Live updates: Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump immunity case
The Supreme Court will consider Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
By Washington Post staffElection 2024 latest news: Biden to highlight chips investments during New York trip
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
By Maegan Vazquez, Amy B Wang, Mariana Alfaro, Patrick Svitek and Azi PaybarahLive updates: Ex-National Enquirer publisher continues testimony at Trump’s hush money trial
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker is expected to testify again in Donald Trump’s trial on charges of business fraud related to hush money payments.
By Shayna Jacobs, Derek Hawkins and Tom JackmanTikTok and the U.S. government dig in for legal war
The Biden administration has worked to distance itself from past ill-fated TikTok ban attempts. Legal scholars say its new law might be just as legally flawed.
By Drew HarwellEighty percent of Ukraine-Israel bill will be spent in U.S. or by U.S. military
“Foreign aid” often never leaves the United States.
By Glenn Kessler
The right starts to reckon with its Marjorie Taylor Greene problem
The party elevated her when it helped Kevin McCarthy win the speakership 15 months ago — despite plenty of reasons to worry about that. Now the bill has come due.
By Aaron BlakeHow Pecker’s testimony bolsters claims of Trump’s election-related scheme
Breaking down former National Enquirer executive David Pecker’s testimony Tuesday, and its meaning to the Trump hush money case.
By Aaron BlakeTrump claims 200 million Americans ‘love’ him. How many actually do?
A deep dive on this actually quite relevant question. (Spoiler: It’s a fraction of 200 million.)
By Aaron BlakeTrump’s numerous attempts to play the victim on ‘election interference’
Trump calls his prosecutions “election interference.” Most of his major scandals and indictments are based on exactly that -- and much more substantially so.
By Aaron BlakeBiden’s polls improve as Kennedy and third-party factor shifts
Two new high-quality polls show Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taking more votes from Trump than Biden. And they’re not the only polls to suggest a changing dynamic.
By Aaron BlakeThe politics of the swiftly dismissed Mayorkas impeachment trial
Republicans will argue that Democratic senators dispensing with the trial of the homeland security secretary shows they aren’t serious about the border. But they were again undercut by their own.
By Aaron BlakeSecret Service agent on Harris detail involved in altercation before flight
The vice president was not affected by the incident, which happened at Joint Base Andrews, according to the Secret Service
By Toluse OlorunnipaTrump calls deadly Charlottesville rally a ‘peanut’ next to Israel protests
Donald Trump’s comments marked his latest downplaying of a 2017 white supremacist event that he declared had “very fine people on both sides.”
By Hannah KnowlesHere’s who was charged in the Arizona 2020 election interference case
Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and other Trump allies were indicted in connection with their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona.
By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Amy Gardner and Holly BaileyHere are the states where 2020 Trump electors have been charged
Republicans around the country have been charged with forgery and other crimes for filing paperwork claiming to be presidential electors in states that Donald Trump lost.
By Patrick MarleyAid to Ukraine seemed dead. Then secretive talks revived it.
In one meeting, Biden and others sprang a surprise effort to persuade Speaker Johnson to pass the aid package
By Liz Goodwin, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Tyler PagerRead the full text of the Arizona 2020 election interference indictment
Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies were among those charged in the Arizona 2020 election probe
By Washington Post staffMeadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe
The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the 2020 pro-Trump elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes.
By Yvonne Wingett SanchezHow Trump turned the 2016 primary into a supermarket tabloid gutter fight
Court testimony detailed how Donald Trump used the National Enquirer to smear GOP rivals who now support him in his current trial.
By Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Liz GoodwinRare visit by House speaker to campus escalates tension at Columbia
Johnson’s visit marks the first time the top representative in the House is visiting a college campus amid ongoing protests that have at times burst into violent attacks between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students.
By Hannah Knowles and Marianna SotomayorThe mounting antiwar protests on college campuses
Today, a look inside the pro-Palestinian protests taking root on college campuses and why universities have been struggling to respond to them.
By Sabby Robinson, Rennie Svirnovskiy, Sean Carter and Monica CampbellBiden repeatedly jabs Trump during address to construction workers union
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
By Amy B Wang, Mariana Alfaro, Azi Paybarah, Patrick Svitek and Maegan VazquezMcConnell fights the isolationists
After months of haggling, 79 senators voted to send the $95 billion foreign aid package to the White House for President Biden’s signature.
By Paul KaneAs usual, views of Trump guide views of his actions, not vice versa
New polling shows that Republicans are much less likely to view the Manhattan trial as involving serious charges.
By Philip BumpArizona House votes to repeal Civil War-era abortion ban
GOP anxieties about the politics of a near-total abortion ban have led to an unlikely alliance among Democrats, Republicans in swing districts and Trump allies.
By Caroline Kitchener and Yvonne Wingett SanchezConservative justices skeptical federal law requires emergency room abortions
The sharply divided court appeared to split largely along ideological lines.
By Ann E. Marimow and Caroline Kitchener