former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, in her home state’s primary. Thune, the Senate minority whip, told […]Read More