For years, Donald Trump has directly and indirectly foisted damaging candidates on the GOP, in ways that have obviously cost his party dearly — up to and probably including control of the Senate. It’s not just his endorsements of several flawed statewide candidates who went on to badly underperform and lose key races; it’s also the ethos he’s created in ...

LAGRANGE, Ga. — The Georgia State Election Board is expected to vote on a measure to force counties to hand-count all ballots this year, a requirement that could delay reporting of results by weeks if not months and that critics say is designed to inject chaos and uncertainty into the presidential contest in a vitally important swing state. The board ...

The deadly explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies across Lebanon this week dealt another blow to President Joe Biden’s beleaguered efforts to reduce tensions in the Middle East, even as his top diplomats were present in the region reciting calls for calm. The absence of a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah has been touted by U.S. officials as a core ...

A Jan. 6 rioter who was convicted of assaulting police with a deadly weapon, including an officer who was knocked unconscious as she tried to stop the attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to spend his weekends in jail for the next year, one of the lightest penalties yet imposed on a rioter convicted of attacking law enforcement. Paul ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Thursday in back-to-back speeches that he would hold Jewish voters responsible if he loses the Nov. 5 election, suggesting that they owe him their support because of his position on Israel and questioning the sanity of Jewish Democrats. “The Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss,” Trump said at a ...

James P. Hoffa, the longtime former leader of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, on Thursday called the union’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate in the 2024 race a “critical error,” adding that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris was the “correct choice for labor and working families.” In a statement, Hoffa — who served as the Teamsters’ general president for ...

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — A star-studded online rally designed to showcase the enthusiasm and energy behind Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign turned somber as host Oprah Winfrey introduced the mother of a woman who died after waiting for health care in a state that has banned most abortions. “You’re looking at a mother that is broken,” said Shanette Williams, whose ...

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) this week said the Trump campaign wants to roll back the Affordable Care Act’s approach to how chronically ill Americans shop for health insurance, with the Republican vice-presidential candidate reopening a health-care debate that Democrats are eager to have — and resurrecting a fight that has repeatedly burned the GOP. Speaking in North Carolina on Wednesday, ...

Before former president Donald Trump spoke to the Economic Club of New York this month, he prepped for the crowd of Wall Street power brokers and other traditional business elites who would be in attendance. Trump consulted with Steven M. Mnuchin and David Malpass, his former treasury secretary and his appointee to lead the World Bank, two people familiar with ...

JPMorgan Chase has created a new global role overseeing all junior bankers in an effort to better manage their workload after the death of a Bank of America associate in May forced Wall Street to examine how it treats its youngest employees. The firm named Ryland McClendon its global investment banking associate and analyst leader in a memo sent this month, CNBC has learned. Associates and analysts ...