President Biden’s reelection effort is opening an office near the White House as a workspace for recently departed presidential aides and a staging ground for campaign officials who have been traveling regularly to the White House from Delaware, according to three people familiar with the plans. The office, which will be funded by the Democratic […]Read More

The White House called Alabama’s use of nitrogen hypoxia to execute a prisoner Thursday night “troubling,” noting that President Biden has long had “deep concerns” with how the death penalty is implemented. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, a death row prisoner at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., was executed Thursday night using […]Read More

A group of Colorado voters on Friday asked the Supreme Court to bar Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, telling the justices in their brief that he is ineligible to return to the White House after spearheading the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The high court is set to consider on […]Read More

You don’t need a deep dive into the history books to find an example of how talking cavalierly about violent clashes and resisting the federal government at a contentious time can lead to dark places. Three years ago, Republican politicians and pro-Trump influencers likened efforts to overturn the 2020 election to 1776 and invoked militaristic […]Read More

A lawyer who unsuccessfully defended Grammy Award-winning Fugees rap artist Prakazrel “Pras” Michél pleaded guilty Friday to criminal contempt of court for leaking confidential evidence, including grand jury materials to Bloomberg News, before Michél’s conviction last yearin the largest foreign embezzlement scheme ever charged by the United States. David Kenner faced up to six months […]Read More

Former New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo “subjected female employees to a hostile work environment” and “retaliated against employees who spoke out about the harassment,” the Department of Justice announced Friday, after reaching a settlement with the state. The settlement does not require Cuomo to pay anything or admit any wrongdoing, according to his spokesman. […]Read More

After the 2022 midterm elections, House Democrats were despondent. While they did keep more seats than expected, they narrowly ceded the House majority to Republicans. It was a loss many House Democrats saw as avoidable, and they placed the blame directly with their campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Lawmakers lamented what they described […]Read More

Charles Fried, a legal scholar and ethicist who explored questions of morality and law but also engaged in self-examination of his own views, including backing constitutional abortion rights decades after he argued against them as solicitor general during the Reagan era, died Jan. 23 at 88. The death was announced by Harvard University, where Dr. […]Read More

The Pentagon has abruptly abandoned plans to trainalongside the militaries of several countries either involved in the overthrow of democratic governments or accused of human rights violations, reversing course amid recentscrutiny. The plans, disclosed to Congress in October and reviewed by The Washington Post, detailed the Pentagon’s intent to hold joint exercises this year with […]Read More