As Election Day nears and a parade of anti-Trump Republicans announce their support for Vice President Kamala Harris, one prominent GOP Trump critic has withheld his endorsement: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), one of the rare anti-Trump Republicans who still holds elected office. Romney, the lone Republican senator who voted to convict Trump during his first […]Read More

“Their ‘Bidenomics’ led to the highest inflation in 40 years. Highest gas prices ever. Skyrocketing interest rates. Unaffordable housing. Incomes down. Unemployment rising. And a recession now headed our way. Yet Kamala Harris is clueless.” — Trump campaign ad, “Clueless,” released Sept. 23 On Sept. 18, the Federal Reserve Bank reduced interest rates by a […]Read More

Vice-presidential nominee JD Vance has a go-to explanationfor his evolution from outspoken critic to impassioned defender of Donald Trump: He says he was converted by Trump’s achievements in the White House. Vance has said watching the former president enact his populist agenda for left-behind Americans transformed him from a “Never Trump” conservative in 2016 to […]Read More

Donald Trump’s plan to make thousands of federal employees more like at-will political appointees poses a particular risk to the prime duty of government — national security. That was the message from a Senate hearing last week into the Republican presidential nominee’s intention to undercut the federal civil service by reinstating a new category of […]Read More

PHOENIX — When Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) decided to run for Senate, it provided a rare opening in one of the safest congressional districts in the state for Democrats and set up a fiercely competitive and expensive primary. The July 30 primary results were close and after an automatic recount, the top two contenders were […]Read More

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Abe Calvillo dished out hundreds of tacos to feed hungry attendees at a recent watch party for a highly anticipated boxing match hosted by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and his Senate campaign.While cleaning up after running out of food, Calvillo said he was only able to keep his South Phoenix-based shop afloat […]Read More

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday dismissed a U.S.-backed push for a 21-day cease-fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon and vowed that fighting would continue, even as Biden administration officials complained that Israel was fully informed of the truce proposal and indicated Netanyahu had agreed to it. After arriving in New York for a speech […]Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, appealing urgently to President Joe Biden on Thursday to let the country extend its use of American weapons, waded into a heightened partisan divide over the Russia-Ukraine war, with the U.S. presidential election weeks away. Biden met with Zelensky at the White House on Thursday, but he did not grant Kyiv’s […]Read More

The indictment of New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) punctures yet another hole in Donald Trump’s and his allies’ unsubstantiated claims that the Justice Department has been weaponized against their side. With the addition of Adams, the Justice Department has now indicted a handful of prominent Democrats, including former senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Rep. Henry […]Read More

NEW YORK — Donald Trump said he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday as the foreign leader appeals to U.S. politicians for continued American aid against Russia’s invasion. Trump said at a New York news conference that he plans to meet with Zelensky around 9:45 a.m. at Trump Tower. A person familiar […]Read More