DES MOINES — Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis traded harsh attacks in a Wednesday night debate just ahead of the Iowa caucuses, battling for second place while former president Donald Trump — the runaway favorite to win — skipped the event and held his own town hall. The face-off came five days […]Read More

Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley called Jan. 6, 2021, a “terrible day” and levied her sharpest criticism yet against former president Donald Trump and his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. “Donald Trump basically said that the election was stolen. He went on and on talking about the election […]Read More

House GOP hard-liners tanked a procedural vote Wednesday, in protest of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) striking a bipartisan spending deal with Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.). The revolt has once again paralyzed the chamber, even as lawmakers have fewer than 10 days to pass legislation to fund the federal government in order […]Read More

The fireworks in Congress on Wednesday took place in a House Oversight Committee hearing that featured a cameo from Hunter Biden — who figures heavily into the Republicans’ impeachment investigation into his father — and lots of shouting. But the more significant developments might have come elsewhere in the Capitol, where House Republicans teed up […]Read More

Two House committees voted Wednesday to recommend holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for not submitting to a closed-door deposition, capping a circuslike day in which tempers flared, insults flew and pornographic photos were displayed on poster boards. Following hours of debate, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee each voted along […]Read More

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie on Wednesday announced that he would suspend his long-shot bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, clearing a wider path in New Hampshire for former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley as calls to exit the race and consolidate support behind an anti-Trump alternative grew stronger. Speaking at a townhall in […]Read More

President Biden has been holding private lunches at the White House with top donors and other supporters as part of an effort to reassure them about his reelection campaign, including concerns about his age and energy, according to three people familiar with the meetings. Biden has held roughly a half-dozen meetings, in groups ranging from […]Read More

NEW YORK — Donald Trump will not be allowed to personally argue during summations at his business fraud civil trial Thursday after his attorneys would not agree to have him stick to case-related topics. The decision by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron came around noon on Wednesday in an email exchange with the […]Read More

During a closed-door deposition last July, Devon Archer, a former business partner of President Biden’s son Hunter, was asked what, exactly, he and the president’s son had done while they were working for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Archer was there first, he explained, to “basically find outside financing for global expansion, which we were […]Read More