Monday evening saw dueling television interviews between the two major-party candidates for president. Originally, both interviews were scheduled to take place on the same network, CBS, on its flagship news program “60 Minutes.” But Republican candidate Donald Trump balked at the idea that “60 Minutes” would correct his false claims on the program so he […]Read More

Bob Woodward’s “War,” set to be released next week, is the author and Washington Post associate editor’s fourth book since Donald Trump’s upset victory in 2016. The new book opens the aperture to reveal how a years-long political contest between Trump and President Joe Biden — and now Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced a plan for Medicare to cover long-term care services at home, a significant expansion of the program that would be aimed at helping tens of millions of Americans who are caring for aging parents. Harris’s announcement was designed to address the growing number of elderly Americans with serious […]Read More

The Supreme Court seemed poised on Tuesday to uphold a major gun regulation imposed by the Biden administration that requires background checks, serial numbers and sales records for the nearly untraceable firearms known as ghost guns. A majority of the justices seemed skeptical of arguments by gun owners, parts makers and Second Amendment groups that […]Read More

As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted teststo Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use. Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political […]Read More

Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform X and is a high-profile backer of former president Donald Trump, said in an interview that it would be “pointless” to try to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris — once again publicly airing questions about why no one has tried to kill her or President Joe Biden […]Read More

Hurricane Helene roared through the Southeast two weeks ago, destroying an uncounted number of buildings, triggering massive flooding and leaving more than 200 people dead. In a statement, President Joe Biden extended his sympathies, saying he was “praying for those who lost loved ones from Hurricane Helene, and for those whose homes, businesses, and communities […]Read More

Donald Trump falsely claimed as president that “cleaning” forests would prevent California wildfires. He showed Americans a doctored hurricane map, altered with a Sharpie to bolster an inaccurate tweet about the storm’s path. He said the calculated death toll of Hurricane Maria had been inflated, which was untrue. And in recent days, he has incorrectly […]Read More

Thecore ofKamala Harris’s housing platform is a simple idea: America needs more houses. But the vice president’s pitch — to help build 3 million homes and incentivize local governments and builders to join in — stands apart from how major political candidates typically talk about housing, if they do at all. To housing experts, the […]Read More