Republicans won what would seem to be a major concession from President Biden on immigration when Biden signaled that he would come to the table on tougher policies. Biden did so to secure funding for Ukraine, despite the fact that overwhelming majorities of Congress have repeatedly backed the aid. But now Republicans don’t seem to […]Read More

Jaci Statton sat in her car last winter, shocked that doctors at an Oklahoma hospital had instructed her to wait in the parking lot until she became sick enough to qualify for an abortion under the state’s near-total ban. Physicians agreed that the 25-year-old had a potentially life-threatening pregnancy complication; they just didn’t believe they […]Read More

As President Donald Trump listened inside the Oval Office, Nikki Haley pitched a dramatic gambit to jump-start Middle East peace talks: Cutting off U.S. funding to a U.N. program providing critical aid to Palestinian refugees. It was a startling idea, especially coming from the ambassador to the United Nations, who months earlier had toured a […]Read More

Michael Berman, a political strategist who came to Washington as a top aide to Vice President Walter Mondale and built a career as an eclectic insider who helped organize Democratic conventions, lobbied lawmakers and wrote a heartfelt book about his struggles with obesity, died Jan. 12 at a Washington hospital. He was 84. Mr. Berman […]Read More

Donald Trump urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to ensure his name can appear on election ballots nationwide, warning of “chaos and bedlam” if the justices do not reverse Colorado’s top court, which disqualified the former president because of his actions on and leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. Trump’s attorney asked the justices to […]Read More

Hunter Biden will sit for a deposition before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees on Feb. 28, committee chairmen James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced on Thursday, ending weeks of contentious back and forth between the president’s son’s legal team and House Republicans. “His deposition will come after several interviews with Biden family […]Read More

Congress on Thursday passed legislation to keep the federal government open into March, approving the third stopgap spending bill in four months as lawmakers struggle to agree on long-term government funding plans. The bill extends deadlines to March 1 and March 8. Money for roughly 20 percent of the government — including the Transportation Department, […]Read More

Onstage at a New Hampshire campaign event on Wednesday night, former president Donald Trump bragged about many things: his immigration policies, his passage of a tax cut, the unemployment rates during his administration. He also bragged about how he recently correctly identified a whale on a cognitive test. “I think it was 30, 35 questions,” […]Read More

Stopping New Hampshire voters on the sidewalk, refilling their coffee mugs at diners and repeating his stump speech, long-shot presidential candidate Dean Phillips — the real one — explains why he thinks Democrats shouldn’t renominate President Biden: The leader of his party has lost the confidence of a majority of the electorate. A just-released artificial […]Read More