Congressional appropriators on Sunday released half a dozen bills that, if passed this week, would keep six agencies — about 40 percent of the government — funded for the rest of the fiscal year after months of turmoil and blockades led by conservative Republicans seeking severe cuts to federal spending. The package totals $704 billion, […]Read More

Longtime allies of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are urging him to run for reelection and say they believe he will seek to hold onto his Senate seat in November. The 82-year-old two-time presidential candidate from solidly blue Vermont is the second-oldest member of the Senate and would be nearing 90 years old at the end […]Read More

Longtime allies of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are urging him to run for reelection and say they believe he will seek to hold onto his Senate seat in November. The 82-year-old two-time presidential candidate from solidly blue Vermont is the second-oldest member of the Senate and would be nearing 90 years old at the end […]Read More

The national movement for school vouchers has burgeoned in recent years, riding the momentum of Republican championing of parental rights during the covid-19 pandemic. More than 30 states now have programs that let parents use taxpayer dollars to take their children out of public schools. Yet there remains a stubborn holdout, one particularly notable because […]Read More

The national movement for school vouchers has burgeoned in recent years, riding the momentum of Republican championing of parental rights during the covid-19 pandemic. More than 30 states now have programs that let parents use taxpayer dollars to take their children out of public schools. Yet there remains a stubborn holdout, one particularly notable because […]Read More

In the next four months, the Supreme Court will resolve a huge number of highly consequential cases — as many as the justices might typically confront across several years. Their decisions will address some of the nation’s most pressing issues and influence the course of this fall’s presidential election. The most closely watched question: whether […]Read More

Donald Trump drew closer to the Republican presidential nomination Saturday, scoring decisive victories in Missouri and Idaho’s caucuses and sweeping the Michigan GOP’s remaining delegates to the national party convention. Michigan Republican officials and other preselected party members awarded Trump all 39 of the delegates up for grabs at their caucus convention in Grand Rapids. […]Read More

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Donald Trump made a renewed attempt to turn criticism that he is a threat to democracy on its head, accusing President Biden without evidence of conspiring against the United States with his policies at the southern border. “Biden’s conduct on our border is by any definition a conspiracy to overthrow the United […]Read More

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley have spent the first months of this election year fighting losing battles — separate but related. Their losses highlight the victory of Donald Trump’s “America First” over Ronald Reagan’s “tear down this wall” as the foreign policy doctrine of the Republican Party. […]Read More