A group of men who were exonerated for the rape and assault of a woman in Central Park in 1989 have sued Donald Trump for continuing to suggest that they are guilty, including at the presidential debate in Philadelphia last month. The Central Park Five alleged in a federal court defamation lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania […]Read More

A group of men who were exonerated for the rape and assault of a woman in Central Park in 1989 have sued Donald Trump for continuing to suggest that they are guilty, including at the presidential debate in Philadelphia last month. The Central Park Five alleged in a federal court defamation lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania […]Read More

As of this writing, Elon Musk’s net worth is about $246.8 billion. That’s not all liquid, obviously. He doesn’t have a giant Scrooge-McDuck-style vault filled with $250 billion in gold bullion — partly because such a vault would have to be awfully big, and partly because even Musk might be wary of trusting his fortune […]Read More

PHOENIX — An Arizona Republican who helped inspire national concerns over county-level certification of the 2024 presidential election pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge Monday related to a “failure or refusal” to perform her duty. Peggy Judd, who helps lead Cochise County southeast of Phoenix, was indicted by a state grand jury a year ago […]Read More

In any other presidential campaign, one of the candidates’ mention of a summer job she held 40 years ago would probably just slip into the background chatter, a little biographical detail of no real consequence and not much political utility. But what 2024 is experiencing is very much not a typical presidential campaign. And so […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump participated in an interview that aired on Fox News on Sunday. If so inclined, as many Fox News viewers presumably will be, it’s easy to pick out pieces of the conversation that would assuage concerns one might have about his authoritarian inclinations — concerns that many Fox News viewers presumably don’t […]Read More

The deadly shooting at a July 13 Donald Trump rally was preventable, but multiple security failures allowed a 20-year-old gunman to climb atop an unsecured roof and fire eight shots, killing an attendee and wounding Trump and two others, the bipartisan House task force investigating the attack wrote in a preliminary report released Monday. The […]Read More

Speaking to a crowd in Erie, Pa., on the last Saturday in September, former president Donald Trump lambasted his Democratic opponent. “Crooked Joe Biden became mentally impaired — sad — but Lyin’ Kamala Harris, honestly, I believe she was born that way,” he said, mispronouncing the Democratic presidential nominee’s name as the crowd chuckled. “There’s […]Read More

With two weeks of campaigning left before the 2024 election, Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are running nearly evenly across the seven battleground states among a critical portion of the electorate whose votes likely will determine who becomes the next president. A Washington Post-Schar School poll of more than 5,000 registered […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump and his allies have filed hundreds of lawsuits, with more to come, seeking to tighten voting rules or disqualify voters. Security experts have gamed out how to restore order quickly if unrest at polling locations shuts down voting for hours on end. Election administrators in several states have purchased panic buttons […]Read More