There were several reasons offered in support of the congestion pricing plan that was supposed to go into effect in New York at the end of the month. One was to address congestion — hence the name — by making it more expensive to bring a vehicle into parts of Manhattan. Another was to use the money raised from the ...
In a 2024 campaign long marked by Donald Trump’s threats of revenge and retribution, the period after he was convicted was bound to get ugly quickly. Sure enough, scores of Trump allies are now threatening to prosecute Democrats and throw them in jail. As always in politics, it’s worth being skeptical. Is this a true threat, or posturing? Republicans might ...
A trio of GOP-led House committees wrote to the Justice Department on Wednesday recommending that President Biden’s son Hunter and brother James be charged for making false statements to Congress during Republicans’ long-running impeachment inquiry into the president. In a 65-page letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Republican chairmen of the House Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means committees ...
WILMINGTON, Del. — Kathleen Buhle stood in a beige suit Wednesday and stared through thick-rimmed glasses into the courtroom. Taking the witness stand, she made eye contact with her ex-husband, Hunter Biden, and went on to detail in a sober tone the ways she said his drug use affected her family and changed the man she loved. In some of ...
The central political question of the guilty verdict handed down at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan is the same question that comes up whenever nearly anything else happens: Does this shift the trajectory of a remarkably static presidential race? Immediately after the verdict, Trump touted a poll in which he claimed to have seen a spike in support. Critics ...
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — President Biden will join world leaders in Normandy on Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a somber setting where he plans to draw a link between the historic fight to defeat the Nazis and the modern-day battles against authoritarianism. While Biden’s speech Thursday will be directed at a global audience — including to more than ...
Jason and Andrea Fackler of Louisville arrived in Washington this week on summer vacation to show their three young children “how the country works,” including a tour of Capitol Hill. But in the marble rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building on Wednesday, the Facklers encountered a somber reminder of one way in which the nation is broken — an ...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has offered multiple accounts of how politically charged flags came to fly outside his homes in Virginia and New Jersey — the type of display that is generally off-limits for judges, who must remain impartial and avoid even the appearance of bias as they handle cases. Since the public revelation of the flags ...
The Senate is expected to vote down a bill Wednesday that would create a federal right to contraception access after many Republicans said they oppose the legislation as unnecessary and government overreach. The Democratic bill — intended to put Republicans on the spot in an election year on their unpopular positions on reproductive rights — would prevent states from passing ...
For eight years, Larry Hogan was a Republican governor of a heavily blue state. This is a unique role in American politics, one of the last remaining places where the partisan bifurcation that defines national politics fails to draw sharp boundaries. Hogan won election and reelection in Maryland even as the state voted for Democrats for president and the Senate ...