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May 27, 2022
To many attendees, the mass shooting in Uvalde was about mental illness and dark forces pushing their own agendas.
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May 27, 2022
The former president stressed the importance of added school security measures such as metal detectors and arming teachers.
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May 27, 2022
Texas has allowed teachers to sign up as campus "marshals" since 2013 through a program created after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.
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May 27, 2022
Mass shooters overwhelmingly fit a certain profile, say Jillian Peterson and James Densley, which means it's possible to ID and treat them before they commit violence.
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May 27, 2022
Mass shooters overwhelmingly fit a certain profile, say Jillian Peterson and James Densley, which means it's possible to ID and treat them before they commit violence.
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May 27, 2022
The on-scene commander believed at the time that the gunman had barricaded himself and that the children were no longer at risk.
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May 27, 2022
POLITICO's Steve Shepard demystifies this week's election data in a video series.
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May 27, 2022
"We believe this is something worth fighting for, no matter the political consequences," a large group writes.
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May 27, 2022
Texans, like most Americans, favor some restrictions on guns. But the political system doesn't work to turn that public sentiment into public policy.
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May 27, 2022
The truth about who or what is actually at fault for inflation numbers not seen since the 1980s is more complex than any political talking points or anti-Fed screeds.
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May 27, 2022
Kyiv has been asking for the weapons for months, but no final decision has been made.
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May 27, 2022
Rep. Kurt Schrader, a seven-term centrist Democrat from Oregon, has lost his primary to a progressive challenger, handing a massive win to the party's left flank.
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May 27, 2022
The U.S. District Court judge granted Tish James' motion to dismiss Donald Trump's complaint, allowing the probe of his business practices to continue.
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May 27, 2022
Pennsylvania election officials confirm that there are roughly 1,200 Republican mail-in ballots left to be adjudicated, in addition to 4,000 outstanding provisional ballots from all parties.
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May 27, 2022
Closing arguments presented to jury Friday in false-statement case against lawyer Michael Sussmann.
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May 27, 2022
Jury began deliberations Friday in false-statement case against lawyer Michael Sussmann
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May 27, 2022
In 2011, the greatest spectacle in racing asked Trump to drive the pace car, sparking a widespread outcry. Here's how it all went down.
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May 27, 2022
Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza is in Wyoming this week talking to Victoria Eavis of the Casper Star-Tribune and Joseph McGinley, a Casper physician who led the Natrona County GOP for four years until 2021, and has repeatedly butted heads with a group of Trump-aligned activists.
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May 27, 2022
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have cut a huge infrastructure deal with Republicans and helped preserve the filibuster. Can that give them bipartisan progress on the thorniest of issues?
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May 27, 2022
The survey, conducted by the Club for Growth, is consistent with other data out of Wyoming in the last year.
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May 27, 2022
Gov. Greg Abbott invited Ed Scruggs to be part of two Texas task forces on gun safety. He started optimistic. He left feeling like a prop.
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May 27, 2022
Investigators are circling and fellow NFL owners are fuming. But on Capitol Hill, D.C.'s least popular man is a surprise partisan cause.
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May 27, 2022
Even as the organization faces civil war, its zealotry has been embraced by Republican politicians and voters.
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May 27, 2022
In some top Senate battlegrounds, gun-drenched GOP primaries and high firearm ownership rates thwart any chance of serious reform.
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May 27, 2022
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
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May 27, 2022
In some top Senate battlegrounds, gun-drenched GOP primaries and high firearm ownership rates thwart any chance of serious reform.
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May 27, 2022
Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, who has loaned millions out of his own pocket to his campaign, is a close second to the Wisconsin lieutenant governor.
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May 27, 2022
Blake Masters is running on a hard-line nationalist agenda to reshape the Republican Party. But can the Peter Thiel protégé make it to the Senate?
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May 26, 2022
Yet the Trump attorney pressed Pence to consider them anyway, new emails reveal.
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May 26, 2022
Wendy Davis on why she thinks this is a hinge moment — but why so much is still stuck.
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May 26, 2022
The White House wants to have distance to see if a deal can be struck. Activists see a leadership vacuum.
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May 26, 2022
It will be Biden's second trip to a community rocked by gun violence in less than two weeks.
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May 26, 2022
Former President Donald Trump and his allies have sued the select committee 25 times. The suits it's still fighting: Mark Meadows, the Republican National Committee and John Eastman.
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May 26, 2022
Compendium of evidence gathered by the special counsel's 'Team M' is heavily redacted.
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May 26, 2022
For many Mariupol residents, Russia's brutal attack on the city was just the beginning. Next came the interrogations, humiliation, abuse, and forced deportations.
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May 26, 2022
Democrats need to get at least 10 Senate Republicans on board to have a chance at even narrow gun safety legislation. Here's who's most likely to cut a deal.
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May 26, 2022
The group is having early discussions on background checks and "red flag" laws in the wake of the mass shooting in Texas.
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May 26, 2022
The decision means the White House can move forward with its plans to overhaul and likely significantly increase the number known as the social cost of carbon.
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May 26, 2022
David Kamin, deputy director at the National Economic Council, will return to his teaching job at NYU
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May 26, 2022
The unusual move came after a meeting between then-President Donald Trump's then-chief of staff and the Pennsylvania Republican, according to recent testimony.
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May 26, 2022
The Republican politicians showed some spine and proved many voters in the party are ready to move on from Trump's 2020 falsehoods.
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May 26, 2022
The Georgia Republicans showed some spine and proved many voters in the party are ready to move on from Trump's 2020 falsehoods.
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May 26, 2022
Anita Dunn is back in the administration, returning from a firm that does work for Amazon.
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May 26, 2022
We rated every race in play in the midterms. Here's who we think will win.
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May 26, 2022
New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges in the investigation that Trump misstated the values of assets in financial statements.
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May 26, 2022
Capitol officers had communicated that the only aircraft anywhere near the Capitol airspace was the authorized Golden Knights flight, according to an FAA timeline.
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May 26, 2022
Americans really do want change. But they're coming from very different places on guns, and tragedies can make those divisions worse.
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May 26, 2022
"Beijing's vision would move us away from the universal values that have sustained so much of the world's progress," the secretary of State said.
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May 26, 2022
The nation's hospital regulator is probing hospitals where patients were likely infected with Covid after a record spike in transmission this year.
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May 26, 2022
He would have, he says, excommunicated her from his inner sanctum had she said as much.
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May 26, 2022
It's going to fall on deaf ears — but it's a striking display from onetime colleagues.
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May 26, 2022
Jurors are expected to hear closing arguments in the case beginning Friday morning.
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May 26, 2022
Chinese officials contend the U.S.' new trade initiative aims to isolate them from the rest of Asia. And experts say Beijing is likely to respond with an economic play of its own.
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May 26, 2022
The group's visit is scheduled for May 31, the conclusion of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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May 26, 2022
Democratic leaders want to crack down on Big Tech. Others in the party think it's too big of a risk.
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May 26, 2022
The Republican State Leadership Committee is launching a new digital fundraising program in partnership with state GOP groups.
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May 26, 2022
The Sentinel Action Fund marks a new chapter in the work of the nearly 50-year-old Heritage Foundation and its aligned groups.
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May 26, 2022
The Sentinel Action Fund marks a new chapter in the work of the nearly 50-year-old Heritage Foundation and its aligned groups.
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May 26, 2022
The U.S. spends far less on workforce development than most other wealthy nations, which has made it difficult for its workforce and supply chain to meet the challenges of the pandemic.
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May 26, 2022
Bold-face GOP names have never been so comfortable crossing Trump as in recent weeks.
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May 26, 2022
The administration could soon lower tariffs if some power plays in Washington and Beijing take flight.
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May 26, 2022
Forget about society becoming desensitized to murder: How about you?
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May 26, 2022
A nearly identical version of the legislation that failed Thursday passed the House with no Republican objections two years ago.
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May 26, 2022
A nearly identical version of the legislation poised to fail Thursday passed the House with no Republican objections two years ago. Things are different across the building this time.
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May 26, 2022
Janet Yellen, the first woman to serve as Treasury secretary, is seen as a technocrat, a widely respected, above-the-fray leader rather than a flame thrower in a political messaging war.
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May 26, 2022
Texas officials are revisiting efforts to bolster mental health services and harden school security as families grieve the tragic attack at Robb Elementary School.
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May 25, 2022
Australia's Liberals were the latest major party to pay the price for slow climate action.
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May 25, 2022
The law takes effect immediately upon Gov. Kevin Stitt's signature and prohibits all abortions with few exceptions.
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May 25, 2022
Despite the school massacre, Donald Trump and other prominent pols are still planning to speak at an event the group is holding this week in Houston.
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May 25, 2022
All of the dead were in the same fourth-grade classroom.
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May 25, 2022
Fêted at the World Economic Forum in 2017, Xi Jinping is now accused of torpedoing the global economy with his disastrous Zero Covid strategy.
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May 25, 2022
Georgia's Republican secretary of state traveled relentlessly and went on conservative media to meet his GOP critics and win them over.
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May 25, 2022
An Abbott executive also denied there is a "culture problem" at the company's Michigan plant, which is at the center of the country's current formula shortages.
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May 25, 2022
Open markets aren't what they used to be. A more complicated, more regional economic system is reshaping the global order.
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May 25, 2022
GOP senators tried to pass a bill codifying a federal clearinghouse on school safety practices. Chuck Schumer objected.
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May 25, 2022
"Let's make every legislator show whose side they have chosen to be on — the people of New Jersey's or the gun lobby's," New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said.
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May 25, 2022
CBO says receipts this year will be highest since 2000, when dot-com bubble drove a big revenue increase.
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May 25, 2022
Election officials said there are 860 undated Republican mail-in and absentee ballots in 65 of the state's 67 counties.
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May 25, 2022
As Republicans look to build on Donald Trump's gains among Latino voters, they're pouring more resources into South Texas than ever before.
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May 25, 2022
O'Rourke was escorted out of the event by security.
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May 25, 2022
Beto O'Rourke was escorted out of the event by security.
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May 25, 2022
The prosecution rested in the false-statement case brought by special counsel John Durham.
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May 25, 2022
At the same time, inflation is likely to persist throughout the year and then ease as economic growth slows, says Congress' nonpartisan scorekeeper.
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May 25, 2022
This year's shortfall is down from the nation's $2.8 trillion deficit last year. But Congress' nonpartisan scorekeeper forecasts much higher budget gaps ahead.
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May 25, 2022
Some of the panels' "public members" were friends or family of department staffers. The positions can pay thousands of dollars.
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May 25, 2022
Some of the panels' "public members" were friends or family of department staffers. The positions can pay thousands of dollars.
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May 25, 2022
Even if they haven't won Donald Trump's endorsement, most of the Republicans winning primaries have embraced his fantasies about the 2020 election.
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May 25, 2022
The select panel has heard that, after "hang Mike Pence" chants broke out, the then-president expressed support for the prospect of hanging his No. 2, three people told POLITICO.
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May 25, 2022
In addition to Trump, other Republicans set to speak at the meeting include Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem.
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May 25, 2022
The shooting at a Texas elementary school will test the president. It also may spotlight, once more, the frustrations he's felt in office.
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May 25, 2022
Donald Trump hasn't publicly stated whether he still plans to go.
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May 25, 2022
Critics of the legislation say far-reaching reform will have collateral damage on work, study and health care in the province.
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May 25, 2022
Steven Dettelbach said he hugged his children "a little bit harder" following Tuesday's mass killing in a Texas elementary school.
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May 25, 2022
"I think it's a slim prospect. Very slim, all too slim. We've been burnt so many times before. But this is so important," the Senate majority leader said Wednesday.
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May 25, 2022
"It's the only approach that will result in law," said Majority Whip Dick Durbin. "I talked to him this morning, he said if there's even the possibility of getting bipartisanship we'll try to find it."
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May 25, 2022
"It's the only approach that will result in law," said Majority Whip Dick Durbin. "He said if there's even the possibility of getting bipartisanship, we'll try to find it."
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May 25, 2022
Candidates' speeches turned into condolences, and a voting center in Uvalde was converted to gather parents trying to find their children.
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May 25, 2022
Here's six dynamics we'll be watching in the coming days.
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May 25, 2022
Former Rep. Joe Cunningham released a TV ad on abortion this week as he runs for governor.
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May 25, 2022
Many Senate Republicans aren't singing the tune of Herschel Walker — instead saying they do support exceptions to an abortion ban that include rape, incest and the life of the mother.
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