House GOP maneuvers to portray Democrats as weak on China
House Republicans this week are bringing a raft of China-focused legislation to a vote in a pre-election bid to bolster the party’s foreign policy credentials, as Democrats and the GOP…
Editor’s Pick
3156 posts
Donald Trump no longer knows how to talk to anyone outside his base
Donald Trump’s success in the 2016 Republican nominating contest was largely a function of his willingness to embrace and elevate dangerous, hateful and false claims from the rightmost fringe of…
Trump wavers on whether he wants a second debate with Harris
With the conclusion of the first debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, eyes have already turned to when — or whether — subsequent debates between…
Taylor Swift endorses — and searches for voter registration jump
There weren’t many things that could have diverted the political world’s attention from Vice President Kamala Harris’s dominant performance against Donald Trump in Tuesday night’s debate. But at 11 p.m.,…
This ‘unhinged’ werewolf has already won Michigan’s election season
Jane Hynous was bored watching “National Treasure” in her social studies class, so she pulled out a few markers and drew the first quirky image that entered her mind: a…
9/11 responders are getting dementia. They want the government to help.
It took 19 years for the symptoms to emerge. Tom Beyrer, who served for six months as a police officer at Ground Zero following the Sept. 11 attack on the…
Democrats cheer – and Republicans dismiss – Taylor Swift’s Harris endorsement
Democrats are embracing Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for president, calling the megastar’s backing “huge” for her campaign — while some Republicans were quick to dismiss it and others…
Nippon Steel’s doomed effort to court union detailed in emails, letters
After spending more than a week trying to secure a meeting with the president of the United Steelworkers union, Nippon Steel’s Takahiro Mori finally got an answer. But it was…
Harris dominated Trump in debate, but will it matter in a race this close?
PHILADELPHIA — Ever since President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign, former president Donald Trump has been sour and on the defensive. His new opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, made…
Blinken arrives in Kyiv amid U.S.-Ukraine friction over arms restrictions
KYIV — The top U.S. diplomat made a rare wartime visit to Kyiv on Wednesday, offering a sympathetic ear to its leaders as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mounted a push…