Politics

DES MOINES — With the results of the Iowa caucuses still unclear after nearly a week, the state Democratic Party this weekend was furiously re-examining results from 95 precincts, about 5 percent of the total. But when the party delivers its updated results, which it has promised to do on Monday, they may hardly reassure […]

WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to ask Congress for billions of additional dollars for his wall along the southern border and more immigration enforcement resources as part of his official budget proposal that is set to be released on Monday. The White House is expected to propose a $4.8 billion budget for fiscal 2021,

MILFORD, N.H. — The better Chris Malloy does his job, the less people will notice him. In fact, they might only know he had been there if things had gone terribly wrong. Mr. Malloy runs a small events business in Rochester, N.H., near the seacoast. Most of the time, his business is busy producing corporate

Announce a political campaign, write a book. This two-step is a national pastime. In “Author in Chief,” Craig Fehrman dives deeper into the books that have been written by presidents, before or after they were in office, including Thomas Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia” and Ronald Reagan’s little-remembered 1965 autobiography “Where’s the Rest

With its core belief that the president is heroically battling entrenched evildoers, QAnon may be the ultimate manifestation of Trump-inspired conspiracy mongering. From the start, it was inexorably bound up with “Make America Great Again” communities online: The New York Times found last year that some 23,000 of Mr. Trump’s Twitter followers had QAnon references

Other people attending the trial, including interpreters, military paralegals, court stenographers, journalists and legal observers, are housed in a crude trailer park and tent city behind the courthouse, which may have to be expanded. More construction is under consideration, including shipping modular construction to the base by barge and adding closed-circuit feeds of the proceedings

New Hampshire officials say they expect independents, who can participate in party primaries, to join Democrats and come out in high numbers: Secretary of State Bill Gardner is predicting more than 500,000 residents will vote in the primary, a turnout of more than 50 percent of the state’s registered voters. “I’m not worried about it,”

HANOVER, N.H. — There is some disagreement on whether the post-debate glow of Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota should be called “Klomentum” or a “Klobucharge,” but whatever the terminology — she had it Saturday afternoon. On the Democratic debate stage the previous evening, Ms. Klobuchar had made a pitch for herself as a “fresh face”

Facebook and Twitter have rejected a request by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove a video posted by President Trump that was edited to make it appear as though she were ripping a copy of his State of the Union address as he honored a Tuskegee airman and other guests. The decision highlighted the tension between

Mr. Sondland and Colonel Vindman were key witnesses in the House hearings. Mr. Sondland, who was deeply involved in the effort to pressure Ukraine, testified that “we followed the president’s orders” and that “everyone was in the loop.” Colonel Vindman, who was on Mr. Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president, testified that it