As China’s power grows, candidates use it as attack line
Dark insinuations that one candidate might have been recruited as a spy by Chinese leaders as a younger man. Attacks accusing another would-be senator of profiting off a Chinese fentanyl…
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Trump, Vance and GOP struggle to address abortion issues
Republicans from Donald Trump down, facing the first presidential election since the fall of Roe v. Wade, are still struggling to find their footing on the issue, caught between a…
In red district Walz once held, a stark urban-rural divide over his record
NICOLLET COUNTY, Minn. — The political divide in the congressional district Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz once represented is now so stark that it’s hard to imagine one person representing…
Trusted aide would play key role in Harris review of U.S.-Israel policy
Even before Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza began in late October, Vice President Kamala Harris’s national security adviser, Phil Gordon, feared that neither the Israeli military strategy nor key parts…
Loyalty to Trump helped Corey Lewandowski survive harassment scandal
Days after a Republican donor accused Corey Lewandowski, a longtime Donald Trump adviser, of sexually harassing her at a Las Vegas charity dinner in September 2021, she received an unexpected…
In N.C., some Black voters are uneasy with Harris’s abortion rights focus
CHARLOTTE — Vice President Kamala Harris spent the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in this Southern city, comparing the people fighting for abortion…
Trump to speak at Heritage-sponsored event after disavowing Project 2025
Former president Donald Trump will headline an event sponsored by the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Friday, magnifying the struggle he faces in credibly distancing himself from Project 2025, a…
Trump’s team complains about Fox News’s most objective component
Fox News divides its daily coverage into two components. There’s the hard-news side, anchored by people like Bret Baier, that offers reporting on what’s unfolding in the world. Then there’s…
Trump vs. RFK Jr.: How they compare on policy
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a former environmental activist who ran in the Democratic presidential primary before launching his independent bid and ultimately dropped out to endorse the Republican nominee, has…
Trump, Vance take a new tone on abortion, riling some on the right
Donald Trump announced this week that he would make in vitro fertilization treatments free if elected president. He slammed Florida’s six-week abortion ban as too restrictive, suggesting that as a…