Former president Donald Trump’s March 4 trial date on charges of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election has been dropped from the public calendar of the federal court in Washington, a sign of what has long been anticipated— that his claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution would delay his trial while […]Read More

WARREN, Mich. — President Biden made his first campaign visit to Michigan on Thursday, meeting with members of the United Auto Workers union and visiting a Black-owned restaurant while studiously avoiding any interaction with the large Arab American community in this state, which has been outraged over U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Top […]Read More

RICHLAND, S.C. — On two weekends in January, President Biden turned up at churches in South Carolina, telling parishioners about the racism and hatred he ran for office to combat, then detailing the progress Black Americans have made since then. Vice President Harris visited this state, too, speaking at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day […]Read More

As the Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is eligible to again serve as president, the justices will confront a politically fraught and fractious question: Did he engage in insurrection before and during the assault on the U.S. Capitol onJan. 6, 2021? The issue looms over both the case they will hear this month and […]Read More

Fani T. Willis, the Atlanta-area district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump for alleged election interference, has been accused of misconduct, potentially imperiling one of the most sweeping legal cases against the former president for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Here’s what’s going on and what could happen. One of Trump’s co-defendants […]Read More

At the end of January 2020, The Washington Post and our partners at ABC News released one of the most accurate presidential election polls in recent history. In a head-to-head contest against Joe Biden, incumbent President Donald Trump trailed by four points, 50-46. When all of the voters were counted some 10 months later, this […]Read More

Lawmakers who grilled the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Discord and X on Wednesday all seemed to agree that protecting children’s safety online was a priority. Many of those children were less accepting of the idea, and they let their opinions flow as they listened to the hearing through a Discord server. “These senators don’t […]Read More

For as long as Republicans have been running against Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential nominating contest, more than a few Trump critics have wondered why they don’t go after him harder. Nikki Haley shows why. A new Washington Post-Monmouth University poll features a somewhat unsurprising top-line number: Trump leads Haley by 26 points, […]Read More

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday that his recent cancer diagnosis was a “gut punch” that left him shaken, disclosing new details about his ensuing medical crisis and asserting that he did not direct his staff to withhold the situation from the White House. Austin, speaking to the media for the first time in about […]Read More