ArticlePlat­ner weighs future of Sen­ate bid after new sexual assault alleg­a­tion

Demo­crat Gra­ham Plat­ner said he was “tak­ing time to reflect” on his cam­paign to unseat Repub­lican Sen. Susan Collins amid a new alleg­a­tion from a Maine woman who said he sexu­ally assaul­ted her nearly five years ago. Jenny Racicot, 41, told...

ArticleDemo­crat accused of try­ing to sway pro­cess to replace him over sexual assault claim

ArticleREPUBLICAN LEADERS SAY THEY SPOKE TO MCCONNELL

WASHINGTON — The Sen­ate’s top two Repub­lic­ans have spoken indi­vidu­ally to Ken­tucky Sen. Mitch Mccon­nell, accord­ing to aides, as the former GOP leader remains in the hos­pital more than three weeks after being admit­ted for undis­closed health...

Article2020 elec­tion res­ults are back on Geor­gia radar

Six years later, the 2020 pres­id­en­tial elec­tion is back at the fore­front in Geor­gia as a fed­eral invest­ig­a­tion ramps up and the Repub­lican Sen­ate can­did­ate con­tin­ues to deny elec­tion res­ults. Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump has long...

ArticleLabor allies split on tax for wealthy

SACRAMENTO — For all the media atten­tion Cali­for­nia’s pro­posed bil­lion­aire tax has gen­er­ated nation­ally — with some blast­ing it as a fool­ish Left Coast assault on Amer­ican enter­prise — the Novem­ber bal­lot item has actu­ally triggered a...

ArticleTrump says 500,000 new­borns receive 1st $1,000 account depos­its

Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump said Monday the gov­ern­ment had depos­ited the first $1,000 into more than 500,000 “Trump Accounts,” a pro­gram designed to give new­born Amer­ic­ans a stake in the stock mar­ket and help build wealth from an early...

ArticleBirth­right decision misses the big­ger pic­ture

Chief Justice John Roberts’ legal reas­on­ing in the birth­right cit­izen­ship case is care­ful and nar­row. But it misses the big­ger point: The 14th Amend­ment was writ­ten to pre­vent a per­man­ent under­class in Amer­ica. Pres­id­ent Don­ald...

ArticleJAMES TALARICO MAKES HIS CASE

It’s early sum­mer, and elec­tion sea­son is heat­ing up in Texas for James Talarico, who is fight­ing to become the first Demo­crat to win a statewide ref­er­en­dum in Texas in more than 30 years. To that end, his cam­paign launched the “People vs....