NEW YORK — Vice President Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump on Wednesday morning both arrived here in Lower Manhattan, the site of the worst terrorist attack in American history, each pausing for a moment of solemn commemoration in the midst of a frenetic political season. They stood feet away from one another, […]Read More

In one of her effective efforts to goad Donald Trump during their debate on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris told the viewing audience he didn’t engender the level of international respect he often claims. “I’m going to tell you that I have traveled the world as vice president of the United States,” Harris said. “And […]Read More

Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 Republican nominating contest was largely a function of his willingness to embrace and elevate dangerous, hateful and false claims from the rightmost fringe of Republican rhetoric. There was a whole galaxy of assertions and arguments on blogs and social media that even Fox News kept at arm’s length, but […]Read More

House Republicans this week are bringing a raft of China-focused legislation to a vote in a pre-election bid to bolster the party’s foreign policycredentials, as Democrats and the GOP compete to chart a path for managing an increasingly fraught relationship with the United States’ most powerful adversary. The roughly two-dozen policy bills brought forward by […]Read More

Vice President Kamala Harris turned in one of the more resounding debate performances in recent decades on Tuesday night — to the point where Donald Trump’s allies have struggled to locate a silver lining. Precisely how much the debate could impact the race is an open question, as my colleague Dan Balz notes; we’re a […]Read More

Across the country, Americans took a moment on Wednesday morning to remember the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Or, for about a third of Americans, the moment was one of observation for the thousands of lives lost. An observation, not a remembrance, because those Americans were either not born when the attacks occurred or […]Read More

ABINGTON, Pa. — The predominantly Black crowd here responded with deep sighs and some laughter when the discussion in Tuesday night’s presidential debate turned to Donald Trump’s baseless attack on Kamala Harris’s racial identity. Why, a moderator asked the former president, did he believe it was appropriate to weigh in on such a topic? “I […]Read More

It took 19 years for the symptoms to emerge. Tom Beyrer, who served for six months as a police officer at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, was 65 when his memory and cognitive abilities began to crumble. Gradually, he pulled away from things that brought him joy. He […]Read More

Jane Hynous was bored watching “National Treasure” in her social studies class, so she pulled out a few markers and drew the first quirky image that entered her mind: a werewolf. That June morning, the 12-year-old had learnedthat her state ofMichigan was holding a competition for the best custom election stickers. Jane drew the werewolf […]Read More

There weren’t many things that could have diverted the political world’s attention from Vice President Kamala Harris’s dominant performance against Donald Trump in Tuesday night’s debate. But at 11 p.m., Taylor Swift managed it. Her endorsement of the Democratic nominee wasn’t surprising, as such. She endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and has endorsed other Democrats […]Read More