Political

An important query is hanging over the American financial system and the autumn presidential election: Why are shopper costs nonetheless rising uncomfortably quick, even after a sustained marketing campaign by the Federal Reserve to sluggish the financial system by elevating rates of interest? Economists and coverage consultants have supplied a number of explanations. Some are […] More

Libre, a part of the political community created by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers, on Monday will unveil a seven-figure voter engagement effort and advert marketing campaign focusing on members of Congress who’ve supported what it calls President Biden’s “punitive financial insurance policies.” The marketing campaign, some of the expansive undertaken by the group, will […] More

Nearly seven months after the Israel-Hamas battle started, the demonstrations convulsing faculty campuses nationwide are exposing recent tensions throughout the Democratic Party over the right way to stability free speech protections and help for Gazans with issues that some Jewish Americans are elevating about antisemitism. From New York and Los Angeles to Atlanta and Austin, […] More

Donald J. Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida met on Sunday morning, in accordance with three folks briefed on the assembly, the primary time they’ve completed so because the finish of a bruising Republican presidential main that Mr. Trump received whereas relentlessly attacking Mr. DeSantis. The assembly — which came about in Hollywood, Fla., […] More

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought to make the case on Sunday that he can do one thing no third-party or impartial candidate has come near doing in fashionable U.S. historical past: win a presidential election. Although polls present him far behind, each major-party campaigns, these of President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, view […] More

Lying in an Afghan desert, engulfed in flames and soaked in diesel gas, Sam Brown realized he was about to die. It was September 2008, and Mr. Brown, who was a U.S. Army lieutenant on the time, had been main his platoon to the help of fellow troopers who had been ambushed by the Taliban. […] More

As a 23-year-old serving his first time period within the Oregon state legislature, Representative Earl Blumenauer cosponsored the primary invoice within the nation to decriminalize small quantities of marijuana. More than 50 years later, the congressman from Portland is making ready to retire after practically three many years on Capitol Hill, and mounting a lonely […] More

“So that’s not true? That’s not true?” The judge accountable for Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan prison trial had simply reduce off the previous president’s lawyer, Todd Blanche. Mr. Blanche had been within the midst of defending a social media publish wherein his shopper wrote {that a} assertion that had been public for years “WAS JUST […] More

The pro-Palestinian scholar encampments protesting the battle in Gaza swept throughout the nation this week, and with them, dramatic imagery of arrests and crackdowns from New York to Texas to Southern California. Soon, the comparability to a different protest-filled election yr inevitably arose. Is 2024 going to morph into one thing that appears like 1968? […] More

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will journey to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday to talk with prime Arab officers and take a look at to determine doable options for the thorniest problems with the Israel-Gaza battle, together with humanitarian support, reconstruction and hostages, the State Department stated on Saturday. One of Mr. Blinken’s priorities […] More

It hasn’t been the “nerd promenade” for some time. Once a preferred goal of jokes about unhealthy vogue (and never simply from the night’s featured comic host), the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner has morphed lately right into a much less campy, extra staid prelude to the Met Gala, which takes place days later. It’s […] More

Former President Donald J. Trump is sharpening his assaults on the unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as new polls present an overlap between their core supporters. In a collection of posts on his Truth Social media platform on Friday night time, Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, took goal at each Mr. Kennedy […] More