NEW YORK — Former president Donald Trump formally endorsed a government spending commission that could give Elon Musk broad responsibilities for auditing federal spending and regulations — a move that reflects a tightening political alliance between the two men with less than nine weeks left until Election Day. Trump’s advisers have discussed the commission for […]Read More

With two months left in the presidential race, former president Donald Trump would prefer to campaign on issues such as inflation and immigration. Vice President Kamala Harris has been centering her campaign on expanding economic opportunity, while seeking to keep abortion rights as a top contrast with Trump. But a school shooting in the battleground […]Read More

Ten years ago, two Russian nationals, Aleksandra Krylova and Anna Bogacheva, spent a month touring the United States. Their itinerary included stops across the country: New York, Louisiana, California, Colorado. But their focus was not simply a tourist’s curiosity. They were employees of a new agency that had decided to “spread distrust towards the candidates […]Read More

As the hardworking child of academically focused parents, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dreamed of reaching the highest levels of the legal profession. She even wrote in her college application to Harvard about becoming the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. But when the Biden administration called in 2022 with news that she was being […]Read More

PHOENIX — The catered Lebanese dinner had ended, and the guests’ plates had been cleared. Now Massad Boulos, whose son Michael is married to Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany, was holding forth withArab American voters and explaining why — despite what they may have heard — the former presidentis their best bet for ending Israel’s war […]Read More

The top U.S. diplomat planned to visit the struggling nation of Haiti on Thursday, in an unusual attempt to boost the country’s interim leader and deliver a message of support for a U.S.-backed international policing mission that has so far failed to make a significant impact against the gangs that have seized control of most […]Read More

Jury selection is set to begin Thursday in Los Angeles for the second criminal trial of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter — a case that over the next few weeks could detail for a jury his lavish lifestyle while he was addicted to drugs. The younger Biden was convicted by a Delaware jury in June […]Read More

For much of the 2024 election, concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and job performance helped paper over the real and long-standing concerns Americans have had about Donald Trump’s character, chaotic style and authoritarian tendencies. A slew of polls actually showed Biden had little to no advantage on the subject of which candidate was more […]Read More

Liz Cheney, a former congresswoman from Wyoming broke with the Republican Party on Wednesday to say she plans to vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in November. “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this,” Cheney said at an event hosted by Duke University’s […]Read More