Brazenly partisan candidates who insist that Donald Trump won the 2020 election are transforming races for the once-obscure office of secretary of state. In Arizona, State Representative Mark Finchem is part of an unusual pro-Trump coalition of secretary of state…
In a Texas speech, the former president also urged supporters to stage protests if prosecutors in Atlanta and New York take action against him. “If I run and I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly,” former…
She had to quit the foreign service to marry. But she was reinstated 16 years later, when female employees challenged the department’s sexist traditions, and she thrived. Phyllis Oakley outside her home in Washington in 1999, the year she retired…
A California Democrat who for a time served as chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, he dedicated himself to fighting poverty. Esteban Torres, right, with the Iowa Republican Jim Leach, chairman of the House Banking Committee, at a news conference in…
Prosecutors said Allison Fluke-Ekren, a former teacher from Kansas, provided military training to women and young girls in Syria. The F.B.I. flew Allison Fluke-Ekren to Virginia on Friday to face prosecution for aiding a terrorist organization. The F.B.I. has arrested…
The boldest measures that President Biden is threatening to deter an invasion of Ukraine could roil the entire Russian economy — but also those of other nations. Sanctions could be viewed as punishing the Russian people — a perception that…
A New York Times analysis reveals how the left outdid the right at raising and spending millions from undisclosed donors to defeat Donald Trump and win power in Washington. For much of the last decade, Democrats complained — with a…
The battles of the recent past will no doubt extend into the coming fight over President Biden’s choice to replace Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Justice Stephen G. Breyer was confirmed by an 87-to-9 vote in 1994. His replacement is unlikely…
In the last few weeks, the likelihood of a renewed Russian offensive in Ukraine has grown perceptibly. Not surprisingly, a flood of articles have appeared from various foreign policy experts urging the West to make a deal with Putin at…
The president believed pressuring the court’s oldest justice to retire might backfire. A chorus of liberals took a different approach. President Biden spoke about the upcoming retirement of Justice Stephen G. Breyer at the White House on Thursday. WASHINGTON —…