How can the state’s decidedly minority party gain support beyond its political base when it can’t even get along with a significant number of its own members? The answer to…

Cassidy Hutchinson will be star witness for surprise hearingPanel focuses on phone calls among Trump’s children and aidesSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailIt remains…

The court’s rightwing majority was extremely receptive to a case this week that would weaken the separation of church and stateOn Monday, the United States supreme court overturned decades of…

Footage captured by documentary film-maker understood to show ex-president’s children privately discussing election strategiesThe House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is closely focused on phone calls and…

The removal of women’s constitutional right to abortion will deepen hardship and division in the USThe decision, when it came on Friday, was not a surprise. Even before the dramatic…

Why, and how, a decision opposed by a majority of Americans came about has everything to do with political power, experts sayThe short version of how Americans lost their right…

Landmark ruling was split on ideological lines, with six conservatives voting in favor and three liberals dissentingSenate breakthrough clears way for toughening US gun lawsTrump feeling fallout of Capitol attack…

Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ted Cruz among those who requested to be let off after attempting to overturn election resultsThe Republicans Matt Gaetz and Mo Brooks sought a…

In recent months, we’ve gotten a crash course in the ways that our election systems are now dangerously vulnerable to partisan interference and disorder. Numerous candidates for secretary of state…

Capitol attack committee convenes for fourth hearingRusty Bowers recounts ‘I will not break my oath’ callNo supreme court decision on abortion or gun rightsSign up to receive First Thing –…