Nobody planned it this way, but the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, former president Donald Trump’s role in attempting to subvert the 2020 election and the issue of protecting democracy emerged as the theme of the presidential campaign last week. That no one planned it is apparent from the coincidence of events […]Read More

The Supreme Court wades back into hot-button issues including gun control, the death penalty and gender-affirming care for minors in the term that begins Monday, even as the fast-approaching presidential election could end up dominating the docket. Last term was marked by blockbuster rulings on the scopeof former president Donald Trump’s immunity from prosecution and […]Read More

Washington and Massachusetts are stockpiling abortion pills. California is cutting climate deals directly with automakers. Colorado is rushing to protect the right to same-sex marriage. And attorneys general across the country are marshaling legal resources and privately plotting courtroom strategies. From the West Coast to the East, blue states are preparing for the possibility that […]Read More

As a California voter, Vice President Kamala Harris has decisions to make about state policy measures that will appear on her November ballot — some of which reflect national challenges she could face if elected president. California voters’ ballots will include questions about crime, climate change, health-care funding and other issues, thanks to a state […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris will appear this week on an episode of “Call Her Daddy,” one of the world’s most popular podcasts. The feature on the podcast, which garners millions of listeners who are known as the “Daddy Gang,” is another marker of the Harris campaign’s efforts to reach women and younger voters. Harris and […]Read More

CHARLOTTE — Vice President Kamala Harris took her second trip in four days to a hurricane-ravaged state, meeting with victims and first responders in North Carolina on Saturday as the administration combats criticism and false claims that its storm response is too anemic. Fresh off a Midwest campaign swing, Harris visited a North Carolina Air […]Read More

WILMINGTON, Del. — When Lisa Blunt Rochester was running to become Delaware’s first Black woman in Congress, a newspaper editorial board asked her an unusual question: Wasn’t she a bit nice for Capitol Hill? Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) recalls trying to turn that doubt into a positive. “Well, maybe we need to do something different,” she […]Read More

BUTLER, Pa. — Republican nominee Donald Trump is set to return on Saturday to the fairgrounds here where he narrowly escaped an assassin’s bullet on July 13, in what has become another defining moment for his presidential campaign and his MAGA movement. The campaign is bringing back many attendees who sat in the bleachers behind […]Read More

With a month to go, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris remain nearly tied in battleground polls. The similarities end there. Harris is running a campaign about three times the size of Trump’s operation, according to recent spending reports. She has placed $263 million in ads between the end of the Democratic convention and Oct. 4, […]Read More