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Byline: Randy Billings Dec. 16A Republican lawmaker has submitted a bill to block a new payroll tax set to take effect next month to pay for Maine's mandatory paid family [...]

Byline: Leigh Ann Caldwell; Patrick Svitek; Alec Dent Good morning, Early Birds. It's the last working week of the 118th Congress -- unless the government shuts down Friday. Send tips [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro More than 120 House Democrats have signed a letter asking President Joe Biden to urge the nation's archivist to recognize the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment [...]

Byline: Karen Tumulty As the Democratic Party continues to sort through why it lost the White House and Senate and finished a few seats short in the House, it already [...]

Byline: Dan Diamond Donald Trump wants to end America's century-old practice of 'springing forward' and 'falling back.' 'The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND -- Rep. Robert C. 'Bobby' Scott (D-Virginia) let it be known this week that he is considering a run for Virginia governor. Or to be more [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer House Democrats launched a new effort Wednesday to recruit challengers for Republican districts in Arizona, Michigan, California and Virginia that were not contested this year, as a [...]

Byline: Leigh Ann Caldwell; Patrick Svitek; Alec Dent Good morning, Early Birds. The House Judiciary Committee passed three impeachment articles of Bill Clinton to the House floor on this day [...]

Byline: Perry Bacon Jr. Since Vice President Kamala Harris's election defeat last month, a new talking point has become increasingly prominent among Democratic politicians and strategists -- both centrists and [...]

Byline: Drew Goins You're reading the Today's Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today's edition: Liberalism's failure on assisted dying, and the antiabortion faction's danger [...]

Byline: Patrick Svitek; Leigh Ann Caldwell; Alec Dent Good morning, Early Birds. Wyoming granted women the right to vote on this day in 1869. It was the first state to [...]

Byline: Aliya Schneider New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, is term-limited from running for reelection next year, leaving the race to replace him wide open. And the competition is [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin Republicans have done a bang-up job turning discussions about education into discussions of any topic but education. They demonize transgender students and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, [...]

Byline: Dan Diamond; Rachel Roubein Congressional Democrats have privately proposed a deal to Republicans that would extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies by one year, with lawmakers worried by new [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage; Faiz Siddiqui Technology entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy held initial talks with key Republicans in Congress on Thursday about the 'Department of Government Efficiency,' the group [...]

Byline: E.J. Dionne Jr. Donald Trump's first election eight years ago unleashed a wave of shock that inspired spirited organizing online and in the streets. The 'resistance' was born. Its [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor House Ethics Committee members on Thursday once again delayed deciding on whether to release their report on former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), opting to keep their investigation [...]

Byline: Amanda Katz You're reading the Today's Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today's edition: Stop blaming progressives for the election result, and how to [...]

Byline: Perry Bacon Jr. Center-left and establishment Democrats are trying to marginalize the party's left wing in the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris's loss last month, in some ways [...]

Byline: Leigh Ann Caldwell; Patrick Svitek; Alec Dent Good morning, Early Birds. Tonight is the National Christmas Tree Lighting at the White House. Friendly PSA: Don't drive this evening. It [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor House Republicans will enter the new Congress with an even narrower majority than many expected, complicating President-elect Donald Trump's push to quickly enact his conservative policy plans. [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake On Tuesday night came perhaps the final data point proving that Republicans' victory in the 2024 election was hardly the mandate-bestowing 'landslide' it's been cracked up (by [...]

Byline: Patrick Svitek; Leigh Ann Caldwell; Alec Dent Good morning, Early Birds. Today in 1619 was the real first thanksgiving, according to the Virginia Museum of Culture and History. Three [...]

Byline: Leigh Ann Caldwell; Patrick Svitek; Alec Dent Good morning, Early Birds. President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev declared the end of the Cold War at a [...]

Byline: Marianne LeVine; Leigh Ann Caldwell; Mariana Alfaro Republican senators this week will take a closer look at Donald Trump's unconventional pick to run the Department of Defense, setting up [...]

Colorado's ruling Democrats have at least two things going for them right now. One is that they are not as bad off as Colorado's Republican Party, which has been in [...]

Byline: Holly Bailey; Mariana Alfaro; Mark Berman President-elect Donald Trump's announcement that he wants to replace FBI Director Christopher A. Wray with Kash Patel, a staunch loyalist who has vowed [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer The Democratic National Committee announced Monday that new leadership elections will be held Feb. 1, following a series of public candidate forums in January, to determine the [...]

Byline: Amanda Katz You're reading the Today's Opinions newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. In today's edition: Fifty years of the great George F. Will; classic George [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake Donald Trump has spent his nearly three weeks as president-elect testing the boundaries of his mandate -- to the extent it exists -- with the American people [...]

Byline: Michael H. Brown Former senator Fred R. Harris, a liberal prairie populist from Oklahoma whose meteoric rise in politics ended in the 1970s with two sputtering presidential campaigns in [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin Over the past few decades, after a presidential election, Virginia usually has elected a governor from the party opposing the one that gained the White House. If [...]

Byline: E.J. Dionne Jr. Supporters of reproductive rights have won the national debate on abortion, even if it might not feel that way to them. One side can know it [...]

Byline: Tony Romm President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are weighing vast changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, seeking to limit the powers and funding of a federal [...]

Byline: Fallon Roth Nov. 22More Pennsylvanians say they have received mysterious $100 checks that appear to be from Elon Musk's America PAC, which helped power the ground game for President-elect [...]

Byline: Tobi Raji Senate Democrats have reached a deal with their Republican counterparts to confirm a dozen judges nominated by President Joe Biden while pulling four of his nominees from [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'If Sen. Schumer thought Senate Republicans would just roll over and allow him to quickly confirm multiple Biden-appointed judges to lifetime jobs in the final weeks of [...]

Byline: Dan Diamond President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday selected Mehmet Oz, the well-known TV physician and former Republican Senate candidate, to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the [...]