News

Democrat Thomas Suozzi launches bid to take back George Santos’s seat

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 10/10/2023 - 2:47pm
Suozzi, who left Congress to run for governor of New York, joins a growing list of names seeking Santos’s U.S. House seat.
Categories: News

How Republicans lauded RFK Jr. — before he was a threat

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 10/10/2023 - 1:28pm
Some of the most prominent leaders of the right hailed Kennedy as a principled, selfless warrior. Now he’s suddenly being labeled a liberal opportunist.
Categories: News

North Carolina Republicans override governor’s veto on key election law

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 10/10/2023 - 1:00pm
Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has cast the bill as a threat to democracy in the state. Republicans say it takes politics out of the process of administering the vote.
Categories: News

Former baseball star Steve Garvey running for California U.S. Senate seat

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 10/10/2023 - 12:41pm
Garvey joins a growing list of candidates hoping to succeed the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
Categories: News

A tantalizing detail in a new Trump legal filing

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 10/10/2023 - 11:35am
The government signals it plans to prove Donald Trump’s much-debated intent for taking and keeping classified documents.
Categories: News

After years of exaggerating his business assets, Trump confronts them in court

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 10/10/2023 - 9:09am
New York civil trial to show, in never-before-seen detail, how experts told Trump over and over again the worth of his business but he wouldn’t listen.
Categories: News

Haley and Ramaswamy get buzz, but little support among Indian Americans

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 10/10/2023 - 4:00am
Haley and Ramaswamy’s conservative politics are at odds with the majority of Indian Americans, who are Democrats.
Categories: News

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan host 2024 candidates at influential donor summit

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 10/10/2023 - 4:00am
Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Mike Pence and Doug Burgum, all underdogs against Donald Trump, will all address potential backers in closed-door sessions.
Categories: News

Biden interviewed about classified documents found at his office, home

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 9:10pm
A special counsel is investigating how classified documents were found at a private office Joe Biden used after his vice presidency and at his Delaware home.
Categories: News

House Republicans brace for drawn-out speaker fight

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 8:41pm
Kevin McCarthy says he’s willing to return as House speaker as Republicans begin to assess how they might be able to offer aid to Israel.
Categories: News

Haley is rising in New Hampshire. But toppling Trump is a tall order.

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 8:29pm
The shifting terrain among the non-Trump candidates in the Granite State has drawn renewed attention to a unique and crucial 2024 GOP battleground.
Categories: News

Vietnam tried to hack U.S. officials, CNN with posts on X, probe finds

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 7:22pm
The targeting came as Vietnamese and American diplomats were negotiating a major cooperation agreement intended to counter growing Chinese influence in the region.
Categories: News

Will Hurd ends long-shot GOP presidential campaign, endorses Nikki Haley

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 6:29pm
“I urge donors, voters, and other candidates to unite around an alternative candidate to Trump,” the former congressman said.
Categories: News

White House considers adding Ukraine to Israel aid package

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 6:26pm
Biden, seeking ways to push Ukraine aid through Congress, may tie it to a more popular package of support for Israel. Some conservatives are likely to cry foul.
Categories: News

In Israel, U.S. lawmakers witness war up close

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 2:54pm
“We had 90 seconds” to get to safety, Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-N.Y.) said. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) described huddling in the stairwell of a hotel in Tel Aviv.
Categories: News

Republicans turn on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he launches independent bid

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 1:43pm
Republicans are turning on RFK Jr. as he announces an independent presidential bid, underscoring nervousness on both sides on how the gadfly and other potential third-party candidates might scramble the races
Categories: News

House Republicans need to pick a new speaker. Here’s how that works.

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 9:30am
Members of the majority party hope to settle on a successor to Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) by the end of the week. But there’s no guarantee they will.
Categories: News

A few possibilities to replace Kevin McCarthy as House speaker

Washington Post Elections - Mon, 10/09/2023 - 7:00am
McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he has no plans to seek reelection as speaker, creating a wide-open race as the House also faces a mid-November deadline to fund the government.
Categories: News

As false war information spreads on X, Musk promotes unvetted accounts

Washington Post Elections - Sun, 10/08/2023 - 5:17pm
Elon Musk recommended that users follow accounts that have promoted lies in the past.
Categories: News

Trump trials: Slow motions

Washington Post Elections - Sun, 10/08/2023 - 3:30pm
Welcome back to our weekly pop-up newsletter on Donald Trump’s four criminal cases.
Categories: News
Syndicate content