Cathleen Decker

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg announces that he will not seek another term as mayor on Dec. 17, 2018, during a news conference at his office in Indiana.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg running for Democratic nomination for president — would be first openly gay nominee

August 22, 2019 at 3:20 p.m.

South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who has signaled for months that he would try to leap from local to presidential politics, announced Wednesday that he will join the burgeoning...

President Trump's reflection is seen in First Lady Melania Trump's sunglasses.

For Melania Trump, the shroud of invisibility lifts during a week of public attention

August 22, 2019 at 8:38 a.m.

She is either complicit in her husband's worst instincts or a victim of them, either struggling in an anachronistic job or confidently doing precisely what she wants to do with...

Los hermanos Zelaya de El Salvador durante la caravana de migrantes centroamericanos que viaja a través de México. (Felix Márquez / Associated Press)

Confusión tras la afirmación de Trump de un número récord de violaciones a inmigrantes en México

May 15, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

Una vez más, el presidente Dpnald Trump habló sobre los violadores en México y dejó consternación y confusión a su paso. En un evento el 5 de abril por la...

President Trump speaks as Sen. Dianne Feinstein listens during a meeting with members of Congress at the White House on Wednesday.

Trump’s vow to go big and bipartisan on guns carries echoes of immigration failures

August 22, 2019 at 7:59 a.m.

After two weeks of shifting musings on gun measures, President Trump is expected to miss a self-imposed deadline to produce specific proposals on Friday, according to aides — in the...

Democrat Ralph Northam takes the stage after winning the gubernatorial race in Virginia. Many are looking at the Virginia race as being a harbinger of what to expect in the midterm elections of 2018.

Democrats seize Virginia and New Jersey governorships in elections seen as precursors of 2018 fights

August 22, 2019 at 6:34 a.m.

Democrats Ralph Northam in Virginia and Phil Murphy in New Jersey headed for victories in races for governorships Tuesday, setting up a night of political retaliation against President Trump. Murphy,...

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), in an image from Senate television, announces on the Senate floor Tuesday that he will not seek reelection in 2018.

Flake’s departure roils already complicated Senate race in Arizona

August 22, 2019 at 6:24 a.m.

Sen. Jeff Flake’s decision not to run for reelection opens up a wild race to replace him in a 2018 Arizona contest, yet his departure also comes as bad news...

Sen. Susan Collins speaks at a news conference at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, in September.

Susan Collins announces she will stay in the Senate rather than seek Maine’s governorship

August 22, 2019 at 6:16 a.m.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins, one of the key Republican votes that blocked the party's effort to repeal Obamacare, announced Friday that she will forgo a race for the state's governorship,...

President Donald Trump and his chief of staff John Kelly at a briefing with senior military leaders at the White House on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017.

Trump unleashes himself from would-be handlers, lashing out mornings, nights and weekends

August 22, 2019 at 6:15 a.m.

When President Trump agreed last month with Democrats to strike a deal granting legal status to so-called Dreamers brought to this country illegally as children, his chief of staff, John...

Supporters of President Trump applaud Friday at a campaign rally in Huntsville, Ala.

In Trump’s bully pulpit, it’s us vs. them, with race often used as a device to polarize

August 22, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

For much of his time as president, Donald Trump has been the bully in the bully pulpit, castigating targets foreign and domestic. Much of Trump's bluster attempts to divide people...

Steve Bannon arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on April 9, 2017. Bannon was President Donald Trump's chief strategist for several months.

Steve Bannon strikes at his enemies in ’60 Minutes’ interview

August 22, 2019 at 5:50 a.m.

Steve Bannon, President Trump's former chief strategist, left the White House last month vowing to support the man he helped into the Oval Office and to savage those he saw...

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