COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former President Trump sought to appeal to Black voters on Friday night in South Carolina by repeatedly citing the 91 felony charges he faces and comparing them to unfair treatment from the criminal justice system toward minorities in America. “A lot of people said that’s why the Black people liked me, because […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump and Republican candidates in key Senate races voiced support for in vitro fertilization treatment Friday, distancing themselves from a recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that has again highlighted the electoral challenge Republicans face over their stances on abortion and other reproductive rights. The Alabama court’s decision last week — that frozen […]Read More

Charles V. Hamilton, a self-described academic activist of the Black Power movement whose landmark 1967 manifesto with student organizer Stokely Carmichael reframed the civil rights struggle by calling on Black people to undermine America’s “institutional racism” on their own terms, has died in Chicago at 94. The death on Nov. 18 — confirmed by his […]Read More

Donald Trump and the Republican Party find themselves facing an early cash gap heading into the 2024 election — and are furiously trying to fix it. At the end of January, President Biden’s campaign had $56 million in cash, compared to $30.5 million for Trump. The Democratic National Committee, which is functioning as a part […]Read More

Top aides to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis blocked the release of records detailing his taxpayer-funded travel and retaliated against those who favored making them public, according to sworn statements from two former Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials. The statements were filed Wednesday in Leon County Circuit Court as part of a Washington Post lawsuit […]Read More

Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments in the 2024 not-quite-a-general election. (Did a friend forward this to you? If so, sign up here.) Today, that moment is the potential beginning of the end for Nikki Haley. Or perhaps the continuation of a drawn-out ending. Whatever you want to call it, […]Read More

It’s not like things were going well. Republicans were more than a year into trying to prove President Biden was corrupt, tied to his brother’s and son’s dubious business endeavors, but had no luck. They kept interviewing people who directly rebutted that thesis, leaving them with no option but to cherry-pick other circumstantial claims to […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump and Republican candidates in key Senate races voiced support for in vitro fertilization treatment Friday, distancing themselves from a recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that has again highlighted the electoral challenge Republicans face over their stances on abortion and other reproductive rights. “Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support […]Read More

MADISON, Wis. — A bipartisan ethics panel in Wisconsin has recommended felony charges against one of Donald Trump’s fundraising arms in relation to an alleged scheme that it says was meant to circumvent campaign finance laws to take out a powerful GOP lawmaker who has turned against Trump. The prosecution referrals became public Friday and […]Read More

For a while now, Donald Trump has downplayed the risks of climate change by playing up what he describes as a more urgent threat: nuclear weapons. “When I listen to people talk about global warming, that the ocean will rise in the next 300 years by one-eighth of an inch, and they talk about, ‘This […]Read More