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Rank-and-file senators are eyeing the annual defense bill the Senate will take up this week as a chance to challenge President Trump’s recent controversial moves on national security — but thus far, Republican leaders have resisted their efforts. Senators of both parties are drafting amendments that would step up sanctions against North Korea, roll back […]

Declaring that she is done with being a candidate, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton looked back on the 2016 presidential campaign Sunday with a mix of regret and frustration over the way she thinks President Trump won the election by stoking racial grievances. “He was quite successful in referencing a nostalgia that would give […]

RICHMOND — Concerned about potential hacking two months away from the state’s closely watched gubernatorial election, Virginia’s state Board of Elections voted Friday to replace any touchscreen voting machines before November’s elections. The three-member board voted unanimously to decertify Direct Recording Electronic voting machines, acting partly out of concern that their security had been compromised […]Read More

RICHMOND — Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie said Friday that the the 800,000 young immigrants who have been protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals should not be forced to leave the country. He made those comments after initally declining to take a firm stance on the Trump administration’s announcement Tuesday that […]

Update: On Friday, during an interview with CNN, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said that it was inappropriate to discuss the effect of climate change on the intensity of Hurricane Irma. “What we need to focus on is access to clean water, addressing these areas of superfund activities that may cause an attack on water, these […]

Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Twenty-seven months into the Donald Trump political phenomenon, it is easy to forget what used to qualify as big news — something like, say, a sex scandal involving an eight-term congressman and a woman half his age. You didn’t hear about this? Huh. Maybe it’s because after the […]Read More

Miami Beach residents brace for Hurricane Irma as the deadly storm barrels toward southern Florida. (Zoeann Murphy,Dalton Bennett/The Washington Post) As Irma churned toward the Florida coast, two Republican lawmakers from the state voted against a $15 billion hurricane relief bill, saying that although they want aid to storm victims, they have concerns about other […]

Barbara Boxer’s original plan was to drift into retirement, occasionally using a “sleepy little PAC” to help some former colleagues and “reelect Hillary Clinton” in 2020. Instead, the fiery California liberal has reassembled her old Senate campaign advisers and created a “hybrid” PAC to fund attack ads against Republicans. With a new motto — “resist […]Read More

President Trump prepared for the pivotal meeting with congressional leaders by huddling with his senior team — his chief of staff, his legislative director and the heads of Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget — to game out various scenarios on how to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling and provide Hurricane […]

An Interior Department agency responsible for managing water in the western United States improperly provided millions of dollars in subsidies to contractors in California, according to an inspector general’s report, including to a major water district once represented by a lobbyist who is now Interior’s second highest-ranking official.  The Bureau of Reclamation, the Interior Department’s […]Read More

There are no perfect maps of presidential election results. There’s always a balance between geography and vote totals that forces the designer to choose between making it recognizable and making it accurate. We’ve been over this ground before — everyone’s been over this ground before — but this chart from our efforts in early August […]Read More

Here are key moments from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s announcement Sept. 7 of changes to the process of investigating and prosecuting sexual assault at schools and universities. (The Washington Post) In much of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s speech about the “failed system” of campus sexual assault enforcement, she spoke about the rights of a community […]Read More