Politics

For much of Donald Trump’s presidency, Chris Christie was close by his side. For his efforts, the former governor of New Jersey contracted a bad case of COVID-19. These days Christie frequently appears on cable news programs to deliver Republican talking points. He is also on a bit of a …

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration, under increasing pressure to address a devastating surge of the coronavirus in India, said on Sunday that it had partially lifted a ban on the export of raw materials for vaccines and would also supply India with therapeutics, rapid diagnostic test kits, ventilators and personal …

Vice President Kamala Harris went on CNN on Sunday to praise President Joe Biden, claiming that he has “an extraordinary amount of courage.” “President Biden always said that he wants you to be the last person in the room particularly for big decisions just as he was for President Obama,” said …

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) refuses to answer the question when he was asked if Trump cheered on the attack on the Capitol. Video: Kevin McCarthy refuses to answer Chris Wallace’s question about whether it’s true that Trump told him, “Well Kevin, I guess these people are more upset …

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Saturday recognized the mass killings of Armenians more than a century ago as genocide, signaling a willingness to test an increasingly frayed relationship with Turkey, long a key regional ally and an important partner within NATO. “Each year on this day, we remember the lives …

HOUSTON — Voting in the 2020 election presented Zoe Douglas with a difficult choice: As a therapist meeting with patients over Zoom late into the evening, she just wasn’t able to wrap up before polls closed during early voting. Then Harris County introduced 24-hour voting for a single day. At …

Republicans have built their reputation on suppressing the vote as of late, but now they have come up with a novel position that many on the left should get excited about. Although it is not clear exactly who first said “The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an …

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are leaning toward lifting their recommended pause on the use of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine after finding only a limited number of additional cases of a rare blood clotting disorder among recipients. Instead, the Food and Drug Administration is considered likely to attach a …

Thelma Harper, a Democrat who became the first African-American woman elected to Tennessee’s State Senate, died on Thursday. She was 80. The death was confirmed by her daughter, Linda Harper. She did not say where her mother died or what the cause was. Ms. Harper entered the Senate in 1989 …

Republicans thought that they could vote no and make Biden’s policies unpopular, but that tactic backfired and the GOP is cracking. The New York Times reported, “With the president professing interest in G.O.P. input on his infrastructure plan, Republicans are concerned that Mr. Biden will once again cut them out …