21+ hour, 35+ min ago   (421+ words) Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election “convention” will be a “Trumpapalooza.” It’d be better if everyone called it that. American political conventions are one of the best examples — among way too many — of American institutional…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (583+ words) Attorneys representing the state of New Mexico told jurors that targeted political ads, attempting to lower Democratic turnout during the 2016 election, used Facebook data sold to a political consulting firm, during opening statements in a trial over the platform’s data…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (210+ words) By BILL BARROW and JACQUELYN MARTIN The president arrived at Joint Base Andrews via Marine One on Wednesday afternoon for his scheduled departure to Dallas. But he was held on the helicopter for about 15 minutes as U.S. Air Force personnel were…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (433+ words) By MATTHEW LEE, SEUNG MIN KIM and AAMER MADHANI The classified document was submitted to Capitol Hill on Monday as required by the Atomic Energy Act, according to the administration official, a congressional aide and two others familiar with the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1025+ words) By BILL BARROW and PATRICK WHITTLE The dispute flared over the weekend after negotiations broke down, leading Trump to raise tariffs on $20 billion in Canadian imports. Canada plans to announce tariffs of its own on Tuesday, and the spiraling conflict…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (511+ words) Those are just a few of the hundreds of different Canadian products that President Donald Trump’s administration has slapped with a 50% tax to enter the United States. The new tariffs, which kicked in Saturday, are expected to affect about $20 billion…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (614+ words) The S&P 500 rose 0.2% and edged a bit closer to its all-time high set earlier this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 52 points, or 0.1%, as of 11:30 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.6% higher. Some of the strongest…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (113+ words) Morning Journal “The U.S. Secret Service is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be perceived as a threat toward our protectees,” Secret Service spokesman Nate Herring said in a statement. “Out of concern for operational security, we…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (693+ words) The spend of nearly $830,000 came as Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman wrapped up their compressed campaigns to win South Carolina’s GOP nomination in a special primary to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on November ballots. Tuesday’s Senate runoff tests…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (527+ words) The move, if finalized, appears to be a calibrated effort by the White House to work around a Supreme Court decision earlier this year that struck down Trump’s plan to implement a sweeping, high-tariff scheme not seen since the 1930s. After…...