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A quiet diplomatic effort to ease tensions with uncommitted delegates and head off televised confrontations inside the Democratic convention hall next week has been underway for months. Thousands of demonstrators [...]

The rugged border lands around Douglas, Ariz., dip through precipitous canyons and shoot skyward on rocky mountain walls, impossible terrain for a 30-foot steel bollard wall but not for the [...]

The Teamsters' president, Sean O'Brien, will address the Republican convention next week in Milwaukee, just when President Biden needs unified support from organized labor. Sean O'Brien, the president of the [...]

Republican officials said the Secret Service had agreed to move a Milwaukee park into the security zone, but the agency said no final decision had been made. The U.S. Secret [...]

A tentative new contract at an Ohio battery maker on Monday was big for President Biden's E.V. transition, but for some, the victory was upstaged by the U.A.W.'s activism on [...]

In Chicago, venues are booking fast for the Democratic convention in August. But Milwaukee, host of the Republican convention, is wondering if customers will come. Dan Jacobs, a contestant on [...]

The West Virginia senator had flirted with a White House campaign, possibly on the ticket of the centrist group No Labels, but said on Friday that he would not challenge [...]

Her chance to beat Donald J. Trump in New Hampshire depends on her ability to win over its famously freethinking voters. Her challenge is that they come in all stripes. [...]

The Teamsters union has yet to endorse a presidential candidate, even as President Biden has called himself the most pro-union president in history. Sean M. O’Brien, the general president of [...]

Byline: Jonathan Weisman The 38-year-old entrepreneur says he has a plan to fix what ails Americans his age and younger, but many of his positions are out of step with [...]

The bipartisan group, facing enormous opposition from Democrats, hopes a new policy document will advance its political cause -- and possible third-party White House run. A new political platform focused [...]

Donald J. Trump loomed large over the campaign trail, even though he was among the few G.O.P. contenders who stayed away from it. At a high school cafeteria in Merrimack, [...]

Five presidential candidates will appear at the group's national convention in Philadelphia this week, after a local group provoked outrage for quoting Hitler. Before the Hamilton County, Ind., chapter of [...]

As the leader of a deep-red state, Mr. Burgum has promoted staunchly conservative policies, signing into law a near-total ban on abortion. Gov. Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North [...]

The centrist group is gaining steam -- and raising money -- in its effort to get a candidate on the 2024 ballot, with Joe Manchin at the top of their [...]

The former vice president faces many challenges in his potential presidential run, perhaps none bigger than his complicated relationship with his old boss. Former Vice President Mike Pence, seemingly in [...]

The Florida governor is finishing a whirlwind trip from Asia to Israel to London, asserting a muscular foreign policy voice, especially in Jerusalem, as the spotlight on him grows brighter. [...]

After four members of Congress backed Donald J. Trump, Republicans close to the Florida governor are trying to keep others from wading into the brewing fight for the G.O.P. presidential [...]

Brandon Johnson, a progressive Democrat, prevailed over his more moderate challenger after holding the position that officials must take a fundamentally different approach to public safety. CHICAGO -- The mayoral [...]

The former governor of Arkansas, a prominent Trump critic within the Republican Party, has been testing the waters in Iowa. Asa Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas, joined the race [...]

In a city known for its unions, two loom over the Paul Vallas-Brandon Johnson race, and no labor leader is as significant as the incendiary president of the Fraternal Order [...]

The former president's Republican rivals appear highly reluctant to criticize him, and Nikki Haley mostly tiptoed around him as she jumped into the race this week. CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Nikki [...]

For recipients, it's a lifeline. For liberal supporters, it shows how expanding government can make a difference. For conservatives, it's a return to wasteful welfare handouts. CHICAGO -- Christopher Ellington's [...]

The seat will be open as Senator Mike Braun runs for governor instead. Representative Jim Banks, a staunch conservative with the backing of a deep-pocketed political action committee, opened his [...]

Inflation and a rocky economy are bolstering Republicans in their races against incumbent Democrats, motivating ''an electorate that simply wants change,'' as one G.O.P. consultant says. LAS VEGAS -- The [...]

Democrats are hoping ballot measures on abortion rights will drive up voter turnout. They're looking to Michigan as a test run. The inclusion of an abortion-rights referendum on Michigan's November [...]

A new ad for John Gibbs in his primary against Representative Peter Meijer in Michigan is the latest Democratic effort to highlight candidates they think will be easier to beat [...]

The party has largely moved beyond denying the existence of climate change but continues to oppose dramatic action to halt it, worried about the short-term economic consequences. WASHINGTON -- One [...]

One dismisses any talk about new gun safety measures and the other pledges to find a compromise with Democrats on new gun laws. It is a tale of two Texans, [...]

With inflation, war and the pandemic looming larger, Democrats who hope that the browbeating of Ketanji Brown Jackson will rally Black voters behind their candidates may be disappointed. The spectacle [...]

Byline: Jonathan Weisman The 'Plan to Rescue America' is dividing the party and cheering Democrats, and its author, Senate Republicans' top campaign official, won't stop talking about it. WASHINGTON - [...]

The California Republican, who had pugnaciously defended Donald J. Trump, chose the media company role over a potentially powerful new post in Congress. WASHINGTON -- Representative Devin Nunes, a California [...]

President Barack Obama barely muscled his health law through the House. But income inequality, economic stagnation and a pandemic propelled an even more ambitious bill. WASHINGTON -- In March 2010, [...]

As Democrats ponder cutting a $3.5 trillion social safety net bill down to perhaps $2 trillion, a proposal to limit programs to the poor has rekindled a debate on the [...]

Five groups invited association members to an undisclosed location on Tuesday afternoon to write checks for between $1,000 and $5,800, payable to Sinema for Arizona. WASHINGTON -- Senator Kyrsten Sinema [...]

Here are three options to shrink down the Democrats' climate change and social welfare bill as moderates demand less spending and smaller tax hikes to pay for it. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Congressional committees this week begin drafting tax increases on the wealthy and corporations to pay for a $3.5 trillion social policy bill, but the targets are putting up a fight. [...]

With next year's midterm elections seen as a referendum on Democratic rule, Republicans are seeking to create a sense of instability and overreach, diverting focus from their own divisions. WASHINGTON [...]

WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress have criticized President Obama's response to the Islamic State -- also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL, or ISIS -- [...]

WASHINGTON -- In a rare and fiery weekend session, the Senate voted on Sunday to resurrect the federal Export-Import Bank, handing the Republican Party's most conservative wing a major defeat [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the low-key conservative majority leader, and Senator Barbara Boxer, a brash liberal Democrat, reached an unlikely compromise Tuesday to increase highway spending over [...]

Byline: JONATHAN WEISMAN WASHINGTON -- Two senior senators - one Republican, one Democrat - have proposed that the government largely end the taxation of United States corporate profits overseas, but [...]

Byline: JONATHAN WEISMAN and MICHAEL D. SHEAR WASHINGTON -- On the evening of June 15, President Obama joined a conference call with the two men who had done more than [...]

WASHINGTON -- In 2013, the impoverished African nation Cameroon teamed with General Electric and the Environmental Chemical Corporation, which is based in Burlingame, Calif., to begin work on a $668 [...]

Byline: JONATHAN WEISMAN and PETER BAKER WASHINGTON -- The White House has relented and said that President Obama would sign a compromise bill giving Congress a voice on the proposed [...]

WASHINGTON -- Leading lawmakers from both parties in Congress responded cautiously on Thursday to the tentative framework for a nuclear deal between Western powers and Iran, demanding to review any [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's education proposal was intended to be the essence of policy elegance, simplifying a tangle of tuition aid programs and targeting assistance to families with the greatest [...]

WASHINGTON -- The job market is stirring, gas prices are plunging and stocks are near record levels, but a housing sector that dragged the nation into the worst recession since [...]

Byline: JONATHAN WEISMAN WASHINGTON -- An unusual but overwhelming coalition in the House of Representatives has voted to authorize the training and arming of Syrian rebels to confront the militant [...]