ArticleGra­ham’s death adds to focus on McCon­nell

WASHINGTON – The unex­pec­ted death of Lind­sey Gra­ham over the week­end is increas­ing the urgency for Sen. Mitch McCon­nell to return to work to cush­ion the GOP’s increas­ingly slim vot­ing major­ity in the Sen­ate. McCon­nell, 84, has been...

ArticleMiami judge finds Trump’s law­suit against IRS was ‘brought for improper pur­pose’

ArticleKen­tucky sen­ator breaks silence, says a fall led to his hos­pit­al­iz­a­tion.

A Demo­cratic sen­ator alleges that whis­tleblowers have detailed sev­eral prob­lems stem­ming from rushed or improper recon­struc­tion of the Kennedy Cen­ter, adding a new layer to the trav­ails of the arts com­plex after Pres­id­ent Trump tried to...

ArticleA Jac­queline Kennedy take on today’s White House

When former first lady Jac­queline Kennedy died in 1994, PBS rebroad­cast her fam­ous 1962 tour of the White House with CBS News reporter Charles Colling­wood. The pro­gram was cat­nip to a child who devoured Archi­tec­tural Digest the way other...

ArticleProud Boys case gets tossed

WASHINGTON — A fed­eral judge has dis­missed the rem­nants of the gov­ern­ment’s land­mark case against far-right Proud Boys mem­bers who were con­victed of sedi­tious con­spir­acy for plot­ting to attack the Cap­itol to keep Pres­id­ent Trump in the...

ArticleGOP on alert over midterms

When Ashton Reed voted for Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump in 2024, he was drawn by Trump’s vow to recharge the eco­nomy and curb the infla­tion that many around his homet­own of Jack­son, Mis­souri, blamed on then Pres­id­ent Joe Biden. ● Reed, 22, who has...

ArticleSen­ator, 74, becomes viral sen­sa­tion

Sen. John Kennedy of Louisi­ana looked closely into his phone’s selfie cam­era, then flipped the view around to reveal a lush oasis: his back­yard. “This is another one of those silly videos my staff told me I needed to make,” the 74-year-old junior...

ArticleWhy Planned Par­ent­hood opposes tax

One of the head­scratch­ers in Cali­for­nia’s attempt to levy a one­time wealth tax is why Planned Par­ent­hood, which usu­ally links arms with other pro­gress­ive insti­tu­tions, is sid­ing with Cali­for­nia bil­lion­aires and Gov. Gavin New­som in...