‘I’m Not Trying to Cause a Scene. I Just Want to Get Off This Plane.’
In 2018, Ed Pierson decided that he could no longer work as a senior manager for Boeing’s 737 MAX program. At the company’s production facility in Renton, ...
Ronna McDaniel to step down as RNC chair next week
Ronna McDaniel announced Monday she will step down from her role as Republican National Committee chair on March 8, days after Super Tuesday, following Don...
Gavin Newsom faces another recall threat in California
SACRAMENTO, California — Conservative activists are launching another attempt to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, seeking to capitalize on anger over t...
New York Democrats expected to back their own House map
ALBANY, New York — Democratic state lawmakers in New York are expected to reject a House map proposed by a bipartisan commission and back district lines th...
Republicans call for immigration crackdown after college student's death
Republicans are renewing their calls for stricter immigration rules following the death of University of Georgia student Laken Hope Riley after reports tha...
Ex-FBI informant will remain in jail while awaiting trial on charges of lying to FBI about Bidens
LOS ANGELES — Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant who is charged with lying to the FBI about the Biden family, will remain in jail until his trial,...
No Navalny prisoner swap was offered to Russia, Western officials say
Talks were underway for a prisoner swap for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny when he died on Feb. 16, according to two Western officials informed o...
Andy Kim files lawsuit challenging NJ's ballot design
Democratic Senate candidate Andy Kim filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to abolish New Jersey’s unique and controversial “county line” balloting system, callin...
Jack Smith says Trump’s handling of classified docs was far worse than Biden’s
Special counsel Jack Smith said Monday that President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents — which earned him a scolding from special counsel Rober...
Justices hint Florida and Texas social media laws may be unconstitutional
The Supreme Court grappled with competing views of free speech on social media as it heard nearly four hours of arguments Monday on a pair of state laws th...
Michael Whatley officially announces for RNC Chair
North Carolina GOP Chair Michael Whatley announced his candidacy to lead the Republican National Committee on Monday. In a letter to the RNC’s 168 members,...
Manhattan DA seeks gag order on Trump in advance of hush money trial
NEW YORK — Prosecutors asked the judge overseeing the hush money criminal case against former president Donald Trump to issue a gag order restricting his p...
Gas export pause could scramble Biden’s chances in Pennsylvania
President Joe Biden’s decision to pause new exports of U.S. natural gas is rattling his allies in the essential swing state of Pennsylvania. Democrats and ...
World is becoming less safe by the day, UN secretary-general warns
GENEVA — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says combatants in places such as Congo, Gaza, Myanmar, Ukraine and Sudan are turning a “blind eye” to int...
Biden's late-night talk show appearance draws pro-Palestinian protest
President Joe Biden’s Monday afternoon taping of NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers" drew a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, the latest instance of ...
The Top Muslim State Lawmaker in Michigan Wants You to Turn on Joe Biden
In late October, the Democratic floor leader of the Michigan House of Representatives, Abraham Aiyash, stood in front of thousands gathered in downtown Det...
Biden suggests Gaza cease-fire could take hold by next week
President Joe Biden on Monday evening said he thought a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas could be in place in roughly a week. “I hope by the end of the ...
She ran a dark-money group. Now Senate candidate Tammy Murphy wants to reform them.
Tammy Murphy has been talking like a campaign finance reformer, calling the amount of money in politics “disgusting.” But as New Jersey’s first lady, Murph...
Authorities investigate suspicious substance sent to Donald Trump Jr.’s Florida home
Authorities on Monday responded to Donald Trump Jr.’s Florida home after the former president’s son opened an envelope with a suspicious white powder in it...
DC court backs Clark’s bid to block subpoena from bar investigators
An attempt by D.C. bar authorities to force former Justice Department attorney Jeff Clark to fork over documents — part of an effort to potentially disbar ...
Macron doesn't rule out sending Western troops to Ukraine
European leaders agreed to boost ammunition purchases from third-country suppliers.
Can anyone stop Britain’s Tories going full Trump?
UK centrist Conservatives are in search of a leader to stop the right hijacking the party after the election.
Meet The Only Member of Congress Who’s Backing Nikki Haley
Few Republican politicians who have bucked Donald Trump have lived to tell the tale. Candidates who have expressed mere skepticism of the former president ...
Senate GOP urges its candidates to support IVF after Alabama ruling
The Senate GOP's campaign arm on Friday urged its candidates to publicly express their support for IVF treatment and condemn efforts to limit its accessibi...
Trump says he supports IVF after Alabama court decision
Former President Donald Trump declared his support for in vitro fertilization treatment and called on Alabama lawmakers to preserve access to it after a ru...
Thomas Jefferson high school escaped the Supreme Court — and others are eager to follow
A magnet school in northern Virginia just became the national model for institutions that want to diversify their classes without drawing the ire of the Su...
Alabama said frozen embryos are kids. The GOP isn’t sure what to do about it.
Republicans have spent five decades coalescing around the idea that life begins at conception. They’ve spent the last week scrambling to figure out whether...
Gaetz attacks GOP House Ethics chair amid investigation
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who is currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, fired away at the committee’s top Republican during a speech ...
‘You must act fast’: Katie Porter is selling her fundraising list — at a discount
Rep. Katie Porter is holding a fire sale for her highly prized fundraising list as she scrambles to raise last-minute cash in California’s Senate race. Por...
National Rifle Association and Wayne LaPierre are found liable in lawsuit over lavish spending
NEW YORK — The National Rifle Association and its former longtime leader were found liable Friday in a lawsuit centered on the organization’s lavish spendi...
Pentagon tracking new unidentified balloon over western US
American fighter planes intercepted an unidentified balloon on Friday over Utah but have determined it isn’t a threat to national security, according to th...
Sotomayor and Barrett stress Supreme Court camaraderie
As the Supreme Court prepares to announce some of its most politically explosive decisions in decades, two justices from different ideological wings of the...
Adam Schiff breaks his Fox News boycott
California Rep. Adam Schiff has used his perch as a hero of the MAGA resistance to implore advertisers to boycott Fox News. Now a candidate for the Senate,...
Taiwan’s leadership ‘extremely worried’ US could abandon Ukraine
Taiwanese senior officials repeatedly questioned members of a visiting U.S. congressional delegation on what stalled aid to Ukraine means for U.S. commitme...
The Democratic establishment is ‘pulling out all the stops’ for this California candidate
SACRAMENTO, California — Democrats in Washington have funneled more than $100,000 to a Central Valley candidate challenging GOP Rep. David Valadao to avoid...
SEC expected to scale back landmark climate disclosure rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to pare back a long-awaited climate-risk disclosure rule that has sparked a furious backlash from b...
Johnson gets real about funding leverage as shutdown looms
Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans on a private conference call Friday night that their disunity has ceded leverage to Democrats ahead of the gove...
The West tried to crush Russia’s economy. Why hasn’t it worked?
Oil income: slashed. Oligarchs’ assets: frozen. Access to weapons: choked. Russia has faced a historic slew of penalties from Washington, Brussels and beyo...
Nancy Mace Lets Loose on Kevin McCarthy, Abortion and Trump
Rep. Nancy Mace claims she doesn’t seek out the spotlight. But it certainly keeps finding her — whether by standing up to Donald Trump after Jan. 6, helpin...
Polls Say Nikki Haley Can’t Win Her Home State. Here’s How You’ll Know If They’re Wrong.
Nikki Haley was born and raised in South Carolina. She’s never lost an election there, and that includes two governor’s races. So why is there an almost un...
‘I’m Not Trying to Cause a Scene. I Just Want to Get Off This Plane.’
In 2018, Ed Pierson decided that he could no longer work as a senior manager for Boeing’s 737 MAX program. At the company’s produc...
Ronna McDaniel to step down as RNC chair next week
Ronna McDaniel announced Monday she will step down from her role as Republican National Committee chair on March 8, days after Sup...
Gavin Newsom faces another recall threat in California
SACRAMENTO, California — Conservative activists are launching another attempt to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, seeking to c...
New York Democrats expected to back their own House map
ALBANY, New York — Democratic state lawmakers in New York are expected to reject a House map proposed by a bipartisan commission a...
Republicans call for immigration crackdown after college student's death
Republicans are renewing their calls for stricter immigration rules following the death of University of Georgia student Laken Hop...
Ex-FBI informant will remain in jail while awaiting trial on charges of lying to FBI about Bidens
LOS ANGELES — Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant who is charged with lying to the FBI about the Biden family, will remain...
No Navalny prisoner swap was offered to Russia, Western officials say
Talks were underway for a prisoner swap for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny when he died on Feb. 16, according to two Wes...
Andy Kim files lawsuit challenging NJ's ballot design
Democratic Senate candidate Andy Kim filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to abolish New Jersey’s unique and controversial “county line”...
Jack Smith says Trump’s handling of classified docs was far worse than Biden’s
Special counsel Jack Smith said Monday that President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents — which earned him a scolding f...
Justices hint Florida and Texas social media laws may be unconstitutional
The Supreme Court grappled with competing views of free speech on social media as it heard nearly four hours of arguments Monday o...
Michael Whatley officially announces for RNC Chair
North Carolina GOP Chair Michael Whatley announced his candidacy to lead the Republican National Committee on Monday. In a letter ...
Manhattan DA seeks gag order on Trump in advance of hush money trial
NEW YORK — Prosecutors asked the judge overseeing the hush money criminal case against former president Donald Trump to issue a ga...
Gas export pause could scramble Biden’s chances in Pennsylvania
President Joe Biden’s decision to pause new exports of U.S. natural gas is rattling his allies in the essential swing state of Pen...
World is becoming less safe by the day, UN secretary-general warns
GENEVA — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says combatants in places such as Congo, Gaza, Myanmar, Ukraine and Sudan are tur...
Biden's late-night talk show appearance draws pro-Palestinian protest
President Joe Biden’s Monday afternoon taping of NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers" drew a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators...
The Top Muslim State Lawmaker in Michigan Wants You to Turn on Joe Biden
In late October, the Democratic floor leader of the Michigan House of Representatives, Abraham Aiyash, stood in front of thousands...
Biden suggests Gaza cease-fire could take hold by next week
President Joe Biden on Monday evening said he thought a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas could be in place in roughly a week. “...
She ran a dark-money group. Now Senate candidate Tammy Murphy wants to reform them.
Tammy Murphy has been talking like a campaign finance reformer, calling the amount of money in politics “disgusting.” But as New J...
Authorities investigate suspicious substance sent to Donald Trump Jr.’s Florida home
Authorities on Monday responded to Donald Trump Jr.’s Florida home after the former president’s son opened an envelope with a susp...
DC court backs Clark’s bid to block subpoena from bar investigators
An attempt by D.C. bar authorities to force former Justice Department attorney Jeff Clark to fork over documents — part of an effo...
Macron doesn't rule out sending Western troops to Ukraine
European leaders agreed to boost ammunition purchases from third-country suppliers.
Can anyone stop Britain’s Tories going full Trump?
UK centrist Conservatives are in search of a leader to stop the right hijacking the party after the election.
Meet The Only Member of Congress Who’s Backing Nikki Haley
Few Republican politicians who have bucked Donald Trump have lived to tell the tale. Candidates who have expressed mere skepticism...
Senate GOP urges its candidates to support IVF after Alabama ruling
The Senate GOP's campaign arm on Friday urged its candidates to publicly express their support for IVF treatment and condemn effor...
Trump says he supports IVF after Alabama court decision
Former President Donald Trump declared his support for in vitro fertilization treatment and called on Alabama lawmakers to preserv...
Thomas Jefferson high school escaped the Supreme Court — and others are eager to follow
A magnet school in northern Virginia just became the national model for institutions that want to diversify their classes without ...
Alabama said frozen embryos are kids. The GOP isn’t sure what to do about it.
Republicans have spent five decades coalescing around the idea that life begins at conception. They’ve spent the last week scrambl...
Gaetz attacks GOP House Ethics chair amid investigation
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who is currently under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, fired away at the committee’s top Re...
‘You must act fast’: Katie Porter is selling her fundraising list — at a discount
Rep. Katie Porter is holding a fire sale for her highly prized fundraising list as she scrambles to raise last-minute cash in Cali...
National Rifle Association and Wayne LaPierre are found liable in lawsuit over lavish spending
NEW YORK — The National Rifle Association and its former longtime leader were found liable Friday in a lawsuit centered on the org...
Pentagon tracking new unidentified balloon over western US
American fighter planes intercepted an unidentified balloon on Friday over Utah but have determined it isn’t a threat to national ...
Sotomayor and Barrett stress Supreme Court camaraderie
As the Supreme Court prepares to announce some of its most politically explosive decisions in decades, two justices from different...
Adam Schiff breaks his Fox News boycott
California Rep. Adam Schiff has used his perch as a hero of the MAGA resistance to implore advertisers to boycott Fox News. Now a ...
Taiwan’s leadership ‘extremely worried’ US could abandon Ukraine
Taiwanese senior officials repeatedly questioned members of a visiting U.S. congressional delegation on what stalled aid to Ukrain...
The Democratic establishment is ‘pulling out all the stops’ for this California candidate
SACRAMENTO, California — Democrats in Washington have funneled more than $100,000 to a Central Valley candidate challenging GOP Re...
SEC expected to scale back landmark climate disclosure rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to pare back a long-awaited climate-risk disclosure rule that has sparked ...
Johnson gets real about funding leverage as shutdown looms
Speaker Mike Johnson told House Republicans on a private conference call Friday night that their disunity has ceded leverage to De...
The West tried to crush Russia’s economy. Why hasn’t it worked?
Oil income: slashed. Oligarchs’ assets: frozen. Access to weapons: choked. Russia has faced a historic slew of penalties from Wash...
Nancy Mace Lets Loose on Kevin McCarthy, Abortion and Trump
Rep. Nancy Mace claims she doesn’t seek out the spotlight. But it certainly keeps finding her — whether by standing up to Donald T...
Polls Say Nikki Haley Can’t Win Her Home State. Here’s How You’ll Know If They’re Wrong.
Nikki Haley was born and raised in South Carolina. She’s never lost an election there, and that includes two governor’s races. So ...