Category: Politics

Washington Post reporter Paul Kane was in the Senate press gallery when a pro-Trump mob invaded the U.S. Capitol. Here’s what happened next.

Opponents of the gambit by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) denounced their effort in unusually stark terms after its supporters stormed the Capitol.

After encouraging a mob insurrection, President Trump repeated the false claim that the election was stolen.

146 Republicans in the House and Senate sided with Trump against American voters.

Ossoff and Warnock’s victory is thanks in large part to voters of color, who turned up in record numbers.

Unsurprisingly, pro-Trump politicians and media are amplifying an unfounded assertion.

The vice president and Republican Senate majority leader refused to help the president overturn the election Wednesday. But that came after four years of bowing to his wishes and on a day when the cost of his belligerence was starkly apparent.

The coronavirus pandemic continues to rage at its most destructive.

Democratic candidates in two Senate races in Georgia upended Republicans, which alongside a small House majority, gives Joe Biden higher odds of enacting his agenda.

All would seem to be an uphill battle

Supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol after the president urged them to do it.

The most telling developments on this front came from Republicans who wouldn’t commit to such a thing — but also declined to rule it out.