WASHINGTON — Picture this: It’s the day after the election. Hordes of lawyers, journalists, and campaign operatives descend on Philadelphia and Harrisburg in the all-important battleground state of Pennsylvania. There, they spend days closely monitoring a dragged-out vote-counting process and preparing legal challenges to the final election result. In this …
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump‘s positive test for Covid-19 has triggered a public-health crisis at the highest levels of American government and set the stage for a vast contact tracing effort to understand how the president and First Lady Melania Trump got infected and to whom they might have spread …
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A Supreme Court seat has opened in an election year, and you’ll never guess who is strongly in favor of filling it — all of the people who were against it last time. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues would like to fill the vacancy created by …
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Elizabeth Neumann voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and she recently served as Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security Policy at the Department of Homeland Security. Neumann is now speaking out against Trump as a “racist” and a danger to America. In a new video, she implicates Trump’s rhetoric …
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, whose maladministration of the Postal Service has disrupted mail sorting and delayed vital deliveries — in line with President Trump’s declared objective of blocking an effective vote-by-mail election — is a major Republican donor. The recipients of the millionaire’s political largesse include top politicians now charged …
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John Lewis had died two days before former Vice President Al Gore and I sat down to speak, and Lewis’ legacy was weighing heavily on his mind. Speaking from his home in Nashville, where he has been isolating during the pandemic, Gore said that while many have referred to Lewis …
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Facebook has not done enough to combat hate speech and misinformation; its negligence could impact the November election; and decisions like allowing President Trump to post racist content unfettered constitute a “significant setback for civil rights.” Those were among the conclusions of auditors who spent two years examining Facebook’s policies. …
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Attorney General William Barr’s Justice Department dropped its criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The DOJ filed the request to drop the case with U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Flynn, who Trump fired after only weeks on the job, …
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Last month’s $2 trillion bailout bill barred President Donald Trump, his family or other officials from benefiting from one of the law’s giant loan programs. But as reporters noticed, there was no such language included for other elements of the bailout. Some provisions of the bailout are particularly beneficial to …
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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) got his ass handed to him on Fox News on Thursday, and it was a sight to behold. Progressive pundit Christopher Hahn was a guest, along with Gaetz, on Laura Ingraham’s program and Hahn let loose as if he’s been waiting for this moment his entire …
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