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Sep 20, 2020
The president's determination to confirm a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election set lawmakers on a collision course as Congress deals with other major issues.
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Sep 20, 2020
Republicans see benefits for candidates struggling in conservative states, but Democrats say the vacancy sharpens their health care message and underscores Republican fealty to Trump.
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Sep 20, 2020
The battle over the Supreme Court brings back a volatile issue with political risks for both sides, even as it energizes parts of their bases.
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Sep 20, 2020
There's no escape from juristocracy except through political conflict.
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Sep 20, 2020
In emotional displays, thousands honored Justice Ginsburg and vowed to protect her legacy. President Trump said the nominee "will be a woman," and pressed to fill the seat "without delay."
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Sep 20, 2020
In emotional displays, thousands honored Justice Ginsburg and vowed to protect her legacy. President Trump said the nominee "will be a woman," and pressed to fill the seat "without delay."
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Sep 20, 2020
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska became the second Republican senator to say the Senate should not consider a nominee before the presidential election.
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Sep 20, 2020
Lawmakers spar over the process to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court as possible nominees start to come into view and mourners continue to grieve a giant of the law.
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Sep 20, 2020
*The survey erred in listing the Green Party, but it's still clear that Daines and Bullock are in a tight contest.
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Sep 19, 2020
Social conservatives and evangelical groups sprang into action after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, encouraging a speedy confirmation and rallying support for embattled Senate Republicans.
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Sep 19, 2020
The fight over the confirmation of Judge Garland in 2016 set the tone for an even more brutal battle over who should succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Sep 19, 2020
Republicans want to push forward. Democrats are seething. A bitterly divided nation gets more so as a Supreme Court nomination fight looms.
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Sep 19, 2020
Protesters rallied outside the home of Senator Mitch McConnell, after he said he would move forward with President Trump's nominee to replace Justice Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, reversing his 2016 position.
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Sep 19, 2020
The political jockeying intensified on Saturday about what the Senate would do to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Sep 19, 2020
Republicans hold a narrow majority in the Senate, meaning they can only afford to lose a few votes in their push to confirm a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Here are the potential swing votes.
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Sep 19, 2020
Justice Ginsburg's death on Friday night plunged Washington into what is certain to be a fierce clash as liberals seek to stop President Trump and the Republican-led Senate from confirming a replacement before Inauguration Day.
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Sep 19, 2020
The rules and partisan breakdown of the Senate make it possible for Republicans to swiftly confirm President Trump's Supreme Court nominee. Here's how.
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Sep 19, 2020
After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it was not clear that President Trump's right-wing coalition would be more motivated by a confirmation fight than the alliance of liberals and moderates supportive of Mr. Biden would be.
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Sep 19, 2020
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday left an opening on the Supreme Court 46 days before Election Day.
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Sep 19, 2020
If Republicans give Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat to some Federalist Society fanatic, Democrats should pack the court.
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Sep 19, 2020
In the rearview mirror, the victories of a trailblazing feminist. On the road ahead, the threat of an entrenched and powerful minority.
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Sep 18, 2020
But she also knew something about the unreliability of happy endings.
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Sep 18, 2020
The majority leader pledged that President Trump's nominee to replace Justice Ginsburg would receive a Senate vote, despite his 2016 move to block President Obama's nominee in the waning months of his term.
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Sep 18, 2020
The majority leader pledged that President Trump's nominee to replace Justice Ginsburg would receive a Senate vote, despite his 2016 move to block President Obama's nominee in the waning months of his term.
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Sep 18, 2020
Democrats warn Republicans to follow the precedent they set in 2016, when they refused to consider President Barack Obama's choice for the court on the grounds that it was an election year.
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Sep 18, 2020
A New York Times/Siena College survey showed Joe Biden leading President Trump by wide margins in Maine and Arizona, and effectively tied in North Carolina. Susan Collins trailed her Democratic rival in Maine's Senate race.
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Sep 17, 2020
The party still has a strong vibrant center.
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Sep 17, 2020
House and Senate Democrats said they would continue to fight for a stimulus package as the death toll in the United States from coronavirus neared 200,000.
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Sep 17, 2020
With proper funding and innovation, two-year public colleges can handle job training for millions of people.
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Sep 17, 2020
Democrats rolled out sprawling legislation that proposes substantial new funding over a decade in a bid to reinvest in the nation's economy and challenge Beijing.
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Sep 17, 2020
A compromise struck by House Democrats and Republicans to deliver pandemic relief aid merits leadership's consideration.
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Sep 17, 2020
The bipartisan framework struck by House Democrats and Republicans merits consideration.
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Sep 17, 2020
The bipartisan framework struck by House Democrats and Republicans merits consideration.
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Sep 17, 2020
A compromise struck by House Democrats and Republicans to deliver aid during the pandemic merits consideration.
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Sep 17, 2020
A compromise struck by House Democrats and Republicans to deliver aid during the pandemic merits consideration.
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Sep 17, 2020
Trump's former director of national intelligence on how to firmly and unambiguously reassure all Americans that their votes will be counted.
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Sep 16, 2020
A public scolding of the C.D.C. chief was only the latest but perhaps the starkest instance when the president has rejected not just the policy advice of his public health officials but the facts and information that they provided.
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Sep 16, 2020
Next time maybe they'll bring back the Whigs.
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Sep 16, 2020
Sending workers home after a colleague tests positive for the coronavirus will be a fact of life for months to come.
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Sep 16, 2020
A committee's Democrats say two fatal crashes were a "horrific culmination" of engineering flaws, mismanagement and oversight lapses.
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Sep 16, 2020
Listing potential justices may distort how we see the judiciary and how it behaves. Joe Biden should stick to "no names."
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Sep 15, 2020
Ms. McBride, who would be the first openly transgender person to serve in any state's senate, won a primary for a safely Democratic seat in Delaware.
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Sep 15, 2020
Working to avoid losing more ground in the minority, they unveiled a vision for governing on Tuesday. It was a road map back to February.
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Sep 15, 2020
The announcement came as concern grew among rank-and-file lawmakers in both parties over the prospect of returning home to face voters without having enacted another recovery package.
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Sep 15, 2020
Members of the House Problem Solvers Caucus plan to map out a recovery package they hope can push top Democrats and White House officials back to the negotiating table.
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Sep 14, 2020
State Department officials have raised alarms about the legal risk in aiding airstrikes that kill civilians. The Trump administration recently suppressed findings as it sold more weapons to Gulf nations.
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Sep 14, 2020
State Department officials have raised alarms about the legal risk in aiding airstrikes that kill civilians. The Trump administration recently suppressed findings as it sold more weapons to Gulf nations.
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Sep 13, 2020
In a bad week for deals, a new aid bill fizzled in Congress and Tiffany's sale fell apart.
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Sep 12, 2020
Congress must extend the deadline for the count.
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Sep 12, 2020
The bids of two congressional candidates are shaping up as crucial tests of whether a centrist label can overcome resistance to Democrats in a conservative-leaning state.
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Sep 10, 2020
A show vote in the Senate reflected a continuing partisan divide that appears increasingly likely to scuttle any recovery package to address the toll of the pandemic before the November election.
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Sep 10, 2020
A three-judge panel unanimously said President Trump lacked the authority to remove noncitizens from census counts used to allot House seats.
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Sep 10, 2020
Senate Republicans failed to advance their substantially scaled-back stimulus plan amid opposition by Democrats who called the measure inadequate.
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Sep 10, 2020
The state perfected intensely folksy political advertising, a signifiers-over-substance approach that has pervaded the nation.
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Sep 09, 2020
William J. Flynn, the agency's chief executive, warned of additional cuts to Amtrak's service and work force to "stave off bankruptcy" if Congress did not provide any additional emergency funding.
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Sep 09, 2020
Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, emphasized to senators that coronavirus vaccine development and distribution would be determined based on science and not politics.
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Sep 09, 2020
Once a reliable vaccine exists, it won't stop the pandemic unless most people are willing to take it. Economics provides a solution.
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Sep 09, 2020
We asked security experts to tell us what keeps them up at night — and what to do about it.
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Sep 09, 2020
We asked security experts to tell us what keeps them up at night — and what to do about it.
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Sep 08, 2020
The economic recovery measure Republicans presented on Tuesday is a fraction of the size of their original offer and was immediately dismissed by Democrats as inadequate.
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Sep 08, 2020
Coronavirus ads are one thing, but Democrats are also bringing back the messaging that worked so well for them in 2018.
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Sep 08, 2020
As voters cast ballots today, the Democratic governor's race and the Republican Senate contest may help preview the parties' future in the presidential swing state.
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Sep 08, 2020
The victories by Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, and Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, reinforced the state's status as a battleground in November.
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Sep 06, 2020
As a United States senator, he spoke of transforming China through trade. As a presidential candidate two decades later, he denounces it as a "dictatorship."
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Sep 04, 2020
Mr. Auchincloss, a city councilor, won the highly fragmented House race with just 23 percent of the vote, as nine candidates split the electorate.
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Sep 04, 2020
There are lessons here for Joe Biden.
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Sep 03, 2020
Playing out the nightmare scenario.
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Sep 03, 2020
The package being pushed by the Trump White House — which could shift the military balance in the Middle East — includes an electronic warfare plane, the EA-18G Growler.
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Sep 02, 2020
The job cuts come as the rail agency's response to fiscal challenges receives scrutiny from rail advocates and federal lawmakers.
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Sep 02, 2020
Election experts said that Tuesday's primary offered a mix of smart policies and harsh deadlines, and that the state benefited from not having a highly charged political atmosphere.
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Sep 02, 2020
The Iowa senator's comments echoed a false claim, spread by President Trump over the weekend, that deaths from Covid-19 have been inflated.
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Sep 02, 2020
Members of Congress questioned whether the racial benchmarks used to settle dementia claims were consistent with discriminatory economic practices like redlining.
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Sep 01, 2020
The result was the first loss by a Kennedy in a Massachusetts election and demonstrated the progressive energy that is reshaping the Democratic Party.
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Sep 01, 2020
Mr. Neal had faced a well-funded young progressive, Alex Morse, in a race that typified the tensions between Democratic leadership in Washington and upstart activists on the left.
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Sep 01, 2020
"If the leader comments, I'll be sure to pass it along," said a spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader. As of Tuesday afternoon, there was nothing to pass along.
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Sep 01, 2020
The Treasury secretary's House testimony, combined with renewed stimulus discussions among Republicans, highlighted divisions over how big an economic package should be.
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Sep 01, 2020
New York City cannot recover without a robust transit system, and the country cannot rebound without New York.
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Sep 01, 2020
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin updated lawmakers on the Trump administration's efforts to aid the economy during the pandemic.
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Sep 01, 2020
Senator Edward J. Markey is facing off against Joseph P. Kennedy III, while the powerful Representative Richard E. Neal is confronting a challenge from the young mayor Alex Morse.
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Aug 31, 2020
Two cases touching on the Trump-Russia investigation are dividing the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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Aug 31, 2020
Edward Markey, 74, entered Congress before Joseph Kennedy III was born. But in their Senate race he has harnessed the energy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the ascendant left, much to Mr. Kennedy's frustration.
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Aug 30, 2020
The elimination of in-person election security briefings to Congress could leave the public with a diminished understanding of the threats facing the election as it enters a critical phase.
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Aug 29, 2020
Lawmakers in both parties worry the move will block their ability to question and test intelligence assessments when they are crucial to ensuring that foreign powers do not undermine election results.
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Aug 28, 2020
The House Foreign Affairs Committee cited Mike Pompeo's defiance of subpoenas related to the State Department's compliance with Senate Republicans' investigation targeting the Bidens.
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Aug 28, 2020
Industry leaders say it will be the nation's schoolchildren and parents who will suffer, as they alter their lives and figure out how to replace a mode of transportation that was once a certainty.
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Aug 28, 2020
Despite its importance to the next president, the contest for the Senate majority was relegated to the background as the convention focused almost exclusively on President Trump.
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Aug 27, 2020
A reader asks Joe Biden to condemn the violence, while another calls for a truth commission on "systemic abuse and racism." Also: Senator Sherrod Brown, on getting the Senate back to work.
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Aug 25, 2020
In using her political action committee to endorse Alex Morse in Massachusetts, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez backed an effort to oust Representative Richard E. Neal, the powerful Ways and Means Committee chairman.
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Aug 25, 2020
American Airlines said it would furlough 19,000 workers if lawmakers do not extend aid to the industry, which has been hammered by the pandemic.
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Aug 24, 2020
Thirty million households didn't have enough food in the last week. Only the Fed has acted forcefully.
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Aug 24, 2020
Thirty million households didn't have enough food in the last week. Only the Fed has acted forcefully.
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Aug 24, 2020
Unlike her husband, a former congressman, she quickly admitted her guilt and cooperated with investigators, officials said.
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Aug 24, 2020
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before the House Oversight Committee on cost-cutting measures and delivery delays, and said he did not plan to restore mail sorting machines in Postal Service locations.
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Aug 24, 2020
The G.O.P. was supposed to be celebrating in the state this week. Instead, it is trying to hold onto a Senate seat and lift President Trump's low poll numbers.
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Aug 24, 2020
A district flipped by Democrats is suddenly in play again as Republicans mobilize opposition to pandemic measures, signaling the tenuous hold Democrats have on some seats they picked up in 2018.
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Aug 23, 2020
Vague allegations against the Massachusetts congressional candidate offer a case study in how progressives navigate issues of sex and power in politics when judgment is often swift and unforgiving.
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Aug 22, 2020
At President Trump's behest, the Treasury Secretary sought out appointees who would restructure the United States Postal Service.
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Aug 22, 2020
The Democratic bill would send $25 billion to the Postal Service and reverse changes that have slowed service until after November's election.
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Aug 22, 2020
The Democratic bill up for debate would send $25 billion to the Postal Service and reverse changes that have slowed service until after November's election.
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Aug 21, 2020
The postmaster general, under fire for recent changes that have slowed mail delivery, defended his approach and asked Congress to help free the Postal Service from costly retirement obligations.
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