Among the allegations included in a federal indictment made public on Thursday is that prospective donors to New York Mayor Eric Adams were encouraged to avoid contribution limits by using straw donors, people who’d receive money from the actual contributor and give it to Adams under their own name. This allegedly helped Adams increase his […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump is promoting $100,000 watches branded after him as he seeks a return to the White House, the latest — and priciest — product he has helped sell in a string of unusual for-profit enterprises for a presidential candidate. The Trump Victory Tourbillon is “almost entirely made out of 18 Carat Gold […]Read More

NEW YORK — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed during a fiery address to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that his country would continue its military operation in Lebanon in defiance of a U.S. cease-fire proposal demanding a temporary halt in hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. His swaggering, bellicose remarks included a warning to […]Read More

As of writing, Vice President Kamala Harris leads in The Washington Post’s national average of presidential polls by two percentage points. She has held a similar lead for a few weeks now, since about the beginning of the month. Of course, as any American born before the year 2000 is aware, the presidency is determined […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to call for tougher border security measures on Friday during a visit to the southern border, a trip that amounts to her latest attempt to directly confront some of her biggest political vulnerabilities. In what her campaign is billing as a major speech in Douglas, Ariz., Harris is planning […]Read More

NEW YORK — Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday morning, opening a new chapter in a fraught relationship roiled by skepticism from the Republican presidential nominee and his party over U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war. The meeting will be their first since 2019 and will happen in the final […]Read More

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