Early election-year polls can be dead on. But you can’t tell which.
At the end of January 2020, The Washington Post and our partners at ABC News released one of the most accurate presidential election polls in recent history. In a head-to-head contest against Joe Biden, incumbent President Donald Trump trailed by
Online safety legislation is opposed by many it claims to protect
Lawmakers who grilled the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, Discord and X on Wednesday all seemed to agree that protecting children’s safety online was a priority. Many of those children were less accepting of the idea, and they let their
The impossibility of beating Trump in the GOP — in one Nikki Haley poll
For as long as Republicans have been running against Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP presidential nominating contest, more than a few Trump critics have wondered why they don’t go after him harder. Nikki Haley shows why. A new Washington Post-Monmouth University
Austin says cancer diagnosis was a ‘gut punch,’ apologizes for secrecy
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday that his recent cancer diagnosis was a “gut punch” that left him shaken, disclosing new details about his ensuing medical crisis and asserting that he did not direct his staff to withhold the situation
Fox News Poll: Trump leads Biden in Georgia, receiving just over 50% support
Former President Donald Trump leads President Biden with just over 50% support in Georgia, a state Biden won by less than 1 point in 2020. That’s according to a Fox News survey of Georgia registered voters released Thursday. Just over half of
State Department imposes financial sanctions on Israeli nationals for threatening peace in West Bank
The U.S. State Department announced Thursday that it was imposing financial sanctions against four Israelis, after they allegedly contributed to violence and instability in the West Bank. The announcement came hours after President Biden issued an executive order giving the U.S.
Greene seizes on a dubious social media attack to call for Omar’s deportation
It is the nature of our fragmented, siloed media ecosystem that entire controversies can arise and be resolved outside of the view of most people. Controversies centered on TV shows or sports or music, these rise and fall unseen by
GOP senators demand the FBI ‘repair the damage’ to it’s credibility over anti-Catholic memo debacle
A group of Republican senators are demanding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation ‘repair the damage’ to its credibility after a series of errors surrounding the origin of the anti-Catholic memo that targeted traditional Catholics as potential ‘terrorists.’ The memo,
Iran-backed Houthi launch three attacks in Red Sea, Gulf of Aden as tensions escalate; US military responds
Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen on Thursday launched three separate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. Around 5 a.m., U.S. Central Command forces shot down a drone over the Gulf of Aden. There were no injuries. Later Thursday,
Defense Sec. Austin apologized directly to Biden over hospitalization controversy: ‘Did not handle this right’
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday that he apologized directly to President Biden for not giving advance notice about his hospitalization for prostate cancer treatment. ‘I want to be crystal clear. We did not handle this right and I did not