Republican Rep. Clay Higgins (La.) published racist comments about Haitians on Wednesday — only to delete them after being confronted by House colleagues. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Higgins called Haitians “thugs,” called Haiti the “nastiest country in ...
Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has pulled clearly ahead in Maryland’s unusually competitive U.S. Senate race with a double-digit lead among likely voters, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, in a contest critical to deciding control of the chamber next ...
Corrine Morse cast her vote in the 2016 presidential election from a glacially slow, often glitchy fax machine in Antarctica. For 20 minutes, Morse watched as the machine whirred and beeped eerily before finally printing the confirmation page she had ...
Barbara S. Jones took on plenty of high-profile cases as a prosecutor and then as a federal judge, but now she finds herself in what is, even for her, an extraordinary position: Appointed by a New York court, she is ...
OMAHA — Bored by politics until two months ago, Coral Meija said two things got her involved in this year’s election: Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascension to the top of the ticket and, more importantly, two abortion-related measures on Nebraska’s ...
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff has made more than 30 campaign stops in the five weeks since the Democratic National Convention, stumping for his wife in over a dozen states. This week in Texas, he swung through three cities, ate at ...
A sweeping bill introduced by a Democratic senator Wednesday would greatly increase the size of the Supreme Court, make it harder for the justices to overturn laws, require justices to undergo audits and remove roadblocks for high court nominations. The ...
In early 2019, at the beginning of the 116th Congress, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced to the media that Rep. Steve King would not be seated on any committees, limiting his power. The move followed comments the Iowa ...
A federal indictment against New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) is expected to soon be unsealed, after investigations intensified around his administration in recent months. In a video message Wednesday night, he said any federal charges would be “entirely false,” ...
Despite pledging a “battle without limits” against Israel, Hezbollah’s response to back-to-back Israeli attacks appears to have been carefully calibrated. Its strike Wednesday that was intercepted near Tel Aviv managed to be both unprecedented and understated. It marked many firsts: ...