Politics

At the 2018 State of the Union, many women wore black in solidarity with the #MeToo movement. In 2019, after a record number of women were elected to Congress, female lawmakers formed a striking island of white in their seats. They were drawing on a long history. American suffragists wore white to symbolize purity, as […]

During a speech peppered with theatrics — including directing his wife, Melania Trump, to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio talk show host who has advanced lung cancer — Mr. Trump’s overtures to black voters were not subtle. His gestures earned him accolades from his administration members and Republican

A reconstructed transcript of the call, made public by the White House in October, makes clear that Mr. Trump asked the Ukrainian president to pursue investigations into the Bidens and into one element of his belief that Ukraine worked against his election in 2016: a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine rather than Russia was behind

WASHINGTON — The defendant finally showed up to have his say. President Trump never uttered the word impeachment, but in a 78-minute speech to the nation that combined a celebration of the American economy, hard-edge policy pronouncements and reality show-style surprises for the audience, he made the case for his presidency as only he could.

More conflict, Mr. Trump asserted, would not extend to the war in Afghanistan, which he said he was eager to wind down by bringing American troops there home. “I am not looking to kill hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan, many of them innocent,” he said. Appealing to his “America First” credo, he added

WASHINGTON — President Trump claimed credit for a “great American comeback” in a speech to Congress on Tuesday night, boasting of a robust economy, contrasting his successes with the records of his predecessors and projecting optimism in the face of a monthslong Democratic effort to force him from office. Mr. Trump, who lamented what he

WASHINGTON — Democrats planned to criticize President Trump on Tuesday for seeking to repeal a landmark health care law and presiding over an economy they argue has left working people struggling, in a pair of official responses to his State of the Union address that were also to issue a searing indictment of his conduct and

This is exaggerated. It’s a stretch to claim that all 275 pieces of legislation have garnered bipartisan support. According to the nonpartisan Factcheck.org, half passed by a voice vote and at least two dozen of those bills passed with fewer than 17 Republican votes. Of the three bills Ms. Whitmer cited, the Paycheck Fairness Act

Well, that didn’t take long. One of the most anticipated moments of the State of the Union address on Tuesday was the interaction between President Trump and the woman who had led the drive to impeach him: Speaker Nancy Pelosi. They had not seen each other since October, when Ms. Pelosi abruptly left a White

For weeks, the Trump administration has fought speculation that it was no longer backing Juan Guaidó, the leader of Venezuelan’s opposition movement, frustrated that he has yet to push President Nicolas Maduro from power. On Tuesday, the White House gave Mr. Guaidó its most visible show of support yet: a seat in Mr. Trump’s guest