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Encouraging voters to cast mail ballots -- and cast them early -- benefits political campaigns. But former President Donald J. Trump's skepticism has hurt Republican efforts in a key state. [...]

The party's candidates are likely to benefit from running alongside ballot measures to protect abortion rights. But the deeply conservative nature of many of these states poses a serious challenge. [...]

The 2024 presidential race is the first in 24 years without a major American ground war, but Donald J. Trump continues to stoke division over the post-9/11 conflicts that helped [...]

Byline: Jonathan Weisman Law enforcement officers say they were pressured to lie when Gov. Greg Gianforte of Montana killed a black wolf in 2021. He says the story is an [...]

Nikki Haley's calls for muscular international engagement and cuts to future Social Security benefits have elicited withering attacks from Donald J. Trump. They used to be Republican orthodoxy. Nikki Haley [...]

President Biden's support for autoworkers helped them make big wage gains, and labor organizers are looking to bring about similar gains elsewhere as carmakers transition to electric vehicles. The United [...]

President Biden’s support for autoworkers helped them make big wage gains, and labor organizers are looking to bring about similar gains elsewhere as carmakers transition to electric vehicles. The United [...]

Contract talks at an electric vehicle battery plant in Lordstown could have even more of an impact than the autoworkers' strike on the labor standards of the emerging electric-vehicle industry. [...]

In New Hampshire, Republicans are feuding over whether the 14th Amendment bars Donald J. Trump from running for president. Other states are watching closely. New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary is quickly [...]

Byline: Jonathan Weisman A coalition of unions and civic groups is pushing one of the world's largest automakers to protect and train workers in return for federal money under President [...]

Byline: Jonathan Weisman and Reid J. Epstein No doubt they will take swings at him anyway. But it may be more difficult to land punches given that plenty of them [...]

Ron DeSantis criticized the Justice Department, and Vivek Ramaswamy promised a pardon if his fortunes rise while Donald Trump’s sink. But Asa Hutchinson called on Trump to step aside. If [...]

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 [...]

After a decade of rising deficits and soaring debt, the top White House contenders, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, show little interest in battling over the nation's finances. The first [...]

Some in the party are urging compromise, warning of dire electoral consequences for 2024, while other stances, on guns and gay rights, also risk turning off moderates. Republican leaders have [...]

A state is rolling back a so-called right-to-work law for the first time in decades, as depleted unions must now relearn how to bolster their ranks. For more than a [...]

As two news events — banking turmoil and a train derailment — became flash points in America’s culture wars, conservative presidential hopefuls and media voices pounced. The quiet from Republicans [...]

The train derailment in Eastern Ohio has spawned conspiracy theories and contradictory narratives, with politicians from both parties parading through town to further their agendas. To Democrats, the train derailment [...]

In stops in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, the Florida governor appeared to be positioning himself as the law-and-order candidate in a G.O.P. presidential race he has yet to enter. [...]

In the money race between America's billionaires and small donors, the emerging political oligarchy is showing staying power. Both parties have megadonors, but Republicans have far more. Fueled by an [...]

Byline: Christopher Flavelle and Jonathan Weisman Senior Republican politicians in the state have opposed federal action against global warming, which is making storms like Hurricane Ian more destructive. Hurricane Ian's [...]

He has repeatedly denied a claim that he paid for an ex-girlfriend's abortion, and he avoided journalists' questions in his first public appearance since the claim was reported. WADLEY, Ga. [...]

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 [...]

After Kansans voted to preserve abortion access, Republicans who once said the economy reigns supreme are acknowledging the issue will be a centerpiece in the fall campaigns. Republican candidates, facing [...]

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 [...]

On abortion, climate change, guns and much more, two Americas -- one liberal, one conservative -- are moving in opposite directions. Pressed by Supreme Court decisions diminishing rights that liberals [...]

Illinois, Colorado, Mississippi and Utah are the settings for suspenseful contests at the federal and state level. New York voters will choose candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, and Oklahoma [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a bill to extend protections to the justices' families and court officers would come to a vote early next week, but Republicans accused her of playing [...]

After a string of Democratic failures on marquee issues, Senator Chuck Schumer's decision to give bipartisan gun talks time is a test of the Senate -- and of democracy itself. [...]

After the deadliest school shooting in a decade, the top Senate Democrat said he would wait to force a vote on gun safety measures the G.O.P. has opposed. WASHINGTON -- [...]

With neither the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster of legislation to protect abortion rights nor the 50 votes to pass it, Senate Democrats said they would try anyway. [...]

In an extraordinary administrative law hearing, the Georgia representative was forced to defend her actions surrounding the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. WASHINGTON -- Representative Marjorie Taylor [...]

Democrats, with some Republican support, voted 220-204 to remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances, moving to catch up to the states. WASHINGTON -- The House passed legislation [...]

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 -- Senator Rick Scott [...]

A district judge ruled that the Amnesty Act of 1872, which forgave confederates, overruled a clause in the 14th Amendment barring ''insurrectionists'' from Congress. WASHINGTON -- A judge on Friday [...]

A bipartisan push is growing to bar members of Congress from trading individual stocks, an effort pushed by vulnerable lawmakers eager to take on perceived corruption in Washington. WASHINGTON -- [...]

With top House Democrats skeptical of barring lawmakers from owning individual stocks, a simmering issue has exploded, especially among members facing difficult re-election races. WASHINGTON -- Facing stiff political headwinds [...]

Prominent Democrats are expressing rage at their party's two filibuster holdouts, rather than at Republicans who have blocked their voting rights bill. WASHINGTON -- This past Martin Luther King Jr. [...]

The powerful political action committee said the Arizona senator could find herself ''standing alone'' in 2024 if she refuses to change Senate rules to force through voting rights legislation. WASHINGTON [...]

Senator Joe Manchin III noted climate policy when he said he would vote against the Build Back Better Act. In his life and career, West Virginia coal has loomed large. [...]

A dispute between Ron Wyden, the Democratic Senate Finance Committee chairman, and his hedge fund-manager son illustrates how the merely rich help the fabulously rich resist tax increases. WASHINGTON -- [...]

As legislators across the country draw House maps to protect incumbents, a nonpartisan commission of California citizens is drafting one that will scramble political fortunes for both parties. FRESNO, Calif. [...]

Republicans have fought mask requirements and vaccine mandates for months, but as coronavirus infections again rise, they are blaming the president for failing to end the health crisis. WASHINGTON -- [...]

The vote was months in the making for the roughly $2 trillion measure, one of the most consequential bills in decades. Now it faces a difficult path in the Senate. [...]

The Build Back Better Act's marquee provisions have been the focus, but Democrats have swept dozens of obscure measures and special interest breaks into the $1.85 trillion bill. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Representative Darin LaHood voted against the infrastructure bill while Representative Adam Kinzinger supported it. The split reflects the Republican Party's post-Trump era of uncertainty. WASHINGTON -- For months, Representative Darin [...]

Progressives who had threatened to sink the measure agreed to support it after extracting a promise from moderates that they would ultimately back the social safety net and climate bill. [...]

Disappointed by a defeat in Virginia and a closer-than-expected race in New Jersey, Democrats were working toward quick action on key bills to show they could govern. WASHINGTON -- Smarting [...]

The provision would, for the first time, allow the government to negotiate prices for some medicines covered by Medicare. WASHINGTON -- House Democrats reached a deal on Tuesday to add [...]

Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a crucial Democratic swing vote, demanded more time to evaluate the economic and fiscal impact of the $1.85 trillion bill. WASHINGTON -- Senator [...]