A Utah man who recorded himself inciting violence and breaking a window before filming the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt outside the House chamber during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was sentenced Friday to six years in prison. John Earle Sullivan, 29, was paid $90,875 for his videos before he was convicted at trial. […]
The Republican Party is urging the Secret Service to move protesters farther away from the arena in Milwaukee where the party will hold its convention in July, according to a letter sent to the agency Friday and reviewed by The Washington Post. Milwaukee’s plan to host protesters in a one-block city park about a quarter-mile […]
NEW YORK — Donald Trump fought mightily before and after he was elected president to keep secret the embarrassing details of his private life, but often failed despite having a fat checkbook and a well-connected tabloid editor in his pocket, according to the first week of evidence at his trial. Former presidents typically spend their […]
In none of Donald Trump’s criminal trials do the politics rank as close in importance to the legal issues as they do in Manhattan. The charges in the hush-money-election-interference case are objectively less serious than those in the former president’s other cases, and Americans harbor significantly more uncertainty about them. That creates a situation in […]
There is very obviously an element of opposition to the ongoing protests on college campuses that is rooted in familiar partisan rhetoric. The political right’s hostility to college professors and insistences that students are brainwashed into holding liberal politics, for example, is a regular undercurrent to the discussion. There are real disputes at play, certainly, […]
What’s going to happen, see, is that people who support Donald Trump will learn about what he said or did and walk away from him. They’re going to hear about what he said about immigrants coming across the border and … well, okay, not that. But they will hear what he said about John McCain […]
When conservative lawyer and media personality Christina Bobb became one of the latest members of Donald Trump’s inner circle to be charged in connection with the effort to reverse the 2020 presidential election results, it became immediately clear she would not have to give up her day job: senior counsel to the Republican National Committee’s […]
Politicians, like us all, often engage in hyperbole to make a point. But don’t doubt the alliterative precision of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) when he warns about “a deluge of deception, disinformation and deepfakes … about to descend on the American public.” “There is a clear and present danger to our democracy,” he added for […]
BRYANT, Ark. — Tony Chism pulled up to the library in a red pickup truck with a “Don’t Tread on Me” plate on the front and a “Biden Sucks” sticker on the back. He settled into a lawn chair and held up a sign showing solidarity with abortion rights activists gathered nearby: “LET PEOPLE VOTE.” […]
In March, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban went to Mar-a-Lago, arguing to Donald Trump that Russia would grind Ukraine down and eventually win their war — and that the United States should accept that reality. Then the two spent hours in a ballroom listening to a cover band play Rolling Stones hits. Several weeks later, […]