Republicans are sandwiched between what many of their Senate GOP colleagues say is a critical opportunity to pass conservative border legislation and the political wishes of a former president who seems to view the crisis as a boon to his 2024 campaign. And increasingly, they’ve landed on a talking point: We don’t really even need […]Read More

President Biden will visit East Palestine, Ohio, next month to mark the first anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment that devastated the community, according to a White House official. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a trip that had not yet been formally announced, did not give a date […]Read More

I am professionally obligated to begin this article by explaining to you who Taylor Swift is, who Travis Kelce is and why I am talking about them. I know this will come off as condescending (if not insulting) to most of you, but for that one person who, this very morning, emerged from a 20-year-long […]Read More

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) has spent the past few months at the Capitol hashing out a politically tricky bipartisan deal with a small group of lawmakers to address the migrant crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. It’s the type of intricate legislative dealmaking the former Democrat has built her unusual political brand on. But in the […]Read More

correction A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that a claim in one of the drafted articles of impeachment referenced Raul Ortiz. The claim referred to Rodney Scott. This article has been corrected. We are about nine months from the November presidential election, and it is very clear that Republicans seek to use immigration […]Read More

There are very real pressures that exist because of the recent increase in immigrants to the United States. The number of immigrants who have been released into the country to await legal proceedings is over 2 million since 2021 — an unusually large number but a smaller one than is often presented in political rhetoric. […]Read More

Members of the House Homeland Security Committee sparred Tuesday over Republicans’ efforts to advance an impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who vigorously defended his record in a lengthy letter to lawmakers but did not testify in person. The committee convened for a day-long hearing Tuesday to mark up two articles of impeachment […]Read More

From a military outpost in the Jordan desert, Spec. Breonna A. Moffett talked daily with her family in Savannah, Ga. Sometimes, her mother said, it was a quick call to wish her little sister a good day at school. Others, she’d joke about her dog, Simba, or work on a “Paw Patrol” coloring book with […]Read More