Political

Marianne Williamson, the self-help writer now on her second long-shot run for president, appeared to complete forward of Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota within the South Carolina Democratic major on Saturday, inching previous the candidate who has up to now been President Biden’s most vital, albeit distant, rival. With 97 p.c of votes counted, Ms. […] More

Follow for stay updates on the South Carolina main. For a long time, formidable politicians with eyes on a future presidential run made pilgrimages to Iowa and New Hampshire, casually popping in at festivals and native fund-raising dinners as if they only occurred to be within the space. When President Biden pushed Democrats to position […] More

Iran initiatives its navy energy by way of dozens of armed teams throughout the Middle East, however how a lot does it management their actions? That query has taken on new urgency because the United States considers its subsequent steps after an assault by an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia on an American base in northwest Jordan. […] More

As Iran and the United States assessed the harm executed by American airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, the initiative out of the blue shifted to Tehran and its pending choice whether or not to reply or take the hit and de-escalate. The expectation in Washington and amongst its allies is that the Iranians will select […] More

Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has begun warning Germans that they need to put together for many years of confrontation with Russia — and that they need to speedily rebuild the nation’s navy in case Vladimir V. Putin doesn’t plan to cease on the border with Ukraine. Russia’s navy, he has mentioned in a sequence of […] More

Taylor Swift, you’ll have observed, is in all places: packing arenas on the Eras tour; filling theaters along with her live performance movie; popping onto your TV display from a luxurious suite at Kansas City Chiefs video games, cheering on her boyfriend, Travis Kelce. And now she’s dwelling rent-free in Fox News hosts’ heads. After […] More

President Biden’s go to to Michigan yesterday had all of the hallmarks of a classic Scranton Joe occasion, as he talked to United Automobile Workers members about his love of vehicles and affinity for the labor motion. But if the looks was a throwback to earlier campaigns — and a reminder of his historic enchantment […] More

It was his first day again in Washington after an extended winter break, and Speaker Mike Johnson was below strain to go a short-term funding invoice to keep away from a authorities shutdown inside days. With hard-right Republicans in full revolt over the plan, everybody within the Capitol was wanting to know what the inexperienced […] More

The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on costs of plotting to overturn the 2020 election issued an order on Friday scrapping the March 4 trial date for the case. The order by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan was a proper affirmation of what had appeared pretty apparent for weeks. It got here […] More

But final 12 months, 800,000 individuals utilized for asylum, and that’s a 63 p.c bounce from the 12 months earlier than. So it won’t be a brand new downside, but it surely definitely is an growing downside. It is most definitely that. We return to what we mentioned just some minutes in the past. Why […] More

The sweeping tariffs that former President Donald J. Trump imposed on China and different American buying and selling companions have been concurrently a political success and an financial failure, a brand new examine suggests. That’s as a result of the levies received over voters for the Republican Party though they didn’t deliver again jobs. The […] More

Over the final 12 months, two totally different units of knowledge have yielded two very totally different theories of the place Democrats stand heading into 2024. On one hand, there’s polling. Survey after survey reveals President Biden even or trailing towards Donald J. Trump. Voters, particularly younger and nonwhite voters, seem extraordinarily dissatisfied with the […] More