Politics

(WASHINGTON) — Benny Gantz, a top political rival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is meeting with high-level officials in Washington this week, stoking speculation that the Biden administration is trying to distance itself from Israel’s far-right government. It comes as the U.S. is stepping up pressure for urgent action to pause the fighting and […]

(WASHINGTON) — Super Tuesday is a significant day in the presidential primary race — when 16 states total, plus the territory of American Samoa, head to the polls. While the presidential contest will receive a good amount of the attention, there are several significant down-ballot races as well since some states hold other primaries on […]

(WASHINGTON) — Attorneys for Donald Trump have repeated their request for a delay of the $83 million judgment in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against the former president, arguing that the former columnist’s lawyers contradicted themselves in a recent court filing. Defense lawyers Alina Habba — along with D. John Sauer, who was recently added […]

Getty Images – STOCK (BISMARCK, N.D.) — It’s caucus day in North Dakota, where former President Donald Trump aims to maintain his large lead in the Republican race versus former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Twenty-nine delegates are up for grabs in the GOP caucuses. In the caucus, which is a party-run election different from […]

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday essentially rendered moot a string of ongoing state-level challenges to former President Donald Trump’s 2024 candidacy under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, also known as the “insurrection clause.” Both Colorado’s Supreme Court and Maine’s top election official had determined Trump should not be […]

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of Donald Trump in a historic case challenging his eligibility to seek the Republican presidential nomination under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment due to his actions around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The court was unanimous in reversing the […]

Henrik5000/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is projected to win Washington, D.C.’s Republican primary on Sunday, ABC News reports, her first primary win over former President Donald Trump, but one that does little to ameliorate the daunting task of actually leapfrogging him in the race for the GOP nomination. The projected […]

Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court says it will release one or more opinions on Monday — a day before the Super Tuesday primaries — in an announcement widely expected to resolve a dispute over states’ ability to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. […]

(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Chris Murphy is urging President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats to “go on the offense” on immigration after a bipartisan border deal he helped negotiate was tanked by Republicans, led by former President Donald Trump, who called it insufficient. “The vast majority of the country believes that we should have robust […]

(WASHINGTON) — Mitch McConnell’s successor as Republican leader of the Senate must be able to both work with the next president, including if it’s Donald Trump, and also “stand his own ground,” Sen. Mike Rounds said Sunday. Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, is backing colleague and fellow South Dakotan John Thune to take McConnell’s role […]