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Byline: Meryl Kornfield, Hannah Knowles AUSTIN - Donald Trump on Friday called his former chief of staff John F. Kelly a âtotal whack jobâ and âa nutjob to start off [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann, Perry Stein Donald Trump was commanding a country on edge from a city he thought was out of control. The summer of 2020 had been marked by [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow It's become a common refrain during Donald Trump's presidential campaign: Gasoline prices would plummet if he returned to the White House, falling as low as they were [...]

Byline: David Von Drehle AURORA, Colo. - Evidently, Venezuelan gangsters are good at blending in. I looked all over for them. At the apartment building where they supposedly terrorize the [...]

Toward the end of his tenure, Gen. Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023, told Bob Woodward of The Washington Post [...]

Byline: Marla Bautista, USA TODAY Former President Donald Trump recently claimed that Democrats plan to send absentee ballots to military personnel and other citizens living overseas 'without any citizenship check [...]

Byline: Philip Bump One of the most illuminating moments of Donald Trump's increasingly lengthy career in national politics came during his third debate with Hillary Clinton back in 2016. (This [...]

Byline: Isaac Stanley-Becker, Josh Dawsey When clients tell Mercury Public Affairs, a consulting and lobbying shop with 18 offices worldwide, that they're concerned about Donald Trump's possible return to office, [...]

Byline: NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE; Staff Donald Trump has placed the spectre of a porous border at the heart of his re-election campaign. Countless criminals have snuck in on Democrats' watch, he [...]

Byline: Chris Brennan, USA TODAY The filibuster, a parliamentary practice in the U.S. Senate allowing members in the minority to block the will of the majority, has been around in [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa President Joe Biden said he was concerned that the upcoming presidential election might not be peaceful, using a surprise appearance at the White House Briefing Room on [...]

Byline: Sabrina Rodriguez, Justine McDaniel EVANS, Ga. - Former president Donald Trump doubled down on misinformation about Hurricane Helene in an appearance in this storm-ravaged state Friday, repeating the falsehood [...]

Byline: Niha Masih Former president Donald Trump once again downplayed the traumatic brain injuries suffered by American soldiers in an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Iraq in [...]

Byline: Sabrina Rodriguez WAUKESHA, Wis. - Many Republicans who watched the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night would say Donald Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, had the best of [...]

A whirlwind week of top-level meetings failed to alleviate concerns in Kyiv that a Trump presidency could lead to a dramatic shift in American policy. When President Volodymyr Zelensky of [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler 'All told, almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost during his presidency, starting before the pandemic hit, making Trump one of the biggest losers ever on manufacturing.' - [...]

Byline: Patrick Svitek Former president Donald Trump continued attacking the immigrant population in an Ohio town during a campaign rally Monday in Pennsylvania, saying, âYou have to get them the [...]

Byline: Mariana Alfaro Vice President Kamala Harris voiced support Tuesday for eliminating the Senate filibuster to pass a law restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade and securing abortion rights [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins, Clara Ence Morse, Eric Lau Donald Trump has a long list of executive actions he says he wants to carry out on his potential first day back [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler For more than a week, Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, has been tweeting about the influx of Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio. [...]

Byline: Philip Bump Donald Trump's tough-guy shtick plays well on Fox News, so he leaned into it during an appearance on the late-night talk show "Gutfeld!" on Wednesday. Host Greg [...]

Democrats brought up the measure again to highlight Republican opposition to abortion rights and make the case to voters that the G.O.P. stance threatens access to reproductive health care. Senate [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Mariana Alfaro, Lisa Rein A week after his unsubstantiated comments on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, sparked a national firestorm and spurred violent threats in the small [...]

Byline: Karen Weintraub,, Deborah Barfield Berry, and Lauren Villagran When May-lee Chai was in high school in the early 1980s, a Chinese restaurant opened in the small South Dakota town [...]

Byline: Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes brushed off Donald Trump's political comments about his wife, Brittany, on Fox News. While speaking to reporters on Wednesday, [...]

Byline: David Ovalle, Patrick Svitek Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has expressed support for loosening federal restrictions on marijuana, aligning himself with the Biden administration's ongoing efforts to do exactly [...]

On Aug. 22, hours before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump was claiming that she would abolish Immigration and Customs [...]

Byline: Chris Brennan, USA TODAY Donald Trump, to the chagrin of many campaign advisers, just cannot stop lying about how the 2020 presidential election was 'rigged' in favor of Joe [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein, Trisha Thadani Behind closed doors, former president Donald Trump and his advisers have been talking for months about forming a commission led by prominent business executives to [...]

Byline: Matt Viser, Cleve R. Wootson Jr. Vice President Kamala Harris, in her first major interview since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and she rose to the [...]

Byline: Philip Bump Donald Trump on Tuesday blamed his presidential administration for rigging the 2020 election against him. But understanding why he did so requires some important background about the [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought a meeting last week with Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to discuss the possibility of serving in her [...]

Kamala Harris's running mate is a rock fan with an affinity for Minnesota artists including Bob Dylan, Prince, the Replacements and Hüsker Dü. When Beto O'Rourke and Gov. Tim Walz [...]

Once, the word signified supernatural things. In the mouth of Kamala Harris's running mate, weirdness is much more earthbound. Two inauguration days ago, after Donald J. Trump had been sworn [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Steve Hendrix - - - Correction: A previous version of this article said incorrectly that Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a 2020 raid in Iran. [...]

Byline: Glenn Kessler Former president Donald Trump has long misled his audiences about the national debt. He frequently - and wrongly - asserts that tax cuts will generate more revenue [...]

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Byline: Josh Dawsey ATLANTA - Former president Donald Trump congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin over a prisoner swap that took place this week, saying the Russian strongman had outsmarted U.S. [...]

Byline: Marianne LeVine Former president Donald Trump falsely accused Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) of being a âproud member of Hamasâ at a rally Wednesday night, lodging another [...]