Liz Cheney, one of the most vociferous critics of Donald Trump in the Republican Party, says she is weighing whether to mount her own third-party candidacy for the White House, as she vows to do “whatever it takes” to prevent the former president from returning to office. While promoting her new book “Oath and Honor: […]
Ever since he was indicted on charges of interfering in the 2020 election results, Donald Trump has relished the chance to use the case in Washington as a venue to air his baseless claims of fraud. Now he is using it to circulate a new set of falsehoods: that the federal government staged or incited […]
Four Republican candidates will take the stage in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday night for the fourth GOP primary debate: former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Former president Donald Trump will once again skip the event. To participate in the debate, candidates […]
NEW YORK — A New York appellate court Monday told lawyers for Donald Trump that they missed a deadline to seek permission from a panel of judges to quickly consider a request to file a higher court challenge to a gag order against Trump in connection with a $250 million civil fraud case. Trump lawyers […]
Westchester County Executive George Latimer (D) filed paperwork indicating that he will run against Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) for the House seat just north of New York City, the latest primary challenge against a member of the liberal group of lawmakers known as “the Squad.” Latimer filed a statement of candidacy to the Federal Election […]
There has been a consistent pattern displayed over the 11 months since Republicans regained control of the House majority and, with it, the leadership of the chamber’s investigatory committees. The pattern: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) will make a claim alleging wrongdoing by President Biden and then, in short order, that allegation will […]
A bipartisan group founded to oppose the presidential effort of No Labels launched a small ad campaign Monday that casts any 2024 third-party effort as a threat to the nation’s democratic norms that will help elect former president Donald Trump to a second term. The initial $100,000 ad buy by Citizens to Save Our Republic, […]
One of the oldest threats in American politics is to pull up roots should an election not go your way. In the months before the 2016 presidential contest, for example, there were a number of threats from Americans to do so should Donald Trump win — promises that yielded post-election assessments of who hadn’t carried […]
As House Republicans move toward a floor vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry against President Biden, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) has again mischaracterized evidence of payments from Hunter Biden to his father. In an email to reporters, a spokesperson for Comer claimed that the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating Biden, had obtained […]
The Supreme Court on Monday seemed torn about both the merits and the legality of a proposed Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan that would allocate billions of dollars to help ease the nation’s opioid crisis, but also shield the family that owns the company from future lawsuits. Justices across the ideological spectrum asked tough questions of […]