“Look, folks, you know how many billionaires we have in America today? One thousand. You know what their average rate — tax rate — federal tax rate is? Federal tax rate is 8.5 percent. Raise your hand if you’d trade your tax rate for 8.5 percent. I’m serious. Think about this. There’d be $40 billion […]Read More

In a little more than 24 hours, New Hampshire Republican primary voters could effectively bring the 2024 nominating contest to a close. Nikki Haley now has Donald Trump in the one-on-one race she had hoped for, but she trails in every poll in the state. If she can’t win head-to-head in New Hampshire, with its […]Read More

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Nikki Haley blitzed through New Hampshire on Monday as the last candidate standing against Donald Trump, urging voters not to take for granted that he will be the Republican presidential nominee as she tried to blunt his momentum on the eve of a critical primary. With the party increasingly falling in line […]Read More

A man was sexually assaulted in jail after being falsely accused of armed robbery due to a faulty facial recognition match, his attorneys said, in a case that further highlights the dangers of the technology’s expanding use by law enforcement. Harvey Murphy Jr., 61, said he was beaten and raped by three men in a […]Read More

The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration on Monday and cleared the way for Border Patrol agents to remove razor wire Texas officials installed along a busy stretch of the southern border until the legality of the barriers is resolved in court. As is typical in emergency actions, the majority did not explain its […]Read More

The 2024 Republican presidential nominating contest has echoed the 2016 one in two important ways. First, Donald Trump has led in polling consistently for months. And, second, outside observers have continually speculated about how he might lose that lead, only to see him not do so. There are other differences — like that his lead […]Read More

CONCORD, N.H. — On a bustling intersection near where every presidential candidate has signed up to run in New Hampshire, a small posse of local Democrats held up signs for someone who has not recently visited the state and will not be on the ballot in Tuesday’s Democratic primary: President Biden. In a first-of-its-kind effort, […]Read More

Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments in the (rapidly shrinking) 2024 campaign. Now, that development is the demise of the DeSantis campaign. At one point, Ron DeSantis was the only candidate who seemed to seriously threaten Donald Trump’s stranglehold on the reins of the Republican Party; he even led Trump […]Read More

NASHUA, N.H. — The Democratic National Committee has worked for years to design what its rules committee co-chairman Jim Roosevelt III has called a “transparent” 2024 nominating process, with a “level playing field” that could increase “opportunities for Democratic voters.” But as Democrats prepare to cast their first ballots Tuesday, those lofty goals are crashing […]Read More

Once upon a time there was a Florida governor who wanted to be president. Soon after the midterm elections, he began to gear up. He didn’t announce immediately but he did the things inevitable candidates do — securing endorsements and welcoming the support of a super PAC that was already raising money. That super PAC […]Read More