Politics

Federal statistics on drug misuse and overdoses are alarming and frightening, but there’s also notable progress within the context of bad news and still far too many deaths. First the…

BERLIN — President Joe Biden met with top world leaders here Friday at a tenuous moment for Ukraine and the Middle East, two ongoing and volatile wars that have marked…

During Donald Trump’s presidency, his D.C. hotel charged the U.S. Secret Service 300 percent or more above standard government rates on multiple occasions, and at times charged the government agency…

When Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait raised the question of Donald Trump’s age during their conversation at the Economic Club of Chicago earlier this week, the former president…

In the early spring, former president Barack Obama joked to some allies that his blood pressure was finally going down — because he had stopped watching cable news. After spending…

During his campaign for a second term, former president Donald Trump has proposed a string of tax giveaways: He has suggested “no tax on tips,” an idea he said he…

The environmental fight that played out inside the Supreme Court on Wednesday was unusual in many ways: It featured poop, a whopping $10 billion fine and one of the nation’s…

A Georgia judge on Wednesday blocked a series of rules approved this year by a pro-Trump majority of the state’s election board, admonishing the board in stinging language that the…

BERLIN — President Joe Biden leaves Thursday for what is likely to be his final trip as president to Europe, where Germany will bestow its highest honor on him for…

SPARKS, Nev. — Ed Lawson, the longtime mayor of this small desert city of about 110,000 just outside Reno, said he has never voted for a Democrat. That will change…