Experts fear Venezuela’s Maduro could steal Sunday’s election as opposition leads in polls
Venezuelans head to the polls on Sunday for their first full presidential election in over a decade after opposition parties ended their boycott and coalesced around a single candidate in hopes of ousting the current regime. ‘The de facto opposition leader
Pollster finds ‘astounding change’ in Democratic electorate since Harris’ ascension
A new poll from The Wall Street Journal has found Vice President Kamala Harris neck and neck with Donald Trump after President Biden vacated the Democratic nomination for November’s election. ‘Only 37% of Biden voters were enthusiastic about him in early
Harris and Trump grapple with a transformed race for the White House
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Donald Trump supporters lining up to enter a rally here passed the usual tents hawking MAGA merchandise, but suddenly most of the gear attacking President Biden (often in vulgar terms) was gone. A few straggler “Let’s
Harris seized the moment. Can she translate that energy to victory?
Vice President Harris has had an extraordinary week — a campaign-changing stretch that has unified and energized Democrats, flummoxed former president Donald Trump and upended the 2024 election. She has 100 days to convert all that into a winning campaign. Robby
Trump vows to stage outdoor rallies with extra help from Secret Service
Former president Donald Trump vowed Saturday to stage more outdoor rallies two weeks after surviving an assassination attempt and claimed the Secret Service has agreed to “substantially step up their operation” to protect him. Trump wrote on Truth Social in a
DOJ settles with former FBI officials over release of anti-Trump texts
The Department of Justice has settled with two former FBI officials over violation of privacy rights. Former counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page filed suit against the Justice Department over the release of their text message conversations expressing
House Republicans continue to flail, further endangering their majority
In his bid to claim the House speaker’s gavel and end three weeks of chaos last fall, Rep. Mike Johnson mapped out an ambitious agenda. Week by week, month by month, the Louisiana Republican promised to meet the “urgency of this
At Manny’s cafe, group therapy for newly hopeful Democrats
SAN FRANCISCO — They filed in tentatively, taking seats on plush couches and folding chairs arranged in a semicircle in the cafe’s gently lit backroom. Here would be safe to share their deepest feelings, they were assured, to unspool their
Usha Vance told friends Trump appalled her. Now she’s working to elect him.
During her rise through America’s most prestigious schools, law firms and judicial clerkships, Usha Vance rarely — if ever — volunteered her opinions on the nation’s bitterly partisan politics to friends and colleagues. But she did express revulsion at former president
Netanyahu’s U.S. visit revealed ‘no workable plan’ for peace, critics say
The applause was loudest at the beginning, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared to a joint meeting of Congress that Israel “will win” in its fight against Hamas. They applauded, too, when he spotlighted the resilience of those who remain