With six months to go until the election, it’s still too early to judge whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democrat-turned-independent candidate for president, will prove to be more than a mere spoiler. He starts out with roughly 10 percent of the vote and one of the most famous names in American politics. It’s enough…
Trump and Hope Hicks Meet Again as She Testifies in Hush-Money Trial
Her voice low, her posture tense, the woman who spent years steering Donald J. Trump through strife and scandal stepped to the witness stand on Friday carrying a different burden. She was there under the fluorescent lights of a dreary Manhattan courtroom, seated 15 feet from the former president she once fiercely defended, to testify…
Henry Cuellar, Texas Representative, and His Wife Indicted on Bribery Charges
Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat in a crucial swing district, and his wife were charged with participating in a yearslong $600,000 bribery scheme involving Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank, according to a federal indictment unsealed in Houston on Friday. The accusations against Mr. Cuellar, 68, and his wife Imelda, 67, center on allegations of…
Political Furor Over U.S. Steel Bid Puts Cfius in Spotlight
At a campaign event last month in Pennsylvania, the heartland of American steel manufacturing, President Biden made clear that he does not want the proposed takeover of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel to happen. “We’re finally making sure that United States Steel stays United States Steel,” Mr. Biden said. “It’s not going to be…
Biden to Honor Prominent Democrats With Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday to a host of prominent Americans, including several of his most important political allies like former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina. With an election six months away, Mr. Biden assembled a…
Jill Biden Hosts Teachers at Awards Dinner, With a Bit of Pomp
The hallmarks of a state dinner were there: lavish floral displays festooning the White House, the first lady arriving in a floor-length sequined gown, and members of Congress and cabinet secretaries mingling with attendees. But the honored guest was not the president of France or the prime minister of Japan. It was Missy Testerman of…
Biden Appeals to North Carolina With Program to Replace Lead Pipes
President Biden traveled on Thursday to North Carolina, a possible swing state in the fall election, to promote his efforts to replace toxic lead pipes as part of his administration’s program to expand and upgrade the nation’s network of roads, airports and other critical infrastructure. During a stop in Wilmington, the president announced $3 billion…
Biden Denounces Violence on Campus, Breaking Silence After Rash of Arrests
President Biden broke days of silence on Thursday to finally speak out on the wave of anti-Israel protests on American college campuses that have inflamed much of the country, denouncing violence and antisemitism even as he defended the right to peaceful dissent. In an unscheduled televised statement from the White House, Mr. Biden offered a…
Joe Biden, the Ultimate D.C. Veteran, Has Never Seen a Campaign Like This
In October 1984, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware was invited to address a conservative Baptist church near Wilmington as he campaigned for a third term. Mr. Biden, hardly the favorite of social conservatives, was in hostile political territory. But as the incumbent, he was given the first speaking slot — and he used…
Biden to Address Antisemitism in Holocaust Remembrance Speech
President Biden, who has personally stayed relatively quiet during college campus protests in recent days, plans to speak out against antisemitism next week at a ceremony hosted by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual “days of remembrance” commemoration, the White House announced on Wednesday. While his spokesmen have denounced violence and antisemitism on campus, Mr….