Several members of the Kennedy family have joined the legal battle to prevent President Trump from building a large triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. In court filings Tuesday, nine members of the famous family — including several children and grandchildren of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Sen. Ted Kennedy — argued the 250-foot-tall…
The U.S. Senate candidates in Texas could hardly be more different: James Talarico, a former seminarian turned Democratic state lawmaker who speaks in calm cadences about love and empathy, and Ken Paxton, the pugnacious Republican state attorney general who speaks about a refusal to compromise. They share an enemy, though. They dislike social media’s effects…
St. Martin’s Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country” (to be published Tuesday by St. Martin’s Press), Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, writes about how the language of faith, which he believes has been co-opted by…
President Trump has delivered his first major campaign contribution of the midterms to Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton. The president is donating $10 million from his MAGA Inc. super PAC to help Paxton, the current Texas attorney general, who is locked in a surprisingly tight race with Democrat James Talarico. The donation includes $5 million…
With just two months to go before the midterm elections, President Trump is sitting on a $400 million war chest, according to Federal Election Commission filings, and fellow Republicans are wondering how he’s going to start spending all that money. This week, Securing American Greatness, a nonprofit with ties to Mr. Trump’s super PAC, MAGA…
The Trump administration said it may need to demolish the Kennedy Center if a plan to close the building for two years as part of a controversial renovation project pushed by President Trump and the organization’s board of trustees is blocked by a federal judge. In a Tuesday court filing, the Justice Department said the…
