PHOENIX — Alarmed that Arizona’s 11 electoral votes might not be counted in the process for selecting the next American president, Republicans and Democrats in this political battleground did something rare: They found consensus. After months of warnings and a frantic series of negotiations, the narrowly divided legislature passed a bill Thursday aimed at giving […]Read More

After the release of a special counsel’s report that said President Biden would not be charged for mishandling classified documents, Democrats have sought to keep a focus on their argument that the report offers a far more damning assessment of former president Donald Trump, even as Republicans have continued to seize on material in the […]Read More

Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) announced a Senate run on Friday, entering a race in which several high-profile Republicans – including former president Donald Trump – are rallying behind a different candidate seeking to unseat Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) in a heavily Republican state. Rosendale’s decision sets up a competitive GOP primary, pitting the congressman against […]Read More

It was on March 31, 1968, that incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would not seek renomination as the Democratic Party’s candidate in the November presidential election. Given the tumult in the country at that point, Johnson said, he had concluded that he would “not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan […]Read More

The Democratic National Committee accused third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday of violating federal election law by unlawfully coordinating with a supportive super PAC in a $15 million effort to collect signatures for state ballot access. “Put simply, to qualify for the ballot under state law, American Values 2024 must coordinate its activity […]Read More

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) did something unusual in the hours after rioters overran the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Like most of her Republican colleagues, she went ahead and tried to block electors submitted by states that Joe Biden won, the formal manifestation of the rioters’ intentions. But, unlike most of her colleagues, she only […]Read More

Perhaps the most revealing moment in Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin came toward the end, after Carlson — pretty obviously misreading the dynamics at play — had proposed having Russia release Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich into Carlson’s custody. Putin rejected the idea, as you might expect, instead suggesting that perhaps […]Read More

President Biden trusted the ghostwriter behind his two memoirs so much that “at least three times” he read aloud to him passages from journals containing classified details of Obama-era deliberations, according to a special counsel report released Thursday. Federal investigators last year sought the recordings author Mark Zwonitzer produced during his meetings with Biden around […]Read More

President Biden trusted the ghostwriter behind his two memoirs so much that “at least three times” he read aloud to him passages from journals containing classified details of Obama-era deliberations, according to a special counsel report released Thursday. Federal investigators last year sought the recordings author Mark Zwonitzer produced during his meetings with Biden around […]Read More