Appearing Sunday on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” President Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, engaged in a drive-by shooting of some the nation’s neediest and most defenseless people: the disabled. Mulvaney’s attack shared its essential qualities with most previous Republican attacks on disabled Americans, in that it was arrogant, ignorant and abetted by the … Read more
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday. (Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press) U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials, stressing the importance of “responsibly managing” the differences between … Read more
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, shown in 2023. Former National Enquirer Publisher David Pecker brought up a deal he had made with Schwarzenegger during testimony in the Donald Trump hush-money trial. (Jack Dempsey / Associated Press) Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s past personal foibles reemerged in the trial of former President Trump over allegations of … Read more
Biden arrives at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Thursday. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press) President Biden said Friday that he is willing to debate his presumptive Republican opponent, Donald Trump, later this fall — his most definitive comment yet on the issue. The comment came during an interview with the Sirius … Read more
President Biden on Saturday formally recognized as a genocidethe killing of more than 1 million Armenians starting in 1915, a label long used by historians but resisted by U.S. presidents to avoid angering Turkey, an important ally. The decision is a victory for Armenian diaspora communities, notably in Southern California, that have spent decades fighting … Read more
Alabama lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that could see librarians prosecuted under the state’s obscenity law for providing “harmful” materials to minors, the latest in a wave of bills in Republican-led states targeting library content and decisions. The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 for the bill that now moves to the Alabama Senate. The … Read more
Former President Trump at the defense table in Manhattan criminal court before his trial Friday. (Jeenah Moon / Associated Press) After prosecutors’ lead witness painted a tawdry portrait of “catch-and-kill” tabloid schemes, defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s criminal trial on Friday sought to dig into an account of the former publisher of the National Enquirer … Read more
California’s congressional races are pivotal to Democratic efforts to flip the House, and there are already more than 60 candidates in more than a dozen battleground districts for the 2018 election. It is 16 months before the 2018 general election and candidates have until March to file to run for Congress. But it isn’t unusual … Read more
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press) Little by little President Trump and America’s top diplomat, Michael R. Pompeo, are revamping the nation’s approach to advocating for human rights abroad, cozying up to some of the world’s worst offenders and prioritizing religious freedom — particularly for Christians — often at … Read more
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission failed to act last year on more than 200 age discrimination cases before the statute of limitations expired, EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas told a hostile congressional hearing on Monday, a year after he had promised to improve the agency’s performance. “It is troubling that . . . the agency charged … Read more