Special counsel Jack Smith has a plan for how to illustrate Donald Trump’s influence over the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors will show a map of people gathered around the Ellipse to hear Trump say, “we’re going to the Capitol” to “fight like hell,” then follow those supporters in […]Read More

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized earlier this week for unspecified reasons but is recuperating, the Pentagon said late Friday, after withholding the information for days. Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said that Austin, who is 70, was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington on Monday “for complications […]Read More

President Biden is scheduled to arrive outside Philadelphia on Friday afternoon to deliver his first speech of this election year, attempting to cast the 2024 presidential campaign as a battle for the future of American democracy and portray former president Donald Trump as its chief antagonist. He plans to speak from a community college in […]Read More

DES MOINES — Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley held back-to-back CNN town halls in Iowa on Thursday as they fight to emerge as the primary GOP presidential challenger to polling leader Donald Trump. With the Iowa caucuses set to kick off the Republican nominating process on Jan. 15, the town halls are among the candidates’ […]Read More

A member of the far-right Proud Boys group got a 10-year prison term Thursday for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The defendant, Christopher Worrell, missed his first scheduled sentencing hearing, in August, after he fled home detention and vanished for weeks, according to authorities, who said he later purposely […]Read More

The Supreme Court said Friday it will review a case challenging Idaho’s strict abortion ban, which the Biden administration says conflicts with a federal law requiring emergency room doctors to perform the procedure in some circumstances. Idaho’s attorney general asked the justices to intervene after a lower court judge blocked a section of Idaho’s abortion […]Read More

The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump’s name can appear on primary-election ballots, scheduling argument just five weeks from now in a case that will have a major impact on this year’s presidential election. Colorado’s top court disqualified the Republican frontrunner from the ballot last month, finding that he […]Read More

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) will be away from Washington until February so he can receive a stem cell transplant as part of his treatment for blood cancer, further dwindling the House Republicans’ narrow majority. Scalise’s temporary absence comes as the House is facing down significant deadlines. There’s a partial government shutdown looming over […]Read More

There are few defenses from White people against allegations of racial insensitivity more notorious than “I have Black friends.” There was perhaps a time when this was compelling, a demonstration of familiarity with Black culture and Black people that would effectively blunt such criticism. But it is easy to see why, particularly these days, it […]Read More

At some point, nearly every political campaign makes some effort to appeal directly to younger voters. The extent of that outreach varies from candidate to candidate and year to year. But there’s always a pool of young people marginally attached to the political process that campaigns think are worth contacting, if only once. From the […]Read More