For Dick Cheney, a Journey From Champion of War to Voice of Resistance
Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some o...
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Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his image for some o...
President Trump and administration officials indicated the fallout could intensify in the coming days, even as he has kept himself at a remo...
He tried to warn Americans about Trump, but they had already learned not to believe him.
Donald J. Trump and Dick Cheney became adversaries, but the former vice president set the stage for Mr. Trump’s bid to expand his executive...
New York will soon know who will lead the city for the next four years, but other questions remain.
President Trump has yet to make a decision, but his advisers are pressing a range of objectives — from attacking drug cartels to seizing oil...
Accurate, reliable results play a role in free and fair elections. So does explaining the data and helping people understand when and how it...
President Trump is showing mounting frustration at his inability to win confirmation of U.S. attorneys in blue states or break the filibuste...
The former vice president helped shaped the role of the United States around the world.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed the idea that his presence could be seen as an attempt to intimidate the court on a case that Pre...
A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies i...
When Republicans sing Kumbaya.
The Liberty Justice Center led by Sara Albrecht is better known for backing right-leaning causes, but it filed the tariff case that will be...
The mayor’s race in New York will gauge voters’ desire for a left-wing shift, and Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia...
The filing appeared to be an effort to construct a narrative that James B. Comey had leaked information to the news media without actually t...
President Trump and one of his top cabinet officials are sending mixed messages on how the U.S. government is handling one of the most destr...
The president wrote that if Zohran Mamdani were to win, it would be “highly unlikely” that the city would receive federal funding beyond a b...
President Trump has a lot riding on the results of Tuesday’s elections, his tariffs case at the Supreme Court and the future of the governme...
As he so often does, the president is pushing the wrong answer to the right question on trade policy with Beijing.
The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied...
Heather K. Gerken, a voting rights scholar and former dean of Yale Law School, plans to intensify its emphasis on democracy as it girds for...
President Trump is imploring lawmakers to redraw their congressional maps to stave off Democratic control of the House. But the debate over...
Democrats have no federal contests that would allow them to check President Trump’s power, but governors’ races, mayoral contests and refere...
What began with Texas drawing what could be five new Republican districts in the House of Representatives at President Trump’s behest has sp...
The justices face so-called legitimacy dilemma as they deal with a tricky legal dispute and a president who has made clear he would view def...
Meet Mark Grebner, the Michigan statistician who helped pioneer the science of predicting whether someone will vote Republican or Democratic...
As a close race for governor between Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli comes to a close, the two campaigns were reading the tea leaves and...
As a close race for governor between Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli comes to a close, the two campaigns were reading the tea leaves and...
As redistricting efforts spread across the country, an Indiana state senator said he isn’t sure how he will vote on a plan that President Tr...
If there is no cover-up, then there must not have been a crime.
The president has stretched the limits of his powers to help those at the heart of his agenda, not the many in greatest need.
Few places have felt the effects as palpably as the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, which is deeply enmeshed in the workings of govern...
The written order came one day after a court told the Trump administration it must pay benefits in the program known as SNAP during the shut...
Five Republicans just voted with Democrats to block Trump’s tariffs. This proves Congress can act. So why isn’t it using that same power to...
New York City has often set the political, cultural and financial course of the country. Tuesday’s mayoral election — and a New Yorker watch...
President Trump said the new look was “totally in keeping” with the era of Abraham Lincoln.
The president attended a Halloween party Friday and called attention to the marble renovation of a White House bathroom.
Critics included some Indian Americans, who said the remarks did not respect the religious decisions of Usha Vance, who grew up in a Hindu h...
We urge the administration to allow millions of Americans to receive food aid.
Proponents say voters are motivated by stopping President Trump. Republicans have already begun pointing fingers over lackluster fund-raisin...
Senators opposed the president’s plan to import beef from Argentina and voted three times this week to end his power to enforce sweeping tar...
The Democrat-controlled legislature approved an amendment that would allow redistricting next year, but the process will take months.
The Senate majority leader is unwilling to pursue the “nuclear option” to blow past a Democratic filibuster and reopen the government.
President Trump traveled to Asia to be a statesman, a showman and a traveling salesman, depending on the audience.
The Texas attorney general has escalated the pace of high-profile legal actions, raising concern that his Senate campaign is influencing his...
Outnumbered and facing vast stakes, Justices Kagan and Jackson are split over the best approach: investing in diplomacy inside the court or...
President Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping just had a highly anticipated meeting in South Korea. David Pierson, a New York Times foreign...