Cathleen Decker

These voters in Arizona are fed up with Democrats, Republicans and Trump

August 22, 2019 at 5:23 a.m.

In Arizona, where the Great Recession cut a deep swath through home prices and shook all facets of the economy, voters are now increasingly buoyant about the fiscal future they...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions reads about his recusal while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 13, 2017, before the Senate intelligence committee.

At Sessions hearing, new senators take turn in spotlight

August 22, 2019 at 4:44 a.m.

The latest congressional hearing into Russia's election meddling and the Trump administration's handling of the subsequent FBI probe may not have changed many minds. But the nonetheless riveting spectacle offered...

Former FBI Director James Comey arrives for a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Republicans aren’t rushing to Trump’s defense after Comey hearing

August 22, 2019 at 4:40 a.m.

The White House took comfort Thursday that former FBI Director James B. Comey did not directly accuse President Trump of trying to obstruct the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in...

Vulnerable House Republicans fear political consequences after health care vote

August 22, 2019 at 4:14 a.m.

Many House Republicans who gambled to pass a healthcare plan must now turn to a new challenge: survival. The two largest purges of House members since the early 1940s have...

Republicans face a Trump problem as they look to 2018 contests

August 22, 2019 at 4:02 a.m.

With the first two elections over in a series of off-season special House races, the Republican party's biggest challenge is obvious: President Trump. Republicans had hoped the protests that marked...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, accompanied by Rep. G. K. Butterfield, D-N.C., left, and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., second from left, as they joke while speaking at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 24, 2017. Republican leaders have abruptly pulled their troubled health care overhaul bill off the House floor, short of votes and eager to avoid a humiliating defeat for President Donald Trump and GOP leaders.

Trump wants to move on, but health care bill’s demise will punish him

August 22, 2019 at 3:42 a.m.

Blame for the failure of the Republican health care bill will fall on multiple parties, including House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, who helped craft it, and the conservative and more...

President Trump arrives in Florida on Friday.

Analysis: The Trump White House faces multiple threats seeking to investigate itself

August 22, 2019 at 3:26 a.m.

After six weeks spent scrambling to fend off chaos, the Trump White House has found itself in territory familiar to several past administrations: trying to pursue a sense of normality...

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28, 2017.

Analysis: A big shift in Trump’s tone, but tough choices left to Congress

August 22, 2019 at 3:23 a.m.

President Trump's well-delivered speech to Congress on Tuesday night answered one major question — whether he could offer the country a less divisive tone — but provided almost no clarity...

Demonstrators hold a banner on the "Chain Bridge" at the Women's March in Budapest, Hungary, on Jan. 21, 2017.

Huge rallies may signal emerging anti-Trump movement. Or not.

August 22, 2019 at 2:49 a.m.

The new lines of conflict in America were vividly drawn Saturday: A freshly revived protest movement has risen to greet a president acutely attuned to public opinion. Not for decades,...

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., poses for a photograph under a quote of his that is displayed in the Civil Rights Room in the Nashville Public Library on Nov. 18, 2016.

Trump kicks off Martin Luther King weekend by attacking civil rights legend John Lewis

August 22, 2019 at 2:43 a.m.

Unwilling to let criticism pass, Donald Trump on Saturday pilloried as "all talk ... no action" national icon John Lewis, who was repeatedly beaten by police and nearly lost his...

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