WILMINGTON. — Political operatives opposed to No Labels’ potential 2024 presidential ticket took over the NoLabels.com domain last year and purchased Google search ads aimed at spreading the misleading claim that the group supported former president Donald Trump and other right-wing causes, according to testimony in a federal civil trial here. Arizona political operative Charles […]Read More

The FBI informant charged with telling lies about President Biden and his son Hunter was rearrested Thursday in Las Vegas, apparently out of concern he might flee — just days after a federal magistrate decided he could be released on bond. Alexander Smirnov, whose arrest last week surprised Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike, was taken […]Read More

SAN FRANCISCO — President Biden met with the widow and daughter of the deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Thursday, expressing his condolences and reiterating a pledge to issue new sanctions against Russia on Friday. Biden posted a photo of himself meeting with Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, and daughter, Dasha Navalnaya, on social media. […]Read More

President Biden’s dog Commander bit Secret Service agents about 24 times, more than previously disclosed, according to newly released Secret Service emails that for the first time reveal the agency’s deliberations about adjusting its operations to keep its agents safe from the dog. Commander, the Biden family’s second German shepherd in the White House, bit […]Read More

Stephen Miller, the immigration hard-liner who has been one of Donald Trump’s longest-serving political advisers, tends to get worked up during his media appearances. Those appearances are generally with sympathetic (if not sycophantic) media outlets, so the combination of his energy and the lack of friction tends to bring Miller’s rhetoric to unexpected places. In […]Read More

In the days since the Alabama state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are people, Democrats have begun to seize on the decision, casting it as further evidence of a Republican-led assault on reproductive rights, an issue they have reason to believe already plays to their advantage. The Alabama decision, which threatens the practice of […]Read More

Republicans’ push to impeach President Biden has now suffered its most significant setback, after a long succession of shortcomings, contradictions and failures to connect the dots. An informant whose account of bribes was hailed by impeachment leaders as “very crucial” last year and “the most corroborating evidence we have” as recently as last month was […]Read More

As a general rule, Donald Trump’s articulated plans for his presidency are nebulous. This is partly tactical; he has in the past suggested that offering specifics ties his hands in ways he doesn’t like. It is also partly because he hasn’t really appeared to pay that much attention to the specifics of the job. His […]Read More

Donald Trump’s attorneys say they plan to file at least 10 motions in federal court in Florida on Thursday as they try to convince a judge to toss out the criminal case against the former president for allegedly mishandling classified papers after he left office and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. Trump is charged […]Read More

When then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced in September that the House Republican conference would move forward with an impeachment inquiry targeting President Biden, he identified a few promising threads of investigation. One was that “a trusted FBI informant has alleged a bribe to the Biden family.” Another was that Biden had been inappropriately involved with […]Read More