Politics

In the four years since his 2020 election loss, Donald Trump has continued to bolster false claims that widespread election fraud was the cause of his demise. Now, as early and mail-in voting opens up in several states that will help decide the 2024 election, the former president is ramping …

You may not know Simon Rosenberg by name. But if you listened to Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, you have a sense of his influence. “You’re gonna have a hard time believing this, but so help me, I triple-checked it,” Clinton told a raucous crowd in Chicago. …

In the Democratic National Convention’s reimagined fairy tale, “Goldilocks and the Beltway,” President Joe Biden played the part of the porridge. “I was too young to be in the Senate,” he quipped, and now he’s “too old to stay as president.” Biden’s candid admission was met with a standing ovation …

Conservative Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley claimed Friday he opposes a “nationwide ban” on abortion, before immediately saying he wants to see “reasonable federal restrictions.” One such federal restriction, he said during a Missouri Senate candidate debate on Friday, should be “when the baby is capable of feeling pain” — a …

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called out Donald Trump for his bizarre rant promising to make women great again, labeling his comments “deranged” and “ludicrous.” At a North Carolina rally on Saturday, the former president read aloud an all-caps post he shared on Truth Social late Friday night where he promised to …

Prominent Republicans — Sens. J.D. Vance, Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton — all refused to disavow North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson following reporting by CNN that uncovered comments he made online calling himself a “black NAZI” and supporting reinstating slavery before entering politics. When asked about Robinson’s inflammatory posts, …

Sen. Lindsey Graham is on a campaign to alter Nebraska‘s election laws to deliver an advantage to former president Donald Trump. “The entire federal delegation of Nebraska, House members and two senators, want this changed,” Graham said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press. “To my friends in Nebraska, that one …

Israeli soldiers raided the West Bank offices of the Al Jazeera network early Sunday morning, forcing the bureau to shut down. Al Jazeera broadcast video of the military entering the bureau and ordering staff to evacuate and cease operations. “There is a court ruling for closing down Al Jazeera for …

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — Before Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and other prominent conservatives started talking about their city, the volunteers and leadership at St. Vincent de Paul — a Catholic social services nonprofit serving the broader community and Haitian immigrants — never felt the need for the state’s Department of Public …

T his summer has seen a political season unlike anything in our nation’s history. An assassination attempt on a former president running for a second term. An aging president bowing out of the election weeks before his party’s convention. A vice president giving a zombie campaign a desperately needed adrenaline …