Politics

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., the oldest A.M.E. church in the South, will forever be associated with former President Barack Obama because of his memorable — and melodic — eulogy for the nine victims of a racist massacre in its fellowship hall in June 2015. But it …

The Pentagon came under increased pressure Sunday to explain why senior Biden administration officials, congressional representatives and the president himself were not notified of the hospitalization of Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III until days later. Former Vice President Mike Pence called Mr. Austin’s delay in disclosing his hospitalization a …

Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said that Donald Trump knows that he is lying, and he told her to intentionally repeat lies so that people would believe them. CNN’s Jim Acosta asked Grisham if Trump really believes his lies, if he is a crackpot, or if he is …

Special Counsel Jack Smith has details from Trump’s own aides about the former presidential refusal to stop the 1/6 attack. Trump’s Own White House Aides Gave Jack Smith Damning Evidence Against Trump ABC News reported: New details also come from the Smith team’s interviews with other White House advisers and …

U.S. Steel is an iconic example of the lost manufacturing muscle that President Biden says his economic policies will bring back to the United States. But last month, the storied-but-diminished company announced plans to be acquired by a Japanese competitor. That development has put Mr. Biden in an awkward bind …

The New York Times played into Trump’s narrative by trying to both sides the 1/6 attack, but reader backlash made them change their headline. Here are the two headlines side by side: The New York Times wrote a cowardly “both sides” headline and — after getting slammed by me and …

It took the Pentagon three and a half days to inform the White House that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had been hospitalized on New Year’s Day following complications from an elective procedure, two U.S. officials said Saturday. The extraordinary breach of protocol — Mr. Austin is in charge …

When Representative Virginia Foxx, Republican of North Carolina and the chairwoman of the Education and Workforce Committee, arranged a hearing about antisemitism on college campuses, she said, her goal was not to force the nation’s top university presidents out of their jobs. But after the presidents of Harvard University and …

Former President Donald J. Trump on Friday opened one of his most targeted lines of attack yet against Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina who has emerged as one of his top competitors for the Republican nomination, accusing her of being “in the pocket” of “establishment donors.” At …

While speaking in Iowa, Trump reacted to the Perry school shooting by saying that it was horrible, but it will just have to be gotten over. Trump Tells Perry, Iowa To Get Over School Shooting Video of Trump: Trump on Iowa’s deadly school shooting …