The cat owners and cat lovers at Mount Purrnon Cat Cafe and Wine Bar in Northern Virginia think vice-presidential candidate JD Vance is a purrfect idiot. “Beyond ridiculous,” said Beth Kanupp, 41, who was visiting from Orlando with her fiancé. “I kind of just rolled my eyes,” said Marina Loftus, 20, a D.C.-based student, “because […]Read More

PHOENIX — Arizona’s Democratic leaders knew they had no good options when they jumped on a phone call this month. They had just learned tens of thousands of residents had been registered to vote for decades, even though there was no record they had provided proof of citizenship — a requirement under state law. Their […]Read More

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris’s mental capacity Saturday, falsely claiming she was born “mentally impaired” and comparing her actions to that of a “a mentally disabled person.” The remarks prompted criticism from advocates for people with disabilities. Disparaging Harris’s actions on border security as vice president, Trump told the crowd […]Read More

U.S. officials on Saturday were preparing for a range of potential retaliatory actions by Iran for an Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah and said the Lebanese militant group is significantly degraded after Israeli military operations. In a statement on Saturday, President Joe Biden said Nasrallah and Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, were […]Read More

MONROEVILLE, Pa. — Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance appeared Saturday at a town hall event organized by top Christian nationalist leaders who promote election denialism and portray Vice President Kamala Harris as a “demon.” The event’s host, Lance Wallnau, who emceed the live event and introduced Vance’s first town hall on the campaign trail, is […]Read More

Kamala Harris doesn’t get to decide if Donald Trump debates her a second time. But she will attempt to extract a cost if he won’t. Her campaign has hired a plane to trail the words “Trump’s Punting on 2nd Debate” over Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday night, where Trump is expected to attend […]Read More

CHARLOTTE — North Carolina Republicans were in a panic last week as CNN prepared to drop a devastating story about their nominee for governor, Mark Robinson. Some sought help from the man who had supercharged Robinson’s candidacy: Donald Trump. A member of Robinson’s own team asked the Trump campaign for help persuading their boss to […]Read More

Shortly after Kamala Harris took control of Joe Biden’s campaign, her top advisers began holding senior staff meetings unlike any that had happened before. New strategists appeared on Zoom calls with the Wilmington brass, and a transformed decision-making process took over. The competing power centers that had defined Biden’s world — a headquarters staff, a […]Read More

Mayra Vélez Serrano drove to work Wednesday along Puerto Rico’s Highway 18, one of the island’s busiest freeways. It would’ve been a normal drive — had it not been for a new, giant billboard that left her “absolutely floored,” said the political science professor at University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. There, in Spanish […]Read More

It’s been evident for some time that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) underwent a politically convenient evolution on Donald Trump. A staunch critic of Trump when he first ran for president in 2016, Vance gradually reinvented himself publicly and then fully embraced Trump for his own Senate race in 2022 — when he needed the votes […]Read More